Calorie question

gpsepulveda

How much of a calorie defecit is too much? I have been keeping a 1000 calorie defecit and want to make sure that is okay.
Thanks for any help!

shadow2soul

Are you saying your under your calorie goal by 1000 or that you have MFP set to 2 lb per week loss?


Typical recommendations are:

- No more than 1% of your body weight per week
- 0.5 lb per week loss (250 cal deficit) if you have 25 lbs or less to lose
- 1 lb per week loss (500 cal deficit) if you have 25 -50 lbs to lose
- 1.5 lb per week loss (750 cal deficit) if you have 50-75 lbs to lose
- 2 lb per week loss (1000 cal deficit) if you have 75 + lbs to lose

BelleCakes2018

They generally say not to go below 1200cals for females, and that 500 below your TDEE is more than enough to lose a sensible 1lb a week without exercise

gpsepulveda

Thank you for your responses!
MFP has me at 1200. It goes over 1200 every day because of activity. I eat some of my activity calories but not all.
I track activity with my Fitbit so I make sure on the Fitbit dashboard that my calories in are 1000 less than my calories out.
I have MFP set to 2 pounds a week but I'm working on dropping 42 pounds so maybe I should switch to 1.5 a week.

Thanks again for feedback!

rileysowner

gpsepulveda wrote: »

Thank you for your responses!
MFP has me at 1200. It goes over 1200 every day because of activity. I eat some of my activity calories but not all.
I track activity with my Fitbit so I make sure on the Fitbit dashboard that my calories in are 1000 less than my calories out.
I have MFP set to 2 pounds a week but I'm working on dropping 42 pounds so maybe I should switch to 1.5 a week.

Thanks again for feedback!

At 42 pounds to lose 1 pound per week would be better.

PAV8888

I generally prefer to look at things as TDEE -20% for anyone who is not obese; up to TDEE - 25% while obese.

By the time you finish cooking the numbers most people have a TDEE such that a deficit of approximately 500 Cal for about 1lb a week is as fast as they should go.