MFP Calorie limit = 580 calories: this seems impossible!
luluhorn
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help! My MFP calorie limit for the day is 580 calories — this seems impossible to me. Now I'm reading that most people don't eat back all the calories burned through exercise. Does anyone else have such a low amount, and how do you handle that?
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Something is wrong. MFP doesn't give you a goal that low... 1200 is the lowest.0
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Might sound daft, but have you checked that you don't have any food already listed? I panicked the other morning because the home page on MFP gave me 843 calories for the day, but when I checked my food diary I realised that I'd pre-logged some food from the day before (I have the memory of a goldfish!).0
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help! My MFP calorie limit for the day is 580 calories — this seems impossible to me. Now I'm reading that most people don't eat back all the calories burned through exercise. Does anyone else have such a low amount, and how do you handle that?
there's a glitch or something...the lowest MFP will go is 1200
also, "most people" are doing it wrong then..."most people" don't bother to actually inform themselves as to how this tool actually works. I used this tool for losing weight and ate back my exercise calories (adjusted for estimation error) in order to properly account for that activity...most people are idiots.-3 -
Something is seriously wrong there. You shouldn't have less than 1200 for a calorie goal - and even that's too low for most. Also if you are following MFP as intended you should for sure eat at least some of your exercise calories back.0
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No something must be wrong. If I'm understanding this correctly , your saying mfp gave you 584 cals total for the day ???
That's incredibly low and dangerous.0 -
Do you have negative adjustments enabled with a fitness tracker?0
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cwolfman13 wrote: »help! My MFP calorie limit for the day is 580 calories — this seems impossible to me. Now I'm reading that most people don't eat back all the calories burned through exercise. Does anyone else have such a low amount, and how do you handle that?
there's a glitch or something...the lowest MFP will go is 1200
also, "most people" are doing it wrong then..."most people" don't bother to actually inform themselves as to how this tool actually works. I used this tool for losing weight and ate back my exercise calories (adjusted for estimation error) in order to properly account for that activity...most people are idiots.
So are you saying you are supposed to eat back the exercise calories?
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mykidsrock76 wrote: »cwolfman13 wrote: »help! My MFP calorie limit for the day is 580 calories — this seems impossible to me. Now I'm reading that most people don't eat back all the calories burned through exercise. Does anyone else have such a low amount, and how do you handle that?
there's a glitch or something...the lowest MFP will go is 1200
also, "most people" are doing it wrong then..."most people" don't bother to actually inform themselves as to how this tool actually works. I used this tool for losing weight and ate back my exercise calories (adjusted for estimation error) in order to properly account for that activity...most people are idiots.
So are you saying you are supposed to eat back the exercise calories?
the MFP deficit is calculated based on food reduction alone. This allows for eating back all your burned calories.
A good starting point is to eat 50% becayse MFP can overestimate and be overgenerous on calorie burns and the thing you wnat to avoid is eating back calories you havent burned.
See what happens and ajdust as needed.0 -
Yep a glitch... 1200 calories is the lowest!!0
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IME eating back exercise calories is a mistake, it will slow your weightloss dramatically.0
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amyrebeccah wrote: »jeepinshawn wrote: »IME eating back exercise calories is a mistake, it will slow your weightloss dramatically.
Then recalculate your eating total to take exercise into account, using TDEE or similar. Taking the MFP number and then not using it as designed is no more useful than picking a number out of thin air.
But I am using it as designed. I'm a male and with a sedentary life, loosing 2lbs per week, it suggests 1500 calories, most of the other calculators suggest 1400 or so anyway..regardless exercise calories are rarely ever correct and almost always significantly higher then the actual burn amount. Recommending to eat them back without knowing much more detailed information is setting everyone who reads this thread up for failure.
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amyrebeccah wrote: »
It's designed to be used with eating back your exercise calories. You're not sedentary if you're regularly burning 800-1100 calories per day in exercise (or even if you are burning half of that amount). If you are not eating them back at all (rather than working on improving the accuracy of those numbers and eating back a portion), then you are not using the statistic as designed. You like doing it your way, great. Prioritizing speed over nutrition is not something I'm recommending to this OP, and prioritizing nutrition with a slower loss doesn't equal failure.jeepinshawn wrote: »amyrebeccah wrote: »jeepinshawn wrote: »IME eating back exercise calories is a mistake, it will slow your weightloss dramatically.
Then recalculate your eating total to take exercise into account, using TDEE or similar. Taking the MFP number and then not using it as designed is no more useful than picking a number out of thin air.
But I am using it as designed. I'm a male and with a sedentary life, loosing 2lbs per week, it suggests 1500 calories, most of the other calculators suggest 1400 or so anyway..regardless exercise calories are rarely ever correct and almost always significantly higher then the actual burn amount. Recommending to eat them back without knowing much more detailed information is setting everyone who reads this thread up for failure.
Sorry I guess I guess we will have to agree to disagree. I feel the numbers themselves are fairly inaccurate, and I don't see the point in using them at all. If someone is starving yeah you should do something different and eat a little more, but you shouldn't eat them simply because the app on your phone says you can.
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jeepinshawn wrote: »amyrebeccah wrote: »
It's designed to be used with eating back your exercise calories. You're not sedentary if you're regularly burning 800-1100 calories per day in exercise (or even if you are burning half of that amount). If you are not eating them back at all (rather than working on improving the accuracy of those numbers and eating back a portion), then you are not using the statistic as designed. You like doing it your way, great. Prioritizing speed over nutrition is not something I'm recommending to this OP, and prioritizing nutrition with a slower loss doesn't equal failure.jeepinshawn wrote: »amyrebeccah wrote: »jeepinshawn wrote: »IME eating back exercise calories is a mistake, it will slow your weightloss dramatically.
