MFP telling me I will gain weight...

jzammetti

if I continue to eat my TDEE calories...

I recently switched to TDEE from the MFP recommended 1200 calories a day (TDEE is 1748). In two weeks I broke my nearly 4 month plateau with the TDEE method.

But now, when I finish my food diary fo the day, MFP tells me my weight will go up on 5 weeks if I continue to eat this way. I know it isn't true but it is depressing to see that at the end of every day. Anyone know how to fix it?

wmagoo27

MFP doesn't allow you to set your own maintenance calories. You can only select a level of activity during the day with a set calorie limit attached to it. Select a higher level of activity and it will say you are going to lose weight. Just don't pay attention to the amount.

debdelilah

if I continue to eat my TDEE calories...

I recently switched to TDEE from the MFP recommended 1200 calories a day (TDEE is 1748). In two weeks I broke my nearly 4 month plateau with the TDEE method.

But now, when I finish my food diary fo the day, MFP tells me my weight will go up on 5 weeks if I continue to eat this way. I know it isn't true but it is depressing to see that at the end of every day. Anyone know how to fix it?

I am thinking there probably isn't a current way to fix it...but you could write a suggestion to customer service to provide an option to select your own calorie goal.

wolfchild59

If you're eating your TDEE then you're in maintenance and not losing mode. You have to have a caloric deficit in order to lose, so even if you up your calories from the 1200, you'll want to eat less than your TDEE in order to continue losing. But 1794 looks pretty low for a TDEE, so is that already your TDEE minus your preferred deficit?

As for the MFP notice, just don't complete your entry at the end of the day and you won't see it. The only thing that completing your entry does is give you that notice and post a something to your wall (if you have that option selected.) It doesn't do anything for the actual entries for that day or change anything about how the day looks or functions in the overall diary.

C00lCountry

Change your activity level in settings.

californiagirl2012

if I continue to eat my TDEE calories...

I recently switched to TDEE from the MFP recommended 1200 calories a day (TDEE is 1748). In two weeks I broke my nearly 4 month plateau with the TDEE method.

But now, when I finish my food diary fo the day, MFP tells me my weight will go up on 5 weeks if I continue to eat this way. I know it isn't true but it is depressing to see that at the end of every day. Anyone know how to fix it?

It's just an estimate. You body's results are the end game. If you start gaining for real (other than normal fluctuations) notch it down by 100, wait, see what happens. Adjust more accordingly. Your body is the end game, not the online calculator.

dakitten2

Or you just dont have to log out the end of the day. It wont effect your # of days, you only have to come to the site daily for that to count. I know a lot of people who dont like it when it says, you're eating too little or you'll weigh ### in five weeks if every day was like today, so they just dont enter it.

They enter their foods, just not the log out at the end of the day.

_Kitten_Kate

if I continue to eat my TDEE calories...

I recently switched to TDEE from the MFP recommended 1200 calories a day (TDEE is 1748). In two weeks I broke my nearly 4 month plateau with the TDEE method.

But now, when I finish my food diary fo the day, MFP tells me my weight will go up on 5 weeks if I continue to eat this way. I know it isn't true but it is depressing to see that at the end of every day. Anyone know how to fix it?

It's just an estimate. You body's results are the end game. If you start gaining for real (other than normal fluctuations) notch it down by 100, wait, see what happens. Adjust more accordingly. Your body is the end game, not the online calculator.

Amen!
I wish I had heard, read, and understood that in the beginning.!

jzammetti

Thanks everone. I played with the goal setting and managed to set it up so it won't show me that anymore.

Someone asked about whether I was eating at maintenance...my TDEE numbers reflect maintenance for my goal weight (a 10% deduction from my current weight TDEE).