1700 calories
jadu1536
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My goal is 1200 calories for the day but I ended up with a total of 1700 and burned around 360 doing elliptical yesterday .. not too bad!
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Seems like 1200 as a starting place may be too low for you:
https://www.aworkoutroutine.com/1200-calorie-diet/9 -
If your goal is 1200 calories, try to stick to 1200 calories and not rely on additional activity to achieve fat loss. Also worth remembering that 1200 calories per day = 8400 calories per week. That can be split into 7 days of 1200 or you can cycle with low days and high days ie 4 days of 1000 calories and 3 days of 1450ish. Calorie cycling like this can help with adherence.
Without additional information about your existing weight it's difficult to assess if 1200 calories is too low for you. The general rule for fat loss is to set calories between ten and 12 times bodyweight so if we say you're at the lower end then I'm guessing you weigh about 120lbs?1 -
If your goal is 1200 calories, try to stick to 1200 calories and not rely on additional activity to achieve fat loss. Also worth remembering that 1200 calories per day = 8400 calories per week. That can be split into 7 days of 1200 or you can cycle with low days and high days ie 4 days of 1000 calories and 3 days of 1450ish. Calorie cycling like this can help with adherence.
Without additional information about your existing weight it's difficult to assess if 1200 calories is too low for you. The general rule for fat loss is to set calories between ten and 12 times bodyweight so if we say you're at the lower end then I'm guessing you weigh about 120lbs?
That is not the way MyFitnessPal is designed to work. Agreed that1200 may be too low for this individual but without their stats, that is impossible to tell. They still can eat more than their allotted calories if they are exercising. If you are thinking about TDEE, then no, you don't eat any of your calories earned through exercise because they are calculated into the amount of calories you eat. Using MFP the way it is designed to be used, the calorie amount given is the amount of calories you eat before you exercise. Then, you eat some (most stick to about 50% but that varies by the individual) or all of the earned calories back. Where did you get the number of 10-12% of your body weight in calories to lose weight? I lose steadily at 1500-1600 net calorie. I am well above 150 pounds. I would be gaining steadily if I ate 10% of my weight in calories.
@jadu1536 Keep doing what you're doing assuming 1200 calories is appropriate for your height and weight. Adjust your calories after a month if you don't see the progress you are looking for or you are losing at too fast of a pace.
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Thank you for the tip2
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If your goal is 1200 calories, try to stick to 1200 calories and not rely on additional activity to achieve fat loss.
Eeek! No way. I'm a five foot female and my weight loss amount was 1200 and my maintenance amount is 1370. If i didn't use exercise to boost my daily calorie budget I would have been completely and utterly miserable and fallen off the wagon a long long time ago because my calorie budget is measly without exercise calories. As it is, I'm 3 months into maintenance, have lost 32kg and frequently have days when I can eat more than 2,000 calories just because of exercise. Days when I don't exercise at all/as much, I eat less of course, but finding exercise I like and can do easily at and around the home (zumba on youtube, walks with the dogs) have been how I've lost weight and am endeavouring to maintain.22 -
@koalathebear I am taking the same approach - I eat some exercise calories, but try not to eat all of them1
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If your goal is 1200 calories, try to stick to 1200 calories and not rely on additional activity to achieve fat loss. Also worth remembering that 1200 calories per day = 8400 calories per week. That can be split into 7 days of 1200 or you can cycle with low days and high days ie 4 days of 1000 calories and 3 days of 1450ish. Calorie cycling like this can help with adherence.
Without additional information about your existing weight it's difficult to assess if 1200 calories is too low for you. The general rule for fat loss is to set calories between ten and 12 times bodyweight so if we say you're at the lower end then I'm guessing you weigh about 120lbs?
