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Changing/Personalizing MFP calorie recommendations to TDEE

ellaloveslove
Posts: 166 Member
Hello 
I was wondering if there was a way to set your own goals on the MFP diary. Like right now, I have all of my info put in like my current weight/height, goal weight, activity level, and how much I want to lose per week and it automatically calculates how many calories I need to eat per day to achieve this.
However, I've calculated my BMR/TDEE and regardless of what I put into MFP I can't get it to recommend the number that my TDEE is (Right now it's pretty close, about a 100 calorie difference between the two) but I was wondering if there is a setting where I can just manually put in how many calories I want to eat a day?
If not it's no big deal, I can just remember that MFP is telling me a few calories off, I'm just looking for a easy solution where I can think less :P
Thank you!

I was wondering if there was a way to set your own goals on the MFP diary. Like right now, I have all of my info put in like my current weight/height, goal weight, activity level, and how much I want to lose per week and it automatically calculates how many calories I need to eat per day to achieve this.
However, I've calculated my BMR/TDEE and regardless of what I put into MFP I can't get it to recommend the number that my TDEE is (Right now it's pretty close, about a 100 calorie difference between the two) but I was wondering if there is a setting where I can just manually put in how many calories I want to eat a day?
If not it's no big deal, I can just remember that MFP is telling me a few calories off, I'm just looking for a easy solution where I can think less :P
Thank you!
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Go to Home and under goals go to own goals. you can change calories, protein, carbs and so on.0
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Go to goals scroll down to change goals and go to custom then you can change.0
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Awesome, thank so much!
I had been going to home > settings > update diet/fitness profile
Thanks again!0
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