Confused best calorie calculator ?

size102b · March 2016

Ok all these calorie calculators on line say different amounts so not sure what's best
Mfp is low plus s couple others

Any good recommendations
On says a low amount with 70lbs to lose I can't do that

I'm 46 female 213lb 5ft 2 walk 1 hour a day as recovering from very ill health

I lost 11lbs in 7 weeks last 2 weeks 0
I weigh measure everything good in scales drink in jugs
I'm eating 1300-1400 cals a day
I get a treadmill next week so hoping to burn more calories
I don't eat exercise calories

I've yoyoed so much I have to stop I have to stick at this but if I eat 1200 I get really hungry and struggle

Any good calculators ?

Food usually is

Breakfast Porridge sultanas semi skimmed milk green tea = 260 calories

Snack Fruit 70 calories

Lunch

Small bagel
Very low fat cream cheese
Wafer thin turkey
Packet crisps (chips)
Green tea
320 calories

Dinner

King prawns
Mixed veg
Jacket potatoe
Very low fat mayonnaise 500 calories

Banana 120 calories

jemhh · March 2016

Change your weekly goal to .5 or 1 pound per week and your calorie goal will increase. Your loss rate will decrease but you'll be less apt to give into hunger-fueled binges.

size102b · March 2016

I'm not binging & not losing on 1300 a day though

Alpha_hen · March 2016

I am actually losing more consistently at 1450 a day than I did at 1250. As long as you are eating at a deficit, weight loss will happen but I worry about any situation where you are constantly hungry. For me, that would not be sustainable. Also, I am not strictly low carb or paleo but, when I hit a plateau, sometimes doing a few low carb days gets results.

cwolfman13 · March 2016

First off, you have to understand the methodology used...like MFP doesn't include exercise activity which is why it's lower than TDEE calculators...because you log exercise after the fact and get additional calories. Many if not most other calculators are TDEE calculators which include some estimate of your exercise activity and thus those calories are included in your targets.

You also have to compare apples to apples in RE to loss rate goals...many with MFP will pick 2 Lbs and when they use a TDEE calculator often the "recommended" is a 20% cut from TDEE which for most is going to be closer to 1 Lb per week...so again, you're going to get more calories with a slower rate of loss goal.

After that you have to consider that they're all estimates and all of them use slightly different algorithms to get you to a starting point...and that's all it is...a reasonably good estimated starting point...none of these calculators are gospel...so you just pick one and go with it and then make adjustments to what your consuming as applicable to your actual results.

size102b · March 2016

If I ate lower I'd be hungry all the time
I've 70lbs to lose so being on 1300-1400 a day I must be in defict
Yeah I never eat exercise calories I lost 71lbs in 2012 in 11 months but was very ill last year never got to goal so I've 70 to lose since I was ill I'm struggling to lose weight

DaisyHamilton · March 2016

Have you recalculated your suggested calorie intake? You could be eating at maintenance and not realizing it. And are you WEIGHING (not measuring) your food?

TeaBea · March 2016

size102b wrote: »

I'm not binging & not losing on 1300 a day though

11 pounds in 9 weeks.....that's a good rate of loss. Keep in mind weight loss won't be linear. There will be fluctuations: water weight, time of month, etc. Lots of things can throw the number on the scale off.

Weighing portions is a good idea. Especially with fruits & starchy veggies. Small, medium & large....what the heck do those look like.

MFP is often lower than other sites because they don't include exercise up front. You don't get exercise calories until you log them. Most people eat back just a portion of exercise calories (ie: 50%) because calorie burn estimates can be generous.

size102b · March 2016

Maintenance is 2100 for me I'm eating 1390-1400
I never eat any exercise calories
If I eat 200 extra calories I gain so my cal level is really low

I weigh and measure everything so not sure what's up with me maybe my age approaching 47 or how ill I was
All I can do is hope it will start to come off again

11lbs is great but 2 weeks 0 isn't but I can't afford to get bigger so I need the carry on just getting the right calorie amount seems to be hard atm

Thanks

size102b · March 2016

Just checked happy scale the last month I've only lost 2lbs

as its so up and down
Which @ 1350 average calories and 1-2 hours walking a day is rubbish

MelissaLimeKiwi · March 2016

You just have to keep at it, because you know you're doing the right things: eating less and moving more. Maybe add some fiber and protein in your diet to help keep you feel longer (apples, beans, cottage cheese). Also, my scale is mean to me some weeks, like last week, I had a drop, then it went back up and stayed steady for a week! Then finally another drop. Hang in there, the scale will go down.

veganbaum · March 2016

Not really sure what you're looking for, since you say you're eating 1400 and would be hungry all the time on less.

Since you mention Happy Scale, are you weighing every day? If not, you may have missed low days. Even if you are, a two week stall isn't something to be overly concerned about. Keep being consistent for another 2-4 weeks.

Also, why do you say you gain if you eat 200 more calories? Is that just what you see on the scale the next day? Or have you eaten 1600 for a reasonable period of time and you saw a gain? I'm just trying to figure out what you're looking for, because you say you can't eat less than 1400 (and I'm not implying you should try), you say you "gain" on 1600, you say you weigh/measure (which one is it?), that you haven't lost in two weeks (have there been fluctuations?).

I think you may need to check the accuracy of your logging (including double-checking database entries, but we can't see your diary which would help) and be patient.

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