Confused!

yasiral

As per MFP, I should eat 1500 calories to lose 1 kg/week. Now I am eating 1500 calories but at the end of the day I have like 500-600 calories extra coming from exercise (fitbit is synced with MFP). Is this putting me at Net 1000 calories? Is this routine considered unhealthy? Being a male I should be eating 1500 cals minimum which I am eating but I am also burning extra which is getting me confused.

I am male, 5' 11", 106.5kg, age 33.

janejellyroll

Netting 1900-1,000 calories isn't good for you at all. If those numbers are accurate, you aren't eating nearly enough. You're already, at 1,500, going as low as a man should generally go and you're adding exercise on top of that.

AnnPT77

Yes, it's leaving you at 1000 net calories. No, that wouldn't be healthy.

You're supposed to be eating back your exercise calories, because MFP builds your calorie deficit into your base calorie goal.

At your current weight, 1kg/week is barely still a reasonable loss rate. A common rule of thumb suggests you should avoid losing more than 1% of your body weight weekly, and less than that when within maybe 15-20kg of a healthy goal weight. It seems like you're kind of close to the edge with 1kg/week. Under those circumstances, not eating back exercise calories would be a particularly unhealthy idea.

Best wishes!

cwolfman13

yasiral wrote: »

As per MFP, I should eat 1500 calories to lose 1 kg/week. Now I am eating 1500 calories but at the end of the day I have like 500-600 calories extra coming from exercise (fitbit is synced with MFP). Is this putting me at Net 1000 calories? Is this routine considered unhealthy? Being a male I should be eating 1500 cals minimum which I am eating but I am also burning extra which is getting me confused.

I am male, 5' 11", 106.5kg, age 33.

Your 1500 calories is an aggressive weight loss target that assumes no exercise...you will note that there is no mention of exercise when you select your activity level which I assume you put at sedentary to get 1500 calories. Common sense would dictate that when you exercise, you aren't sedentary and that activity should be accounted for. You account for that activity when you log it and get additional calories to compensate for additional, unaccounted for activity. And really, if you weren't supposed to eat more then logically why would MFP give you more?

A net 1,000 calories for a male is definitely unhealthy. I'm between 5'9" and 5'10" and do a moderate amount of exercise and I lose weight easily on 2300-2500 calories per day at the rate of about 1 Lb per week.