quick question about app...

Emily3907
Emily3907 Posts: 1,445 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
On the app, you know how it gives you your weekly breakdown?

So my "week" this week is 10/23-10/29, so that means the weekly calories will reset tomorrow, correct?

Secondly, at the moment my total calories under weekly goal is 4,214 and the net is 5,411. So, does that mean I have an extra 4200 calories to eat? Or is the 4214 calories my total deficit for the week? I guess my question is that number already based on my "built in" deficit and should it be closer to zero each week?

(FWIW, I did not log on the 23rd and 24th, so that could be why my numbers are so high.)

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  • jdleanna
    jdleanna Posts: 141 Member
    If you didn't log, then your numbers are high because MFP has you at 0 calories for the day. I assume you did not eat zero those 2 days, so the weekly numbers are off.

    Your calorie deficit is built in, and your weekly numbers do not include that built-in deficit. If your net was closer to zero (maybe not at 0, because you should not eat back all your exercise calories. ..just 50%-75%, to account for incorrect calorie burn) you would be losing weight at roughly the rate you want....but then, as you didn't log, you don't know really how much you're under.

    So yes, it should be closer to zero. But it really only works if you log every day.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Either you have your weekly nutrition set to starting on Fridays or 7 days ago (which is the default). You can change it to any day you choose if you prefer to follow a weekly goal.

    And yes, your numbers are skewed because you didn't log. That 4214 is on top of the deficit MFP gives you (from 1750-7000 calories depending on the loss goal you selected), and of course that doesn't account for what you did eat those two days. This is why it's important to log everything you consume as accurately as possible.
  • Emily3907
    Emily3907 Posts: 1,445 Member
    edited October 2015
    Okay - so in reality, when logging everyday, at the end of the week (set to "start" my week on Fridays), my number should be closer to zero with the only difference being any exercise calories I did not eat back? Right?
  • allenpriest
    allenpriest Posts: 1,102 Member
    Right
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