Do you actually hold yourself to your caloric goal, or ...
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It would be great if user definable bands were green, yellow/orange and red. I would suggest that -250/+250 is orange and -100/+100 is red depending on your TDEE, goals, and accuracy of your logging.
Appropriate goal setting is part of your weight management journey.
Blindly going for the max the app allows without having a clue as to what you are doing to your body feeds into the perpetual cycle of yo-yo dieting and various eating disorders.0 -
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I don't have a food scale yet, and I don't prepare about a fifth of my meals (I live with my folks, and I eat dinner with them frequently) so I have to guess for those meals. Because of this, I try to keep a 200-300 calorie buffer below my goal during the week. That being said, if I am particularly hungry one day, I'll eat an extra snack, and at the end of the week I will indulge a little if I have the extra weekly calories.
Eventually I want to get a food scale and a Fitbit HR to have a better idea of my daily CICO and get closer to my goal, but right now I'm satisfied and losing weight.0 -
I am more concerned about the weekly average. If I'm under by a couple hundred on one day, I will surely go over on another.0
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I use the calorie goal as a maximum, and try to eat a deficit every day to bank some calories for anything unexpected or for those days when old habits come back to bite me (not so much any more). I think whats important to consider is hunger - if eating to goal controls your hunger, then great - do that. But for me, if I am in a deficit, but not hungry, then I dont eat. I think the relationship we have with food is sometimes more important than meeting an actual food goal, and for me, the emotional/psychological component is the demon I deal with, not the nutrition etc. I can make an obsession out of virtually anything.0
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Honestly, if I have 100 calories left, I can't imagine not having a cookie to make my goal.
So I keep a lower goal in order to eat less cookies.0 -
For the most part but I don't beat myself up if I go over by 20 or something.0
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distinctlybeautiful wrote: »... do you just consider it a maximum that you try not to exceed?
I'm not looking for advice! I'm just super curious because based on my newsfeed it seems like people are super excited about not reaching their goals. But the deficit should already be factored into the goal...
I stay below and I never eat what I exercise off.0 -
When I was in a deficit, I would look at the calorie goal as a maximum that I'd try my best to not exceed. Now that I'm in maintenance, I have to look at MFP's goal as a minimum or I'll keep losing, which is not going to be productive towards my ideal body composition goal.0
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juggernaut1974 wrote: »I've said it before and I'll say it again.
The "winner" is the person who can eat the most delicious food and still meet his/her goals.
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