The importance of updating your goals

shivaslives

This site and its associated apps are great tools for helping us all lose weight. One of the features I recently found to be more important than I realized is the need to update my goals for a more accurate calorie count. I've been on the site for a couple of months now and had some good success in improving my fitness and losing weight. However, I didn't update my goals when initially prompted by the site and I was kept at the same daily calorie intake goal. I realized, however, that with my weight loss, my BMR has changed and I need to consume less calories per day to maintain the same progress. After updating and recalculating, my daily calorie intake goal was reduced by almost 100 calories. Fortunately, I've generally been below the old goal by at least that much but would have really plateaued if not.
I post this in hopes of ensuring that no one makes the same mistake that I did and doesn't update their goals appropriately.


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SetecAstronomy

I came across this calculator for those who wish to adjust their caloric intake goals on here:

http://www.webmd.com/diet/calc-bmi-plus

Was hoping it would also help give "hard" numbers to adjust protein, fat, and carb goals but, alas...

Update: I think I found one that does here!

http://www.freedieting.com/tools/nutrient_calculator.htm

SetecAstronomy

And I found another useful set of calculations here:

http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/harris-benedict-equation/

And one more here:

http://straighthealth.com/pages/tools/healthcalclb.html