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harrytcs
harrytcs Posts: 1 Member
edited February 5 in Motivation and Support
Hi All,

I weighed 260 pounds 3 weeks back and when I checked my weight 1 week back it was 254.4 and I am not going to check my weight until another week.

I am trying to restrict myself to 1200 calories per day and for cardio I swim for 60 minutes (moderate) on a day on an average. I am 30 years old and 5' 7". MFP actually instructed me to have 1600 calories diet, I reset it to 1200.

In fact, some days due to 60 minutes which apprx. burns 800 calories, I end up way lesser than 1200 calories per day.

Assuming, I reset my calorie goal to 1600 and work out and burn 800 calories. This means I should eat 2400 calories of food to maintain the 1600 goal. Honestly, I dont know what I can eat so that it makes up to 2400 calories. I somehow feel like if I start eating 2400 calories, then I am going back to what I was eating before my weight loss activities or even more and dont understand how that will reduce my weight.

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  • j6o4
    j6o4 Posts: 871 Member
    MFP gives you a calorie goal that has a deficit built in already to lose weight without exercise, when you exercise you make that deficit even larger which is why MFP gives you back calories to eat. MFP can be generous with calories burned, so the best option is to get an HRM to get more of an accurate burned calories. Besides other health benifits from exercise, the calories you burn allows you to eat more while losing weight.
  • AnabolicKyle
    AnabolicKyle Posts: 489 Member
    "MFP can be generous with calories burned"

    ^^^

    ***Iam assuming you just started your diet


    260-254 = 6lbs in 2 weeks

    2-4lbs of water weight so 4 or so lbs of fat/muscle loss

    so if you up your cals probably stick with about 500 cals so that puts you at about a 1lb of weight loss a week & modify from there



    EDIT

    1200 cals seem very low
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