MFPs calorie goal/ accurate?

SweetCheekszx0
SweetCheekszx0 Posts: 478 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Okay so I lost all of the wieght and ave been maintaining fine for about 3 months now, I actually wanna gain 2/3 lbs & I'm finding set t lightly active MFP goes me the same Maintenance calorie goal for all three weights ?? I'm 4,11 and weigh 98 trying to get to a flat 100.. MFP sets me at 1530 Wth is that? Lol... I feel this is too low any ones thoughts or guess on this for now I put my own goal of 1600 cals n ill see what my scales Lookin like after weeks 1 & 2 . Anyone work thier calries for maintain e out that are shorties as well ?

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  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    What I would do is calculate your true TDEE based on your last 10 weeks of logging. It'll only work if you logged everything accurately though.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819055-setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets

    Note however, these are all estimates of averages. The best determination of what your TDEE are your results. If you have been tracking for a while, you should be able to look back over a period of time and calculate what YOUR actual TDEE is. For example, say I lost 8lb over a 10 week period while eating an average of 2,000 calories a day. My TDEE would be: 2,000 x 7 days x 10 weeks (140,000) which represents the total calories consumed over the 10 week period plus 8 x 3,500 (28,000) which represents my weight loss expressed as a deficit using the 3,500 calories per pound approximation. My total expenditure over that period would be 168,000 divided by 70 (7 days x 10 weeks) = 2,400 per day. This would approximate my TDEE. Obviously this number should be tweaked up or down if there is any significant change in activity. It also assumes that you have been logging your intake accurately.


    Using this method I figured out that my TDEE is closer to 1800 than what MFP gave me, which was 1600. It was also good for my peace of mind to know for sure, based on my own results, what my maintenance should be.

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