I burn 1600 cals/day , so I can eat 2700?

tammie614

tinkerbellang83 wrote: »

yuko0407 wrote: »

OP, it seems to me that you never answered to the question: what is your goal? Weight loss, weight gain, or maintenance?

Initial post states aiming for 2lbs loss per week.

my apologies. i overlooked that part

yuko0407

tinkerbellang83 wrote: »

yuko0407 wrote: »

OP, it seems to me that you never answered to the question: what is your goal? Weight loss, weight gain, or maintenance?

Initial post states aiming for 2lbs loss per week.

I've read that as an example, not as a clearly stated goal.

DKLI

Looking at your stats, you would not be able to set your weight loss goal at 2 pounds a week without doing a heck of a lot of exercise or going below 1200 calories a day, not safe. You're already at a great weight for your height so maybe focus on recomp?

NovusDies

Not sure the OP is coming back.

bjkoziara

Just a little joke for you, OP 😉 You're overcomplicating it. Take the advice of the people who have been doing this for longer than you.

quiksylver296

I suspect OP thinks she's burning 1600 calories per day in exercise. Which is questionable, unless she's running a marathon every day.

slbbw

My best guess is OP has a fitness watch that tells her her activity level including exercise is 1600. This would be added to her BMR to calculate total burn. So lets assume she is average and her daily activity is 1600 with BMR of 1500. So 3100 total calories burned a day -2700 eaten would be a 1lb loss per week.

That is the only sense I can make of this, but it is full of assumptions so....

PAV8888

I sense the possibility that our weird thought patterns have made the OP leave the building!

NovusDies

PAV8888 wrote: »

I sense the possibility that our weird thought patterns have made the OP leave the building!

It was you. I am the normal thought pattern person.

peggy_polenta

please take note of op's user id. combining that with reading this thread has me suspicious

TeaBea

lcdodorkrkddie wrote: »

If I burn 1600 calories through bmr and exercise why wouldn’t I subtract the 1600 calories from my calorie intake of 2700? That would have me netting 1100, the ACTUAL intake of the day

If you burn 1600 calories thru - BMR + activity level + exercise.....that means you eat 1600 to MAINTAIN your current weight.

If you eat 1200 calories that's a 400 calorie deficit (1600 - 1200 = 400).

3,500/400 = 8.75. That means you would lose 1 pound every 8.75 days. These numbers are approximate.

cmriverside

I just have to say...I started on this site 12 years ago.

I put in my stats and I ate until I ran out of calories on my FOOD page. One day about a week in I decided to take a long walk. I entered the time/distance into my EXERCISE page. Myfitnesspal did the math. It's so simple. I really think people seriously overthink this whole thing.

L1zardQueen

cmriverside wrote: »

I just have to say...I started on this site 12 years ago.

I put in my stats and I ate until I ran out of calories on my FOOD page. One day about a week in I decided to take a long walk. I entered the time/distance into my EXERCISE page. Myfitnesspal did the math. It's so simple. I really think people seriously overthink this whole thing.

Oh those Millennials, gotta love them.

paperpudding

Well, I haven't been here for 12 years, just 6, and I did same thing.
Did not work out my TDEE or BMR or any other thing - just entered my stats, selected appropriate rate of loss and ate that many calories as a daily average and entered any excercise and then ate that many more calories.

If you are a numbers or data geek and you like arithmetic and spreadsheets and data analysis - sure, have fun with those things ( and MFP forum does seem to have plenty of people whose hobby is spreadsheets about themselves 😎😍)

But for the rest of us - just put your stats in and follow the prompts.
Too easy.

cmriverside

Oh, I have a spreadsheet and too many columns and keep good records. Now. But I've been in maintenance for over a decade and it's just a fun thing to do.

I also do it so I can eat as much as possible without gaining weight, not to eat as little as possible to lose weight. Even when I was in weight-loss mode I was trying to figure out how I could eat enough to beat the hunger, not how I could become a breatharian. I just don't understand how it's complicated.

Well, it isn't. It's just personal accountability. Nobody wants that.