Confused about calorie intake

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Behxo
Behxo Posts: 1,190 Member
edited January 26 in Health and Weight Loss
So MFP gave me a daily goal of 1380 calories a day without exercise, but when I went on Fat2Fit They gave me a daily goal of 1722 calories... With MFP and trying to stay at the goal they gave me I've been losing weight but there's such a big difference between what they gave and Fat2Fit gave, I guess I'm wondering why? Also if maybe I should up my calorie intake to maybe meet in the middle of what the two suggested.

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  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    two different approaches - Fat2Fit sets your calories at maintenance for the person you want to be - mathematically it will take forever to get there.

    MFP uses a more aggressive deficit of 500 cals/day per lb/week weight loss

    The key difference is in the expected time - F2F talk about taking 300 off to improve loss rate somewhere I think.
  • Behxo
    Behxo Posts: 1,190 Member
    awesome, thank you!
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