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Brill!

Just wondering....
I eat 1200cals... below and above.. but I generally only get about 30mins of cardio (3-5days a week) and work a desk job 5 days a week.
Am i considered inactive?

Nope. Sedentary is strictly for people who don't ever exercise, period. And are restricted to bed rest. Most people who aren't on bed rest are at the very least considered to be "lightly active".

So then what If I eat my calories back,
say my calories are set at 1200 and work off 450 calories... but i eat my calories back and so I have had 1600cals in the day....... is that still wrong? as in what this post is saying? I'm a bit confused lol

Thanks for the help :flowerforyou:

No, that's fine. Usually when people say they eat 1200 calories, we assume they mean they gross 1200 calories. You're actually "eating" 1600 calories, but you net around 1200 because you exercise. Which is good because you're fueling your workouts.

Just wondering....
I eat 1200cals... below and above.. but I generally only get about 30mins of cardio (3-5days a week) and work a desk job 5 days a week.
Am i considered inactive?

Nope. Sedentary is strictly for people who don't ever exercise, period. And are restricted to bed rest. Most people who aren't on bed rest are at the very least considered to be "lightly active".

So then what If I eat my calories back,
say my calories are set at 1200 and work off 450 calories... but i eat my calories back and so I have had 1600cals in the day....... is that still wrong? as in what this post is saying? I'm a bit confused lol

Thanks for the help :flowerforyou:

No, that's fine. Usually when people say they eat 1200 calories, we assume they mean they gross 1200 calories. You're actually "eating" 1600 calories, but you net around 1200 because you exercise. Which is good because you're fueling your workouts.

Okay thanks just making sure. :flowerforyou:

15 months, 113 pounds lost, 5'11" and less than 1300 calories a day (because I need to eat up to my calories so i'm over 1200 but under 1300) and I don't add in my exercise calories (of which i lift 4 days a week on top of sports and cardio) and it was RECOMMENDED BY MY DOCTOR AND A NUTRITIONIST (who i meet with every 3 months). So different things work for different people. And just because it doesn't work for you doesn't mean it doesn't work.

.... yeah:noway: ... acording to this"scoby" scale im

You Daily Calorie Requirements

Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) 1328
Daily calories to maintain weight (TDEE) 1594
Daily calories based on goal in step 6 1275



so 1200 not realy that bad for me.. was going to say more... but dont have time to

From those numbers I'm guessing you chose tdee-20% for your daily calorie allowance, with less than 50lb to lose you could cut this to 15% or even 10% cut so it's not so aggresive

Can I just say how great it is to finally raise my caloric intake goal. I was as 1150 which was ridiculous and unable to attain, and recently raised to 1300, I feel so much better and feel like I can workout harder. We will see what the scale says but regardless it feels much more sustainable. Has anyone else had this experience?

A friend posted this article on my FB page last night. I don't have access to FB at work, I have seen alot of posts today in regards to this topic exactly, and for the life of me I couldn't find this stinkin article to post in these threads. Thank you for posting this, and please dont be upset that I quoted your quote in a few threads. :flowerforyou:

1200 did work great for me but as soon as i lost a couple of stone i wanted to start exercising and added a couple of hundred cals as recomended the weight started to pile back on.

after hearing about the Cambridge diet where people are eating around 400 cals a day for 3 weeks then bingeing out for a week and starving themselves again for 3 weeks , i really dont think 1200 cal diets are that bad to be honest. its sufficient enough to keep your body and organs functioning without exercise isnt it?

Well no, not really, your BMR is the amount of calories your body needs to function and there aren't many people who's BMR are 1200 or below

oh right! well maybe i was given the wrong info. Im no expert

I think it's subjective - I've realised (by calorie counting out of pure curiousity) that quite often if I completely cut out snacking and just eat three meals a day my calorie intake does end up around or below 1200 calories...

If it does, you're not doing what you should, and unless you are weighing absolutely everything you eat, it's pretty unlikely you are accurate. and no, I'm not talking about measuring with measuring cups, I'm talking about weighing with a food scale.

You don't have to get irritable, it was just an observation. And even if I'm not accurate, I would have to be out by quite a lot for it to be much above 1200. The things I don't weigh (with a scale - I don't own measuring cups...) are fruit and vegetables anyway so unlikely to be throwing calculations out by much.

I'm not being irritable, I'm trying to be helpful. As fruit has quite a bit of sugar in it, and is dense, by not weighing an apple or a banana, you can be off by quite a few calories. with one fruit.
when I said you were doing the wrong thing, i meant not eating over 1200 calories. You aren't eating enough. Unless you weigh 90 lbs and are about 5 feet tall, and are extremely sedentary, it's not likely your calories should be 1200 or below.

Thanks for enlightening me on caloric intake! My question is, if my goal is to lose weight and build muscle, how much of my exercise calories do I eat back? I presently consume about an average of 1400-1500 calories daily. I workout 4 times a week, in which I burn about 400 calories (not including weight training). I weight 136lbs, and 5'4.5. Thanks you guyz!

Good read I even posted it to my Facebook

If people used MFP the way it was designed, this wouldn't be anywhere near an issue. It gives 1200 as a very minimal baseline when a user selects sedentary. If the user is sedentary, he or she should eat back their exercise calories and log all activities above sitting on their butt at their job (this is why MFP includes housework and carrying bags in their exercise section).

If you set your activity level to sedentary, go work a job where you're on your feet for eight hours THEN go work out and expect to survive on only 1200 calories a day, you're going to have a bad time.

By logging all my activity for a few weeks (I use a HRM for at home workouts and track walking with runkeeper) as an experiment, it seemed I needed to consume about 1600-1800 calories a day to NET 1200. I then went and ran my numbers through scooby's accurate calorie calculator again (I run my numbers every few months or when my exercise routine changes) and it estimated I should be consuming about 1800-1900 a day to lose weight.

The numbers work out pretty similar, if you use the tool properly.

I think dieting is the best way for weight loss. It is regarded as natural way. So it should follow for the betterment for both body and health.