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allotted calories drop as your weight does?

sonnyjimwillie
sonnyjimwillie Posts: 2
edited January 9 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi everyone,

I completed my first full week and recorded my weight. I had assumed that my allotted calories would drop as my weight did, however I see no change in my allotted caloric intake. Am I doing something incorrectly, or is this a shortcoming of this program? It stands to reason that if my caloric intake stays the same, the weight will not come off like it should over time. I started with "Lose it", a similar weight loss program, but changed to this one because it has a much better database of foods available in Canada. Hoping for suggestions/solutions/adjustments I can make to fix this problem in an otherwise fantastic program.

Thanks.

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  • shellyamyethan
    shellyamyethan Posts: 18 Member
    How much weight did you lose? I think it goes down every 10 lbs you lose.
  • dg09
    dg09 Posts: 754
    It will ask you to update your stats after every 10lbs lost. You can do it manually if you please, but I doubt the caloric allowance would be any different with just a few lbs gone.
  • kr1stadee
    kr1stadee Posts: 1,774 Member
    Mine has never changed on it's own. I've always went into 'settings', then 'update diet/fitness profile'
    If the weight is current, hit 'save' and that should do it. I update every 10 pounds
  • stephldn
    stephldn Posts: 10
    i was wondering this as well!
  • CM9178
    CM9178 Posts: 1,251 Member
    Mine has never changed on it's own. I've always went into 'settings', then 'update diet/fitness profile'
    If the weight is current, hit 'save' and that should do it. I update every 10 pounds
    Same here, it has never updated on its own, but every time I log a new weight, even if it is a pound, I go in and update my fitness profile. For me, It usually changes by about 10 calories per pound lost.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    MFP will update every 10 Lbs if you are using their default profile set up. Mine is custom so I'm not sure if it will update or not, but I manually update mine every 5 Lbs...and unfortunately, less food :(
  • sonnyjimwillie
    sonnyjimwillie Posts: 2
    ok, thanks very much...I only lost 3.5 lbs. Great!
  • CM9178
    CM9178 Posts: 1,251 Member
    MFP will update every 10 Lbs if you are using their default profile set up. Mine is custom so I'm not sure if it will update or not, but I manually update mine every 5 Lbs...and unfortunately, less food :(
    I guess I've never waited until after 10 lbs for it to update! Lol..
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