It gave me 620 cal aday ?!!

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  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Any wagers after the issue is fixed, you'll start seeing threads complaining, not commenting or noticing, but complaining, that MFP increased their calories and what happened and now I won't lose weight, ect?

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  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    heybales wrote: »
    Any wagers after the issue is fixed, you'll start seeing threads complaining, not commenting or noticing, but complaining, that MFP increased their calories and what happened and now I won't lose weight, ect?

    Haha. No doubt there will be

  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    Her diary does indeed say 600 is her intake goal. Hm.

    Locking MFP to new users probably wouldn't help, since OP said she's had this account for 10 months.

    Fitbit will just do the flat math and spit out whatever the result is, I believe, unless they've changed it. I've seen it tell me to aim for 600ish calories per day, under certain settings. Not saying it's reasonable, just that some software doesn't put in a floor value.
  • AllonsYtotheTardis
    AllonsYtotheTardis Posts: 16,947 Member
    heybales wrote: »
    Any wagers after the issue is fixed, you'll start seeing threads complaining, not commenting or noticing, but complaining, that MFP increased their calories and what happened and now I won't lose weight, ect?
    I'll not take that bet, because you will win
  • jkal1979
    jkal1979 Posts: 1,896 Member
    I'm wondering if it's just an issue on Apple products. It won't go below 1200 on my PC and Nook, but the 960 goal I was given was when I updated my weekly goal on my iPhone.
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  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    jkal1979 wrote: »
    I'm wondering if it's just an issue on Apple products. It won't go below 1200 on my PC and Nook, but the 960 goal I was given was when I updated my weekly goal on my iPhone.

    It won't go less than 1200 on my Mac but on my iPhone app it gives me 860.
  • mmenna33
    mmenna33 Posts: 11
    Funny thing is it lowered the cals from 620 to 600 after I entered my new wiegh ! I wonder if it will go lower in few days !
    And I am not a new user ! When I first started MFP it was like 10 months ago
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    malibu927 wrote: »
    I tried on the desktop site and the iphone app and can't get it to go below 1200 calories a day. How are people doing it? Is there a chance they're reading their goal wrong?

    It's sounding like it's through the app

    Edit: Yeah, I just put losing 30 pounds at 2 pounds a week and the goal was 830. Way too dangerous for people who aren't aware.

    This is frightening!
  • MKEgal
    MKEgal Posts: 3,250 Member
    edited March 2015
    mmenna33 wrote:
    I went from 140 to 114 in a very short time . I logged out and I even continued to lose weight maybe because breast feeding ! I went down to 110 !!
    I had some stressful emotional time lately and I was emotionally over eating almost every night I gained some wight almost 10 lbs and rehashed 120-125 lbs ... I am 5'5 tall !
    Going by BMI, you should be 115 - 145 lb.
    http://www.shapeup.org/bmi/bmi6.pdf
    So at your current weight of 120, you're in a healthy range, though toward the bottom of it.
    Why do you want to lose more & be underweight again, esp. since you're stressing your body by nursing? Why don't you want to be healthy, both for yourself & to take care of your kids?

    This calculator from the Baylor College of Medicine will show you how many calories to eat to maintain your current healthy weight, plus how many servings of the various food groups you should eat.
    https://www.bcm.edu/cnrc-apps/healthyeatingcalculator/eatingCal.html
    It says that at your current healthy weight of 120 lb, your BMI is 20 and you'd need 1442 cal/day to maintain that healthy weight if you were inactive.
    Change that to being active less than 1 hour per day and you're up to almost 1800 cal.
  • mmenna33
    mmenna33 Posts: 11
    MKEgal wrote: »
    mmenna33 wrote:
    I went from 140 to 114 in a very short time . I logged out and I even continued to lose weight maybe because breast feeding ! I went down to 110 !!
    I had some stressful emotional time lately and I was emotionally over eating almost every night I gained some wight almost 10 lbs and rehashed 120-125 lbs ... I am 5'5 tall !
    Going by BMI, you should be 115 - 145 lb.
    http://www.shapeup.org/bmi/bmi6.pdf
    So at your current weight of 120, you're in a healthy range, though toward the bottom of it.
    Why do you want to lose more & be underweight again, esp. since you're stressing your body by nursing? Why don't you want to be healthy, both for yourself & to take care of your kids?

    This calculator from the Baylor College of Medicine will show you how many calories to eat to maintain your current healthy weight, plus how many servings of the various food groups you should eat.
    https://www.bcm.edu/cnrc-apps/healthyeatingcalculator/eatingCal.html
    It says that at your current healthy weight of 120 lb, your BMI is 20 and you'd need 1442 cal/day to maintain that healthy weight if you were inactive.
    Change that to being active less than 1 hour per day and you're up to almost 1800 cal.
    Thank you so much for your nice and wise words ! I think I should stop my obsession to go back under 110! Just because I was a happy person back then does not Neceserly Means I will be the same happy person by forcing myself to 110!! I think I should have a balanced diet to maintain y healthy Wiegh and focus on my babies
    I think depriving Myself from nutritious Diet is what forces me to the stressful over eating habit when I have emotional issues
  • solikewhatever
    solikewhatever Posts: 8 Member
    Good thing I read this thread!!! Normally I stick to the "Sucess stories" lol!! I started back up in January and it gave me the 1200 calories. 40 + days in of course I'm having sucess and each loss has lowered me down. My set point is 1030 this week, last week was 1060. I thought it was a bit weird. I will for sure be manually adjusting mine to the correct set point of 1200.
  • JustSomeEm
    JustSomeEm Posts: 20,269 MFP Moderator
    Dear Posters,

    I wanted to offer a brief explanation for the locking of this thread.

    The forum guidelines include this item:

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    a) Posts intended to promote potentially unsafe or controversial weight loss products or procedures, including non-medically prescribed supplements or MLM products will be removed without warning.
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    c) Photos intended to glamorize extreme thinness will be deleted.
    d) Those seeking support in their recovery from eating disorders are welcome at MyFitnessPal.

    MyFitnessPal does not condone such low levels of eating, and this bug has been brought to the attention of the Admin. Getting the appropriate amount of nutrition eating only 600 calories a day is incredibly hard, and this diet may lead to fatigue, hair loss and other serious medical conditions.

    If you would like to review the forum guidelines, please visit the following link:

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    At our discretion, this locked thread may be deleted entirely in the near future.


    Thanks for your understanding,
    davis_em
  • Olivia
    Olivia Posts: 10,137 MFP Staff
    Re: Calorie goals being set below 1200: This is a bug impacting the last release of our iOS app. This bug will be fixed in the next release of the app. In the meantime if anyone who has this issue logs into the website, and updates their goals, it should fix the issue.
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