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Is your calorie deficit 500 or 1,000? Why?

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  • honeysprinkles
    honeysprinkles Posts: 1,757 Member
    it all depends on how much you have to lose, 2 pounds is very safe/possible for some, but not for all. My maintenance amount is only about 1800 with the lightly active setting, so I'd need to net 800 calories a day to lose 2 pounds a week and obviously that's not healthy. My goal is set to 1450 right now and I don't really care about losing a specific amount in a month or week, especially now that I'm so close to my goal (already lost almost 65 pounds).
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