Calorie adjustment
cnjg420
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I gained 2 pounds in 3 months how should i adjust my calories
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What are you trying to get your weight to do?1
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2 pounds in 3 months is nothing1
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K, you’re basically doing that, then. Our weight can fluctuate up to five pounds in one DAY; two pounds in three months is statistically insignificant. Keep an eye on it, sure, and be aware of how often you indulge on high-calorie meals, but I don’t see how this calls for any real adjustment right now.1
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I gained 2 pounds in 3 months how should i adjust my calories
If you actually gained that - and I share others' belief that it could be random fluctuation, not gain at all - the calorie adjustment would be approximately 78 calories daily . . . which is easily within the expected range of error for daily calorie estimates.
Calculation: 3500 calories in a pound times 2 pounds = 7000 calories above maintenance. 7000 calories divided by roughly 90 days in 3 months is about 78 calories per day.
I'd suggest suggest setting a maintenance weight range, not just a single goal weight, weighing regularly, using a trending app, . . and worrying less. Seriously.5 -
Try giving a 5-10% margin of error on your logging and see how that goes. It does depend on what you're eating but pre-prepared meals, packets and so on have a margin of error in the amount by weight, that is never under the stated amount, but can be up to 10% over.
Then there's the stuff we can forget, or not log accurately, oils, condiments, etc.
Saying that 2lbs sound like natural fluctuation, although maybe try weighing yourself daily for a couple of weeks and see what the average is if you're concerned.0 -
2lbs can be a fluctuation, if it still hangs around in another few weeks you can adjust your intake down slightly.0
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BitofaState wrote: »Try giving a 5-10% margin of error on your logging and see how that goes. It does depend on what you're eating but pre-prepared meals, packets and so on have a margin of error in the amount by weight, that is never under the stated amount, but can be up to 10% over.
Then there's the stuff we can forget, or not log accurately, oils, condiments, etc.
Saying that 2lbs sound like natural fluctuation, although maybe try weighing yourself daily for a couple of weeks and see what the average is if you're concerned.
Don't agree with this quite often I have gone to weigh a portion of something out which is supposed to serve two and it has had less then the stated portion in the pack -_- it's really annoying eg a pack of pre made rice supposedly contained 2 125g portions I weighed 125g out then weighed what was left and it was only 110 alot of packages take the weight of the packet into account0
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