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buket1819
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Hey everyone! I have a question. I have lost weight before but I was eating so little and over-exercised. Eventually I gained it all back plus some. Found out the hard way :P Now I have set my goal to 1400 calories. What do you think? Is it low/high? Thanks for responding!
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As long as you have a deficit it doesn't matter. Just don't go so low as to make you feel really horrible and light headed. MFP suggests 1200 and I agree. You putting the weight back on will have nothing to do with eating too little and losing the weight too quickly. Think about your lifestyle as a whole and make the weight loss the start of a different way of eating. When you get to goal, keep using MFP to track how much you eat to maintain. This is where I went wrong before, I just saw it as a goal reached and went back to old habits.0
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that's one of those how long is a piece of a string questions
depends on your age, gender, height, current weight, activity level and target weight0 -
What is your height and weight?0
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Liftng4Lis wrote: »What is your height and weight?
Im 170 cm and 74 kgs
Similar stats to me, based on my own body I'd say it's too low. what goals did you set, and what activity level? I'd guess if you let MFFP do it you chose sedentary?
I recommend using a website like exrx.net or health-calc.com (the latter does estimate high until you get to a lean/low body weight, I am currently going off of the first link) and estimate maintenance needs. Then deduct 20% for a ~1lb loss per week. If you include exercise in there though, remember a) to average it out (so 30 minutes 4x a week is now actually.. idk, 20 per day), b) the calories will be higher than MFp because MFP doesn't include exercise. So if you want to really compare the numbers then just run the estimations without including exercise.0
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