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I can’t get the daily calories
karenellerby1138
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I have been in the 6 week challenge for almost 1 week and I can’t seem to get my daily calorie count. I eat from the lists, take my 2 protein drinks and i exercise. Can anyone help me
Thank you
Karen
Thank you
Karen
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What do you mean? Did you set up your Goals?
Once that is done, put the food you eat in the FOOD page and the purposeful exercise you do in the EXERCISE page. At the end of the day the totals are at the bottom on the FOOD page (including exercise.)
To go back and view past days, click "Reports."
If you're trying to work out how many calories you should be eating for weight management, read this:
https://support.myfitnesspal.com/hc/en-us/articles/360032625391-How-does-MyFitnessPal-calculate-my-initial-goals-
and this:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/819055/setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets/p11 -
Do you mean you can't eat enough for your goal or your goal has you eating too little and you're too hungry?0
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I am full after I eat my meals. I eat all my food on my plate. I am still bit confused about how this is supposed to work. I tried to message my trainer but I don’t get a response right away. This is all new to me and I want to do it right to get results0
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so I’m assuming you are full before meeting your goal?karenellerby1138 wrote: »I am full after I eat my meals. I eat all my food on my plate. I am still bit confused about how this is supposed to work. I tried to message my trainer but I don’t get a response right away. This is all new to me and I want to do it right to get results
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karenellerby1138 wrote: »I am full after I eat my meals. I eat all my food on my plate. I am still bit confused about how this is supposed to work. I tried to message my trainer but I don’t get a response right away. This is all new to me and I want to do it right to get results
Is this trainer somehow connected to MFP? It seems like the trainer is the person you need to talk to.
We're just other users of this site; we don't know your goals or what kind of diet plan your trainer put you on.
Why is it bad that you're full after you eat your meals?1 -
If what you mean is that you are unable to eat enough calories (like...you're too 'full' feeling to eat more)...you need to work on adding low volume/high calorie ingredients.
If you are currently using 'low fat' or 'reduced fat'...etc.....versions of ingredients or snacks then switch to the full fat varieties. This will be the literal same amount of food with more calories. Not sure if you are needing to pay attention to your macros but this will change them obviously. But routinely eating under your body's caloric need isn't going to help you.
If you are already using full-fat varieties of foods/ingredients. Add in some high calorie snacks like dried fruit/nuts. Nut butters. Add butter or olive oil to your sauces or soups or salads.
Have avocados on hand (can do savory seasoned with tajin or everything but the bagel) (or you can do sweet and add yogurt and granola and some dried fruit on top with honey). Cottage cheese with granola, fruit, and honey is also quite good for a lot of protein and use full-fat for the cals.1 -
Or you have your calorie goal set too high.westrich20940 wrote: »If what you mean is that you are unable to eat enough calories (like...you're too 'full' feeling to eat more)...you need to work on adding low volume/high calorie ingredients.
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Before you go too far down the rabbit hole of increasing calories, first be very sure about your logging. Many people (myself included) started logging food intake, thought they were eating X, only to discover later they were measuring wrong and in fact were eating Y. Usually they underestimate their food intake.
Meaning, you may actually be eating more than you think. Do you literally measure out the food, or just eyeball it?2 -
tomcustombuilder wrote: »
Or you have your calorie goal set too high.westrich20940 wrote: »If what you mean is that you are unable to eat enough calories (like...you're too 'full' feeling to eat more)...you need to work on adding low volume/high calorie ingredients.
Don't think that's 'typically' the complain when people say they aren't meeting their calorie goal.
OP hasn't even really given enough information for people to properly answer the question.1 -
It stands to reason that if someone is having to force food down that they are most likely over maintenance. Causes can be too high of a calorie goal due to choosing too high of a lifestyle category and\or trying to eat back too many exercise calories.westrich20940 wrote: »tomcustombuilder wrote: »
Or you have your calorie goal set too high.westrich20940 wrote: »If what you mean is that you are unable to eat enough calories (like...you're too 'full' feeling to eat more)...you need to work on adding low volume/high calorie ingredients.
Don't think that's 'typically' the complain when people say they aren't meeting their calorie goal.
OP hasn't even really given enough information for people to properly answer the question.
An exception would be someone very underweight on extremely low calories that need to add some and was having difficulty however I'm doubtful that this is the case.
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karenellerby1138 wrote: »I am full after I eat my meals. I eat all my food on my plate. I am still bit confused about how this is supposed to work. I tried to message my trainer but I don’t get a response right away. This is all new to me and I want to do it right to get results
It's all going to depend on your weight loss or maintenance goals. @cmriverside gives clear instructions above for setting up a calorie goal on this website. As you eat food throughout the day, you'll want to log it, and this is a skill that improves over time. A food scale for weighing your foods is very helpful. But we are not sure what you're asking.1 -
tomcustombuilder wrote: »
It stands to reason that if someone is having to force food down that they are most likely over maintenance. Causes can be too high of a calorie goal due to choosing too high of a lifestyle category and\or trying to eat back too many exercise calories.westrich20940 wrote: »tomcustombuilder wrote: »
Or you have your calorie goal set too high.westrich20940 wrote: »If what you mean is that you are unable to eat enough calories (like...you're too 'full' feeling to eat more)...you need to work on adding low volume/high calorie ingredients.
Don't think that's 'typically' the complain when people say they aren't meeting their calorie goal.
OP hasn't even really given enough information for people to properly answer the question.
An exception would be someone very underweight on extremely low calories that need to add some and was having difficulty however I'm doubtful that this is the case.
