Calorie Calculator

fatjon73
fatjon73 Posts: 379 Member
edited November 11 in Getting Started
Hello all

Hope someone can answer this little question, I joined MFP a few years ago and for 12 months used the program and lost weight, I then had a break for awhile but now I am back...I redid all my goals / measurments etc and it gave me a daily count of 1890 calories to eat for me to lose 1lb a week. I am a 42 yr old 5'10 male weighing in at 17 st 12lbs.
My wife also wanted a profile setting up to help her track food, she is a skinny thing age 40 5'4 weighting 8st 4lbs, we added her goals as to maintain current weight, MFP gave her a daily allowance of 1890 as well....

Now I cannot get my head round this count, I am twice the size of my wife, but we need to eat the same each day according to MFP, that just does not seem right to me, I am personally happy to have 1890 as my daily goal and I find it easy ( ish ) to maintain, but my wife will have to eat the same as me each day, she does not eat the same portions as me a dinner.

Can anyone suggest why our goals are the same for such different size body's???

Thanks

Jon

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  • grimendale
    grimendale Posts: 2,153 Member
    What are your respective activity settings? If you're sedentary and she is active, that could account for it.
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    Your Calorie goal is to lose one pound per week - so MFP set you up with a 500 Calorie deficit. IOW - you would eat 2490 Calories per day to maintain.

    Your wife's Calorie goal is set to maintain.

    Two things:

    1) It's probably just coincidence that your numbers ended up the same.
    2) Are you sure you entered everything correctly? As PP mentioned, activity level affects Calorie goal.
  • jgrubb2011
    jgrubb2011 Posts: 13 Member
    Do you have different activity levels?
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    edited January 2015
    I am 5'4" and if I ate 1800 calories I would blow up! Use this http://calorieline.com/tools/tdee and see if after putting in her stats it comes close to MFP. I had to customize mine. I have a BMR of 1161 with a TDEE of around 1350...

    Hope this helps..
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    You want to lose weight, she wants to maintain weight. Seems alright to me. Try it out and see if it fits!
  • fatjon73
    fatjon73 Posts: 379 Member
    As I say I am happy with my goals and I find them easy to achieve, but 1890 seems a lot for a women only 8 stone 4, my activity is set at light active, hers at active, so I can understand a bit of a difference there, I suppose the 500 a day saving for me to lose weight is what should be the difference but I don't think she will keep up to 1890 a day...
  • segacs
    segacs Posts: 4,599 Member
    fatjon73 wrote: »
    As I say I am happy with my goals and I find them easy to achieve, but 1890 seems a lot for a women only 8 stone 4, my activity is set at light active, hers at active, so I can understand a bit of a difference there, I suppose the 500 a day saving for me to lose weight is what should be the difference but I don't think she will keep up to 1890 a day...

    I'm 5'1' and 9 stone 6 and lightly active, and I would maintain at around the same level as your wife. My observed TDEE fluctuates between 1800 and 2000 most of the time. It's really not that outrageous, especially when you consider that I gained all the weight in the first place which means I was eating *more* than that, clearly.

    If she's reasonably active, it's possible your wife's maintenance calories are actually quite a bit higher than that. There's only one way to know for sure, and that's by eating at that level for a while and seeing if she loses or gains.

    As for you, yep, the 500/day deficit plus the lower activity level are the factors there.
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