Is your MFP projected weight loss accurate?

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  • Patcolombo
    Patcolombo Posts: 21
    My fitness pal has me at 1200 calories at 224 pounds
    Biggest looser would be my weight 224 x 7 = 1568 calories so that is a big difference with each one.
    Leaves me confused
  • Patcolombo
    Patcolombo Posts: 21
    My fitness pal has me at 1200 calories at 224 pounds
    Biggest looser would be my weight 224 x 7 = 1568 calories so that is a big difference with each one.
    Leaves me confused
  • stmcfred
    stmcfred Posts: 78 Member
    Per the Biggest Looser to calculate how many calories to loose weight you should:
    Your present weight x 7 = your calories need for weight loss.


    That can't be accurate. In order for me to lose weight by that method I'd have to have only 980 calories.
  • Mads1997
    Mads1997 Posts: 1,494 Member
    It's not accurate for me because I don't eat the exact same thing every day. Which is what it says "if everyday were like today"
  • mrswine
    mrswine Posts: 263 Member
    I've actually been tempted to record daily what MFP says I will weigh in five weeks, average it, and then compare that to my actual weight in five weeks. I guess you have to allow for some inaccuracy in logging and in exercise calories as well. Somebody do the experiment (I'm too uncommitted to remember to record that for a whole five weeks).

    ^^^ this. I have considered doing this. For a long time MFP said I would weigh 170 in 5 weeks. Now I weigh 170 and it made me think - I don't think it only took me 5 weeks to get here!
  • mrswine
    mrswine Posts: 263 Member
    Per the Biggest Looser to calculate how many calories to loose weight you should:
    Your present weight x 7 = your calories need for weight loss.

    A nutrition class I took said weight x10 which is basically what I eat a week to lose. It's also more accurate based on TDEE and BMI.
  • mrswine
    mrswine Posts: 263 Member
    My fitness pal has me at 1200 calories at 224 pounds
    Biggest looser would be my weight 224 x 7 = 1568 calories so that is a big difference with each one.
    Leaves me confused

    I weigh 171, eat 1600 calories a day and lose 1.5-2 pounds per week. You should calculate your TDEE to get a more accurate calorie count. Only because, if your cals are too low, you will lose Initially and then plateau quickly as your body will be in starvation mode.
  • krhn
    krhn Posts: 781 Member
    For what's based upon (variables used), its very accurate in that it can calculate all that with just what you have had...
    But the limiting factor of these calculators is that it assumes your metabolic rate is the same everyday etc. that is why is may not be accurate for some!
  • bwinsell77
    bwinsell77 Posts: 2
    That would mean, at my current weight of 110, I should eat 770 calories a day to lose weight. That doesn't seem healthy, or accurate.
  • Kestrel45
    Kestrel45 Posts: 133
    For me it's been mainly accurate, but I've only been logging for a couple of weeks now so I can't say if it'll continue as such or not.

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