Low Calories
krystenmlee34
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Good Morning. I am new and I was given 1290 calories daily in order to lose the 60 lbs I want to lose with a weight loss of 1 lb per week. Is it me or is that # pretty low considering the calories should slowly go down to complete my weight loss. I am 5'1" 175 lbs.
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krystenmlee34 wrote: »Good Morning. I am new and I was given 1290 calories daily in order to lose the 60 lbs I want to lose with a weight loss of 1 lb per week. Is it me or is that # pretty low considering the calories should slowly go down to complete my weight loss. I am 5'1" 175 lbs.
That would mean that your estimated non exercise maintenance calories are around 1,790 which sounds about right. If you exercise, you can eat more.
1 Lb per week is a 500 calorie deficit from maintenance.2 -
I have been exercising and burning up to 700 during my exercises. I have NOT been eating past 1300 along with the exercises. Should I eat back at least half the 700 burned?1
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cwolfman13 wrote: »krystenmlee34 wrote: »Good Morning. I am new and I was given 1290 calories daily in order to lose the 60 lbs I want to lose with a weight loss of 1 lb per week. Is it me or is that # pretty low considering the calories should slowly go down to complete my weight loss. I am 5'1" 175 lbs.
That would mean that your estimated non exercise maintenance calories are around 1,790 which sounds about right. If you exercise, you can eat more.
1 Lb per week is a 500 calorie deficit from maintenance.
I have been exercising and burning up to 700 during my exercises. I have NOT been eating past 1300 along with the exercises. Should I eat back at least half the 700 burned?0 -
krystenmlee34 wrote: »I have been exercising and burning up to 700 during my exercises. I have NOT been eating past 1300 along with the exercises. Should I eat back at least half the 700 burned?
MFP is designed for you to eat back exercise calories because exercise is not included in your activity level and is therefore unaccounted for activity. How many calories you eat back would depend on how accurate your estimate of calorie expenditure is.
If you actually are burning 700 calories and only eating 1300, that's pretty much the same thing as just eating 600 calories per day which would be really unhealthy.
What are you doing that you're getting 700 calorie burns? I mostly cycle and would burn that with about a 20 mile ride out on the road.3 -
MFP gives you your calorie goal expecting you to log your exercise and eat back at least some of those calories. I would start off eating back half and see how it goes, as calorie burns can sometimes be inflated.3
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krystenmlee34 wrote: »I have been exercising and burning up to 700 during my exercises. I have NOT been eating past 1300 along with the exercises. Should I eat back at least half the 700 burned?
How are you calculating this? That's quite high so before advising how many calories to add for exercise this information would be helpful.0 -
I use a heart monitor with a chest strap and I still don’t fully trust what I see as my calories burned after exercise BUT I feel it’s much closer than what the equipment says usually. If I ate just my BRM, it would be around 1250ish. Even though there are days that I struggle to eat over 1200, I push to eat more so that my body doesn’t store it (personal experience). You might try zig zagging your calories to keep your body guessing, add some higher calorie days with a couple of lower calorie days. Good Luck!7
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krystenmlee34 wrote: »Good Morning. I am new and I was given 1290 calories daily in order to lose the 60 lbs I want to lose with a weight loss of 1 lb per week. Is it me or is that # pretty low considering the calories should slowly go down to complete my weight loss. I am 5'1" 175 lbs.
5'1" is on the petite side, so you won't get a very big number. However, this number is before exercise.
You are expected to eat exercise calories back BUT keep in mind calorie burns are estimates. Many people start by eating back 50% and then adjust that number up or down based on several weeks of actual results.2 -
Hi, I'm 5'1" and my starting weight was 204. I am sedentary and have an office job so without exercise, I was also given 1200 calories a day to eat. If I stick to my calorie goal (with no exercise), I will lose about a pound per week. I've been doing this for a little over a year and have lost 47 pounds. If I do exercise, I only eat back about half of what I burn.4
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cwolfman13 wrote: »krystenmlee34 wrote: »I have been exercising and burning up to 700 during my exercises. I have NOT been eating past 1300 along with the exercises. Should I eat back at least half the 700 burned?
MFP is designed for you to eat back exercise calories because exercise is not included in your activity level and is therefore unaccounted for activity. How many calories you eat back would depend on how accurate your estimate of calorie expenditure is.
If you actually are burning 700 calories and only eating 1300, that's pretty much the same thing as just eating 600 calories per day which would be really unhealthy.
What are you doing that you're getting 700 calorie burns? I mostly cycle and would burn that with about a 20 mile ride out on the road.
I have been doing an hour class at the gym a few times a week. I purchased a fit bit and it tells me all the calories I Have burned. I do think at times it OVER gives calories in my opinion. I am not sure how accurate these are.0 -
krystenmlee34 wrote: »I have been exercising and burning up to 700 during my exercises. I have NOT been eating past 1300 along with the exercises. Should I eat back at least half the 700 burned?
How are you calculating this? That's quite high so before advising how many calories to add for exercise this information would be helpful.
I am going off what my fitbit relays back to MFP0 -
I use a heart monitor with a chest strap and I still don’t fully trust what I see as my calories burned after exercise BUT I feel it’s much closer than what the equipment says usually. If I ate just my BRM, it would be around 1250ish. Even though there are days that I struggle to eat over 1200, I push to eat more so that my body doesn’t store it (personal experience). You might try zig zagging your calories to keep your body guessing, add some higher calorie days with a couple of lower calorie days. Good Luck!
Do you feel the 1290 is accurate before calories burned?0 -
Iamnotasenior wrote: »Hi, I'm 5'1" and my starting weight was 204. I am sedentary and have an office job so without exercise, I was also given 1200 calories a day to eat. If I stick to my calorie goal (with no exercise), I will lose about a pound per week. I've been doing this for a little over a year and have lost 47 pounds. If I do exercise, I only eat back about half of what I burn.
That sounds about right and a great response. Thank you!0 -
krystenmlee34 wrote: »I use a heart monitor with a chest strap and I still don’t fully trust what I see as my calories burned after exercise BUT I feel it’s much closer than what the equipment says usually. If I ate just my BRM, it would be around 1250ish. Even though there are days that I struggle to eat over 1200, I push to eat more so that my body doesn’t store it (personal experience). You might try zig zagging your calories to keep your body guessing, add some higher calorie days with a couple of lower calorie days. Good Luck!
Do you feel the 1290 is accurate before calories burned?
There's really no way to tell, except try it and see what happens. All the calculators can do is estimate based on population averages. How many calories you can eat and lose 1 lb per week depends on your height, weight, age, gender, BF%, natural metabolism, day-to-day activity level, how intense your exercise is, for women the specifics of your monthly cycle, as well as how accurately and consistently you log and other stuff I forgot about
. So start with 1300, plus pick a % of your exercise cals to eat, give it 6 weeks, and see what happens. Adjust from there accordingly. Good luck! 4
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