Then recalculate your eating total to take exercise into account, using TDEE or similar. Taking the MFP number and then not using it as designed is no more useful than picking a number out of thin air.
But I am using it as designed. I'm a male and with a sedentary life, loosing 2lbs per week, it suggests 1500 calories, most of the other calculators suggest 1400 or so anyway..regardless exercise calories are rarely ever correct and almost always significantly higher then the actual burn amount. Recommending to eat them back without knowing much more detailed information is setting everyone who reads this thread up for failure.
Sorry I guess I guess we will have to agree to disagree. I feel the numbers themselves are fairly inaccurate, and I don't see the point in using them at all. If someone is starving yeah you should do something different and eat a little more, but you shouldn't eat them simply because the app on your phone says you can.
Eating back exercise calories is extremely important because if you don't, you can end up with a very unhealthy deficit, and net intake that is far too low for healthy weight loss. I agree that exercise machines, MFPS and even HR monitors can be inaccurate, but just taking that and saying that it's not worth it then is a bit backwards. What I did was started at eating back half and ended up cutting it a tad and readjusting as I figured out my own body, but either way, fueling calorie burns is critical. It takes effort to figure out what is right for you, but it's worth it when you know your body is healthy and supported. I don't want to risk the side affects of malnutrition.0 -
jeepinshawn wrote: »amyrebeccah wrote: »
It's designed to be used with eating back your exercise calories. You're not sedentary if you're regularly burning 800-1100 calories per day in exercise (or even if you are burning half of that amount). If you are not eating them back at all (rather than working on improving the accuracy of those numbers and eating back a portion), then you are not using the statistic as designed. You like doing it your way, great. Prioritizing speed over nutrition is not something I'm recommending to this OP, and prioritizing nutrition with a slower loss doesn't equal failure.jeepinshawn wrote: »amyrebeccah wrote: »jeepinshawn wrote: »IME eating back exercise calories is a mistake, it will slow your weightloss dramatically.
Then recalculate your eating total to take exercise into account, using TDEE or similar. Taking the MFP number and then not using it as designed is no more useful than picking a number out of thin air.
But I am using it as designed. I'm a male and with a sedentary life, loosing 2lbs per week, it suggests 1500 calories, most of the other calculators suggest 1400 or so anyway..regardless exercise calories are rarely ever correct and almost always significantly higher then the actual burn amount. Recommending to eat them back without knowing much more detailed information is setting everyone who reads this thread up for failure.
Sorry I guess I guess we will have to agree to disagree. I feel the numbers themselves are fairly inaccurate, and I don't see the point in using them at all. If someone is starving yeah you should do something different and eat a little more, but you shouldn't eat them simply because the app on your phone says you can.
I have lost 25 lbs (average of 2lbs a week) using MFP and eating back at least half of my exercise calories before I got really accurate at measuring and counting. As I have improved my logging accuracy, I need to eat almost all of my exercise calories to feel satisfied and stay healthy while continuing to lose 1% of my body weight per week. The "numbers" are only as accurate as you measure and select entries in my experience.0 -
Check with the tech people. It won't give anyone 600 calories. 1200 is as low as it goes.
Are you sure you've entered everything in English units?0 -
@luluhorn
There is a chance, albeit small, that you are using an outdated version of the iOS app, which had a bug that allowed users to set their goals below 1200. That was iOS version 5.9 or 5.10 in Feb/Mar 2015; the bug was fixed in iOS version 5.11 in March. From your profile, I notice a friend has not logged in for 29 months, so I would assume you are a long-time, and possibly, a returning member. If you are using the iOS app, check for and install the latest updated version of iOS then update your goals, or use the Web version to update your goals.
If that is not the problem, then you should open a Case with Customer Support on the MFP Help pages...
https://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/emails/new0 -
It doesn't work this way.jeepinshawn wrote: »IME eating back exercise calories is a mistake, it will slow your weightloss dramatically.0 -
jeepinshawn wrote: »IME eating back exercise calories is a mistake, it will slow your weightloss dramatically.Liftng4Lis wrote: »
It doesn't work this way.jeepinshawn wrote: »IME eating back exercise calories is a mistake, it will slow your weightloss dramatically.
For an awful lot of MFP posters, it sure seems to, mostly because they're eating magical unicorn calorie burns.
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jeepinshawn wrote: »IME eating back exercise calories is a mistake, it will slow your weightloss dramatically.
Eating back your exercise calories will only dramatically slow your weight loss if your food logging is completely inaccurate. ..
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I'm sorry but LOL0
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jeepinshawn wrote: »IME eating back exercise calories is a mistake, it will slow your weightloss dramatically.
MFP uses NEAT which does not include exercise calories and expects you to eat them back to maintain the planned deficit. Other calculators use TDEE which does include exercise in the calculations so there is nothing to eat back.
Fast loss is not necessarily smart weight loss.0 -
I don't say eat back ALL of your exercise calories... Maybe between a fourth to half. It would be bad if someone is at an extreme calorie restriction [meeeee, 1200 if that], exercises on top of that consistently, and decides to not eat back calories... You can go into anorexia territory fairly quickly that way.
But again, it depends on the person, their activity, and the calories.0 -
For a while, I tried not eating my exercise calories back. It was good going for a few weeks, but eventually I started feeling some serious fatigue during my usual exercise routines, and feeling that for a few days made me less inclined to continue exercising daily.
So now, I eat my exercise calories to fuel my body to continue exercising. I would not continue exercising if I didn't also get the option to eat more and continue losing weight at the projected rate based on my chosen deficit.0
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