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Personal experiment

nesian_twin
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showing same calories every time I change my goals in MFP it says 1200 calories. I change my age, weight, goals and it says 1200 again and I'm guessing this cannot be accurate. How can I get a true estimate of how many calories I am allowed every day?
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What do you have weekly loss goal set to? .5, 1, or 2 lbs a week?0
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Are you doing it on your phone? If so, try resetting your goals on the website and see what happens. They were having an issue with a particular mobile phone operating system (pretty sure it was the latest iOS, but not sure) recently that was causing the app to set daily calorie goals way below 1200 -- maybe in trying to fix it they've got a new glitch? Anyway, the advice they were offering for that problem was to use the website to adjust your goals.
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Amy it was for 1kg a week (it does metric as well) and no Lynn I didnt do it by phone, did this by website, thanks anyway ladies for getting back to me0
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nesian_twin wrote: »Amy it was for 1kg a week
That's the reason you are getting the minimum amount of calories a day. 1kg a week is too aggressive when you don't have much to lose.0 -
1200 is the floor ..if you have a low TDEE and not much to lose then it will not change much0
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With 18 pounds to lose you should go for no more than a pound (.5 kg) a week, and even that will slow down.0
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