Can someone explain

kezzaboa7633

What a Caloric deficit is please I’ve been trying to lose weight only started a week ago and have lost 3lb with just watching my calories and couple of 30 mins a day on the treadmill. I keep reading about Caloric deficit and still not understanding what it actually means

harper16

Calorie deficit is eating less than required to maintain your current weight.

Log your info into mfp and let that help calculate your calories. Remember to log any exercise separate, and eat those back.

How much are you trying to lose?

Unicorn_Bacon

A calorie deficit is the amount of calories between what you eat and what your maintenance calories are.

For example... at my weight and activity level, it takes 2300 calories a day for me to not lose or gain.

I am currently eating 1800, after putting my info into mfp and selecting a pound per week loss. So the 500 calories between 1800 and 2300 is what is considered my calorie deficit, it's the reason I will lose.

Now... I can make that bigger with purposeful exercise, BUT it's not healthy to go too fast, and the less i have to lose the slower i should go, so if i took a walk and logged that into mfp, it will add extra calories to my day... say 200 more for example.

If I ate my 1800, plus those 200... I'm still going to have that 500 calorie deficit like before because my walk added 200 calories to my 2300 for the day... making it 2500 now.

So eating 2000 from 2500 = 500 still

kezzaboa7633

harper16 wrote: »

Calorie deficit is eating less than required to maintain your current weight.

Log your info into mfp and let that help calculate your calories. Remember to log any exercise separate, and eat those back.

How much are you trying to lose?

Hi thanks for the reply I’m trying to lose 49lbs

kezzaboa7633

KrissCanDoThis wrote: »

A calorie deficit is the amount of calories between what you eat and what your maintenance calories are.

For example... at my weight and activity level, it takes 2300 calories a day for me to not lose or gain.

I am currently eating 1800, after putting my info into mfp and selecting a pound per week loss. So the 500 calories between 1800 and 2300 is what is considered my calorie deficit, it's the reason I will lose.

Now... I can make that bigger with purposeful exercise, BUT it's not healthy to go too fast, and the less i have to lose the slower i should go, so if i took a walk and logged that into mfp, it will add extra calories to my day... say 200 more for example.

If I ate my 1800, plus those 200... I'm still going to have that 500 calorie deficit like before because my walk added 200 calories to my 2300 for the day... making it 2500 now.

So eating 2000 from 2500 = 500 still

Thankyou for explaining mfp has gave me a daily calories of 1200 and today I used them but when I logged my workout of burning 400calories it added it back on

Unicorn_Bacon

Yes.. so, it's my suggestion to eat those calories. Because it takes 1200 calories to run your body.

Think of it like a car.. if the car runs out of gas, you have two options, put more fuel in.. or get behind it and push it...

Pushing the car sounds really exhausting and that's what happens to your body when its trying to run but you arent giving it any gas... so it's basically pushing you and you will start to feel it, when fatigue sets in and other health issues start happening, you lose muscle in the process.

1200 - 400 = 800 and that's definitely not enough.

After a week or 2, take a look at how things are going..

Did you lose the amount you were expected to? Yes/no

If not, then ask yourself, Is my current weight loss goal possible at my weight? Yes/no

If yes, then look at the calories you ate back from your workouts, instead of eating 400 back like it said, maybe eat 300 back and see if that fixes the problem.

If no, then adjust your weight loss goal. Maybe it's not possible at your current weight to lose 2 pounds per week, maybe 1 pound is more reasonable and more likely.

If that's the case then ask yourself again about the calories you ate back, did eating 400 give you the results of your actual reasonable goal of 1lbs per week? If so then eat 400.. if not try 300 and see what happens next week and adjust if needed