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Goals? Expected weight loss?

Jenks
Jenks Posts: 349
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I had my goals set at 2 workouts a week at 60 minutes a work out, with that setting it had me losing 1.2 lbs a week. Well, I still have a ways to go and my schedule it back to normal (no more crazy hours at work), so I adjusted my goals to 5 workouts a week at 60 minutes a work out.

Me estimated weight loss.....1.2lbs, how is it possible that at 180 minutes more of working out wouldn't result in a greater loss? I typically burn 548 calories according to MFP.

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  • sagithia
    sagithia Posts: 135 Member
    At that point you are building more muscle which is slimmer looking but "weighs more", eat your workout calories or at least 1/2 of them!

    you'll lose more but typically the human body doesn't let go of too much weight off of the body at one time, be patient and you will get there!
  • HealthyKt78
    HealthyKt78 Posts: 439
    I had my goals set at 2 workouts a week at 60 minutes a work out, with that setting it had me losing 1.2 lbs a week. Well, I still have a ways to go and my schedule it back to normal (no more crazy hours at work), so I adjusted my goals to 5 workouts a week at 60 minutes a work out.

    Me estimated weight loss.....1.2lbs, how is it possible that at 180 minutes more of working out wouldn't result in a greater loss? I typically burn 548 calories according to MFP.

    The estimated weight loss only calculates the calories based on your food. I noticed this the other day. It doesn't do anything when you input you exercise goals but if you change your food goals it will change.
  • aippolito1
    aippolito1 Posts: 4,894 Member
    I don't think MFP calculates how much working out will help 'cause technically working out doesn't cause weight loss. Yeah yeah, we know it does...but that's what they tell us, ha! :happy: Don't worry about the projection... just focus on staying in your calorie goal (but getting as close as possible - this is important!) and do your work outs. Just watch the weight fall off and don't worry about how fast it comes off. As long as you're consistently losing, you don't have anything to worry about.
  • Peridotite
    Peridotite Posts: 66
    My understanding of what I read today it that MFP assumes you will, and wants you to, eat all of your workout/exercise calories (so that your body doesn't go into starvation mode from not eating enough calories) and thus your weight loss will be slow and steady and constant.
  • bonnienm
    bonnienm Posts: 329 Member
    MFP calculates your calories burned in normal activities and creates the deficit from them. Your exercise goals are just that, goals that you want to meet to be healthy. This is why when you do exercise it add these calories earned to your calories alotted for the day and you're right if you don't eat at least some of them your body goes into starvation mode and you won't lose anymore. The only activity that will change your calorie amount is if you change what you typically do for work, etc.
  • Jenks
    Jenks Posts: 349
    Thanks for the responses. I guess I just wasn't thinking it all the way through.
  • astrosnider
    astrosnider Posts: 151 Member
    As you probably know, it takes a net deficit of 3500 calories (whether by burning them through exercise or eliminating them by eating less) to lose 1 pound. So I don't think you could expect to lose that much by doing two workouts a week. You would have to be cutting your calories drastically at the same time.
    I try to exercise for 60-90 minutes each day, but I know that if I go over 1600 calories per day I will not lose weight. I think it's a balance we each need to figure out for ourselves.
  • Jenks
    Jenks Posts: 349
    As you probably know, it takes a net deficit of 3500 calories (whether by burning them through exercise or eliminating them by eating less) to lose 1 pound. So I don't think you could expect to lose that much by doing two workouts a week. You would have to be cutting your calories drastically at the same time.
    I try to exercise for 60-90 minutes each day, but I know that if I go over 1600 calories per day I will not lose weight. I think it's a balance we each need to figure out for ourselves.

    Yeah I do know that, but because of a temporary crazy work schedule that's all I could do. Now that my schedule is back to normal I was moving it up to 5, I just happened to notice the estimated weight loss hadn't changed. Which now that I got other responses it makes sense, since MFP figures you'll eat your ex. calories.
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