Confused abobut MFP Calculations

caloriecountmel
caloriecountmel Posts: 2 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I have read multiple posts the last few days about BMR and exercise calories, but can't make sense of the daily calories MFP has set up for me. I'm at 225 lbs right now, and want to lose 50 lbs to end up at 175 lbs. I have my settings set to 2 lbs/week, work out 5 days a week for 50 minutes. My BMR is 1850 calories, and MFP has me eating just under 1500 calories/day.
My weekly goal according to MFP is 2050 calories burned/week.
So, between eating 350 calories below my BMR and burning 2050/week (in all actually, my workouts are about 60-70 minutes) and between boxing with an instructor and running I'm probably burning more than estimated) that only adds to 4,500 calories a week, which is a little more than a pound. Since I was confused with these numbers I checked to see what the system would do if had it set at not working out at all and the allowance of 1450 calories/day stayed the same.

Can somebody please explain to me how these numbers were calculated?
I tend to oversee small details, so that may be the problem.
This past summer I lost 7 pounds with MFP (I had my settings at 1 lb/week for all of summer and just recently switched it to 2 lbs/week). I'm not complaining that nothing is happening, I'm just wondering how the calculation works.

Thanks!

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