Calories assigned by MFP

julia0427
julia0427 Posts: 64 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi there. I see most people am have been set to 1200 calories a day. MFP has me set to 1520/day. Does that sound right??

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  • Cynsonya
    Cynsonya Posts: 668 Member
    Sounds fine. MFP sets calories dependent on the individual. It will differ person to person by sex, age, start weight, goal loss, etc. I'm set to 1870 calories to lose 2ppw. Last week I lost 5.8 though so I could obviously eat even more.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Sure. Considering you've given zero details to decide if it sounds right or not. 1200 is the absolute minimum MFP will give - if you can eat more you definitely should.
  • rsleighty
    rsleighty Posts: 214 Member
    Unless you are petite or sedentary, probably.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    julia0427 wrote: »
    Hi there. I see most people am have been set to 1200 calories a day. MFP has me set to 1520/day. Does that sound right??

    1200 is a minimum default. 1200 only sounds reasonable when you are a senior or very petite lady.

    1520 is probably reasonable. If your goals are here:

    Pound per week goals
    75+ lbs set to lose 2 lb range
    Between 40 - 75 lbs set to lose 1.5 lb range
    Between 25-40 lbs set to lose 1 lb range
    Between 15-25 lbs set to lose 1 -.50 lb range
    Less than 15 lbs set to lose 0.5 lbs range

    Then 1520 is reasonable.
  • DaisyHamilton
    DaisyHamilton Posts: 575 Member
    TeaBea wrote: »
    julia0427 wrote: »
    Hi there. I see most people am have been set to 1200 calories a day. MFP has me set to 1520/day. Does that sound right??

    1200 is a minimum default. 1200 only sounds reasonable when you are a senior or very petite lady.

    1520 is probably reasonable. If your goals are here:

    Pound per week goals
    75+ lbs set to lose 2 lb range
    Between 40 - 75 lbs set to lose 1.5 lb range
    Between 25-40 lbs set to lose 1 lb range
    Between 15-25 lbs set to lose 1 -.50 lb range
    Less than 15 lbs set to lose 0.5 lbs range

    Then 1520 is reasonable.

    I keep seeing this around; do you have a link or know the science behind why each weight range would have those specific amount lost per week goals? Example I'd like to lose about 30lb, so according to this I should have a goal of 1lb/week, but why wouldn't 1.5-2lb/week be reasonable for that? Is it only to make maintenance easier once at the goal weight?

    Sorry for high-jacking the post, OP.
  • Lydilod
    Lydilod Posts: 135 Member
    DaisyHamilton wrote: »
    TeaBea wrote: »
    julia0427 wrote: »
    Hi there. I see most people am have been set to 1200 calories a day. MFP has me set to 1520/day. Does that sound right??

    1200 is a minimum default. 1200 only sounds reasonable when you are a senior or very petite lady.

    1520 is probably reasonable. If your goals are here:

    Pound per week goals
    75+ lbs set to lose 2 lb range
    Between 40 - 75 lbs set to lose 1.5 lb range
    Between 25-40 lbs set to lose 1 lb range
    Between 15-25 lbs set to lose 1 -.50 lb range
    Less than 15 lbs set to lose 0.5 lbs range

    Then 1520 is reasonable.

    I keep seeing this around; do you have a link or know the science behind why each weight range would have those specific amount lost per week goals? Example I'd like to lose about 30lb, so according to this I should have a goal of 1lb/week, but why wouldn't 1.5-2lb/week be reasonable for that? Is it only to make maintenance easier once at the goal weight?

    Sorry for high-jacking the post, OP.

    I was told on here that I should only loose up to 1% in lbs of my body weight per week. I'm 180lbs so I can safely loose up to 1.8lb per week

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