Calorie intake

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turtletricia12
turtletricia12 Posts: 1 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Just wondering why your calorie intake stays the same even when my weight goes down. I have lost 10lbs so far and the amount of calories I can eat are the same as they were on day 1.

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  • pebble4321
    pebble4321 Posts: 1,132 Member
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    I thought MFP automatically recalculated after 10 pounds. I don't usually wait for that though, if you go back to your goals page you can force it to recalculate.
  • sandysilva94
    sandysilva94 Posts: 10 Member
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    How do you recalculate?? Cause ive lost 11 pounds and my calories are the same as well
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
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    pebble4321 wrote: »
    I thought MFP automatically recalculated after 10 pounds. I don't usually wait for that though, if you go back to your goals page you can force it to recalculate.

    Depends if you're already on 1200 cals or not?
  • Josh_lol
    Josh_lol Posts: 317 Member
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    You can either go through the guided setup again and receive a new calorie goal for your current weight or mfp will recommend you to do it after losing so much. I'm not sure how often it recommends it though.
  • lisaseager45
    lisaseager45 Posts: 32 Member
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    Might be a silly question but I take it when you start on 1200 you just carry on with that regardless of weight loss? :)
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,811 Member
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    lisaseager45 wrote: »
    Might be a silly question but I take it when you start on 1200 you just carry on with that regardless of weight loss? :)
    @lisaeager45
    You should be slowing down the rate of weight loss the closer you get to goal weight / the less you have to lose.
    So unless you are tiny then that's unlikely to be 1200.
  • lisaseager45
    lisaseager45 Posts: 32 Member
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    I am tiny! Lol. Thanks
  • pebble4321
    pebble4321 Posts: 1,132 Member
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    TavistockToad wrote: »
    pebble4321 wrote: »
    I thought MFP automatically recalculated after 10 pounds. I don't usually wait for that though, if you go back to your goals page you can force it to recalculate.

    Depends if you're already on 1200 cals or not?

    Yup, good point, it's not going to go any lower than that.

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