Still losing on 2,500 calories a day?

I wish this were my problem.



The solution: eat more!

MFP is just a guideline, there is no guarantee that is your exact number. Keep in mind that everything else is just an estimate too. Most people tend ot under report their calories but it is possible you are overestimating them as well. Keep consistently logging and move your calorie goal up slowly until you reach the level you are maintaining.

How long have you been eating at maintainance?

Also, keep in mind that MFP doesn't include exercise.

you may want to get your thyroid checked if you are loosing weight with out trying. hyperthyroid can cause that

Just keep upping those calories slowly... 200 a week say... U lucky lucky thing. I've got a spare 20 lbs u can have.????????????????

Ive been on 2,500 calories a day for quite a while, 300 more than MFP recommends to maintain, I started at my goal weight of 75kg, I got it to stall at 72kg for serveral weeks, upped them when I seem to be losing, now im suddendly 69kg, this week I seem to be losing half a pound a day, the same speed when I was in weight loss mode at only 1,400 a day.

Now I see why ppl say "eat more to lose", or maybe im not eating as much as I think, im not a breakfast eater, but do have big lunches and dinners, and can't end the day without a big bowl of chocolate icecream, and I snack and eat fruit all day long,

Obviously I must try uppering my calories more, makes little sense but I continue to lose any more I be underweight.

You sound like you naturally do intermittent fasting like I do! I can't do breakfast either. Try www.leangains.com for a good read on this, or check out the forums here on MFP. There are a few groups, as well.

Back to your question, though. What is your workout routine like? And you may be logging more than you think. Do you use a food scale? Maintenance is even harder work than losing was, in my opinion, because you have such a small margin to play with. I didn't get a scale until I couldn't stop losing either.

Thing is, It's not that I'm trying to lose weight, just trying not to put on weight. I just don't know what number it will stop at, I thought the scale stops somewhere for everyone, there will be nothing left of me it drops to zero. now I've got 13 pounds of slack space, which is 13 pounds of unplanned weight loss, so can risk playing around with the numbers more, also thinking a cheat day or two will immediately boost numbers of the scale, but wouldn't it only be temporary weight gain?

Just looked at Scooby's calculator and this puts me at 2,500 a day, unlike MFP's 2,200 a day

I wouldnt call myself extremely active, I like to be on my feet alot, walk a lot, but do spend too much time on a computer, so considered myself lightly active.

So MFP's maintenance is NON-exercise maintenance - their activity levels are for daily life.

That TDEE calc INCLUDES exercise, and assumes daily life is sedentary otherwise that exercise is built on top of.

Lightly Active sounds correct for MFP.

But then do you exercise at all?
That would be logged, it would increase your maintenance for that day, or TDEE, and you would of course eat more that day.
Using MFP method.

If you are doing the exact same routine you were doing your last 2 weeks losing weight, you can nail your TDEE exactly and don't worry about guessing from 5 different levels.

Looking at last 2 weeks of intentional weight loss - what did you eat, in total not net, on average daily.

Those same last 2 weeks - how much weight did you lose?

Weight lost x 3500 (assuming just fat hopefully) / 14 days = deficit from amount burned.

Average eaten daily + deficit = TDEE on average for whatever the level of daily activity and exercise was.

Eat that much.