Change activity level or adjust calories?

kilgore007

Exactly what the subject say. I have been logging my food with myfitnesspal and activity with a fitbit force. Currently I have my activity level set to sedentary. I have been pretty close with meeting my caloric goal set by myfitnesspal with the adjustments from fitbit. In the last three weeks I have dropped nearly 10 pounds.

So what would be the best way to modify my settings. Change my activity level or adjust my calories manually.
Let me know what worked for you and why.

Thanks

Mizeri

I think it depends on which would be easier for you. I personally love eating so the thought of limiting myself made getting healthy seem impossible. Because of that I found it easier to up my exercise rather then limit calories. However, if you are someone who doesn't eat a lot and can't find the time to exercise then maybe limiting calories would be easier for you. Everyone is different.

b2kelly

It is way easier to not eat 100 calories that to burn them off.

sijomial

I just regarded my initial settings as a start point (there are so many variables and estimates involved...), after the first month I just custom set my calorie goal based on actual results. I've always seemed to be a bit too efficient at extracting every last calorie from my food so the MFP initial settings gave me too many calories. It seems you are in the opposite position where you can afford to increase your calories if you are losing too fast.

Periodically I just manually made small adjustments based on how fast or slow I was aiming to lose weight.

Once I got to maintenance I did the same - custom adjustments until I found my actual maintenance calories.

editorgrrl

If you increase the activity level in your profile, then your Fitbit adjustments will get smaller, and you'll have fewer calories to eat. How will this help you stop losing?

Change your activity level to sedentary. If your weight doesn't stabilize, then raise your calorie goal every week until it does.