Please Confirm Calorie Needs

Marcie9278

Hey everyone!

Ok MFP says 1200 for me....I'm 5'6 and about 150. I'm going to start intermittent fasting but need to know how much to eat during non-fast time....16/8. I do OrangeTheory....high intensity full body workout with cardio and weights about 4 times a week and burn an average of 600 calories.

Thanks everyone!

MichelleSilverleaf

Do you eat back any of that 600 calories?

TanJacked

Really depends on how active you are throughout the day. What are your job and extra curricular activities like aside from your workouts?

tiffaninghs

i used to do otf and gosh ur really gonna lose if ur going 4 days a week.. i was doing 1800 calories a day and going 3 days a week and still lost 22lbs in a month!! that work out is the truth!!

yarwell

MFP said 1200 I guess you dialled in at least 1 lb/week and said you were sedentary ? The dialy average of your exercise is about 300 over 7 days you could try adding that to the 1200 and set 1500 as an initial goal, try it for two weeks and adjust based on results, hunger etc.

tinkerbellang83

How your calorie allowance is calculated http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10569458/why-eating-too-little-calories-is-a-bad-idea/p1

rtogetfit93

@VeggieLoverMarcie What's your job and current step count daily (if you know it) like? Do you move much during the day?
This is an excellent tool: http://www.sailrabbit.com/bmr/. It explains the actual activity levels, and you can put in how often you intend to exercise- and how much you want to lose weekly. It will tell you how much you can then eat daily to lose - and it has an intermittent fasting section, too, which will help in your case!

TavistockToad

Set mfp to lose 1lb per week max, and eat back your exercise cals.

Marcie9278

I spend about 4 to 5 hours sitting at a desk. The rest is walking around and driving which is sitting so let's add about an hour or two to those hours. So I'm sitting about 6 hours a day. I probably my do need to eat a bit more.