Changing daily calorie goal without changing activity level

kiddosmama2012
kiddosmama2012 Posts: 10 Member
edited November 26 in Getting Started
According to my scale, I need about the same amount of calories to maintain as what my current daily goal is. How can I adjust my daily calorie number goal without changing my fitness level?

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  • steveko89
    steveko89 Posts: 2,223 Member
    Largely, "smart" scales that claim to measure things like calories, water content, and body fat are woefully inaccurate.

    Have you been losing, gaining, or maintaining using your current calories from MFP? That will be a better indicator if you need adjust your intake, provided your logging is complete and accurate.
  • CarvedTones
    CarvedTones Posts: 2,340 Member
    When you adjust by hand, fitness level becomes irrelevant. If you adjust fitness level, it will override the setting you adjusted by hand. So if you change your mind, set fitness level to something else then change it back.
  • kiddosmama2012
    kiddosmama2012 Posts: 10 Member
    steveko89 wrote: »
    Largely, "smart" scales that claim to measure things like calories, water content, and body fat are woefully inaccurate.

    Have you been losing, gaining, or maintaining using your current calories from MFP? That will be a better indicator if you need adjust your intake, provided your logging is complete and accurate.

    Thanks. I chose the scale largely in part because of the reviews say how accurate the numbers were, but it would be good to remember it's all subject. I am losing weight, but it seems to have slowed a bit and I thought maybe with my weight loss I needed to cut calories down from the original number.

    Thanks for the responses!
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    kiddosmama2012 wrote: »
    steveko89 wrote: »
    Largely, "smart" scales that claim to measure things like calories, water content, and body fat are woefully inaccurate.

    Have you been losing, gaining, or maintaining using your current calories from MFP? That will be a better indicator if you need adjust your intake, provided your logging is complete and accurate.

    Thanks. I chose the scale largely in part because of the reviews say how accurate the numbers were, but it would be good to remember it's all subject. I am losing weight, but it seems to have slowed a bit and I thought maybe with my weight loss I needed to cut calories down from the original number.

    Thanks for the responses!

    Well, if your workout intensity has stayed the same, and you move just as much for daily activity - yes your daily calories would have to lower to keep losing weight at same rate.
    You are moving less weight around all day long - you burn less.

    Now, normally it's better to purposely make sure you are losing slower when closer to goal weight, rather than body adapting and forcing it on you, which is more stressful to body.

    But if original number was over 10 lbs ago, yes it should have lowered a decent amount.
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