1400 Calorie Plan

Hi! This depends on your weight loss goal. A pound is 3500 calories, so if you want to lose 1 pound a week, then you'd have to have roughly a deficit of 500 calories per day (through diet and/or exercise). Since you're having a deficit of 450 (I always take less) calories through exercise already, you just need to eat about 50 calories less than your BMR. Google 'BMR calculator' and you can figure out your daily caloric needs.

Also, keep drinking LOTS of water (at least 10-12 glasses for sure), and have two bowls of yogurt a day (I was skeptical at first, but within two weeks of doing the yogurt twice a day, my natural waistline has gone down by 0.25 inches and that's the hardest part for me!) Good luck!

Well the information I got was from a variety of sources online, so I guess that's not reliable! But thanks for the clarification. (I don't think the yogurt thing was bad advice at all though lol...)

Unless your Curves instructor is a certified nutritionist, I'd go with MFP calories. Or, read up on TDEE/BMR to get a number that works for you.

If you are eating 1400 per day and burning 461 per day you are only netting 939 calories - this is not enough calories to keep you burning and will put your body into starvation mode. You should be netting 1200 or more each day. trust me I went 3 weeks with the only thing changing is a longer/harder workout and did not loose a pound then I read about netting 1200 and tried it, within 2 days I lost 4 pounds and have been loosing consistantly since.

What if MFP gives you a different Calorie plan than lets say your Curves instructor? MFP actually gave me 1592 Calorie to lose 2 lbs but my Curves Instructor said anything between 1400-1500?

Use the MFP goal, unless the Curves instructor helped get your bodyfat %, and based a Katch BMR on that, then a TDEE with planned exercise on that.

Use the 1592, log your exercise calories minus about 20%, and eat those all back.

Oh, you can't have a valid weigh-in morning after a day of exercise, you gained glucose stores with water weight.

If you feel like driving yourself nuts watching invalid weigh-ins, weight 5-6 times daily and realize how useless that really is.

Morning after rest day eating normal sodium levels and not sore from last lifting workout.
That is the only valid weigh-in day.

So in your stats, that remaining is what you were supposed to eat back.
The net means after exercise used that amount of calories purely to move you mechanically, you left your body with that much to run itself.
Do you have any idea at all of a good safe level, as well as a level to actually benefit from the exercise?
Is your first introduction to calories levels logging everything you used to eat, so you know how much you used to eat without exercise, or is it the MFP and Curves recommendation? Besides that you have no idea what is really high or low?

Keep it up, you'll crash and burn.
Just use the Search button above on "plateau" and "stall" and see what you'll be complaining about at some point.
The advice many here are trying to give you is from experience and to prevent you from going down that road.

Curves knows you better see weight loss or you won't stick around as customer (of MFP knows the same) and they don't care if it's muscle mass you lose.

What if MFP gives you a different Calorie plan than lets say your Curves instructor? MFP actually gave me 1592 Calorie to lose 2 lbs but my Curves Instructor said anything between 1400-1500?

Use the MFP goal, unless the Curves instructor helped get your bodyfat %, and based a Katch BMR on that, then a TDEE with planned exercise on that.

Use the 1592, log your exercise calories minus about 20%, and eat those all back.

Oh, you can't have a valid weigh-in morning after a day of exercise, you gained glucose stores with water weight.

If you feel like driving yourself nuts watching invalid weigh-ins, weight 5-6 times daily and realize how useless that really is.

Morning after rest day eating normal sodium levels and not sore from last lifting workout.
That is the only valid weigh-in day.

So in your stats, that remaining is what you were supposed to eat back.
The net means after exercise used that amount of calories purely to move you mechanically, you left your body with that much to run itself.
Do you have any idea at all of a good safe level, as well as a level to actually benefit from the exercise?
Is your first introduction to calories levels logging everything you used to eat, so you know how much you used to eat without exercise, or is it the MFP and Curves recommendation? Besides that you have no idea what is really high or low?

Keep it up, you'll crash and burn.
Just use the Search button above on "plateau" and "stall" and see what you'll be complaining about at some point.
The advice many here are trying to give you is from experience and to prevent you from going down that road.

Curves knows you better see weight loss or you won't stick around as customer (of MFP knows the same) and they don't care if it's muscle mass you lose.

The tip about weigh-ins here, has really got me thinking. I'll try it the suggested method here. Thank you.

mtang99 I'm very new at this and not quite sure what you mean by netting. So I went ahead and put in what I'm going to eat for dinner and my snacks and this is what MFP tells me....

Goal 1400
Food 1570
Exercise 461
Net 1109
Remaining 291

Yesterday was:

Goal 1400
Food 1446
Exercise 461
Net 985
Remaining 415

And I gain 1.2 lbs this morning when I weighed in...

You are netting too low. The numbers MFP gives you are better than what the instructor at Curves gives you. Listen to what Heybales tells you...he know what he's talking about.