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Personal experiment

nesian_twin
nesian_twin Posts: 198
edited November 2024 in Getting Started
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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  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    What do you have weekly loss goal set to? .5, 1, or 2 lbs a week?
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,137 Member
    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.
  • nesian_twin
    nesian_twin Posts: 198
    edited March 2015
    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 me
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    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.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    1200 is the floor ..if you have a low TDEE and not much to lose then it will not change much
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    With 18 pounds to lose you should go for no more than a pound (.5 kg) a week, and even that will slow down.
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