Help with calories

aimos87

Hi I punched in my details to the IIFYM website and it spat out 1857cals. in the email it says “Remember; eat more than this to gain muscle, and less than this to lose fat.”
My question is, how many calories am I supposed to eat if I need to eat less than the calc to lose fat when I thought the calc was taking that into consideration when I said to lose a kg a week?
I’ve been exercising 5-6 days a week 3x heavy weights days and 2x weights/cardio. The challenge nutritionist said to eat 1500 cals. I have not even lost a gram in 5 weeks. I have Hashimotos and am 5’9 and 92kg. I’m thinking I need to eat higher than 1500 calories. The IIFYM takes into account everything. If I select a slower weight loss approach then my calories jump up to just over 2000.
I’d love any advice on whether the 1857 would be ok with the macro split they suggest or should I eat less? It’s the email that’s confused me when it says eat less to lose fat!

ceiswyn

You seem to be looking at a lot of different things here; IIFYM, your nutritionist’s advice, trying to account for different tyoes of exercise - why don’t you just use MFP’s guided setup, get a base calorie goal, and log your exercise and eat it back on the days you do it?

Incidentally, you don’t have enough excess weight to support a loss of 1 kg a week. That would require you to eat 1000 calories less than your maintenance every single day! It’s only possible for people who are significantly obese.