Calories, calaries, CALORIES!!!

mb1883
mb1883 Posts: 37
edited September 24 in Health and Weight Loss
I'm confused. How much over your daily calorie intake can you go without it causing you to gain weight? MFP puts me at 1200 a day and in the last few days my intake has been around 1400 per day.

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  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,332 Member
    Go to TOOLS, and figure out your BMR estimate. You can likely eat calories up to your BMR without gaining weight, but remember eating over the goal MFP sets will slow down your weight lose rather quickly.
  • beautymkt
    beautymkt Posts: 60
    As long as you are burning calories with exercise, you can go over your calorie intake daily. Good luck!:love:
  • erickirb
    erickirb Posts: 12,294 Member
    Go to TOOLS, and figure out your BMR estimate. You can likely eat calories up to your BMR without gaining weight, but remember eating over the goal MFP sets will slow down your weight lose rather quickly.

    Actually you can go well above BMR calories an not gain, depending on the amount of exercise and activity level. Go to goals and on the top right you should see calories burned from regular activity. You wouold have to eat above that number to gain weight and if you exercise you would have to eat that number plus any calories you burned.

    If MFP set you up with 1200 and you ate 1400, you will just lose slightly slower. as an example say your BMR is 1700 cals and your activity level is sedentary, this would give you a maintenance calories of about 2100, so you will lose weight eating between 1200 and 2100, the closer to 2100 you are the slower your loss. Now assume you workouted out and burned 300 calories, now you will lose weight eating between 1500 (1200+300) and 2400 (2100+300) calories.
  • llkilgore
    llkilgore Posts: 1,169 Member
    Go to "My Home" -> "Goals," where you'll find the daily calorie deficit that MFP has calculated for you, among other useful numbers. Don't go over your recommended net intake (1200 + calories burned during exercise) by more than that many calories and theoretically you should lose.

    But remember these number are estimations and don't take into account all of the variables at play. For that reason I try not to cut too far into a deficit that might be overly generous to start with.
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