MFP keeps lowering my calories...

sdlunsford
sdlunsford Posts: 4
in Food and Nutrition
I've been on MFP for 55 days and loving it, the accountability is wonderful and knowing that everything I eat should feed my body with a micro nutrient has been a little life changing, however, MFP took me down to 1280 calories a day and my weight loss stalled. Should I go in and manually take my calories back up to where I was successfully losing?? Has anyone encountered this?

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  • Romyarts2014
    Romyarts2014 Posts: 201 Member
    If they are lowering your calories , it must be because you are putting in weight lost. when you lose weight they lower your calories becaue your body dosent need that many anymore to continue through the day.

    However I am never at my calorie goal, im Always away from it because I like to make a bigger deficent to lose more.
    Not everyone agrees but I also do IF (one meal a day).


    Goodluck
    add me if you need any support
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Should I go in and manually take my calories back up to where I was successfully losing?? Has anyone encountered this?

    If it ain't broke don't fix it. If you were losing at a higher calorie amount, then yes, I'd manually change it back to what was working for you.
  • Barbellarella_
    Barbellarella_ Posts: 454 Member
    Looking at your diary, it doesn't seem that you are eating back your exercise calories very often. MFP already has your deficit built in your goal, so it is designed for you to eat your exercise calories back (or at least a decent portion of them) in order for it to work properly.

    Also, if you have your goal set to 2lbs a week loss, as you lose weight, that might not be the appropriate goal for you any more. Consider dropping your settings to lose 1b a week, since you have less to lose now.
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    Keep in mind that as you get smaller your body uses fewer calories. So you'll need to lower your calories in order to maintain the same rate of weight loss.

    But, as you get closer to goal weight you actually want to slow your rate of loss to help maintain health and muscle mass. As a general rule of thumb:
    More than 75 lbs to lose: 2 lbs/week
    40-75 lbs: 1.5 lbs/week
    10-40 lbs: 1 lb/week
    Less than 10 lbs: 0.5 lb/week

    And remember that if you're using MFP's setup and you have your activity level set to sedentary or lightly active, you should be logging your workouts and eating back at least some of your earned exercise calories.
  • Lasmartchika
    Lasmartchika Posts: 3,440 Member
    bump
  • 5stringjeff
    5stringjeff Posts: 790 Member
    Keep in mind that as you get smaller your body uses fewer calories. So you'll need to lower your calories in order to maintain the same rate of weight loss.

    But, as you get closer to goal weight you actually want to slow your rate of loss to help maintain health and muscle mass. As a general rule of thumb:
    More than 75 lbs to lose: 2 lbs/week
    40-75 lbs: 1.5 lbs/week
    10-40 lbs: 1 lb/week
    Less than 10 lbs: 0.5 lb/week

    And remember that if you're using MFP's setup and you have your activity level set to sedentary or lightly active, you should be logging your workouts and eating back at least some of your earned exercise calories.

    QFT

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