Just joined...advice please!

Sweetie_2014
Sweetie_2014 Posts: 1 Member
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I just joined, I am a female, 5'10" weighing in at 270 lbs. I indicated in my sign up that I wanted to lose 2lbs a week and I was given 1480 calories a day. Is this right? Seems a bit low to me? I'm not sure how many calories I should be consuming to lose weight for my height and size? Can someone shed some light on this for me? Thanks

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  • jodiann_xo
    jodiann_xo Posts: 11 Member
    hey, fitness pal is designed to give you the most accurate calorie allowance according to your weight. and you will lose weight if you stick to your calorie allowance and not go over. also, don't go under too much either because that's also unhealthy. I'm just starting, I lost 10 lbs in the past using this. My 15 year old sister is down 40 lbs using this so I know it does work. I hope this helped
  • davepearson86
    davepearson86 Posts: 158 Member
    Mfp is alway too low. Google a tdee calculator and go for a 20% deficit. Track everything and make small adjustments to keep losing 2lbs a week. If you drop too much your weight loss won't go so well and you will adapt your body to a crazy low calorie amount meaning when you eat again you'll gain hard and fast
  • ColoradoCountryGal
    ColoradoCountryGal Posts: 127
    I have lost 15 lbs eating around 1200 calories but its different for everyone, do some research or talk to a doctor :)
  • IronSmasher
    IronSmasher Posts: 3,908 Member
    That's the calories you get for doing your daily activities, according to what you set - sedentary, lightly active, etc.

    If you do exercise, such as going for a brisk walk to work on your fitness - tell MFP by logging it and you will get more calories to eat.

    MFP, if set to sedentary, will have you lose weight by sitting about if you don't exercise. Start working on your fitness 5 days a week and don't log the exercise - and your carefully calculated and logged calorie count will be way off the healthy and maintainable goal.
  • michellekicks
    michellekicks Posts: 3,624 Member
    Very few people are sedentary. I recommend starting with "lightly active". From there, it will add calories when you exercise. And if that seems too restrictive, change your goal to losing 1.5lbs/week instead of 2... you'll get an extra 250 calories/day.

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