Need your help on calculations

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  • AliceDark
    AliceDark Posts: 3,886 Member
    edited August 2017
    gintaready wrote: »
    AliceDark wrote: »
    gintaready wrote: »
    gintaready wrote: »
    Ok I think I finally found the right numbers.
    Based on this discussion, I count now like this:
    1540 (just BMR) x 1.2 = 1848 (Maintenance)
    1848 - 20% = 1478 (Eat this to lose)
    With THIS method, If I workout I should eat back workout calories.
    Right? :smiley:

    Can someone else confirm ? :blush:

    The 1.2 multiplier is for someone who is sedentary, right? It doesn't take into account your exercise?

    FWIW, why not just use the MFP setup? It'll guide you through all of the calculations.

    Whatever method you choose, you'll need to follow it for 4-6 weeks and then reevaluate. Every calculator is just an estimation, and you'll need to adjust as necessary using your real-world results.

    Hi, thank you for your answer. The reason why i dont trust mpf is that if i set 0.5 kg loss a week it gives me 1200 calories. If i set 0.25 kg loss it gives me 1620. I mean, doesn't this look like very abstract, rough calculations? There are a few hundreds of diferrence between these number. And if I can lose weight more comfortably, by eating 1350 instead of 1200 - I want to know it :smile:
    No, that just looks like an error. If you can lose .25kg at 1620 calories, you would lose 0.5kg at about 1350 calories. For every .25kg additional you want to lose, you'd need to create an additional deficit of 275 calories per day. If I were you I would re-run MFP's calculations, making sure I didn't change anything else, just to double-check.

    (Edit: *crosses fingers that my metric system math is accurate!*)
  • gintaready
    gintaready Posts: 19 Member
    AliceDark wrote: »
    gintaready wrote: »
    AliceDark wrote: »
    gintaready wrote: »
    gintaready wrote: »
    Ok I think I finally found the right numbers.
    Based on this discussion, I count now like this:
    1540 (just BMR) x 1.2 = 1848 (Maintenance)
    1848 - 20% = 1478 (Eat this to lose)
    With THIS method, If I workout I should eat back workout calories.
    Right? :smiley:

    Can someone else confirm ? :blush:

    The 1.2 multiplier is for someone who is sedentary, right? It doesn't take into account your exercise?

    FWIW, why not just use the MFP setup? It'll guide you through all of the calculations.

    Whatever method you choose, you'll need to follow it for 4-6 weeks and then reevaluate. Every calculator is just an estimation, and you'll need to adjust as necessary using your real-world results.

    Hi, thank you for your answer. The reason why i dont trust mpf is that if i set 0.5 kg loss a week it gives me 1200 calories. If i set 0.25 kg loss it gives me 1620. I mean, doesn't this look like very abstract, rough calculations? There are a few hundreds of diferrence between these number. And if I can lose weight more comfortably, by eating 1350 instead of 1200 - I want to know it :smile:
    No, that just looks like an error. If you can lose .25kg at 1620 calories, you would lose 0.5kg at about 1350 calories. For every .25kg additional you want to lose, you'd need to create an additional deficit of 275 calories per day. If I were you I would re-run MFP's calculations, making sure I didn't change anything else, just to double-check.

    (Edit: *crosses fingers that my metric system math is accurate!*)

    Exactly! I will test and let you know
  • nowine4me
    nowine4me Posts: 3,985 Member
    Or you could just use this app exactly as designed and set to 1# per week as do as it says.
  • gintaready
    gintaready Posts: 19 Member
    AliceDark wrote: »
    gintaready wrote: »
    AliceDark wrote: »
    gintaready wrote: »
    gintaready wrote: »
    Ok I think I finally found the right numbers.
    Based on this discussion, I count now like this:
    1540 (just BMR) x 1.2 = 1848 (Maintenance)
    1848 - 20% = 1478 (Eat this to lose)
    With THIS method, If I workout I should eat back workout calories.
    Right? :smiley:

    Can someone else confirm ? :blush:

    The 1.2 multiplier is for someone who is sedentary, right? It doesn't take into account your exercise?

    FWIW, why not just use the MFP setup? It'll guide you through all of the calculations.

    Whatever method you choose, you'll need to follow it for 4-6 weeks and then reevaluate. Every calculator is just an estimation, and you'll need to adjust as necessary using your real-world results.

    Hi, thank you for your answer. The reason why i dont trust mpf is that if i set 0.5 kg loss a week it gives me 1200 calories. If i set 0.25 kg loss it gives me 1620. I mean, doesn't this look like very abstract, rough calculations? There are a few hundreds of diferrence between these number. And if I can lose weight more comfortably, by eating 1350 instead of 1200 - I want to know it :smile:
    No, that just looks like an error. If you can lose .25kg at 1620 calories, you would lose 0.5kg at about 1350 calories. For every .25kg additional you want to lose, you'd need to create an additional deficit of 275 calories per day. If I were you I would re-run MFP's calculations, making sure I didn't change anything else, just to double-check.

    (Edit: *crosses fingers that my metric system math is accurate!*)

    You were right!!! It was an app error! I switched several times and now it gives mes 1370 for 0.5kg!! I can't believe I've wasted so much time calculating some error loool :smiley:
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