Maintenance?

Perfectlycrooked
Perfectlycrooked Posts: 275 Member
edited September 28 in Health and Weight Loss
So, if I do my BMR it gives me around 1,200. But if I switch my goals to maintenance it sets me at 1,500!
Does this seem wrong to anyone?
I have my activity set to sedentary so they should be pretty much the same, right?

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  • stanvoodoo
    stanvoodoo Posts: 1,023 Member
    No it seem correct. But I would increase about 100 calories per day a week at a time until you stop losing just to be sure you don't go over.
  • Oishii
    Oishii Posts: 2,675 Member
    BMR is literally lying in bed level of activity. Just digesting food takes up some energy!
  • kdiamond
    kdiamond Posts: 3,329 Member
    For a girl of 18, 1500 would be a minimum for maintenance. Eat more girl, you don't want to be skinny and icky. :wink:
  • Perfectlycrooked
    Perfectlycrooked Posts: 275 Member
    I guess that makes sense :P I was just a little confused. Thought I would only be able to eat 1.200 forever(x
  • Huffdogg
    Huffdogg Posts: 1,934 Member
    Indeed your BMR is the amount of calories you take just lying in bed doing nothing all day, to maintain your current body shape. If you get out of bed at all during the day, you use more than that. Etc. 1500 actually is even probably low. A day at the beach is probably worth a minimum of 500 calories. Probably double that.
  • elliecolorado
    elliecolorado Posts: 1,040
    To get your Maintenance calories it is your BMR multiplied by 1.2 for sedentary. 1500 calories would be right for a BMR of 1250 at a sedentary level.
  • Perfectlycrooked
    Perfectlycrooked Posts: 275 Member
    Well I mean, you have to take into account that I'm only 5'1 and 105 pounds...
    (x And a girl.
  • Oishii
    Oishii Posts: 2,675 Member
    I checked out your diary and as you haven't been eating even 1200 calories, your body may panic and store extra fat when you go back to eating properly. From everything I've read on here, that's just temporary and you start to lose again after a while. There are some good threads about it on here.

    A lot of your diary sounds really yummy :smile:
  • Perfectlycrooked
    Perfectlycrooked Posts: 275 Member
    I checked out your diary and as you haven't been eating even 1200 calories, your body may panic and store extra fat when you go back to eating properly. From everything I've read on here, that's just temporary and you start to lose again after a while. There are some good threads about it on here.

    A lot of your diary sounds really yummy :smile:

    Yeah, I'm on a calorie plan right now and hope to be at a normal eating level soon. It's kind of scary :P

    and thanks! (:
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