Please Help - Calorie Goal?

SBthud326

Hello. I am fairly new to the whole calorie counting thing, I have done Weight Watchers before and had success with it, but since it switched to the new points system, it hasn't worked very well for me. I completed a round of Turbo Fire last fall (eating about 1400/day) and lost 20lbs, now I am about 60 days into Les Mills Body Pump using the Beachbody DVDs. When I started Body Pump, I decided to download a calorie counting program and found myfitnesspal. My recommended calorie level is 1200/day. I am also running 3-4 days a week, so with Body Pump I have about 45mins (sometimes twice that) of activity 6 days a week. I haven't lost a pound in 2 months, though I have lost a few inches. I think I am eating too low. I tried the fat 2 fit website and when I put in my info it said I should be around 1500/day. I am 5'4" and 173lbs so clearly there is still weight to be lost. Can someone please give me some guidance? Oh and I try to stay close to a 50/30/20 ratio for my diet.

SBthud326

Another week, another zero weight loss. Can someone PLEASE help me?

melaniecheeks

Could you change your diary setting to public, so that we can offer some meaningful comments?

Ta!

JoolieW68

What do you have your goals set to on this site?

aprilgicker

You should eat 1200 when you do nothing at all. but you do all kinds of activities. so you should eat most of your exercise cals back.

So, leave your cals at 1200 because you want to lose. on the exercise tab add your cals burned. this will move a balance over to your food. you can thent eat some of your exercise cals and log them. but your goal will not have changed. takes a bit of tweaking but to make sure you eat at a comfortable level. some can eat all there cals back and some don;t eat them at all.

keep up the good work

trekkietaz

I will tell you this with woman you may not lost weight because you will be turning fat into muscle and you will be getting firm and lean my fitness tells me to eat 2250 calories per day and I eat about 1750 a day and I have lost 60 pounds since jan 1st I also work out at the gym 3 days a week so keep doing what you are doing and you will see results.

lynette111

Hi. Welcome to MFP. I live in Springfield, OH so we are practically neighbors! We also have about the same height and weight. I started at 235 originally and lost to 160. Then I put some of the weight back on and trying again but slowing things down and upped my calories. I want this weight to stay off and am so done with the yo-yo dieting. I run three days a week and do a weight lifting video 3 days a week as well. I set my calories to just above BMR. With exercise it has been hard to eat all my calories but I have really been concentrating on my macros. I definitely think you should up your calories and be willing to lose only half a pound a week. It is a slower process but better for you overall. Good luck!