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can I change calorie intake to what I want it to be ?

Nette_54
Posts: 265 Member
Hi all
I am following the Curves ladies gym eating programme which is set in 3 phases and I am due to go onto phase 3 which means I have to eat 2000 - 2500 calories a day for a couple of weeks. At the moment MFP has me set at 1510 calories a day but as I said I want to set my calories at 2000 calories so MFP doesn't keep saying I am going over my calories for the day. To be honest I have noooooo idea how I am going to eat so many calories as I struggle eating 1500 calories. The idea of Curves is to give the metabolism a boost so it starts to work faster. So it is phase 1 is 1200 for 7 days, phase 2 is 1500 calories for 23 days then phase 3 is 2000 for 2 to 4 weeks then go back to phase 1 again and do this until I am at my goal weight........ I hope someone can tell me if it is possible to change the daily calorie intake Thank you
I am following the Curves ladies gym eating programme which is set in 3 phases and I am due to go onto phase 3 which means I have to eat 2000 - 2500 calories a day for a couple of weeks. At the moment MFP has me set at 1510 calories a day but as I said I want to set my calories at 2000 calories so MFP doesn't keep saying I am going over my calories for the day. To be honest I have noooooo idea how I am going to eat so many calories as I struggle eating 1500 calories. The idea of Curves is to give the metabolism a boost so it starts to work faster. So it is phase 1 is 1200 for 7 days, phase 2 is 1500 calories for 23 days then phase 3 is 2000 for 2 to 4 weeks then go back to phase 1 again and do this until I am at my goal weight........ I hope someone can tell me if it is possible to change the daily calorie intake Thank you
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Yes. Go into settings or something like that. I don't remember the exact path, but if you click in a few different places, you'll find it.0
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Yes- just go into goals- instead of guided to custom and you get enter your levels you want!
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You can, but the default "lose 1 lb. a week" will probably give you the best results.0
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My Home-Goals then pick the "custom" option.0
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You can manually add calories daily. Under breakfast click, add food then click Manually add calories. If MFP says you should eat 1500 and you want to eat 2000, enter -500. This will increase your goal.
I think if you change your settings it will change data from previous days.0 -
Thanks everyone0
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My Home-Goals then pick the "custom" option.
All done thank you again0
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