Calories Burned

RejsGirl

Curious to know what is your calories burned set on and how did you come to choose that number? I just randomly selected 2,300 and I rarely meet that goal. I'm sure I will once it's warmer out, but otherwise during the winter it's simply been useless and unrealistic number. LOL

shadow2soul

I tried out the Fitbit premium and they lowered my calorie burn goal to 1829. Why? I have no clue.
Previously, I had it set to 2500. I picked this because the closer I get to it, the closer to 2000 calories I can eat and still lose weight. It didn't matter if I hit it or not for the day, just trying to get there usually left me with a reasonable amount of calories I could eat and still lose weight. I'm just not good at dealing with lower calorie intake to lose weight. The closer to 2000 I can be the better.

editorgrrl

Use the MFP defaults, and set your goal to .5 lb. per week for every 25 lbs. you're overweight: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/change_goals_guided

Enable negative calorie adjustments: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings

heybales

I set it to 2500. Same reason as shadow2soul.

Because I like to eat at 2000 calories minimum. And had MFP set to 1 lb weekly at that time.

Most days with exercise was much more, so no issue. But on sedentary day, I knew if dinner was going to be light.

So whatever eating level you can sustain and adhere to, set the calorie burn goal high enough to include your deficit.

leooftheyear

i calculated my TDEE - 10% using the weekly report and set it to that

editorgrrl

leooftheyear wrote: »

i calculated my TDEE - 10% using the weekly report and set it to that

If you connect your accounts & follow my directions above, you'll be eating TDEE minus an appropriate deficit. No math required.

Robbnva

editorgrrl wrote: »

leooftheyear wrote: »

i calculated my TDEE - 10% using the weekly report and set it to that

If you connect your accounts & follow my directions above, you'll be eating TDEE minus an appropriate deficit. No math required.

based on what you posted, I should be at .5lbs a week weight loss. Who wants to lose that slowly?

editorgrrl

The less you have to lose, the more slowly it comes off. That's just the way the human body works. If you eat at too aggressive a deficit you probably won't lose any more quickly. In fact, you might just end up bingeing.

We should all be looking for the maximum number of calories at which we lose weight—never the minimum.

retirehappy

editorgrrl wrote: »

The less you have to lose, the more slowly it comes off. That's just the way the human body works. If you eat at too aggressive a deficit you probably won't lose any more quickly. In fact, you might just end up bingeing.

We should all be looking for the maximum number of calories at which we lose weight—never the minimum.

^^^^^^This, keep it simple.

heybales

leooftheyear wrote: »

i calculated my TDEE - 10% using the weekly report and set it to that

Well, this is asking about a specific goal that Fitbit has in a tile - daily burn goal.

Not daily eating goal.

Seems to be some confusion on the question.

Robbnva

editorgrrl wrote: »

The less you have to lose, the more slowly it comes off. That's just the way the human body works. If you eat at too aggressive a deficit you probably won't lose any more quickly. In fact, you might just end up bingeing.

We should all be looking for the maximum number of calories at which we lose weight—never the minimum.

Except I haven't really found that to be true for me. I did have 1 week where I gained after a bad week (though I never went over my maitence calories) but after readjusting my macros, I'm back on pace for another in the line of consistent 1.5/2 lb weight loss.

I guess everyone is different

editorgrrl

Weight loss is not linear. Some weeks you do everything right but maintain—or even gain. Others you lose a whole lot in a "whoosh." So be patient.

I kept it simple: used MFP's defaults, set my goal to .5 lb. per week for every 25 lbs. I was overweight, and enabled negative calorie adjustments. I logged exercise in Fitbit (not MFP) and ate back my adjustments. I lost the weight & have maintained for 8 months.

heybales

Robbnva wrote: »

editorgrrl wrote: »

The less you have to lose, the more slowly it comes off. That's just the way the human body works. If you eat at too aggressive a deficit you probably won't lose any more quickly. In fact, you might just end up bingeing.

We should all be looking for the maximum number of calories at which we lose weight—never the minimum.

Except I haven't really found that to be true for me. I did have 1 week where I gained after a bad week (though I never went over my maitence calories) but after readjusting my macros, I'm back on pace for another in the line of consistent 1.5/2 lb weight loss.

I guess everyone is different

First, you are a guy. That is one potential lucky aspect.
Second, you may not have abused your body with past yo-yo dieting, making it all too eager to slow down if stressed. Or facing other issues causing the same effect. Again, some of that has to do with being a guy.

Just be sure you are getting enough strength training in, because losing 2 lbs of weight does not mean you have lost 2 lbs of fat.

When muscle isn't built back up, and basically the amino acids are used for energy instead, muscle only supplies 600 cal per lb.
It's actually easier to lose a lb of muscle than a lb of fat.

And unless doing strength training, usually found that about 20% of the weight lost is LBM, obviously not all of that is muscle, since less water is needed with less body, but some is. And it's a bear to build it back.