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How many calories do I need? Setting up MFP

mariah31592
mariah31592 Posts: 6
edited February 9 in Health and Weight Loss
I'm female, 21, 5'7". BMR -1675 TDEE - 2010.

MFP gives me 1490 calories per day. I set it to lose 1.5 lbs per week. I also put lightly active because I don't workout out everyday like I should but I'm not a couch potato either. I'm not as physically active on the weekends, so there has been times where I've debated setting it to sedentary and then switching back to lightly active for the week but I'm not sure. I read online that I could eat
1450-1650 calories/day and lose weight. I know that MFP already has my deficit built in but I still don't really understand it.
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