This scares me!!!

Sparkle097
Sparkle097 Posts: 83 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Basically my goal is to lose weight. I’m a female, 18, 5.3ft, sedentary activity level and do 3 HIIT and 2 weight training sessions per week. I weight 131 pounds and my goal is 120 pounds.

Mfp gave me a goal of 1200 calories and I burn around 150 cals from my workout per day. So in total I eat 1350 cals per day. I feel like this is gonna slow my metabolism meaning this amount is too low? Should increase my calories?

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  • Sparkle097
    Sparkle097 Posts: 83 Member
    cmriverside wrote: »
    With 10 to lose, set your GOAL to "Lose 1/2 pound per week."

    Be honest on the Activity level.

    If you are going to school, caring for children at home or have ANY kind of job, you are not Sedentary.

    If you make these adjustments you'll be given more calories. When you exercise, add it to the Exercise tab and eat a bit more on those days.


    1300 (or 1200 + exercise cals) is very low, too low for you.

    Explanation here: https://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/en/portal/articles/410332-how-does-myfitnesspal-calculate-my-initial-goals-

    Thank u! I adjusted it, it gave me 1430 calories per day, now I’ll add 50 cals for exercise.
  • middlehaitch
    middlehaitch Posts: 8,488 Member
    50 cals for exercise is way too low. Either use a personal device's estimates, or MFP estimates. (For weight training look in the cardio listing for 'strength training'.

    Be consistent with eating back your
    exercise calories.

    If after 4-6 weeks, of accurate calorie logging & counting, you are not losing at 0.5lbs a week. Drop your exercise cals to 75% across the board and see how you go.

    Cheers, h.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,736 Member
    L1zardQueen wrote: »
    50 calories for exercise? Are you knitting?

    :lol:

    I'm hoping she just made a typo - I mean in the first post she said 150 for exercise.

    Maybe the one got left off.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,736 Member
    L1zardQueen wrote: »
    cmriverside wrote: »
    L1zardQueen wrote: »
    50 calories for exercise? Are you knitting?

    :lol:

    I'm hoping she just made a typo - I mean in the first post she said 150 for exercise.

    Maybe the one got left off.

    When I knit, I burn at least 150 calories. I speed knit. LOL

    I was at the county fair a couple days ago. Some of those crafty ladies are serious! I was joking around with them about tatting...like it took her an entire week of fair-volunteering to do four inches of tatting that was about a half-inch wide.

    Hell no.

    Give me a crafty project I can put some weight into.

    Like house painting.

    At least you get a workout and can actually SEE the results.

    ...without a magnifying glass...
  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
    cmriverside wrote: »
    L1zardQueen wrote: »
    cmriverside wrote: »
    L1zardQueen wrote: »
    50 calories for exercise? Are you knitting?

    :lol:

    I'm hoping she just made a typo - I mean in the first post she said 150 for exercise.

    Maybe the one got left off.

    When I knit, I burn at least 150 calories. I speed knit. LOL

    I was at the county fair a couple days ago. Some of those crafty ladies are serious! I was joking around with them about tatting...like it took her an entire week of fair-volunteering to do four inches of tatting that was about a half-inch wide.

    Hell no.

    Give me a crafty project I can put some weight into.

    Like house painting.

    At least you get a workout and can actually SEE the results.

    ...without a magnifying glass...

    Yep, I don't get tatting either. I love to paint interiors. I have a new house that is NOT painted in the colors I like. It's making me twitchy. LOL
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,889 Member
    1200 calories won't slow your metabolism, but you will be tempted to eat more, and to cheat, and to give up. You can't lose 1 pound per week at your weight anyway, so set it to 1/2 per week and eat those calories.
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