Unlike other sites which use TDEE calculators, MFP uses the NEAT method (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis), and as such this system is designed for exercise calories to be eaten back. However, many consider the burns given by MFP to be inflated for them and only eat a percentage, such as 50%, back. Others, however, are able to lose weight while eating 100% of their exercise calories.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/818082/exercise-calories-again-wtf/p16 -
I truly think 1200 is way too low for anyone. I am a petite female at just under 5'2 and maintain 115-118 on well over 2000 calories. 2000 is what I eat if I just do regular light activity in a day. I have in the past tried to go down that low to lose and ended up miserable, binging, and lost a lot of muscle. I think most calculators underestimate needs to ensure people have success. I think seeing through trial and error what your true maintenance is is a much better technique so you don't crush your metsbolism6
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Erm, I have to disagree with the this calorie debate thus far to an extent. Today, I've been struggling to even reach my calorie goal which is the minimum of 1200 daily. I still have 200 odd calories left to use today but I'm simply not hungry. I would be just over my calorie intake if I didn't include exercise. 1200 calories to me is A LOT. However, I have lost 4lbs since the 1st of October although that was unintentional; I had taken leave from the app due to personal circumstances and hadn't even realised I lost weight. I'm seriously struggling to eat the minimum daily calories even without exercising. My main meal was only 300 odd calories which was a minor dent in the 1200 calories for today. I just don't know how anyone can eat that many calories but that's just me.
Edit: the exercise includes the amount of steps I've taken today as well as gardening and general house work so it's actually something I can't avoid from that point of view.1 -
Erm, I have to disagree with the this calorie debate thus far to an extent. Today, I've been struggling to even reach my calorie goal which is the minimum of 1200 daily. I still have 200 odd calories left to use today but I'm simply not hungry. I would be just over my calorie intake if I didn't include exercise. 1200 calories to me is A LOT. However, I have lost 4lbs since the 1st of October although that was unintentional; I had taken leave from the app due to personal circumstances and hadn't even realised I lost weight. I'm seriously struggling to eat the minimum daily calories even without exercising. My main meal was only 300 odd calories which was a minor dent in the 1200 calories for today. I just don't know how anyone can eat that many calories but that's just me.
Edit: the exercise includes the amount of steps I've taken today as well as gardening and general house work so it's actually something I can't avoid from that point of view.
I would wager a bet that you are underestimating the amount of calories you get in a day. Eating less than 1200 calories is unhealthy and could lead to serious medical complications. Are you weighing everything and counting every thing you are ingesting?
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Yes. I've even got a can of cola on there and a chocolate biscuit. I have nothing to hide. I'm not ashamed of what I eat. Lying to myself isn't going to help the situation. The problem may lie in the fact that I don't eat breakfast though but other than that, I put literally everything I do and eat into the diary. I appreciate your skepticism with this situation but I can assure you, I'm here to lose weight, not to lie 😊1
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But, I have always had weight problems throughout my life. I was underweight for most of my life then depression set in 6 years ago. It was then that my weight was going up and down. I started comfort eating which increased my weight dramatically. My life has been... dramatic, I suppose would be the word and it doesn't help that I can't really exercise although I try.
Just to say, I'm not strictly overweight but according to my BMI, I'm on the border of being overweight. I'm literally just on the edge of normal weight. But there are other contributory factors that may he accountable.
I also can't exercise so my options a restricted when it comes to it although I try to, I do regret it such as today. I'm already regretting my decision to exercise today.2 -
But, I have always had weight problems throughout my life. I was underweight for most of my life then depression set in 6 years ago. It was then that my weight was going up and down. I started comfort eating which increased my weight dramatically. My life has been... dramatic, I suppose would be the word and it doesn't help that I can't really exercise although I try.
Just to say, I'm not strictly overweight but according to my BMI, I'm on the border of being overweight. I'm literally just on the edge of normal weight. But there are other contributory factors that may he accountable.
I also can't exercise so my options a restricted when it comes to it although I try to, I do regret it such as today. I'm already regretting my decision to exercise today.
Well then it's quite possible that your history of being underweight coupled with your other contributory factors and not being able to exercise is playing a dramatic roll in your calorie needs. An adult woman should be able to eat more than 1200 cals and lose weight unless she is some combination of quite short, elderly, undermuscled, very sedentary, already underweight, or dealing with a medical condition that affects metabolism and energy.
Far too many women think they need to eat very little to lose weight, and it often hurts them in the long run more than helps. Many of us are so enjoying having learned the lesson that we try to spread it to as many women as we can. If your doctor(s) aren't aware of how little you eat and your low appetite, you might want to mention it and see if you can work with an RD if you aren't already. Anyway, that's none of my business, but I just wanted to make it clear that while eating so little might be your normal, it isn't typical or honestly healthy for the vast majority of women.
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I just don't know how anyone can eat that many calories but that's just me.
