Question regarding calorie intake!

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  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
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    Carbs are not unhealthy.
    You are really doing your body harm in the long run by under eating.
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
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    Ashjvb wrote: »
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    Ashjvb wrote: »
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    How much weight are you trying to lose in total?
    What is your height and current weight?
    What rate of loss have you selected?
    What is your current NET calorie goal? Meaning that when you do exercise, you should be eating more than what MFP initially recommends.

    Im trying to lose 80-90 lbs.
    I started at 234 after my son was born.
    Im 5'6 and currently weigh 179.9
    Id like to get down to 150 so that my bmi is in a normal range.
    Iv selected 2 lbs loss per week with a lightly active lifestyle.
    My fitnesspal says my current goal is 1340 calories
    And i usually have about 600 excercise calories that my fitbit logs just from my basic activity, house cleaning, walking. No workouts yet.

    So if you have about 30 lbs left to lose, 1 pound per week is a more appropriate goal, which means you are even more significantly under eating.

    How quickly are you losing? How accurate is your logging?

    Why the change in approach, what were you doing to lose the 50 lbs so far and why are you changing?

    Why would 1 lb a week would be more appropriate because i have less to lose now?

    Iv lost the 50 lbs since july 2017. Iv had a few bumps in the road. And have gone up a bit here and there but get back on track pretty quickly.

    Each month i try to set different goals and i try to use different approaches to switch it up and to help myself see what works best for me.
    This month my goal was to go low carb and to try to eat more veggies daily.

    I started and im enjoying it but i have not been hitting my calorie goals. But thanks to everyone on here im going to make sure to incorporate more calories daily.



    ** Thank you all so much for the information

    Slowing down the rate of loss as you get closer to goal has a lot of benefits including:
    Helps preserve lean body mass
    Helps ease the transition into maintenance - many people who have steep long term deficits often struggle to go into maintenance without gaining some weight back or finding it hard to come up with a long term plan.

    When someone gets to around 50 lbs to lose, a 1 lb/week is recommended and with 20-25 lbs to lose, then a 0.5 lbs/week rate is usually suggested.
  • kellyjellybellyjelly
    kellyjellybellyjelly Posts: 9,480 Member
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    Ashjvb wrote: »
    Hii. So i started my weightloss journey mid july 2017 and to date iv lost 54 lbs.
    For this month im focused on cutting UNHEALTHY carbs where i can. This past week i have eaten alot of food. But my calorie intake has been under 1000. I am trying to follow the 80/20 rule for flexible dieting and allowing myself one sweet treat a day .
    So my day would look like this :
    Breakfast - 2 eggs scrambled with shredded carrots and zuchinni ( 287 calories )
    Lunch - raw veggies and dip ( 150 calories )
    Dinner - beef spaghetti sauce over cauliflower rice (273 calories )
    Treat - dairyland chocolate ( 280 calories )
    Bringing me to a total of 950 calories.
    And im not feeling hungry, my body seems satisfied with the foods im eating.
    Also im drinking 100 oz of water a day.

    Now my question is.. is this unhealthy? Should i be trying to eat more?


    Are you using a food scale to weigh everything? If not you could be eating a few more calories than you think & that could be one of the reasons you're not hungry.

    It's easy to underestimate how many calories we eat.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
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    You're doing way more harm to your body with this diet than if you added rice and pasta.
  • Dnarules
    Dnarules Posts: 2,081 Member
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    SusanUW83 wrote: »
    If you chose "lightly active" those fitbit calories are already included in the calculation. If you chose "no activity" then you can count the fitbit calories.

    If the Fitbit is synced to MFP, this is not true. It doesn't matter what activity level you are set at. Fitbit will update MFP numbers based on your activity.
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
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    Dnarules wrote: »
    SusanUW83 wrote: »
    If you chose "lightly active" those fitbit calories are already included in the calculation. If you chose "no activity" then you can count the fitbit calories.

    If the Fitbit is synced to MFP, this is not true. It doesn't matter what activity level you are set at. Fitbit will update MFP numbers based on your activity.

    Good catch, and make sure to have negative adjustments enabled for days you are truly not as active as normal.

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