An easier way to setup goal calories - eating for who you wi

jimmyz19

Interesting....Bump.

utes09

I'm going to toy with this later!

gogo0000

okay so i am 5ft 2in and currently 59 kg i want to go to 45 kg.
I am a student and don't get the time to exercise maybe 100 calories twice a week. At 45kg I calculated my bmr + activity to be 1699 (16 hrs light activity and 8 hrs rest).
i am currently consuming 1200 cal or less every day, are you saying i should increase my calorie intake to the 1699 and i'll still loose weight even if i do not exercise at all ??????

slimmerchick

I am going to give it a whirl - I have been fluctuating the same 3-4 lbs on and off for the last 4 months and it's driving me crazy. I've set my activity really low to account for days when I don't do much.

bethm1210

I've been stuck at the same weight, give or take a pound or two, for over a year. Think I'll take a look at it!

sandy729

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Terk1968

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mcanavan05

Following..


FYI..did BMR at 208 1900
at 190 1830

Moved MFP current weight to 190..got 1790


Didnt have time to read all details but having hard time seeing 110 cal diff?

MrsSpinks

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FITnFIRM4LIFE

Bumping*

sk1dz

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CharlieBarleyMom

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nwilson1213

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lynette111

bump for later!

embersfallen

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ninabina62

I've always thought that this would be a better way to approach weight loss. After all, it is to be a lifestyle change. So why not start at what you will end at. It will take longer, but the results will remain. I've noticed that anytime I boost my caloric intake after days of low-cal eating, I suddenly lose weight! Thanks for the info!

Karkle14

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eileen7316

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evans72002

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monkeymomof3

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bettbett87

The alarm bells ringing for me are that in the UK the government tells us that for a healthy diet women should consume around 2000 calories per day. The calculator recommends I consume 2200 to maintain my goal weight and I really am not very active so this leaves me feeling nervous.

Having said that, I am a firm believer of "eat when you're hungry and don't when you're not"

prbyjennyd

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heybales

The alarm bells ringing for me are that in the UK the government tells us that for a healthy diet women should consume around 2000 calories per day. The calculator recommends I consume 2200 to maintain my goal weight and I really am not very active so this leaves me feeling nervous.

Having said that, I am a firm believer of "eat when you're hungry and don't when you're not"

The problem of the theory of eat when hungry is that if you have forced yourself to eat below your BMR for too long, you've lowered it and won't be hungry anymore a higher levels. So missing out on free calorie burn.

Are you sure that recommendation is not "a healthy woman should consume around 2000 calories a day"?

Because a healthy woman would weigh less, and therefore the body requires less to get buy.

But that recommendation hardly takes into account the fact that when you are taller, you have more surface area and therefore BMR is higher, that when you are heavier because of muscle the BMR is higher, ect.

This method at least keeps you from eating too little and slowing your BMR below what it could be burning.
If you are honest with the activity level, then it should still work, because future maintenance calories is below current maintenance calories, therefore weight loss.

JanaB2011

Bump to read later.

heybales

According to this calculator I maintain on 2700 calories a day. That is completely wrong- even with my activity levels factored in: 8 rest, 15 light, 1 moderate.

MFP gives me 1800 for "active" which is 900 less than that- how could there possible be such a huge difference. I would gain from eating 2700 a day without question.

Light level on ExRx is pretty active actually.

You walk around 15 hrs a day when not sleeping and doing that 1 Moderate level of exercise?

TV time just sitting there is resting, perhaps that is included in your rest hrs already, perhaps not.

That would for sure be the reason.

MelKut

hmmmm I may try this....

heybales

HELP! I am now confused! I have calculated that my BMR + activity at goal weight (140lbs) is 1985 calories!! I am currently set at 1270 net cals and only ever eat about half (of not less) of my exercise cals back and not getting anywhere. MFP says my maintenance at goal weight 140lbs would be 1600 + activity/exercise calories.

So should I be eating between 1600 and 1985 cals to lose the weight??

I really need all the help I can get so when I stumbled upon this thread I got excited but now confused.

Fat to Fit radio shows I should be eating 1893 cals per day (including exercise cals) for my goal weight.

Does this all sound right? I'm worried I could be setting myself up for a fall and gaining more weight!

Please click on the link under my name for Posts, and find the couple in this thread dealing with lowered BMR.
Yes, it sounds wrong, but read through all the posts, and your stall is not unique, and going lower is not the solution.

glassyo

Bumping so I can read through the whole thread when I have the time.

bettbett87

The alarm bells ringing for me are that in the UK the government tells us that for a healthy diet women should consume around 2000 calories per day. The calculator recommends I consume 2200 to maintain my goal weight and I really am not very active so this leaves me feeling nervous.

Having said that, I am a firm believer of "eat when you're hungry and don't when you're not"

The problem of the theory of eat when hungry is that if you have forced yourself to eat below your BMR for too long, you've lowered it and won't be hungry anymore a higher levels. So missing out on free calorie burn.

Are you sure that recommendation is not "a healthy woman should consume around 2000 calories a day"?

Because a healthy woman would weigh less, and therefore the body requires less to get buy.

But that recommendation hardly takes into account the fact that when you are taller, you have more surface area and therefore BMR is higher, that when you are heavier because of muscle the BMR is higher, ect.

This method at least keeps you from eating too little and slowing your BMR below what it could be burning.
If you are honest with the activity level, then it should still work, because future maintenance calories is below current maintenance calories, therefore weight loss.

Thanks for putting this into perspective for me. I am 5ft 10 which is definitely taller than the average woman, so I guess 2200 doesn't sound too horrendous. Like a lot of the people on here, MFP set my goal as 1260 cals a day and I have been keeping close to that, eating any calories I burn. I have been losing weight so far but am finding myself increasingly tired and run down so will definitely be switching to your method to see if I make any better progress!

I know weight loss should come down to eating healthily and exercising regularly, it's just difficult to find the right balance and fit it around work and family life!

wave143j

I'm intrigued.