.5 or 1lb?

Jamie62477

I’m starting again and was wondering how you figured if you wanted to shed .5 or 1 pound a week? Do you focus more on the calories you are eating or the ones you might be losing during the day or exercising? (I also have my Fitbit connected with a goal of 10,000-15,000 steps a day.)

TavistockToad

Depends how much you have to lose?

shadow2soul

For me it has come down to how much of a deficit can I manage.
I am at a healthy weight for my height and even a 250 calorie deficit has been proving to be difficult. Since I can’t manage to stay with it for more than a few days at a time, I have only been losing about 0.2lbs per week.

I actually recently made the decision to try having a maintenance break and then switching to a 5% deficit for a bit.

WinoGelato

How much weight are you trying to lose?

If you have your FitBit synced and you typically achieve the 10-15k goal make sure your activity level reflects that step count - it isn’t Sedentary.

You should set it appropriately, enable negative adjustments, AND eat back calorie adjustments if you log accurately.