Eating cals based on BodyMedia Fit or MFP

Mollie007
Mollie007 Posts: 73
in Health and Weight Loss
I have a BodyMedia Fit that I alwasy wear. I put my food into My Fitness Pal and it syncs everything over. (MFP has a WAY better food database). My BMF says that I burn about 2400 calories a day. It also tells me to eat 1400 cals a day in order to give me a 1000 calorie deficite, thus losing 2 pounds a week. So, on days that I don't exercise, I don't burn 2400 or more calories. I have just been watching my deficit and eating my calories based off that. As long as I have a 1000 calorie deficite for the day, I'm good. So, if I have lounged aroudn the house all day, and I burn around 2000 calories that day, I may have a smaller dinner and my total calories for the day is at 1000 in order to have my 1000 calorie deficit. My question is, when I look at my MFP stuff, somedays it tells me my net is less than 1200. However, if I eat more to get a 1200 net on MFP, then on my BMF, my deficit is going to be low. Then I read on the message boards that if you do that it puts your body into starvation mode. Then other threads talk abut what a load of BS starvation mode is. I don't know what to do!!!!!!!!!! Since my BMF is suppose to be super accurate, should I continue to base my calories off having a deficite? Should I alwasy have a 1200 net? Someone help!

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  • evileen99
    evileen99 Posts: 1,564 Member
    Going below 1200 net calories occasionally isn't going to do anything to your metabolism. If you do it constantly, like people on idiotic fad diets, it will begin to screw up your body.

    I also have a BMF and I base my eating off of the numbers it gives me.
  • ladyraven68
    ladyraven68 Posts: 2,003 Member
    I have a BodyMedia Fit that I alwasy wear. I put my food into My Fitness Pal and it syncs everything over. (MFP has a WAY better food database). My BMF says that I burn about 2400 calories a day. It also tells me to eat 1400 cals a day in order to give me a 1000 calorie deficite, thus losing 2 pounds a week. So, on days that I don't exercise, I don't burn 2400 or more calories. I have just been watching my deficit and eating my calories based off that. As long as I have a 1000 calorie deficite for the day, I'm good. So, if I have lounged aroudn the house all day, and I burn around 2000 calories that day, I may have a smaller dinner and my total calories for the day is at 1000 in order to have my 1000 calorie deficit. My question is, when I look at my MFP stuff, somedays it tells me my net is less than 1200. However, if I eat more to get a 1200 net on MFP, then on my BMF, my deficit is going to be low. Then I read on the message boards that if you do that it puts your body into starvation mode. Then other threads talk abut what a load of BS starvation mode is. I don't know what to do!!!!!!!!!! Since my BMF is suppose to be super accurate, should I continue to base my calories off having a deficite? Should I alwasy have a 1200 net? Someone help!

    It will give you that warning every time you eat less than 1200 calories.

    How often are you talking about? if it is frequent you would be better off switching to 1lb a week, as a 50% defict is rather large, and a 2lb a week target is quite agressive.

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