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Calorie allowance gone down?

KersteyCornall
KersteyCornall Posts: 14 Member
edited February 5 in Health and Weight Loss
Before I weighed in this morning, I noticed that my allowance had already gone down from 1370, to 1200??

Why has it gone down so much?

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  • kitticus15
    kitticus15 Posts: 152 Member
    I have noticed my allowance is always down in a morning, my fitbit syncs and I am between 85 and 100 calories already used in net, so I have to burn those off before I even get started lol
  • lucan07
    lucan07 Posts: 509
    I would guess that this is to help you achieve the targets you set when I exceeded my targets by 50% or more my calories went up by a similar amount to the reduction in yours. Mine changed after I updated my diet fitness profile in settings, although I have heard after so long or so much weight loss this can be done without.

    Updated again today and down again by 120 leaving me 80 up from start so more than likely as above as my loss had slowed.
  • Lizzy622
    Lizzy622 Posts: 3,705 Member
    Sounds like a computer glitch if it did it before you entered your weight. I would go in and recalculate just to make sure. Calorie allowance does decrease as you lose.
  • lucan07
    lucan07 Posts: 509
    Sounds like a computer glitch if it did it before you entered your weight. I would go in and recalculate just to make sure. Calorie allowance does decrease as you lose.

    It can also increase if you lose quickly!
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