Calorie Amount Changing?

bellis_coldwine
bellis_coldwine Posts: 4 Member
in Getting Started
I am very confused! I just started using MFP yesterday and dutifully logged every calorie, coming in just under my recommended amount-somewhere in the 1800s. Today I check and my recommended amount has shot up to 2340! I haven't changed any information on my settings so I am at a loss. What happened?

Replies

  • Docbanana2002
    Docbanana2002 Posts: 357 Member
    Did you log exercise? Connect it with a Fitbit?
  • bellis_coldwine
    bellis_coldwine Posts: 4 Member
    I logged exercise yesterday, not connected with a fitbit.
  • Docbanana2002
    Docbanana2002 Posts: 357 Member
    edited June 2015
    When you log exercise, it increases your calories so that you can eat back the calories burned.
  • Docbanana2002
    Docbanana2002 Posts: 357 Member
    Your calorie deficit needed to lose weight is built into the number of calories it gives you to eat. If you exercise, you can eat more and still maintain the same deficit. Just be careful because it is easy to overestimate calories burned through exercise then eat back too much.
  • bellis_coldwine
    bellis_coldwine Posts: 4 Member
    Which it did yesterday, gave me 100+ extra calories to consumer but this is a huge leap from 1800-2340 and I have not logged exercise today.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Something changed. Look at your weight, goals etc.
  • alyfrancis582
    alyfrancis582 Posts: 38 Member
    Liftng4Lis wrote: »
    Something changed. Look at your weight, goals etc.

    Exactly. It might have just been a computer error. Check in at weight goals and make sure they're still what you input.

Categories