Can someone explain the calories?

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senpaibiryani
senpaibiryani Posts: 1 Member
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Age 24

170cm

66kg

My goal is to build muscle and lose weight. The calories shown by the app is the required calories or the maximum calories or the calories meeded to maintain weight?

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  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,497 Member

    It will depend what you told the app you want to do - so it will have your stats and then depending if you said you want to lose/gain 1/2 lb, 1lb or 2lb per week it will give you calories for that goal

    if you said you want to maintain it will give you calories to do that.

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,497 Member

    PS you currently have a BMI of 22.8.

    why are you wanting to lose weight? Is that really the right goal for you?

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,779 Member

    Here's the official explanation. It's a lot better than I could do -

    How-does-MyFitnessPal-calculate-my-initial-goals

  • ddsb1111
    ddsb1111 Posts: 1,047 Member

    You told MFP you wanted to lose X pounds per week, so it calculated the calorie target needed to reach that goal.

    If you eat more than that target, you’ll lose less than X pounds per week.

    If you eat less, you might lose more than X pounds.

    But the calorie number it gave you is specifically designed to achieve the X pounds per week loss you asked for.

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