Can someone verify my calorie intake is correct?

kooshajan

Me again. Can someone please just verify this for me once and for all so I dont have the ask it a billion times over?

From what I understand MFP creates a 500 deficit for you automatically upon signing up.
My question is if I selected a 2lb loss (which I did) and if I burn an additional 500 every day through exercise is it than a 1500 calorie deficit opposed to a 1000 deficit? Im just not seeming to lose any weight. Im 5ft3 185lbs. Ive mentioned this a billion times and I hate obsessing about it but I am really trying but not losing! I bike 15 mins to work. I work all day in shipping./receiving and bike 15mins home. I do P90 in the evening and 3 times a week go to the pool with my 15 month old daughter or go for a walk. I selected active (is this right?). My maintenace cals are 1240 and I burn 500 daily. I eat these cals back if not all than only off by 20 or 30.

kleavitt1992

do you eat back excercise cals?

kooshajan

do you eat back excercise cals?

...yes. Everyday.

papastu

try not eating them back, try it and see

kleavitt1992

your set to 2lbs a week which means you only have a 1000 cal deficit mfp recommends 1lb a week which is the 500. in that case and since you still have more to lose i would recomend buying a food scale you might be eating more than you think you are? so it helps to weigh your food i also recommend not eating them for awhile then when that stops working eat them again for awhile say a month then dont eat them again switching it up helps

Pebble321

Me again. Can someone please just verify this for me once and for all so I dont have the ask it a billion times over?

From what I understand MFP creates a 500 deficit for you automatically upon signing up.
My question is if I selected a 2lb loss (which I did) and if I burn an additional 500 every day through exercise is it than a 1500 calorie deficit opposed to a 1000 deficit? Im just not seeming to lose any weight. Im 5ft3 185lbs. Ive mentioned this a billion times and I hate obsessing about it but I am really trying but not losing! I bike 15 mins to work. I work all day in shipping./receiving and bike 15mins home. I do P90 in the evening and 3 times a week go to the pool with my 15 month old daughter or go for a walk. I selected active (is this right?). My maintenace cals are 1240 and I burn 500 daily. I eat these cals back if not all than only off by 20 or 30.

Ummm, not quite right in some points.

To start with, I really doubt that your maintenance calories are 1240. That might be your BMR, but to maintain your weight you have to make an allowance for your lifestyle. For a sedentary person that would make your mainenance 1488. As an active person your daily allowance will be higher still.

MFP gives you a deficit based on how much you want to lose. If you choose to lose 1 pound a week, you will have a 500 cal deficit. If you choose 2 pounds the deficit is 1000 cals/day.
2 pounds is pretty high, and as you don't have LOT of weight to lose, this probably isn't going to be right for you.

I suggest set your activity level to "high", set your weight loss to 1 pound a week (or better still 1/2 pound per week) and see how many cals MFP give you.
Eat this many cals every day PLUS the exercise cals. Assuming you are reasonably accurate with measuring your food and exercise you should see results at this rate.

You are right that if you have a 1000 calorie deficit and you burn an extra 500 cals, then your daily deficit is 1500. This is a really high deficit and probably won't suit most people (unless you have a lot to lose). This is why MFP recommends you eat those calories back.

kooshajan

Ive been using my food scale religiously. Seriously, I am doing things right. I used to be an advid health junkie. But since my pregnancy my body has changed so much.

kooshajan

Meant my net calories are 1240. Clearly such a low number could never be a maintenance cal haha.

Pebble321

Meant my net calories are 1240. Clearly such a low number could never be a maintenance cal haha.

Well, you could be 4' tall!
I don't have a good answer for you, except don't eat too low, keep exercising (not tooooo much) and with time you should be OK.

Bluestar083

See a dietitian. Not a nutritionist but a proper, university educated, hospital trained dietitian. Take your food diary in with at least 2 weeks of entries.
Good luck-don't know what else to say as you seem to be doing it all right. Except maybe eat back half your exercise calories for a month and see if that makes a difference?