Can somebody review my diary/diet?

iFatZilla
iFatZilla Posts: 5 Member
edited December 4 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi,

I'm new to MFP, and I'm looking for somebody to review my diary/diet. MFP has given me 1290 calories per day. I first figured that this is too low, but maybe I'm wrong. I will list my current weight and goal weight below and my workout routine and would like your opinions as to whether this is the way forward for me.

Workout: 3 day split
Height: 5'10
CW: 90.9kg
GW:70KG

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  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    You're a 23yo male. You need to eat way more than that. Change your goal to 1 lb a week.

    Also, be more precise in your diary - eggs are usually 70 calories, not 50 (medium? large?) and 'chicken breast' is way too vague, as they can go from 5oz to 10oz easily.
  • RAinWA
    RAinWA Posts: 1,980 Member
    Yikes that's a really low calorie goal! Double check your entries in the set-up and make sure they are right (my home/goals/view guided set-up). I didn't think MFP would go below 1500 calories for a male (but could be wrong).
  • iFatZilla
    iFatZilla Posts: 5 Member
    Francl27 wrote: »
    You're a 23yo male. You need to eat way more than that. Change your goal to 1 lb a week.

    Also, be more precise in your diary - eggs are usually 70 calories, not 50 (medium? large?) and 'chicken breast' is way too vague, as they can go from 5oz to 10oz easily.

    Thanks for the advice. The eggs are 45g(medium I think). I don't currently have a food scale to weigh all my food, nor do I know how to use one(probably embarrassing).
  • iFatZilla
    iFatZilla Posts: 5 Member
    RAinWA wrote: »
    Yikes that's a really low calorie goal! Double check your entries in the set-up and make sure they are right (my home/goals/view guided set-up). I didn't think MFP would go below 1500 calories for a male (but could be wrong).

    I put sedentary and it gave me 1290, I'm not sure whether it's a bug, but sedentary is an understatement for me. Perhaps I should just give it a go and see if I lose more than expected and adjust if I lose more than expected?
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    You may have found a glitch in the system. This is a commonality that has been seen..

    Lowest is 1500. Get you a food scale if you want to be as accurate and on point with you calorie intake, this is the only way to know that what you are consuming and staying within your calorie deficit.
  • iFatZilla
    iFatZilla Posts: 5 Member
    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    You may have found a glitch in the system. This is a commonality that has been seen..

    Lowest is 1500. Get you a food scale if you want to be as accurate and on point with you calorie intake, this is the only way to know that what you are consuming and staying within your calorie deficit.

    Okay is there a particular scale that works best? Is there a guide on how to use them?
  • RAinWA
    RAinWA Posts: 1,980 Member
    iFatZilla wrote: »
    RAinWA wrote: »
    Yikes that's a really low calorie goal! Double check your entries in the set-up and make sure they are right (my home/goals/view guided set-up). I didn't think MFP would go below 1500 calories for a male (but could be wrong).

    I put sedentary and it gave me 1290, I'm not sure whether it's a bug, but sedentary is an understatement for me. Perhaps I should just give it a go and see if I lose more than expected and adjust if I lose more than expected?

    I suspect that's a bug. I don't have the links here at work, but I'm sure someone will have them for sites where you can calculate your calories needed per day. As a general rule males shouldn't go below 1500 and at your age and size you can probably lose on quite a bit more. The problem with eating so little is that it's hard to get all the nutrients you need, not to mention that you probably would be very hungry on that few calories.
  • iFatZilla
    iFatZilla Posts: 5 Member
    RAinWA wrote: »
    iFatZilla wrote: »
    RAinWA wrote: »
    Yikes that's a really low calorie goal! Double check your entries in the set-up and make sure they are right (my home/goals/view guided set-up). I didn't think MFP would go below 1500 calories for a male (but could be wrong).

    I put sedentary and it gave me 1290, I'm not sure whether it's a bug, but sedentary is an understatement for me. Perhaps I should just give it a go and see if I lose more than expected and adjust if I lose more than expected?

    I suspect that's a bug. I don't have the links here at work, but I'm sure someone will have them for sites where you can calculate your calories needed per day. As a general rule males shouldn't go below 1500 and at your age and size you can probably lose on quite a bit more. The problem with eating so little is that it's hard to get all the nutrients you need, not to mention that you probably would be very hungry on that few calories.

    Okay I will up my intake to 1500. Thanks for the advice.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    edited October 2016
    iFatZilla wrote: »
    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    You may have found a glitch in the system. This is a commonality that has been seen..

    Lowest is 1500. Get you a food scale if you want to be as accurate and on point with you calorie intake, this is the only way to know that what you are consuming and staying within your calorie deficit.

    Okay is there a particular scale that works best? Is there a guide on how to use them?

    I bought a $20.00 food scale (brand Ozeri) off Amazon.

    http://fit101.org/the-step-by-step-guide-to-losing-weight-with-myfitnesspal/

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1296011/calorie-counting-101/p1
  • not_my_first_rodeo
    not_my_first_rodeo Posts: 311 Member
    I asked about food scales in another thread. The one I have has a tare function (so if you put a container on the scale, you can 0 out the weight of the container and just weigh your food).
  • GothamVeggie
    GothamVeggie Posts: 87 Member
    Re: the scale:

    1. If you cook something with multiple portions, weigh each of the ingredients & create a recipe for the entire thing. Then, weigh the whole thing once cooked & include the number of ounces (or grams in your case) as the number of servings. When you eat a portion, just weigh it & include the number of ounces/grams you are eating. For example: I made a healthy Eggplant Rollatini dish to use during the week. I weighed & inputted each ingredient into MFP. Once it came out of the oven, I weighed it & found it to be 24 ounces so I updated the recipe to say it was 24 servings which equaled 42 calories per serving. Then, I entered the number of Eggplant Rollatini ounces I ate for each meal. First day was 8.1 ounces (340.2 calories). This makes it much easier to be precise.

    2. Weigh everything except liquids.

    3. If you are mixing things together, you can keep on using the tare function over and over. For example: This morning, I made a smoothie. I used a half a cup of yogurt & put the yogurt in the blender...& put it on the scale. I hit tare to zero out the weight. Then, I added in strawberries & noted the weight in MFP. Then, I hit tare again to weigh the baby kale.
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