Please help!!!

Bump...I"m curious as well

Interesting.....I am going to ask our fitness expert about that tomorrow night if I see either one of them that I know that is....Let you know what I find out.

Good question

I read the same thing somewhere...... the body weight you want to be, times 10 calories.

This is what I know- in order to loose 1 lb a week, you need to burn (or not eat) 3500 calories less than normal.

MFP set my calorie goal at 1,280 before exercise, just 80 calories over the bare minimum that anyone should have per day. I keep hearing in different places that in order to find out how many calories you should have while trying to lose weight, you should multiply your body weight by 10. In that case, I should be having about 1,550 calories a day. That's a pretty big difference. Which one is right?

1280 before exercise...MFP sets everyone at the low end. If you exercise, you need to eat back those calories burned so your calorie deficit doesn't go lower than your daily goal.

1550 would be your higher target and if you exercised you wouldn't need to eat back those calories.

This might help!

Might help you to work out your numbers for yourself and compare to MFP recommendations. Work out your Basal Metabolic Rate and then work out calorie needs based on your activity level. Then from this number you need to create a deficit (inc diet and exercise) of 500 or 1000 calories to lose 1 or 2 pounds a week.

http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/

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My number to lose 2lbs a week is 1566 - MFP says 1200 so slight difference.

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I've seen some sort of equation before, but it was more complex than merely multiplying your weight by 10. Perhaps that's some basic general quick formula, but I would think that you have to take into account the amt. of activity one is doing.

Makes sense, right? Remember the stories of Michael Phelps and him consuming 10,000 - 12,000 calories a day (when training, that is)... and that was simply to MAINTAIN his weight? Obviously, that is an extreme example, but the point is that for a truly accurate measure, you have to take into account the amt. of calories that you burn on a daily basis. Perhaps the "multiply by ten" rule is supposed to be a general gauge of how much your body needs just to function normally... without activity added into it. Even so, that seems a bit simplistic. Height, age, gender, how physically active one is .... these would all play a part, right?

Sorry... I don't have any real answer for you. Whatever calculator thing MFP uses... seems to work for me. I have been losing about 2 pounds a week (or more... but I also don't hit my intended calorie count most days). --- Save for today. Today I've exceeded it by double. Maybe not, but possibly. *sigh* On the up side --- I enjoyed every single bite of my authentic meal and dessert. smile.

Good luck to you!

Personally, I'd go with the MFP numbers. But I'm a little nutty sometimes.

When I was in MMA, my instructor/coach wanted me to get to a ridiculously low weight for a bout. Towards the end, I was eating 900 calories a day and training like a man possessed.

Clearly, that was unhealthy. But it may show you that there's no rule that under 1,200 calories your body will shut down.

If you want to play it safe, see how much you normally eat over the course of a week or two. If you're typically near the 1500-1600 mark, go with the lower number. If not, do the higher number for a month or two, then drop.

Play with it.

I use the bmr calculator, i know for a fact that MFP gives you a way low cal count. That is why many people don't lose weight, because they're running on starvation mode but no one ever listens to me
You might lose some at first but then your body adapts to starvation and your progress goes down the drain just like your health.