settings~2lb per week weight loss

Sorry OP. Bit of a bullying mentality on here.

Embarrassing.

You'll get the hang of it. Stick with it! xx

PS Know-It-Alls so the girl doesn't know how the ticker works yet and you do... Congratulations. Now give yourselves a BIG pat on the back.

PPS Want to know how to motivate someone? It takes patience and a 5:1 ratio praise to criticism. Take it from a teacher.

great.

Dont you LOVE the teacher who misses the real bully and the wrong kids get in trouble?

Sorry OP. Bit of a bullying mentality on here.

Embarrassing.

I'd be embarrassed too, if I was a teacher and didn't know what bullying was.

Thanks.

Try not to judge them too harshly.

Hunger, when combined with success can do strange things to people... ;-) xx

Pass. Judge me harshly. Judge me as an adult. Treat me like an adult. Expect me to act like an adult. Expect me to expect you to act like an adult. Unless a person wants to be treated like a child, they should show the maturity of an adult.

I personally prefer a 5:1 ratio of bacon to cauliflower.

Sorry OP. Bit of a bullying mentality on here.

Embarrassing.

You'll get the hang of it. Stick with it! xx

PS Know-It-Alls so the girl doesn't know how the ticker works yet and you do... Congratulations. Now give yourselves a BIG pat on the back.

PPS Want to know how to motivate someone? It takes patience and a 5:1 ratio praise to criticism. Take it from a teacher.

Perhaps this applies to teaching kindergarten. When you teach adults, the method used is called a compliment sandwich.

It works, like this:

Congrats on trying to lose weight.

You should set your goal to 1lb for the amount you want to lose because 2lbs is not sustainable for the amount you have to lose according to your ticker

Good luck with your goals.

When the OP then argues against your good advice you've given for free then you have every right to correct their mistakes.

If no one corrected people's mistakes and went, 'there, there, you tried, that's what matters,' humanity would no longer exist. Learn to open your eyes and ears. You might learn something.

Thanks.

Try not to judge them too harshly.

Hunger, when combined with success can do strange things to people... ;-) xx

Who's hungry?? Not me, my body is well-fueled fat burning machine on 1900+ cals a day, thanks - but possibly the one who set herself too aggressive a goal and then bit the heads off of those who NICELY offered advice? But I digress.

Way to be self-righteous and indirectly condescending to everyone in the topic.

I think my ignore list might be growing.... :drinker:

My goal is not aggressive....It's set at 1200 cal...Just like many other people on here......

I checked the box of 2lbs a week. Though it will only give me a "projected weight loss" of 1.4lbs per week.

2lbs per week is too aggressive for your weight. To get 2lbs per week loss your calories would have to drop below 1200 calories and that is not healthy. Your original post states that you want to lose 2lbs per week and that you are unhappy that MFP is only giving you a projected loss of 1.4lbs. MFP is saying you can't lose 2lbs per week in a healthy way. If you enter the correct current weight and goal weight when you set up your profile, then there is only a 56lb difference between the 2 as represented by your ticker. If your entered the wrong information when setting up your profile, then you need to correct it so that you can get accurate calorie goals.

In my settings, it asks how much I'd like to lose a week. I checked the box of 2lbs a week. Though it will only give me a "projected weight loss" of 1.4lbs per week. How can I change this??? If I wanted to lose 1.5lbs a week, I would have checked that box. :noway: My calorie goal is set at 1200 so I don't really think I should go lower. Any advice would be appreciated!!

OP: I read everything, and I am going to try to answer the original question. MFP defaults to 1200 calories if the weekly goal you entered puts you below this. It's a safety issue -- a lot of people (including the developers of this program) feel that, unless you are under the supervision of a doctor, it's not very safe to eat less that 1200 calories a day (and generally, not net less, but I won't get into that). So your goal to lose 2 pounds a week puts you below the 1200 minimum MFP will give.

