1760cals too low to lose weight?
luiscmartins
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Hey there. First post here.
I have been working out and lifting weights for about 5 years with the intent of putting on weight. I had very good results since when I started I weighted 58Kg (128lbs) and I'm currently at 75Kg (165lbs). Since I am fairly young and never had the problem of putting on fat, I never really worried much about nutrition, so I ate pretty much everything I wanted in big quantities throughout the day just to make sure I had the right amount of food to grow. This philosophy worked good for my goal and I achieved very positive results.
However, my goals are now different, and for the first time during this journey, I decided to lose some weight, or "cut", as it is normally known, to lose the amount of fat that I have. I downloaded MyFitnessPal app because I think it will be helpful to track my calories. However, the app is telling me to go on a diet of 1760 calories to lose 0.5Kg (1lb) per week. Isn't this too low? I went to other different calculators and they estimate a diet of around 2300cals to lose the same amount of weight per week. Besides, MyFitnessPal doesn't seem to take into consideration the frequency and duration of my workouts for the calculation of the calories, even thou it asks for this information. Is the app to be trusted? Should I go this low on calories? My stats are below.
My stats are:
24 years old
75Kg
172cm (5'64ft) tall
13-15% body fat
4 or 5 intense weight-lifting workouts per week, about 90 to 120 minutes each.
Outside working out, my activity level is low, with a casual 1-2 hour walk every other day.
EDIT: I forgot to mention I'm a male!
I have been working out and lifting weights for about 5 years with the intent of putting on weight. I had very good results since when I started I weighted 58Kg (128lbs) and I'm currently at 75Kg (165lbs). Since I am fairly young and never had the problem of putting on fat, I never really worried much about nutrition, so I ate pretty much everything I wanted in big quantities throughout the day just to make sure I had the right amount of food to grow. This philosophy worked good for my goal and I achieved very positive results.
However, my goals are now different, and for the first time during this journey, I decided to lose some weight, or "cut", as it is normally known, to lose the amount of fat that I have. I downloaded MyFitnessPal app because I think it will be helpful to track my calories. However, the app is telling me to go on a diet of 1760 calories to lose 0.5Kg (1lb) per week. Isn't this too low? I went to other different calculators and they estimate a diet of around 2300cals to lose the same amount of weight per week. Besides, MyFitnessPal doesn't seem to take into consideration the frequency and duration of my workouts for the calculation of the calories, even thou it asks for this information. Is the app to be trusted? Should I go this low on calories? My stats are below.
My stats are:
24 years old
75Kg
172cm (5'64ft) tall
13-15% body fat
4 or 5 intense weight-lifting workouts per week, about 90 to 120 minutes each.
Outside working out, my activity level is low, with a casual 1-2 hour walk every other day.
EDIT: I forgot to mention I'm a male!
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If your a guy then yes min for guys is 1800 a day, girls a min of 12000
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172 cm is not 5'6"... it's almost 5'8"0
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If your a guy then yes min for guys is 1800 a day, girls a min of 1200
1800 is a pretty arbitrary number (pulled from a**?). You have to account for age, height, and normal activity level.
I don't work out regularly, so my estimated TDEE is < 2400. I'm right around 1550 and doing quite well.0 -
The way this calculator works with exercise is to consider it after the fact. That is, you put in the exercise you've done and it adds the calories burned to your total. So yesterday I walked for 71 minutes before breakfast and "earned" 266 calories beyond my daily goal of 1200 (sedentary old fart aiming for a pound a week) calories.
Try this: Create a diary for yesterday. Put in everything you ate and all the exercise you did. See what that calorie total looks like.
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Yes, that makes sense! ThanksThe way this calculator works with exercise is to consider it after the fact. That is, you put in the exercise you've done and it adds the calories burned to your total. So yesterday I walked for 71 minutes before breakfast and "earned" 266 calories beyond my daily goal of 1200 (sedentary old fart aiming for a pound a week) calories.
Try this: Create a diary for yesterday. Put in everything you ate and all the exercise you did. See what that calorie total looks like.
I'm pretty sure it is.karintalley wrote: »172 cm is not 5'6"... it's almost 5'8"
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I'm 5'8 = 172.7cm
You're 5 foot 7 and 23/32 inches at 172cm
1760 plus Eat back exercise will be the same as cut from TDEE0 -
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luiscmartins wrote: »
Yes but 0.64 of a foot = 7 and 23/32 inches because there are 12 inches in a foot and 12x0.64 = 7.68 = 7 and 23/32ths0 -
Please link a converter that says 172 cm is 5 feet and 64 inches!
172 cm = 67.7165 Inches to be exact. lol
67 inches = 171.999 cm0 -
OP...
Inches are a pain in the *kitten*. I am used to cm growing up in Sweden. It makes much more sense and easier to learn.
