Calorie Deficit

evangarciakarlo

I changed my activity level from lightly active to active and I went from 2530 calories to 3050 calories. Why at the start I gain a little bit even though I am in a calorie deficit.

livingleanlivingclean

Because you're eating more food.
You may also be eating more carbs which will cause you to hold more water.

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Redordeadhead

What changed to make you alter your activity level? New job or lifestyle factor?

Your activity level on MFP doesn't include purposeful exercise.

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livingleanlivingclean

evangarciakarlo wrote: »

I’m working out more.

As @Redordeadhead pointed out, mfp recommendations are not including exercise. You would add your workouts on top.

(that said, including exercise in your goal would work if you plan on working out exactly the same amount every week)

shaf238

If you want to get better idea of what you should be aiming for calorie-wise, search for TDEE calculators and use a few different ones to see the number you end up with. You can always manually adjust the calorie target and macro split manually on mfp.

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TavistockToad

evangarciakarlo wrote: »

I’m working out more.

its doubtful that you're working out that much more every day?

Machka9

evangarciakarlo wrote: »

I’m working out more.

How much more?

callsitlikeiseeit

TavistockToad wrote: »

evangarciakarlo wrote: »

I’m working out more.

its doubtful that you're working out that much more every day?

all of that.

Deviette

Okay, so I'd say you're probably misunderstanding how to MFP activity level thing is supposed to work. We get a lot of people doing this, I will explain.

Essentially your activity level is dependent on your non intentional exercise. So for example, someone who works in a physical job (such as a builder) will have a higher general calorie expenditure than someone who does not (such as working at a desk in an office). The builder will set their activity to probably active or very active. In contrast the office worker would set it to sedentary. This means that MFP will give the builder more calories to eat in the day. This is completely independent to the amount of times each of these people purposefully work out. At this point, intentional exercise should be ignored.

From there, you should add intentional exercise onto each day separately using the exercise button. As you add intentional exercise on, it will recalculated how much you should be eating for that day and give you extra calories that way.

So if you've just upped your activity because you've started working out more, then you're not using MFP correctly. You should keep your activity lower, and just log the new exercises when you do them.

The community tend to find the values given for exercise on MFP are somewhat inflated, so you may find it better to only eat back 50% of the exercise calories given.

malibu927

Deviette wrote: »

Okay, so I'd say you're probably misunderstanding how to MFP activity level thing is supposed to work. We get a lot of people doing this, I will explain.

Essentially your activity level is dependent on your non intentional exercise. So for example, someone who works in a physical job (such as a builder) will have a higher general calorie expenditure than someone who does not (such as working at a desk in an office). The builder will set their activity to probably active or very active. In contrast the office worker would set it to sedentary. This means that MFP will give the builder more calories to eat in the day. This is completely independent to the amount of times each of these people purposefully work out. At this point, intentional exercise should be ignored.

From there, you should add intentional exercise onto each day separately using the exercise button. As you add intentional exercise on, it will recalculated how much you should be eating for that day and give you extra calories that way.

So if you've just upped your activity because you've started working out more, then you're not using MFP correctly. You should keep your activity lower, and just log the new exercises when you do them.

The community tend to find the values given for exercise on MFP are somewhat inflated, so you may find it better to only eat back 50% of the exercise calories given.

The OP has been explained this several times

Deviette

malibu927 wrote: »

Deviette wrote: »

Okay, so I'd say you're probably misunderstanding how to MFP activity level thing is supposed to work. We get a lot of people doing this, I will explain.

Essentially your activity level is dependent on your non intentional exercise. So for example, someone who works in a physical job (such as a builder) will have a higher general calorie expenditure than someone who does not (such as working at a desk in an office). The builder will set their activity to probably active or very active. In contrast the office worker would set it to sedentary. This means that MFP will give the builder more calories to eat in the day. This is completely independent to the amount of times each of these people purposefully work out. At this point, intentional exercise should be ignored.

From there, you should add intentional exercise onto each day separately using the exercise button. As you add intentional exercise on, it will recalculated how much you should be eating for that day and give you extra calories that way.

So if you've just upped your activity because you've started working out more, then you're not using MFP correctly. You should keep your activity lower, and just log the new exercises when you do them.

The community tend to find the values given for exercise on MFP are somewhat inflated, so you may find it better to only eat back 50% of the exercise calories given.

The OP has been explained this several times

Ah yes, I've just clocked the username.