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MFP puts me at 1,200 calories for ONE pound a week?

Nouurann
Nouurann Posts: 183 Member
edited February 7 in Health and Weight Loss
I tried to net 1,200 but I can't!
I maintain at 1,700, according to MFP, so if I net 1,500 will my weight loss be super slow? Is 1,200 even healthy?! Could MFP's calculations be wrong?

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  • ahoier
    ahoier Posts: 312 Member
    MFP Eencourages cardio and weight lifting....are you saying you always seem to hit or go "over" the calorie goal? :X Yea...I got that problem too...lol. Especially on days I don't work out ;)
  • brandiuntz
    brandiuntz Posts: 2,717 Member
    How much weight do you want to lose? What does it give you for 1/2 pound loss? Also, MFP does not include any calories for exercise until you log them, so if you're exercising, MFP expects you to eat the calories back.
  • Nouurann
    Nouurann Posts: 183 Member
    How much weight do you want to lose? What does it give you for 1/2 pound loss? Also, MFP does not include any calories for exercise until you log them, so if you're exercising, MFP expects you to eat the calories back.

    I do eat my exercise calories back but I'm still hungry D: I've been *netting* 1,200, not eating 1,200 but I'm still hungry D: & half a pound still keeps me at 1,200

    & I want to lose 10/15 pounds
  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    Eat your exercise calories. MFP does not include exercise when it figures out your goal. When you do exercise, it adds more calories for that.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I tried to net 1,200 but I can't!
    I maintain at 1,700, according to MFP, so if I net 1,500 will my weight loss be super slow? Is 1,200 even healthy?! Could MFP's calculations be wrong?

    You don't look as if you have a lot of weight to lose...the less weight you have to lose the slower you have to go because the gap between your TDEE and a healthy deficit becomes increasingly smaller because you need so much less to maintain a healthy weight.

    If you only need to lose 10 - 15 cosmetic Lbs you should be shooting for no more than 1/2 Lb per week...you don't have the fat stores required to go faster than that...that's why it looks weird to you....you're trying to diet like you have 30+ Lbs to lose when you only need to lose 10.
  • CherokeeBabe
    CherokeeBabe Posts: 1,704 Member
    When I first joined and did the MFP settings it told me the same thing. I'm very short and didn't have much to lose overall, so it just put me down really low even just to lose a pound per week. I changed it to 1/2 pound a week for awhile to make it more reasonable, then eventually I did some (quite a lot actually) research and entered in my own goals. Works great for me so far.
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  • soehlerking
    soehlerking Posts: 589 Member
    yeah, MFP often aims WAY too low on calories. Check out these:

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/6556-the-answers-to-the-questions
    (particularly Question #2)

    Never eat below your BMR. Find your TDEE and eat 10-20% below that. Here's a link to that:

    http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

    The danger in eating too low is that you can suffer from metabolic damage (basically your body figures out that it needs to survive on 1200 calories with an hour of intense exercise, and it slows itself down...my very not-scientific explanation of it). One week of 1200 calories won't do much damage, but a year of that could really get you down.
  • cooktease
    cooktease Posts: 1
    If hunger is something you're struggling with you might have some success experimenting with different macronutrient percentages. I find that when i get a majority of calories from carbohydrates it isn't nearly as satisfying as protein or fat. It's somewhat controversial, but I'm a fan of a ketogenic diet. http://keto-calculator.ankerl.com/
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