I've actually seen it a lot around here in over 10 years, particularly with women. A tendency to eat a lot of low calorie foods that are also filling like tons of vegetables and other "diet" foods, with very little dietary fat intake and often very modest protein, but it takes up a lot of space in the gut. Literally tons of posts where people aren't meeting very paltry calorie goals and can't eat anymore and when you check the diary, it says the same thing. Very often, this also coincides with a psychological aversion to actually eating because they're trying to lose weight and it's often the case that they have been programmed since childhood that they need to eat like little birdies.
But I agree, there's not enough information, but it's also not uncommon.2 -
agreed. Will be interesting to hear from OP if in fact they respond further. Anecdotally when I got on MFP after being on another site for 20 years, it had me at a maintenance amount that I KNEW was way too high and I had to dial it down to where I knew it would be more realistic hence my thought for OP.cwolfman13 wrote: »tomcustombuilder wrote: »
It stands to reason that if someone is having to force food down that they are most likely over maintenance. Causes can be too high of a calorie goal due to choosing too high of a lifestyle category and\or trying to eat back too many exercise calories.westrich20940 wrote: »tomcustombuilder wrote: »
Or you have your calorie goal set too high.westrich20940 wrote: »If what you mean is that you are unable to eat enough calories (like...you're too 'full' feeling to eat more)...you need to work on adding low volume/high calorie ingredients.
Don't think that's 'typically' the complain when people say they aren't meeting their calorie goal.
OP hasn't even really given enough information for people to properly answer the question.
An exception would be someone very underweight on extremely low calories that need to add some and was having difficulty however I'm doubtful that this is the case.
But I agree, there's not enough information, but it's also not uncommon.
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cwolfman13 wrote: »tomcustombuilder wrote: »
It stands to reason that if someone is having to force food down that they are most likely over maintenance. Causes can be too high of a calorie goal due to choosing too high of a lifestyle category and\or trying to eat back too many exercise calories.westrich20940 wrote: »tomcustombuilder wrote: »
Or you have your calorie goal set too high.westrich20940 wrote: »If what you mean is that you are unable to eat enough calories (like...you're too 'full' feeling to eat more)...you need to work on adding low volume/high calorie ingredients.
Don't think that's 'typically' the complain when people say they aren't meeting their calorie goal.
OP hasn't even really given enough information for people to properly answer the question.
An exception would be someone very underweight on extremely low calories that need to add some and was having difficulty however I'm doubtful that this is the case.
I've actually seen it a lot around here in over 10 years, particularly with women. A tendency to eat a lot of low calorie foods that are also filling like tons of vegetables and other "diet" foods, with very little dietary fat intake and often very modest protein, but it takes up a lot of space in the gut. Literally tons of posts where people aren't meeting very paltry calorie goals and can't eat anymore and when you check the diary, it says the same thing. Very often, this also coincides with a psychological aversion to actually eating because they're trying to lose weight and it's often the case that they have been programmed since childhood that they need to eat like little birdies.
But I agree, there's not enough information, but it's also not uncommon.
This would be the more common case, with a post like the OP, based on what I've seen around here over a few years, too.
Quite a few people post who're unintentionally eating above maintenance calories, but more of those are "can't lose weight" posts, not "feel too full to eat all my calories" post.
If personal anecdotes counted (which they don't): I have zero trouble eating way above my maintenance calories without feeling uncomfortably full (even though I'm readily adequately sated on appropriate calories), and that's true when I'm eating mostly/entirely so-called "whole foods". (Isn't that how a lot of us got fat in the first place, being able to eat above maintenance without feeling uncomfortable?) And MFP gives me way too few calories if I tell it I want to maintain.
It's almost as if individual results are individual, even though statistics have something to do with averages.
Unfortunate that OP hasn't given us more details to suss out what's actually likely in her case. 0 -
Okay, so the OP came back and posted this:karenellerby1138 wrote: »I am full after I eat my meals. I eat all my food on my plate. I am still bit confused about how this is supposed to work. I tried to message my trainer but I don’t get a response right away. This is all new to me and I want to do it right to get results
Karen, what is your question?
"...how this is supposed to work," is not a question.
Tell us exactly what you don't understand. How WHAT is supposed to work??????3 -
tomcustombuilder wrote: »
It stands to reason that if someone is having to force food down that they are most likely over maintenance. Causes can be too high of a calorie goal due to choosing too high of a lifestyle category and\or trying to eat back too many exercise calories.westrich20940 wrote: »tomcustombuilder wrote: »
Or you have your calorie goal set too high.westrich20940 wrote: »If what you mean is that you are unable to eat enough calories (like...you're too 'full' feeling to eat more)...you need to work on adding low volume/high calorie ingredients.
Don't think that's 'typically' the complain when people say they aren't meeting their calorie goal.
OP hasn't even really given enough information for people to properly answer the question.
An exception would be someone very underweight on extremely low calories that need to add some and was having difficulty however I'm doubtful that this is the case.
1. This person didn't really put any information in their post that would make me think that their calorie goal was incorrect...but yeah, people should do more research (use other sources beyond MFP to calculate that estimate) in order to get an 'accurate' idea of what their daily calorie needs actually are. This person gave the impression they were working with a trainer or some other professional and at least I though they were wanting to gain muscle...so they should be eating a lot and possible in excess of their maintenance calories.
2. Plenty of people make posts about not being able to eat the amount of calories in the calorie goal that MFP gives them....even when it's 1200 calories (which isn't going to be 'too many' calories for anyone). They simply have messed up hunger cues. And they DO need to eat enough.
Not sure why you're jumping on me for my answer, when you can simply add your own for OP and ignore mine. My answer was based on limited info from OP and my own experience reading questions on these forums.
So...really, OP doesn't even need to give my answer any thought at all if they don't want to or think that I misunderstood their original question/circumstances.
My bad though I guess.1
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