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burtonmegan311
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Currently maintaining
Not very active (desk job)
Calories aloud...ONLY 1300!! Is this right please tell me this cant be right
Not very active (desk job)
Calories aloud...ONLY 1300!! Is this right please tell me this cant be right
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No, it can't be right. Did you set your goal to maintenance? What's your height and weight?0
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burtonmegan311 wrote: »Currently maintaining
Not very active (desk job)
Calories aloud...ONLY 1300!! Is this right please tell me this cant be right
what are your stats? and what did you set MFP to?0 -
How long have you been maintaining your weight?0
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Does that include any exercise?0
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Doesn’t sound right. Did you enter your stats and goal in correctly? You set it to maintain current weight?0
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No way to know if it's right... it's just a formula that spits out an answer based on the info you give it. Did you give it the correct info?
If so, then use it as a starting point... go with it for a few weeks and evaluate how things go, then make small adjustments here or there as necessary.8 -
I'm 5' 5" and if I set mine to not very active and maintain, I get 1600 calories (just for a comparison)0
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Without gender/age/height/current weight there is zero way anybody can start to guess.
Also "allowed."17 -
OP: I’m a woman, 53, 5”3+ and active. Unfortunately lower calorie allotments do occur because my maintenance number is about 1350 cals a day. So It is a possible (even likely) starting point for a short older sedentary woman, but we’d need more stats to tell you if that is likely or if more likely an error.2
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burtonmegan311 wrote: »Currently maintaining
Not very active (desk job)
Calories aloud...ONLY 1300!! Is this right please tell me this cant be right
Doubtful. Most likely user error0 -
I just played with a TDEE calculator and got 1400 for a 35 year-old sedentary female who is 4'10" and currently 100 lbs, so let's just say it's not likely0
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cwolfman13 wrote: »burtonmegan311 wrote: »Currently maintaining
Not very active (desk job)
Calories aloud...ONLY 1300!! Is this right please tell me this cant be right
Doubtful. Most likely user error
All calculators and MFP provide estimates. Real-life results will often require those numbers to be tweaked, though logging errors can often be the culprit.2 -
Im 5'6 1/2 and 43. I am lightly active and have a metabolic disorder. MFP gives me 2200 or more for maintenance. well I am maintaining on 1900 or less.1500+ net calories is what Ive been maintaining on or around/ 1900 gross calories. it says my bmr is in the 1400s. its actually a little over 1200. I figured that out over the last several months of data... if you tell people what your stats are and what it gives you for calories and how much you told it you want to lose someone may be able to help you figure it out.1
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cwolfman13 wrote: »burtonmegan311 wrote: »Currently maintaining
Not very active (desk job)
Calories aloud...ONLY 1300!! Is this right please tell me this cant be right
Doubtful. Most likely user error
All calculators and MFP provide estimates. Real-life results will often require those numbers to be tweaked, though logging errors can often be the culprit.
The poster I responded to must have removed their post, because I didn't write this in response to you, @cwolfman13, and the other post is gone.0 -
burtonmegan311 wrote: »Currently maintaining
Not very active (desk job)
Calories aloud...ONLY 1300!! Is this right please tell me this cant be right
OP, did you tell MFP you wanted to lose weight? Did you tell it you want to lose 2 lbs per week? What is your height and current weight?0 -
Every person is so different. You're really just going to have track it for a while to see what maintenance truly is for you. MFP thinks my maintenance cals are 1550 + exercise. In reality they are 1800 and up to 2300 on days I work out. I'm 34 and only 5'2" and 115 lbs for reference.2
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That's what I can eat a day to lose 1/2 lb a week if I'm completely sedentary. I'm 5'5", 150 lbs, 40yo.1
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as others have said, depends on your stats.
But as a comparison I am 54 years old, 163 cm ( bit over 5 ft 3 in) and am lightly active and maintaining a weight of 62 kg (136 lb) - and my maitenance calories is 1710
That is my net calories.
Unless you are significantly older, smaller, less active than me - is hard to see yours being as low as 1300
but please post your stats so we can assess more accurately.0 -
burtonmegan311 wrote: »Currently maintaining
Not very active (desk job)
Calories aloud...ONLY 1300!! Is this right please tell me this cant be right
whats your weight, height and age?0 -
I'm 59, 5'10" and maintain at 1230 NET (I eat a few hundred calories more a day and use an apple watch to measure activity). It's a habit. I'm never hungry and eat if I am.1
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