I only have my calories set so that my macros give me the right carb limit. Beyond that, I don't care about calories, and I do enjoy thumbing my nose at MFP when it tells me I'm going to get fat after I complete a day's entries.

well it partly has to do with how the MFP calculator is weird.
There are plenty of other calculators that you can use as a resource instead. You use them to calculate your approximate TDEE and BMR. You choose a number, and eat at that calorie rate.

MFP likes to be weird if you use the automatic settings, so. Go and find your TDEE and BMR on your own, and you'll probably find that your calorie consumption is higher than MFP is telling you.

Higher metabolism maybe Goat? I have a friend who is quite tall, and very thin (I mean like 70kg and 6'5"). He has nothing wrong with him physically. He is very INactive (sits on the computer all day). He's had hormones tested etc. BUT ... he eats lollies and drinks coke constantly. And his meals are like falling over the edges of a dinner plate huge. I wrote down his food intake for a few days and he seems to consume in excess of 4000 cals, every day. I could only WISH, lol. But. It does indicate that there is alot more going on than simply "if you're this height and this weight and do this much you need this many calories".

Hey, my #1 son has an Ivy League PhD in biochem and still has trouble controlling his weight. If it was easy everyone would do it.

jmarton1977 wrote: »

I'm a recent convert to LCHF eating after doing Atkins induction for about six months. I try to keep my calories in check according to what MFP tells me I should be eating to lose 1 lb per week (around 1400). If I get close to that goal, I seem to stall, or gain, however if I go over my calories by 200 or more I always seem to drop. The human body is weird, I tell ya. It just goes to show that there are more factors at work than Calories In, Calories Out.

Has anyone else had a similar experience?

I believe you. But here is my experience, I do Keto & Intermittent fasting, no exercise, am T2 Diabetic. My fasting consists of, one day a week, I skip eating, only water.

I just made a spreadsheet and ran the numbers. I used 35 days (5 weeks) in a row. With MFP, I inputted all 35 days of calories (I added 5% for indiscretions and wrong input, omitted input). I used the measured TDEE of 2,246 @ day. Which is a deficit of 1,025 per day.

The deficit for the 35 days, is: 33,831 calories. Divide that by 3,500 (calories in a lb) and you get 10.2 lbs. theoretical CICO weight loss.

During that time I actually loss 12.5 lbs., which is 2.3 lbs more than CICO predicted. There is something about Fasting that gives me greater weight loss than CICO predicts.

Definitely weird....

I hope this helps,

Dan the Man from Michigan
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