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CharlotteX167
CharlotteX167 Posts: 5 Member
edited November 23 in Introduce Yourself
My metabolism burns roughly about 1580 cals a day. How much calories should I eat a day and how many calories do I need to burn (treadmill) to lose about 2 pounds a week

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  • DaintyWhisper
    DaintyWhisper Posts: 221 Member
    edited January 2018
    How many calories does MFP give you when you put your information in? You will put in your height, staring weight, goal weight and how many pounds per week you want to lose. It will give you a set amount of calories you need to eat in order to achieve your goal. Try starting with that! It's usually pretty accurate.
  • Jingsi84
    Jingsi84 Posts: 126 Member
    If you want to lose 2 pounds per week you need to create of deficit of 1000 calories per day. It doesn’t matter if you eat less or work out more. MFP recommends you eat at least 1200 calories per day, however, so you would have to make up the rest of your deficit by working out. Also when you say “metabolism” it isn’t clear if you are talking about your BMR. To figure out how many calories you burn per day, you need to figure out your TDEE. Then calculate your deficit based on your TDEE.
  • CharlotteX167
    CharlotteX167 Posts: 5 Member
    DaintyWhisper wrote: »
    How many calories does MFP give you when you put your information in? You will put in your height, staring weight, goal weight and how many pounds per week you want to lose. It will give you a set amount of calories you need to eat in order to achieve your goal. Try starting with that! It's usually pretty accurate.

    1200 but I'm wondering how many calories should I burn a day on treadmill
  • CharlotteX167
    CharlotteX167 Posts: 5 Member
    Jingsi84 wrote: »
    If you want to lose 2 pounds per week you need to create of deficit of 1000 calories per day. It doesn’t matter if you eat less or work out more. MFP recommends you eat at least 1200 calories per day, however, so you would have to make up the rest of your deficit by working out. Also when you say “metabolism” it isn’t clear if you are talking about your BMR. To figure out how many calories you burn per day, you need to figure out your TDEE. Then calculate your deficit based on your TDEE.

    So I would have to burn 800 cals on treadmill?
  • AB2SS
    AB2SS Posts: 2 Member
    Why isn't Fitbit Aria scale supported anymore?????
  • CharlotteX167
    CharlotteX167 Posts: 5 Member
    AB2SS wrote: »
    Why isn't Fitbit Aria scale supported anymore?????

    Wrong thread don't know what your on about!
  • ladyhusker39
    ladyhusker39 Posts: 1,406 Member
    According to your numbers you've got 380 w/o exercise. You need 1000 to lose 2 lbs/wk. So that 620 you'd need to get from additional activity.
  • DaintyWhisper
    DaintyWhisper Posts: 221 Member
    edited January 2018
    You were given 1200 calories and that is including the deficit you need to lose weight. Even if you don't exercise, you will lose weight eating 1200 calories. What is your maintain weight? 1580? 1200 calories is the lowest MFP will give you no matter what. 2 pounds a week may be a bit aggressive, depending on your current weight. You're meant to eat back exercise calories and still be over 1200.
  • jennybearlv
    jennybearlv Posts: 1,519 Member
    You could make life easier and just follow the MFP program. Eat 1200 calories plus some or all of what you burn through exercise. Since you are at the default low for calories you will likely lose less than 2 pounds a week.
  • manderson27
    manderson27 Posts: 3,510 Member
    Just eat the 1200 MFP gives you it already has the deficit built in. If you do some exercise enter it and MFP will add the approximate amount of calories you have burned (It may be a bit overestimated) so you can eat some of them back to keep you around 1200.

    But don't go under 1200 as that is not healthy or sustainable.
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