BMR 1810 Daily goal 1200

getlean22

According to MFP my BMR is 1,810 and my daily caloric goal should be 1200. To me, that would mean doing nothing all day would make me lose weight?! which it isn't. I run 5 days a week for 30-60 minutes straight and do low weight high rep weight training or just body weight exercises and haven't lost any weight until this past week where I lost 6 lbs in one week. Is MFP calculating correctly for a healthy loss? I haven't really been logging my food intake regularly because I can't wrap my mind around how these numbers could be correct... All ideas/thoughts/input etc welcome.

Lochlyn_D

According to a generic internet application?

Don't trust the internet to tell you your medical needs.

I went to my doctor and a dietician and together they calculated my actual BMR and it was 800 calories lower than MFP said it was.

hsnider29

Did you choose to lose 2 pounds a week? You can utilize mfp in a variety of ways. You can enter your weight, activity level and choose to lose the recommended 1 pound a week. MFP will then spit out the number of calories you are to eat to maintain the deficit. If you exercise you are supposed to log those calories and eat them back.

You can also figure out your TDEE and minus 10-20% and eat that amount daily and not log exercise. I'm not sure how much weight you have to lose but as you lose weight your BMR will go down and you adjust your calories accordingly.

m1311

My husband and I have both lost weight successfully using MFP. We eat back our calories, but in the beginning we both measured really carefully, taking the higher caloric option if we wanted to use someone else's counts. We also estimated on the low side for exercise (calling our workout moderate, not intense, for instance). When we don't keep track, we both tend to underestimate what we've eaten.

trudijoy

regardless of what MFP tells you to eat you should be eating at least your BMR. MFP was telling me to eat 1300 with a BMR of 1800 and when I moved my cals up to around BMR it worked way better

ssdivot

I'm no expert and I might be misunderstanding. You say you have lost no weight until last week, when you lost 6 lbs? How long have you been at this? I see your join date was 4-26. And you only have 20 something lbs to lose. That is 6 lbs in 5 weeks right? Sometimes (for me often) the weight doesn't come off at a steady pace but rather you go for awhile with nothing and then get a sudden loss where your body catches up with what you've been doing. So if I'm understanding right, you were losing all along, it just happened to wait to show up on the scale last week. 6 lbs in 5 weeks is alot when you don't have very much to lose I think!

I will let others address whether you are eating the right amount etc. I do know most recommend to set mfp to a lower deficit when you are close to your goal weight. Like .5 to 1 lb per week.

getlean22

I only have it set for 1 lb a week and no, I did not lose any weight on the scale for a month then last week I lost 6 lbs. That is why I was so confused on why it has me set at 1200 calories for food intake if my BMR really is 1810. Just trying to get others opinions cause I don't know much about it.

getlean22

getlean22

I have it set up at 1lb/wk with 45 minutes of exercise 4 days a week.