Daily calories

arniedog74

I realized that my birthday was wrong by one month on my profile. I corrected it and lost 250 calories I can have daily. As it was hard enough to stay under the higher calories it's even harder to stay under lesser calories. Can this be right that I lose that much, just because of a month change in my birthday? Nothing else changed.

EddieP50

It sounds off. I plugged my info into a calorie calculator and added 1 year in age and it only dropped 7 calories.

lynn_glenmont

Sounds like a glitch, especially since, according to your profile, you're still in your early 40s (I was thinking there might be some arbitrary cut-off in the algorithm that assumes a woman is post-menopausal at age 50 and eliminates calories for the menstrual cycle, although even there 250 calories a day seems very excessive).

Anyway, does it really matter? It looks like you've been on here for a couple of months. If you've been logging accurately, you know what your actual results were with the old calorie goal. Were you losing weight at that goal? If you were, why change just because some algorithm spits out a different number?

arniedog74

I have not lost any weight. I do attribute that to not good food choices. I do stay under calories. I just need to start eating healthier. As of now, I have only maintained.