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I don't understand

Beenbizzy2
Beenbizzy2 Posts: 6 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I'm very new to MFP - only 4 days.
The initial setup said my personal calorie calculation for weight loss is 1200 calories with sedentary lifestyle and a loss of 1kg/wk.
I am consistently 200-400 under 1200 and with exercise, my net intake is always well under 1200 calories.
The end of day prediction is not 1kg/wk and getting higher. Is this because I haven't registered any weight loss yet? Or some other reason? I thought I would weigh weekly.

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  • Beenbizzy2
    Beenbizzy2 Posts: 6 Member
    Well that's good news.
  • Beenbizzy2
    Beenbizzy2 Posts: 6 Member
    Thank you all for your replies.
  • Beenbizzy2
    Beenbizzy2 Posts: 6 Member
    Would just be happy to lose 7kg/15lb at this stage
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,132 Member
    kimny72 wrote: »
    kimny72 wrote: »
    I don't see any reason to use an overly simplistic formula when we are sitting on a site that will give you an appropriate calorie goal if you set the parameters correctly.

    If a woman is 5'4 200 lbs she's not going to lose weight on 2000 calories.

    While I agree with not using an overly simplistic formula as opposed to using MFP as designed to get a calorie goal, I lost weight on 2000 calories a day as a 5'4" 200 lb woman. I lost weight on 2000 calories as a 5'4" 175 lb woman. Only about half a pound a week, if I didn't exercise. But still, if 2000 calories is the generic maintenance level of the average U.S. woman (who is between 5'4" and 5'5"), I don't understand why you would think an obese woman of that height wouldn't lose weight on 2000 calories.

    I plugged 5'4 200 into a TDEE calculator and got less than 2000. Probably let it default to sedentary though.

    And as a 5'4 woman who is a healthy weight and maintains at closer to 1700, I do question that 2000 calorie figure that gets thrown around.

    Standing by those numbers is not a hill I'm willing to die on though. It's just an example that popped into my head and seemed to be confirmed by a tdee calculator

    Fair enough. Thanks for explaining.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,055 Member
    Beenbizzy2 wrote: »
    Would just be happy to lose 7kg/15lb at this stage

    If you just want to lose 15 pounds, set your weekly weight loss goal to a half pound per week and enjoy those extra calories!

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