Under calorie allowance

lgwhizz

Hi, have recently joined and the past few days ihave been under my calorie allowance. Should i worry about this? Will i get a better weight loss? I have not done it on purpose, just feel really motivated and not that hungry. Should i eat up t my allowance een if im not hungry? thanks.

poseyj88

It depends on how under you are. I can't see your diary, but it's one of two scenarios:

(1) You're 1-50 cals under. Not really a bit deal. Same as being a few over. It's just an approximation

(2) You're way under to the point that MFP is telling you to eat more. In that case try to eat a bit more. It's important to maintain that balance.

It also depends on what your daily cals is set at. Mine is 1510. If I'm 200 under I'm still a net of over 1300, which isn't a big deal. But you want to make sure you have approximately 1200 net cals per day no matter what for proper health and nutrition.

lgwhizz

Thanks for that posey. My cal allowance is 1200 and have been averaging about 1000 a day. I still have 550 cals to eat still today!!!! If i try to make up to the fll allowance i take it having a chocolate bar aint the best way to get up to cal allowance?! Lol!

joi1407

How do you guys manage to be so low on your calories? I've read this quite a lot.
My allowance is 1200 and i usually eat around 1500, which is ok when i include my exercise calories, which i read on here is what should be done. I can't exercise that much yet, as I'm recovering from an injury, so i usually only burn around 300 per day.
But I feel like i've cut my cals a lot by not eating all the sweets I used to eat during the day, compared to what i was eating before I started on MFP.

Maybe you have some advice on what I could change to have less calories?
I eat oats and apple for breakfast, around 320, then something salad-ey most lunches, or soup, usually around 250-400 and then i probably have 150 in snacks and i try to save 500-600 for a nice dinner.

Thanks
Jo