About the calories MFP wants you to consume daily...

rainbowbow

I agree with the others above. You only have about 10-15 to lose so your deficit doesn't need to be so aggressive.

It may even be easier at this point to eat at maintenance for your goal weight. Loss will be slower but then you'll be eating what you need to maintain your goal weight and wont have to worry about the transition from losing to maintenance too much.

kellyjellybellyjelly

When I first started under another account I found that the calories I put were too aggressive (I think I put either 1.5 pounds or 2) & with the job I have where I am on my feet for most of my shift it just wasn't cutting it.

After reading a lot of the threads about TDEE I decided to use Scooby's calculator & found that I was losing albeit a little slower but I wasn't as hungry & I had more calories to play around with.

minties82

It worked a bit too well. I averaged 1.8kg lost per week (about 4lbs) when MFP was predicting 900g lost per week.

I upped from 1200 to 1300 kcal and MFP now says I will lose 500g (about a pound) per week but I average 1.3kg.

PAV8888

minties82 wrote: »

It worked a bit too well. I averaged 1.8kg lost per week (about 4lbs) when MFP was predicting 900g lost per week.
I upped from 1200 to 1300 kcal and MFP now says I will lose 500g (about a pound) per week but I average 1.3kg.

Are you logging accurately, or are you just not logging/eating back exercise calories?

Generally MFP would not be consistently off by a factor of 2x to 2.75x if one or both of the above mentioned issues are absent.

While this may not matter to you right now, when/if your rate of loss exceeds 1% per week on a consistent basis it may cause issues such as excess muscle loss, or increase your risk of non compliance.

kellyjellybellyjelly

minties82 wrote: »

It worked a bit too well. I averaged 1.8kg lost per week (about 4lbs) when MFP was predicting 900g lost per week.

I upped from 1200 to 1300 kcal and MFP now says I will lose 500g (about a pound) per week but I average 1.3kg.

Did you have your goal set below 1,200?

Sued0nim

1/2 a lb a week plus eating back 50% of your exercise calories should give you a decent diet (as in range of food)

JoRumbles

I originally put my goal to 2lb a week and got 1,200. I was starving so on recommendation from here I went to 1lb a week and it gave me a whopping 50 cals more : However, after the first couple of weeks I have got used to this amount.

I usually have at least 2 social events a week where I end up eating a larger meal, so I am more going for weekly calories. Some days I eat 1,500 to 1,800 other days I am nearer to only 1,000. I am hungry on the 1,000 days, but I need to keep to my weekly goal.

callsitlikeiseeit

(i didnt read through the thread)

yes, they work. however at 1200 calories I am a mean, testy *kitten*. and hungry. oh so hungry. I did however lose a lot of weight my first month LOL

Then i decided i needed to be happy again and even now (4 months later) still continually tweak and adjust my calories, just depending on what my life is looking like that week.

*usually* i am between 1300-1500/calories. this week i have it set a little higher, but still below maintenance.

ArkMom35

Yes it worked. At one point it wanted to lower my calories to 1270 and I manually changed it to 1400 + exercise calories and I still continued to lose well.