Calories...AM I right?

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  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    If, when setting your goals and profile using MFP's guided method, you selected the appropriate activity level, MFP uses that info to determine your caloric requirements with the appropriate calorie deficit. Any additional activity above and beyond the selected activity level, such as exercise , should be "eaten" so as not to result in too great a deficit.

    You are doing things correctly and in a healthy manner.

    I work in an office and sit at a desk all day. So I set my activity level to sedentary. It now wants me to eat 1280 calories per day! Is it okay to up it to light exercise and just not eat back ~all~ of my exercise calories? I am trying not to starve my body and still be able to lose weight.

    MFP seems to skew the women's calories low. I think you would be totally safe to put yourself as lightly active and continue on as you were.

    Also what was your weight loss per week goal and how much are you looking to lose? That is another spot where people booze a setting that puts them low. 2 lbs a week is probably only an option if you have over 75 lbs to go. With less than 20 it should be .5 - 1 lb a week max.
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    The Track at the school I did a mile in that short time.

    On average, the burn is 100 calories per mile running. It's slightly lower for people who weigh less, slightly over for those who weigh more. Walking burns less
  • sfhudgens
    sfhudgens Posts: 123 Member
    Well Darn. Cause the HRM said 260 ;( Guess I need to refigure.
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    Well Darn. Cause the HRM said 260 ;( Guess I need to refigure.

    You can check out this topic for setting up and testing your HRM
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/774337-how-to-test-hrm-for-how-accurate-calorie-burn-is?page=1
  • beattie1
    beattie1 Posts: 1,012 Member
    Not to loose. At least I don't think so. If it were me, I would eat the 1400, and burn 600. Weight loss magic! :-)
    Tthis is incorrect and a good way to get into a stall in a couple of weeks.

    OP you're right, eat your extra exercise calories, or at least half of them (depending on where your exercise burn estimate comes from. If from a HRM it's probably OK, if from machines at the gym or MFP's database the estimate may be on the high side). If you're ravenous eat them all!
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    If, when setting your goals and profile using MFP's guided method, you selected the appropriate activity level, MFP uses that info to determine your caloric requirements with the appropriate calorie deficit. Any additional activity above and beyond the selected activity level, such as exercise , should be "eaten" so as not to result in too great a deficit.

    You are doing things correctly and in a healthy manner.

    I work in an office and sit at a desk all day. So I set my activity level to sedentary. It now wants me to eat 1280 calories per day! Is it okay to up it to light exercise and just not eat back ~all~ of my exercise calories? I am trying not to starve my body and still be able to lose weight.

    Find your BMR - basal metabolic rate ..... calories needed if you were in a coma

    http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/bmr-calculator.html

    I bet your BMR is at least 1280 calories ..... so eating back your exercise calories is the way to "not starve your body" ... if your BMR is higher .... then eat that on sedentary days. Eating more than your BMR just mean slowing weight loss down ..... that's OK, weight loss is not a race. Eat at a level you can maintain .... for some people that's a higher number ... no biggie.

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