Adjusting your calorie goal (custom setting)-- would you?

Linnaea27
Linnaea27 Posts: 639 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
So, most of us know that when you set your calorie goal, you get the automatic option and the custom option. I've used both and has some success (slower than I would like, recently) with the automatic one, which for me at the moment would be 1400 calories/day. I always eat back most or all my exercise calories and have lost 5 lbs this way; but I am getting within 3-5 lbs of my goal and it seems that at my size (5'1") losing that is hard!

So I am thinking of putting my calorie goal at 1300 instead for the week and seeing what happens. I will continue to eat back my exercise calories (I like eating!) but I'm thinking it may help me avoid going over the number of calories I need to lose at least 0.5 lb a week. When I use the goal given to me by the site, some weeks I'll go over it by 100 or so 2-3 days a week and not lose weight (duh), so I figure if I set it 100 cal lower, the numbers I see will help me not go over. :P

Anyone else use this strategy?!

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  • daviddanford
    daviddanford Posts: 2
    Plateaus happen, so don't feel bad that they happen to you. I think if you stick with it, you'll eventually get off the plateau. One thing I have noticed, is that the automatic method doesn't seem to change as you lose weight. So if you haven't gone through the automatic process recently, you may try doing it again and see if your daily calorie total changes.

    Good luck!
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    Yah no...

    if you are within 3-5lbs you should be losing at a rate of about 1/2 a week for it to be sustainable.

    Patience.

    Try eating back 50-75% of your exercise calories as MFP is often way over reality.

    As well tighten up your logging, if you don't weigh your food start...weigh all your solids and log everything.

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