Sudden change in daily calorie goal

dnrhall
dnrhall Posts: 1 Member
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Hello all,

Has anyone experienced a sudden change in the daily calorie goal? I didn't do anything to my settings and have been using the app for about 15 years. Suddenly I have 40 more calories than I had before.

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,381 Community Helper
    edited September 26

    A while back, my understanding is that MFP changed the formulas they use to estimate calorie needs, switching to a more recent research-based formula that they think is more accurate. Most people I've seen talk about the effect have said that their goal went up a bit. If you recently took some action that led MFP to re-evaluate and re-estimate your calorie goal, that could be the reason. Various things can trigger calorie re-estimation, mostly changes in one's MFP profile or nutrition goals.

    I don't know whether you're trying to gain, lose or maintain, but honestly 40 calories a day is unlikely to be a big deal. Even when we log meticulously, our daily totals are likely to be off by that much or more anyway - label variability, measuring issues, one apple sweeter than the next, whatever. Even if we were exact, eating 40 excess calories above maintenance would take about 3 months to add a pound of weight.

    If you want to, you can manually change your calorie goal to whatever you want it to be, besides. I needed to do that because MFP's initial estimates were pretty far off for me. It works fine.

    Best wishes!

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