Seriously confused!!HELP

You also need a deficit of 3500 calories to lose a pound. So if you're maintenance calories truly are 2800 and you're eating 1200 calories, that puts you at a deficit of 1600 calories daily. (11,200 weekly) This would put you at a rate loss of 3.2 pounds per week. That's the basic math of it.

I am of the thought process that 1200 calories is way too low and a 3lb/week loss is a tad too aggressive, but everyone has different views on that side of it,

Your body doesn't respond that quickly; you don't necessarily see the effects of yesterday's deficit today. You need to be patient. I tend to see the results of changes I make within about a week or so. Plus, you need to keep in mind that there are ton of factors that influence your weight from day to day, and many of them aren't really under your control (hydration, water retention from exercise, water retention from sodium intake, TOM, etc.)

How did you find 2800 as your maintenance calories? That's SUPER high for a woman, unless you're incredibly active or have a very high starting weight. I'd be very surprised if your maintenance really were 2800, so even if you do eat 1200 calories, that doesn't mean that you are creating a 1600-calorie deficit every single day.

Finally, how certain are you that you're actually eating 1200? Are you using a food scale?

TMK0214 wrote: »

cerise_noir wrote: »

TMK0214 wrote: »

amanda_deanne wrote: »

You also need a deficit of 3500 calories to lose a pound. So if you're maintenance calories truly are 2800 and you're eating 1200 calories, that puts you at a deficit of 1600 calories daily. (11,200 weekly) This would put you at a rate loss of 3.2 pounds per week. That's the basic math of it.

I am of the thought process that 1200 calories is way too low and a 3lb/week loss is a tad too aggressive, but everyone has different views on that side of it,

According to the website that calculated my tdee I'm supposed to eat 3200 calories if I want to maintain my weight. But 2800 is what it says on MFP. I have since changed it down to 1200 since you can put in your custom calorie goal.

What does mfp give you to maintain and what do those calculators say your TDEE is?

To lose 2lbs a week, you must eat 1000 below your daily TDEE every day for a week (but of course, weight loss is not linear).

1200 is far, far too low...

Tdee is 3200, but I put that I only exercise 1-2 times a week, so it should actually be a little bit higher since I work out 6 days a week. And MFP game me about 2800 I don't remember the EXACT number since I have changed it. It doesn't really matter to me how much I lose a week as long as I'm losing, I was just curious

If your TDEE is ~3200 and mfp gave you maintenance calories of 2800 this is because mfp is calculated without exercise. You can lose 2lb per week easy, so...if your TDEE is 3200, you can eat 2200 (or select 2lb per week loss with mpf and add exercise calories. You can either halve your exercise calorie burn and add that number to your exercise diary, or add the number mfp gives you but only eat half of those exercise calories. I personally just add half my burned calories so that I can eat them back).

I would not recommend losing more than 2lb per week.

If you are 300lbs then you should lose weight easily but it will not be linear.

Also, any scale you can buy to keep in your bathroom is not accurate enough to measure the fractions of a pound you might be losing each day.

it does not matter if your scale offers a readout to three decimal places. Those decimal places are essentially *meaningless* because no consumer-quality scale is that accurate and/or precise.

And even if scales were good enough to capture that small a difference? IT's still meaningless in the context of biology, because weight fluctuates more than that amount across a day. A small amount of retained water, your guts moving faster or slower on a given day - and you've got a difference.

Ever wonder why doctors scales don't measure anything smaller than whole pounds? Because fractions of pounds are statistically meaningless in tracking adult weight.

OP, I really hope you take what I'm about to say to heart and not get super-defensive or anything: stop trying to game the system. It just about never works out well.

Input your data into either MFP or a TDEE calculator. Input it accurately - don't say you're lightly active (2 days of exercise) if you're highly active (6 days of exercise). Input your age, height, and weight as accurately as possible. Don't worry about whatever fluctuations you may see in weight - step on a scale after going #1 and/or #2 in the morning and use whatever number it gives you. It's a starting point. Follow the plan you're given correctly for a month. Reevaluate at that point in time.

Just for funsies: I'd be willing to bet - if what you've said here and in other threads is accurate - that you'd lose a good amount of weight at around 2000 Calories. That does not mean to just willy-nilly make your Calorie goal 2000 because I said so. Because that's not what I'm saying to do. I'm simply saying that - if you do things correctly, and with a 2 lb per week goal, which seems appropriate for now - your goal will end up around 2000.

TMK0214 wrote: »

singingflutelady wrote: »

You just posted on another thread that you have lost 17 lbs in 2 wees which is more than a lbs a day. 1200 is way too low for you.

Well but that's probably mostly water weight and I'm also really heavy so I'll lose weight faster, at the beginning at least.

Yes I know but why post complaining you haven't lost a lbs a day when you lost more than that

TMK0214 wrote: »

amanda_deanne wrote: »

You also need a deficit of 3500 calories to lose a pound. So if you're maintenance calories truly are 2800 and you're eating 1200 calories, that puts you at a deficit of 1600 calories daily. (11,200 weekly) This would put you at a rate loss of 3.2 pounds per week. That's the basic math of it.

I am of the thought process that 1200 calories is way too low and a 3lb/week loss is a tad too aggressive, but everyone has different views on that side of it,

According to the website that calculated my tdee I'm supposed to eat 3200 calories if I want to maintain my weight. But 2800 is what it says on MFP. I have since changed it down to 1200 since you can put in your custom calorie goal.

MFP uses NEAT, not TDEE.

Why over-complicate things? Just enter your stats into MFP, pick a weekly weight loss goal of 2 pounds per week, and eat those calories.

At 5'11" and 300 pounds you need way more than 1200 calories per day to insure adequate nutrition. I'd hate to see you posting here in a few months because your hair has started falling out.

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