Calorie deficit 1000?

I agree with the other posters, with only about 10lbs left to lose, you should be aiming for a 250 calorie deficit a day. That's .5lb a week.

I'm sorry that it's slow but thems the breaks.

I will give you proper warning that if you continue to try to maintain a deficit of 1000 calories or even 500, you will lose weight, but it will be mostly muscle. You will not look the way you want and you will have a lower metabolism, thus increasing your changes of gaining even more weight back later when you try to eat a normal amount of food.

Okay so i will do the half of it can i do the 1 lb per week by 500 deficit a day? By eating 1200 cal and being a sedetary and dont use my cal for exercise?

It's better than 1000 calorie deficit, but you will still lose more muscle mass by netting below your BMR, just not as much.

If you exercise, PLEASE make sure you eat 1200 calories + whatever you burn, otherwise you are underfeeding yourself.

It sounds like you are saying your deficit comes from the exercise you do - that's not the way MFP works. Your daily calorie goal already has a deficit built in - meaning you could eat to goal every day, do zero exercise, and you'll lose weight. Exercising on top of that is good for you, but also creates a much larger deficit, which is not good, and is the reason why MFP adds your exercise cals back into your daily goal, so your NET calories should be at or close to daily goal.

Make sense?

I also agree with the others that 2lbs a week is too aggressive when you don't have much to lose. MFP is a great tool when used correctly. Enter your goal as .5 or 1 lb a week, eat your calories, drink water, get good rest - it works!

Hi im new here in fitnesspal and i decided to try the 1200cal diet
Infos
5'6
158 lbs
Bmr 1560
TDEE 1820
To make my deficit of 1000 to lose 2 lbs a week is to eat 1200cal and burn 620 cal and 380 on exercise this is my first experience weight loss am i doing it right? Or if im wrong how i get the 1000 deficit goin?

How did you come up with a TDEE that is less than sedentary?
From BMR that is 1.17 multiplier, less than other tables that use 1.2 for sedentary, much less than 1.25 that MFP is more realistic with.

As others have said, your goal is too aggressive for amount to lose.

Now I'm going to call you on misunderstanding the way it works.

Since you are obviously going to eat back exercise calories because you selected somehow less than sedentary, then just set MFP activity level to sedentary IF that is true.
40 hr desk job little walking, 1 + hr commute, bump on a log in the evenings, no yard work, no kids, no dog walks or weekend activities - just exercise outside sitting on butt.

That's sedentary by MFP level.

Now select 1/2 goal loss weekly with so little to lose.

That is your goal with 250 cal deficit there all the time, with no exercise expected.

You workout now, you log it, and eat it back. Take 10% off the cal burn though.

You are making it too complicated for just starting and not totally understanding this.

If you want exercise to totally be the deficit, that's fine.

Set weight loss goal to Maintain. Eat that amount daily.
You can log your exercise, just don't eat it back in that case.