Calorie Deficit

2009jewellz

Here itt goes.

I don't understand it. Please help me to figure it out. I heard this plays a big role in weight loss.

Calorie Deficit??

DeguelloTex

Burn more than you eat.

malibu927

Calorie deficit = eating less than you burn

yarwell

Lose weight, do math, express it as calories.

2009jewellz

But, how do I know or calculate how many calories I need to lose this bulge?????

Ready2Rock206

When you enter your information in MFP it gives you a calorie goal - it does the math for you.

cwolfman13

2009jewellz wrote: »

But, how do I know or calculate how many calories I need to lose this bulge?????

when you put all of your information into this calculator, it uses that information to determine your estimated maintenance...then it takes a cut from that number depending on what rate of loss you told the calculator you wanted to do...it's a calculator that calculates this for you....

so let's say your estimated maintenance calories were 1,800 without exercise...you want to lose 1 Lb per week...so MFP will give you a calorie goal of 1,800 - 500 = 1,300 calories WITHOUT exercise...that is your deficit for weight loss...500 calories per day from your maintenance....

Keep in mind that if you do some exercise you can eat a little more.

GWehsling

Click on My Home for the front page of this website and look for a link 'Goals'. Then click 'Change Goals' and click 'Guided' to step through a wizard like page with fields, entering as much information as you can accurately. I say accurately because you must be precise as you must also be precise when entering the detail around what you consume. The site will calculate what your calorie goals are for each day. As time goes on, keep checking and adjusting those numbers.

Always be precise and accurate. I never realised what an actual portion is until I got a scale, so get a scale and keep your diary up to date. Log everything even the stuff that makes you feel bad so that you can be accountable and see where your errors or wins are coming from.

Make some friends along the way, share advice, ask for advice.

Keep being awesome. Over time, you will either achieve and know how you did it or you will struggle and see where you are making mistakes. Mistakes are good, because they are actually little lessons that help you learn what to do next and what not to keep doing.

Good luck.

kshama2001

Have you gone through the setup here: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/change_goals_guided ?

Carol_

Jewellz,

Go to settings. The 'settings' that are directly under the lighter blue heading that says my home,food..and so on.
In the darker blue heading, it says home, goals, check in, mail..etc. THAT one.

Now..click the 'settings' and go fill in the blanks. It will tell you the number of calories to eat a day. It will also tell you aprox how many u burn a day, based on what you entered in those blanks. The difference in the two numbers is 'the deficit'. Like everybody said..it simply means eating less than you burned.

Now, if you add exercise, it will give you more calories to eat..but they say only eat half of the number it gives you. For instance, you did 30 mins of whatever and it gives you 300 extra calories, do NOT eat all 300. Eat only up to half. At least that is how I understand it. Please, anyone can feel free to correct me..if that is wrong.
Hope this works for you. Love,Carol

bpetrosky

OP, you will see these terms used a lot in the forums. It's good understand what they mean because they help you relate a lot of the general advice to your own specific situation:

BMR: Basal Metabolic Rate -- The amount of calories your body needs simply to function without moving.
NEAT: Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenisis -- The amount of calories our body needs for your basic daily activities. This is the method MFP uses to set your calorie requirements for logging.
TDEE: Total Daily Energy Expenditure -- The actual amount of calories your body uses including purposeful exercise.

Basically, the idea is if you eat the NEAT level of calories a day + enough calories to cover exercise you will maintain the same weight over time.

To be in a calorie deficit, you want the calories you eat and drink to be less than your calories burned consistently. The amount of calories in 1 lb of fat is assumed to be 3500, so when you set up MFP to burn a certain amount of fat/wk, it takes that number and calculates how many calories a day to subtract from your NEAT allowance.

So, if MFP calculates your NEAT level to be 2500, and you tell it 1/lb wk loss, it should give you 2000 cals to eat/day.

I hope this is helpful.