If you decide to ignore the advice of MFP and other, you can go in and manually set your calories. Take your maintenance calories and subtract 1000. You will then get a projected loss of 2 pounds a week.

Of course, you will have very few calories to work with. And, from the experience of many people here, you're more likely to stall out more quickly on your weight loss. There are plenty of risks to eating such a low calorie amount … for example, higher chance that you lose muscle along with fat, higher chance of becoming deficient in micro or macro nutrients, etc. But, if you are aware of all those risks and decide that you want to go for losing 2 lbs/week, that is your prerogative. You are, however, going to get a warning message from MFP that you aren't eating enough calories.

Good luck with whichever way you chose to go.

Knowledge imparted with sarcasm and impatience will fall on deaf ears. Whether that knowledge is correct or not is irrelevant.

I really dislike the 'you're not listening to me because you are wrong and stupid' attitude on here. It makes my toes curl. That isn't how people learn - all you're doing is alienating them.

Groups are intimidating when you first join them. It's stressful. If a couple of people (like the 3 or 4 on this thread) give a new poster a hard time and no one chips in to tell them to rein it in it's easy to assume everyone is against you.

Am I the only one that can see this?

Thanks.

Try not to judge them too harshly.

Hunger, when combined with success can do strange things to people... ;-) xx

*Looks at 1825 calorie goal*

Yeah. I'm clearly hungry. :huh:

I will agree that there are a lot of people on this site who like to criticize others for "stupid questions". I remember having a wonderful teacher in school who said "There are no stupid questions, but only stupid answers".

Some new people here need a little extra clarification--myself included and this is normal and completely ok. But I've stopped adding questions and posts because some of the hard knocks on here were anything but supportive and weren't offering any helpful advice. I'm doing well without the support of these people and have lost 11 lbs in 6 weeks. I read the posts and occasionally comment, but I swear some of the people on here are on steroids or something and like to pick on people they perceive to be weaker than themselves. I've honestly never seen this before on a site dedicated to weight loss and health. It's pretty sad that people can't be more patient and supportive.

To actually answer your question...

I have my loss set to 2 lbs per week. My calorie intake per day is 1372 and I'm usually a couple hundred under with my added exercise and some days I'm a few hundred over. But I keep track and I monitor. Others may disagree, but my weight loss has been steady and I am not going hungry at all.

Keep at it, make sure to eat well and exercise and if you need some support or a new friend, please feel free to PM me or add me

Knowledge imparted with sarcasm and impatience will fall on deaf ears. Whether that knowledge is correct or not is irrelevant.

I really dislike the 'you're not listening to me because you are wrong and stupid' attitude on here. It makes my toes curl. That isn't how people learn - all you're doing is alienating them.

Groups are intimidating when you first join them. It's stressful. If a couple of people (like the 3 or 4 on this thread) give a new poster a hard time and no one chips in to tell them to rein it in it's easy to assume everyone is against you.

Am I the only one that can see this?

And of course casting yourself in the white knight role is completely altruistic?

If that's what gives you value in your life, go right ahead.

I really dislike the 'you're not listening to me because you are wrong and stupid' attitude on here.

I really dislike the "I don't understand, need help, please give advice, but I'm not going to listen to any of it, but rather argue and call you all big meanies and do my own thing anyway" attitude.

I suck at math, so here is my best shot. It takes a deficit of 500 calories per day to lose 1 lb a week. (Roughly) .4 of 500 is something like 235. So MFP projects that at 1200 calories, your deficit is about 735 calories per day. In order to reach 2 lbs a week, you'd actually need to eat something like 935 calories a day total, which isn't healthy for most people and not really anyone not under a doctor's guidance. That's why MFP refuses to give you the 2 lbs a week you requested.

If my actual numbers are off, it's definitely not because I'm hungry and completely because I'm bad at math.

I this thread. It makes up for peaches v poptarts.

Peaches are still gross. Poptarts are (generally) gross too though. I don't like being forced to choose a side in 'crappy fruit' vs 'crappy fake pastry'.