Calorie Goal

craek
craek Posts: 201 Member
edited September 22 in Health and Weight Loss
Does anyone else find that MFP gives very low calorie goals? I checked about 6 other sites with calculators and they all show I should be eating 150-200 calories more then what MFP gives to lose 1 lb per week. I do remember when I had my first weight lost success early last year, I felt like I was starving with 1400 cal goal MFP gave me and is giving me now. Just thought I'd get others input on this.

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  • LynnBirchfield
    LynnBirchfield Posts: 581 Member
    Mine is 1200 without factoring in the exercise I'm supposed to be doing.
  • Jamiebee24
    Jamiebee24 Posts: 296 Member
    Once you get adjusted to 1200 calories, it seems like a lot. You can eat a lot, if you are eating good! If you exercise, you can add more too. Find out what works for you---and if it is adding a couple hundred more and still lose weight---then go for it! :) myfitnesspal just gives you a suggestion!
  • cjw404
    cjw404 Posts: 5 Member
    I agree with you 100%. i went to another site to compare. The other site was allowing me to hav e 2000 calories per day without any exercise in order to lose 1 lb a week. This sight only allowes me 1350 calories per day without any exercise. I'm not sure which one is correct. That is a huge difference.
  • puddles76
    puddles76 Posts: 36 Member
    It seems a little low but for myself I have also found that the food data base is not always accurate. So I keep mine as it is as a buffer to the potential miscount in calories from their database.
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