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Calories reducing when losing weight?

tdavies174
tdavies174 Posts: 28
edited February 6 in Health and Weight Loss
I followed a calorie counting diet with another website years ago and every week when i weighed in my daily calorie intake reduced according to what i lost

so far, i've lost 5lbs on here and my calories are stil the same

Do they automatically reduce after a certain loss or how does it work?

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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    they reduce every 10lbs, until you get down to 1200 cals.
  • gigglesinthesun
    gigglesinthesun Posts: 860 Member
    you can also do it manually if you like by going to settings and update your diet/fitness profile and just press update on the bottom
  • tdavies174
    tdavies174 Posts: 28
    aahh thats fine x

    just wanted to check

    thank you
  • Go4it1985
    Go4it1985 Posts: 169 Member
    When you lose weight, you will require less calories for fuel so it's important to keep adjusting calorie intake after losing a significant amount of weight. Your BMR will be lower and if you kept eating the same as if you were at your original weight - you may be eating into the "deficit" you are trying to create to lose weight.

    You can manually adjust daily calorie goal in MFP :)
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