5.64 is not the same as 5 feet 64 Inches. It just means 5.64 feet. You have to convert the inches to feet too.
But be happy you are taller than 5'6".0 -
1760 plus Eat back exercise will be the same as cut from TDEE
^^This^^ MFP does not count exercise calories until you add them back in by reporting exercise. TDEE includes your exercise calories in its calculation. If your exercise is consistent then go with TDEE minus 10% to 20% to lose weight. You can use custom settings to track using MFP.
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karintalley wrote: »OP...
Inches are a pain in the *kitten*. I am used to cm growing up in Sweden. It makes much more sense and easier to learn.
5.64 is not the same as 5 feet 64 Inches. It just means 5.64 feet. You have to convert the inches to feet too.
But be happy you are taller than 5'6".
A pain for you. For those of us that grew up in the US inches are simple.
You wanna be British ...we get the joy of feet, inches for height, metres, centimetres and miles on the roads and in our cars
Oh and kilos in the gym as well as stones and pounds on the weighing scales and grammes and kg in food
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Inches suckarintalley wrote: »OP...
Inches are a pain in the *kitten*. I am used to cm growing up in Sweden. It makes much more sense and easier to learn.
5.64 is not the same as 5 feet 64 Inches. It just means 5.64 feet. You have to convert the inches to feet too.
But be happy you are taller than 5'6".
A pain for you. For those of us that grew up in the US inches are simple.
Metric units make a lot more sense.
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Luckily for me that opinion doesn't matter.Inches suckarintalley wrote: »OP...
Inches are a pain in the *kitten*. I am used to cm growing up in Sweden. It makes much more sense and easier to learn.
5.64 is not the same as 5 feet 64 Inches. It just means 5.64 feet. You have to convert the inches to feet too.
But be happy you are taller than 5'6".
A pain for you. For those of us that grew up in the US inches are simple.
Metric units make a lot more sense.
LOL
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If you could count the calories you were eating while bulking, then every other day go -100 calories.
You should be like 300-500 calories under your mainentance calories0 -
Luckily for me that opinion doesn't matter.Inches suckarintalley wrote: »OP...
Inches are a pain in the *kitten*. I am used to cm growing up in Sweden. It makes much more sense and easier to learn.
5.64 is not the same as 5 feet 64 Inches. It just means 5.64 feet. You have to convert the inches to feet too.
But be happy you are taller than 5'6".
A pain for you. For those of us that grew up in the US inches are simple.
Metric units make a lot more sense.
LOL, Thanks for giving me my USDA recommended daily dose of laughter0 -
With 13-15% body fat, why are you trying to lose? Are you a professional body builder or something?
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By the way - you should not try to lose every ounce of fat. Like everything else, the body needs some to work right.
Explained in the bottom half of this page.
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/why-your-body-needs-some-fat-to-be-healthy.html
According to this,
http://www.shapeup.org/bfl/basics1.html
a healthy range for men up thru age 39 is 8 to 16 percent.0 -
I'm curious to learn how calories + exercise compared to the gizmos. I just realized you don't even have to put in the menu - punching in the exercise you did should give you the total calories to reach your goal.0
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karintalley wrote: »OP...
Inches are a pain in the *kitten*. I am used to cm growing up in Sweden. It makes much more sense and easier to learn.
5.64 is not the same as 5 feet 64 Inches. It just means 5.64 feet. You have to convert the inches to feet too.
But be happy you are taller than 5'6".
A pain for you. For those of us that grew up in the US inches are simple.
You wanna be British ...we get the joy of feet, inches for height, metres, centimetres and miles on the roads and in our cars
Oh and kilos in the gym as well as stones and pounds on the weighing scales and grammes and kg in food
lol...
the whole world should just go metric.0 -
There are only 3 countries in the world that aren't officially metric......0
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karintalley wrote: »Please link a converter that says 172 cm is 5 feet and 64 inches!
172 cm = 67.7165 Inches to be exact. lol
67 inches = 171.999 cm
Yes. The converters say it's 5,64, which is very different than 5'6''. Unfortunately, I only realized that now after all those years lol.karintalley wrote: »OP...
Inches are a pain in the *kitten*. I am used to cm growing up in Sweden. It makes much more sense and easier to learn.
5.64 is not the same as 5 feet 64 Inches. It just means 5.64 feet. You have to convert the inches to feet too.
But be happy you are taller than 5'6".
Just disappointed this topic is now an argument of metric vs imperial systems lol.
Same reason everyone with my bf% wants to loose fat:wanttobefit300 wrote: »With 13-15% body fat, why are you trying to lose? Are you a professional body builder or something?
I want to be able to see my abs the very least. Optimum goal is to get ripped.
Day 3 of cutting cycle. Feeling good so far!0
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