Daily Goal Calorie Intake Question?

Most of us set our own,Mine technically with working out is about 2500 but I personally lowered it to 1200 because thats the calorie intake that causes the most efficient weight loss from what ive heard.

That is not correct.

1200 is far too low for many people. Most people will recommend a moderate calorie deficit. Having too large of a deficit can cause issues which can include losing more muscle and making it harder to maintain once you reach your goal.
WIll you lose weight at 1200, yes. Is it the best option - not for a lot of people, especially considering yours should be much higher.

anne_adams284220 wrote: »

iamthelie wrote: »

Why is my Daily Calorie goal so much higher than everyone elses that I have seen?
Mines like 1000 calories more then the majority of peoples I have seen.
Anyone tell me why? or the significance behind it?

Same!! I went from about 215 to 175 with noom at 1200calories/day but then stalled hard and I was STARVING all the time! I got a fitbit and found I was burning about 2400 calories/day (still not sure how accurate that is if someone wants to enlighten me!) and not wearing it to bed. I'm working on figuring out where I need to be to lose weight and not be so hungry all the time. I'm trying 1800 cal/day now and seem to be losing but slower (down to about 167 until I went bananas with a bad week!). I'm trying to gauge my hunger better to see if I can maintain this goal but some days it still seems like not enough. Has anyone been successful with their weight loss switching to a higher calorie intake?

This is a really old thread, from 2013. But I see that your post is new, so I'm replying.

The tracker devices (like Fitbit) are producing a very personalized daily calorie needs estimate. It's still just a statistical estimate. These estimates (from a decent device, like Fitbit) will be close for most people, a little bit off (high or low) for some, and quite far off for a very rare few people. That's just the nature of statistical estimates.

If your device is close to accurate (which is probable), then an accurate 1200 calories of intake would be substantially too low for you at 167-ish pounds, would lead to losing fat at a rate that could increase health risks. At your current weight, something like a pound a week of weight loss would IMO be a sensible plan, and that ought to take place at something around 1900 calories daily (500 calorie deficit = approximately a pound a week loss on average, averaged over multiple weeks).

What I'd recommend is that you use MFP guided setup to get a base calorie goal, and synch your Fitbit to MFP (including turning negative adjustments on), and eat back the number of calories MFP tells you to eat, based on the synchronization. (Synchronization can be a little confusing at first, because Fitbit and MFP may chat back & forth during the day, making adjustments with some assumptions that you'll behave similarly for the rest of the day; by the end of the day, it'll sort out. Then, with a few days experience, you'll have a feel for the whole process, and for what adjustment is likely to happen by the end of the day.)

Try that out for 4-6 weeks (whole menstrual cycles, if you're a premenopausal woman, so you can compare body weight at the same relative point in at least two different cycles). Look at the average weight loss per week over that period. If it's faster than a sensible target loss rate, eat a little more. If it's slower than a sensible rate, eat a little less or move a little more. That will give you the feedback about how accurate your Fitbit is *for you*, which is what matters.

I don't synch my device to MFP (long story, but my good brand one estimates way low, for me). I did join MFP only a little lighter than you are now (I was somewhere in the mid-150s), and lost another 25-ish pounds after that, mostly eating 1400-1600 calories daily *plus* eating back all of the exercise calories I got by manually logging my exercise (after estimating those calories carefully). The bottom line was that most days I was eating 1800-2000 calories (occasionally more), and losing at the rate I expected. I've maintained a healthy weight for 5+ years since then, still calorie counting, but now eating 1850+exercise, which is well over 2000 calories most days (2200-2500, usually).

Hunger can also be about food choices and food timing. Noom's food coloring scheme sort of tries to get you eating "healthier" foods, and things that are generically more filling for a lot of people, but we're all individuals. There may be foods that help you feel full that are not Noom green foods, but if they fit in your calorie goal, they're fine. (Nutrition is important for health, too, of course, but that's about overall eating patterns, not really about individual foods.) Timing of eating - how many meals/snacks, when you eat them, which are biggest, what nutrients/foods they include - can also affect hunger/cravings and fullness. It's OK to experiment.