Yeah, that's probably gonna make people feel like *kitten*, just saying. How would you feel if someone looked at your plate and went "wow, I don't know how anyone could eat that much! That's just me, though"? Probably *kitten*.14 -
I never stated about anyone's plate or food specifically. I said calories. I don't look at someone's plate and think "woah, that's a lot of food" I look at my own plate and think "how many portions am I going to have to eat before I hit my calorie intake" and I also didn't mean it negatively, either though I do apologise you took it that way. I was meaning it in the sense that I find it hard to eat 3 meals a day and physically, I'm confused as to how people can eat that much. If that makes sense.
Like, my stomach doesn't allow me to eat 3 square meals a day although I try and I'm aware it isn't normal but those who do eat 3 meals a day are normal. Do you get what I mean now?
It's more of... I don't understand how I can't eat 1200 calories per day but other people can. I'm rubbish at wording my thoughts.2 -
Erm, I have to disagree with the this calorie debate thus far to an extent. Today, I've been struggling to even reach my calorie goal which is the minimum of 1200 daily. I still have 200 odd calories left to use today but I'm simply not hungry. I would be just over my calorie intake if I didn't include exercise. 1200 calories to me is A LOT. However, I have lost 4lbs since the 1st of October although that was unintentional; I had taken leave from the app due to personal circumstances and hadn't even realised I lost weight. I'm seriously struggling to eat the minimum daily calories even without exercising. My main meal was only 300 odd calories which was a minor dent in the 1200 calories for today. I just don't know how anyone can eat that many calories but that's just me.
Edit: the exercise includes the amount of steps I've taken today as well as gardening and general house work so it's actually something I can't avoid from that point of view.
Yup, just you. Well, you and a few other women of the characteristics Kimny mentioned (but not all).
I'm 64, 5'5", near sedentary outside of intentional exercise, maintaining (heading into year 5) at mid-130s pounds, 5'5", in the lower 2000s of net calories, mid 2000s gross calories (eating every one of my 250-300 delicious exercise calories most days).
1200 plus exercise, back when I was losing & first used MFP at a weight in 150s (already nearly 30 pounds down), made me weak and fatigued (I lost too fast).
Even now, though I'm satisfied on current calories, it would be super easy to eat the 3000+ daily calories that got me obese in the first place. Effortless!
I admit, I'm mysteriously a good li'l ol' calorie burner, statistically an outlier. Quite possibly, you're an outlier, too, on the opposite end of the bell curve.
That doesn't imply that the statistical population means are wrong for most people.13 -
@koalathebear I am taking the same approach - I eat some exercise calories, but try not to eat all of them
Same - because I think exercise calories tend to be over-estimated. I notice people disagree with my approach but I can't see why. Living on 1200 calories would not be fun for me at all and I don't see anything unhealthy/inappropriate about boosting my budget with exercise.2 -
1200 calories is far too low. Even MFP lists it as the absolute minimum2
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kshama2001 wrote: »If your goal is 1200 calories, try to stick to 1200 calories and not rely on additional activity to achieve fat loss. Also worth remembering that 1200 calories per day = 8400 calories per week. That can be split into 7 days of 1200 or you can cycle with low days and high days ie 4 days of 1000 calories and 3 days of 1450ish. Calorie cycling like this can help with adherence.
Without additional information about your existing weight it's difficult to assess if 1200 calories is too low for you. The general rule for fat loss is to set calories between ten and 12 times bodyweight so if we say you're at the lower end then I'm guessing you weigh about 120lbs?
Unlike other sites which use TDEE calculators, MFP uses the NEAT method (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis), and as such this system is designed for exercise calories to be eaten back. However, many consider the burns given by MFP to be inflated for them and only eat a percentage, such as 50%, back. Others, however, are able to lose weight while eating 100% of their exercise calories.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/818082/exercise-calories-again-wtf/p1
kshama - that Help Desk link is broken...just a heads up since I've run into that a lot recently with my cached links, too.
Here's the new link:
https://support.myfitnesspal.com/hc/en-us/articles/360032625391-How-does-MyFitnessPal-calculate-my-initial-goals-
They messed with the URLs. Alex said he was looking into it.
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I can eat 1200 calories for breakfast and not really be that full.6
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stephie_nyc wrote: »I can eat 1200 calories for breakfast and not really be that full.
I can eat 1200 calories worth of junk food from 7-11 before my car even makes it back to my driveway.
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