Conflicting info.... help?

GemmieNoWobbles

Hi All

So I have a personal trainer I see every 6 weeks, I show her my food diary and then she reports back to me. She advised I should be on 1500kcals net per day. I shifted weight in the first 6 weeks, the next 6 weeks I shifted but not as much, now she has sent me an email saying she's been through my diary and thinks I should be eating more, see below

Just wanted you to let you know what your revised calorie intake should be - with your increased activity and weight loss.

Here goes:

BMR is 1419kcal per day x 1.6 activity level = 2271kcal per day.

- 500 cal for weight loss = 1771kcal per day.

I know you are sitting around the 1500cal, so please make sure you are eating enough of a full range of foods. If you find you are sticking on the weight loss...it may be because you are not having enough to eat.

Anyway, just wanted to keep you up to date. The change is mostly because your activity level has increased so much, therefore you need the extra calories.

**So, what do I do - MFP says I should eat 1200 which I have been doing for a while and gained, should I do the above?? Seems like a heck of a lot to eat?

Ideas - thoughts?? Help people?? Thanks :flowerforyou:

TavistockToad

to be honest, i would choose one or the other - MFP, or your personal trainer.

If you say MFP has you at 1200 cals, thats obviously doesnt include your exercise cals? how much do you burn usually? if its a lot (as your personal tariner suggests) then eating those cals back would probably be netting you at least 1700 anyway?

ajbeans

Always go with the information that is tailored to YOU specifically. MFP's guidelines are based on loose averages that are not specific to your needs. Your trainer knows more about you. Follow her advice.

xxamzxxx

hi hun have you been adding the extra exercise to mfp?im also on 1200 but if i up my exercise and log it it gives me extra cals to have,you prob have done this but thought i should say just incase x

ROBP5

Your personal trainer is right, as long as your eating the correct micronutrients. Exercising hard you'll see the changes. Your body will adjust

GemmieNoWobbles

to be honest, i would choose one or the other - MFP, or your personal trainer.

If you say MFP has you at 1200 cals, thats obviously doesnt include your exercise cals? how much do you burn usually? if its a lot (as your personal tariner suggests) then eating those cals back would probably be netting you at least 1700 anyway?

I have 1200 net. So I will usually exercise 400kcals average with a HRM so I am tracking my cals burned not the outragiously overexaggerated MFP cals burnt so I will eat roughtly 1600kcals. So I am netting 1200. Does that make sense? Eating back my exercise kcals!

TavistockToad

to be honest, i would choose one or the other - MFP, or your personal trainer.

If you say MFP has you at 1200 cals, thats obviously doesnt include your exercise cals? how much do you burn usually? if its a lot (as your personal tariner suggests) then eating those cals back would probably be netting you at least 1700 anyway?

I have 1200 net. So I will usually exercise 400kcals average with a HRM so I am tracking my cals burned not the outragiously overexaggerated MFP cals burnt so I will eat roughtly 1600kcals. So I am netting 1200. Does that make sense? Eating back my exercise kcals!

if you are eating back your exercise cals, maybe you should try what your trainer says and eat more for a couple of weeks, and see what happens??

erinhale

So here is my thing, and I a personal trainer, your trainer has years experience, tons more knowledge and has had schooling on this. Why aren't you trusting her/him? MFP is general tool, your personal trainer is a person with an education. My fitness pal is a generalization, not a fact, not teh writen gospel. If you don't trust them enough to give you valid advise on nutrtion maybe you and he/she don't have a trusting relationship-which is key to your sucess.

Why are you asking self-entitled experts on MFP, instead of taking the advice your expert gave you? A majority of people on here do not have the education, experience and/or knowledge that your trainer has spent years getting. You have to eat more to lose more, its fact. You need to trust your trainer enough to give you advice and have it be the right advice- not amatuers.

Sorry that sounds kinda mean but it kills me to see people get great advice from qualified professionals and then second guess it because of something they read online, mfp, or because its not what they want to hear. Ask your trainer how many cal's a day they eat, because I bets its over 2500, and don't they look amazing??? YOur body needs those calories or else you are not going to get the results you want. Also remeber the weight did come on over night, so its not going to go away over night.

You have to trust the qualifed, certified, educated expert.

GemmieNoWobbles

So here is my thing, and I a personal trainer, your trainer has years experience, tons more knowledge and has had schooling on this. Why aren't you trusting her/him? MFP is general tool, your personal trainer is a person with an education. My fitness pal is a generalization, not a fact, not teh writen gospel. If you don't trust them enough to give you valid advise on nutrtion maybe you and he/she don't have a trusting relationship-which is key to your sucess.

Why are you asking self-entitled experts on MFP, instead of taking the advice your expert gave you? A majority of people on here do not have the education, experience and/or knowledge that your trainer has spent years getting. You have to eat more to lose more, its fact. You need to trust your trainer enough to give you advice and have it be the right advice- not amatuers.

Sorry that sounds kinda mean but it kills me to see people get great advice from qualified professionals and then second guess it because of something they read online, mfp, or because its not what they want to hear. Ask your trainer how many cal's a day they eat, because I bets its over 2500, and don't they look amazing??? YOur body needs those calories or else you are not going to get the results you want. Also remeber the weight did come on over night, so its not going to go away over night.

You have to trust the qualifed, certified, educated expert.

You are absolutely right! I have upped my cals, I trust her, she knows what she's doing. It just goes against everything my silly brain tells me which is eat less loose weight!

I'll give it a go!

Thanks everyone for your input!