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MFP decifit below BMR O.o

yirara
yirara Posts: 10,105 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Oopsie! MFP is setting my goal calorie intake below my BMR at the moment with the smallest loss option I can chose.

Weight 62kg
Size 169cm
Age 40

According to Scoobys, my BMR is around 1366, with a BMR at 1639 (this is in line with MFP). MFP wants me to be on 1340 with a 0.25kg loss per week. Time for some custom settings, like 10-12.5% reduction in calories I guess. But anyway, I'm surprised that MFP actually does put people on a deficit below the BMR without a warning.

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  • IronSmasher
    IronSmasher Posts: 3,908 Member
    You're supposed to exercise or something? You've set it to sedentary too, and I agree MFP's activity multiplier of 1.2 is lower than I'd use.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    There's no problem in eating below your BMR so long as you are getting adequate nutrition

    Adequate nutrition for women can be acheived at over 1200 calories

    And you also eat back 50-75% of exercise calories
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,105 Member
    Well.. I normally do work out, but my workouts don't use much calories as such (for swimming I guess it's about 150kcal, my bodyweight workouts are not much above this) and eating back half of them is not much. Though currently I'm sick and cannot exercise anyway. And yes, working in an office, my lifestyle is sedentary indeed.

    I took out the workouts I do per week, but nothing has changed. Not surprising as I'm supposed to eat part of my exercise calories back. I'm just surprised that MFP does go so low and has not an even smaller deficit option. Oh well.... custom settings I guess.
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