Will MFP adjust my calorie will Intake?

congratulations on reaching your goal:-) that is a wonderful accomplishment. have you tried going into settings, scrolling to the bottom of the page, and changing your goal from losing to maintaining? best of luck going forward:-)

If you are 5' tall, then MFP probably assumes that is your number based on your age and weight. What you can always do is manually increase your daily goal by 50 calories every week and see if you are still maintaining.

*Edited to include sedentary

scottishagate wrote: »

I checked my declared height, it was wrongly set at 5'7". Corrected to 5'6", maybe that triggered MFP! As calories need now shows 1360. I will try that for a week or two, and see what happens.

Sounds about right. Just remember, MFP gives you a starting point. Only you will truly know what you maintenance value is over time. Seeing that you have a fitbit, that might know much better than MFP.

scottishagate wrote: »

I don't understand the Fitbit numbers, somehow they are set to dynamc - keep changing during the day which I find confusing. And FB is still showing 1200 in the phone app. Maybe that will finally change via syncing -although fully synced already on today's cals consumed and exercise.

The fitbit numbers can be a little confusing for me too (I just look at the calories left number to figure out what I need to eat to stay in maintenance or my steps).

The weekly/monthly reports are more important to me. I'm not sure exactly how to see it in the app but on the web you can look at your profile and it shows the average burn for the last 30 days. That will become a good representation of your maintenance number or what you might hear in the forums as your TDEE. You probably already get the fitbit weekly report that shows what your daily average is for last week. However, if you do things differently week over week that number may not be as good of a representation.

Its relative easy to know approx. your maintaining level.

Look at your 2 to 3 months weight loss.
Every pound lost is 3500 calories

Example you ate 1200 daily the last 2 months.
You lost those months 4 pounds....
This means you ate 14000 less in 2 months what your maintaining level approx is.
2 months is 60 days so you ate 233 calories under maintaining level ( 14000 divided by 60 days)

Makes 1200 calories normally plus 233 calories = 1433 maintaining......Remember this is always an estimation.
And i just took some numbers now. And this is without exercise.


So for you it is take the total days of your calculation your loss and your calorie intake and do the math But upping it slowly is good and see where it ends It took me some time ( weeks with every time i upped) to find out.
Last time i thought after 4 weeks oke its around here somewhere and i lost a whole pound again lol.
When that happens i wait a bit with upping the calories to see if the range stays there or not.
When it stays there and slowly it is going down i up again and weight for weeks.

So it is the same game only you can eat more
Congratulations and good luck maintaining!