Recommended calories per day too high???

Tgoody23
Tgoody23 Posts: 1
edited November 2024 in Introduce Yourself
might just be me but was wondering if anybody else agrees with that

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  • omegaoutlaw
    omegaoutlaw Posts: 28 Member
    I never eat the recommended intake for myself that MFP says. Mostly because I have a trainer and did a body analysis for my age weight and height MFP was bout 300 calories to high.
  • alexarmeredith
    alexarmeredith Posts: 8
    I don't add the calories I've burned onto what I can eat. I stick with my base goal whether I exercise or not.
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    Depends on many factors. Age, weight, height, and activity level. MFP uses the first three to calculate your goal along with what your purpose is (gaining, losing, maintaining). Many people adjust what is given to them. I suggest giving the numbers to program gives you about 4-6 weeks to see what happens and then adjust based on your results. Weighing your food will be more accurate than eyeballing or assuming that the number on the package is accurate, and the MFP estimates for exercise calories tends to be pretty high, so take all of those into consideration when making adjustments.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,115 Member
    Nope - MFP's "net" calculation for me was about 300 calories per day too low, at least when I set my activity level to lightly active (I have a desk job, and I was logging even the shortest walks, any yard work, etc., as exercise). That's based on a year and a half of data, using a food scale for all food eaten at home, and those supposedly inflated MFP figures for exercise calories--if they really are inflated, then MFP's calculations for my daily net maintenance calories were even more than 300 calories too low. I finally changed my profile setting to active, just to have the MFP figure be closer to my personal reality, although I come nowhere near the description of being active in my daily life, absent the activity I log as exercise.
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