This is stressing me out!!!! Calories for weight loss?

Sparkle097 · February 2019

Ok so I adjusted my calories again. I read some articles online and they all said you shouldn’t lower your calories too much. Before Mfp gave me 1400 calories to lose weight at a rate of 0.2kg per week but apparently that was not enough for my workouts but I did add half of my workout calories.
So today, I looked at a tdee calculator online and i filled everything out, my age, height, weight, gender and days per week exercing. it said I should eat 1600 cals to lose weight and that’s including workout calories. So on activity level I changed it to lightly active which says now i should eat 1600 calories. Before my activity level was set to sedatary level.
I workout 6 days per week. On Monday I do BBG legs and cardio and tue kickboxing wed bbg abs and arms Thursday kickboxing and Friday BBG total body and sat LISS.

So my question is do you think my calories are too high? 1600 calories including workout calories?

dawnymo1 · February 2019

Sparkle097 wrote: »

Ok so I adjusted my calories again. I read some articles online and they all said you shouldn’t lower your calories too much. Before Mfp gave me 1400 calories to lose weight at a rate of 0.2kg per week but apparently that was not enough for my workouts but I did add half of my workout calories.
So today, I looked at a tdee calculator online and i filled everything out, my age, height, weight, gender and days per week exercing. it said I should eat 1600 cals to lose weight and that’s including workout calories. So on activity level I changed it to lightly active which says now i should eat 1600 calories. Before my activity level was set to sedatary level.
I workout 6 days per week. On Monday I do BBG legs and cardio and tue kickboxing wed bbg abs and arms Thursday kickboxing and Friday BBG total body and sat LISS.

So my question is do you think my calories are too high? 1600 calories including workout calories?

I originally was eating 1200- 1350 based on what I put in the app. I changed my loss goal to .5 per week and my calories went up to 1700. I am not eating back my extra calories but hitting 1700 consistently. I dropped two pounds this week …try it but my advice would be to keep the goal the same for a bit so your body can adjust

tinkerbellang83 · February 2019

Sparkle097 wrote: »

Ok so I adjusted my calories again. I read some articles online and they all said you shouldn’t lower your calories too much. Before Mfp gave me 1400 calories to lose weight at a rate of 0.2kg per week but apparently that was not enough for my workouts but I did add half of my workout calories.
So today, I looked at a tdee calculator online and i filled everything out, my age, height, weight, gender and days per week exercing. it said I should eat 1600 cals to lose weight and that’s including workout calories. So on activity level I changed it to lightly active which says now i should eat 1600 calories. Before my activity level was set to sedatary level.
I workout 6 days per week. On Monday I do BBG legs and cardio and tue kickboxing wed bbg abs and arms Thursday kickboxing and Friday BBG total body and sat LISS.

So my question is do you think my calories are too high? 1600 calories including workout calories?

Choose one method and stick with it.

MFP's calorie goal doesn't include exercise so it gave you 1400 and then you're meant to add exercise and eat those calories back, so if you're doing a 200-300 cal workout each day then you'd be eating 1600-1700 calories.

TDEE calorie goals already include your exercise so you would just eat the 1600 and not log any exercise. So if you're using TDEE don't use the guided set up, just change your goal manually and disconnect any tracker you have synced.

Trust the numbers whichever method you choose, log accurately and honestly for 1 month minimum and see what your weight does as an average through that time. Then adjust as needed. No need to overcomplicate it.

vollkornbloedchen · February 2019

Insufficient data ...

But usually you can trust the calories granted to you by MFP, provided that:
1. You didn't cheat with gender, age, height, weight, ...
2. Your activity level is set correctly
3. You don't have any malady inflicting with your metabolism (e.g. hyperthroidism, diabetes, ...)

Anyhow:
The process is a constant "observe and adjust"
If you are losing weight to fast or slow , change the calorie-budget accordingly.
Get to know your body and its needs again and your "weightloss-journey" will be a success.

scarlett_k · February 2019

Only one way to find out really; log your calories as accurately as possible and see if you lose about the weight you expected over several weeks. If not then tweak it.

cmriverside · February 2019

I agree with scarlett_k. 1600 sounds reasonable. Log your food as accurately as you can and stick to 1600 for a couple months. That's the only way to know.

We all have to do this, it's an experiment that relies on you keeping close tabs on food and your weight.

sijomial · February 2019

Doesn't a goal of 1400 + exercise calories or alternatively 1600 including exercise calories sound awfully close to you OP?
(BTW - you do realise that the activity settings and therefore BMR multipliers on TDEE sites and MFP are different I hope?)

Just pick the method of accounting for your exercise that suits you best and do it, after a month or more you will have your own results to validate the numbers and adjust if necessary.

kimny72 · February 2019

Sparkle097 wrote: »

Ok so I adjusted my calories again. I read some articles online and they all said you shouldn’t lower your calories too much. Before Mfp gave me 1400 calories to lose weight at a rate of 0.2kg per week but apparently that was not enough for my workouts but I did add half of my workout calories.
So today, I looked at a tdee calculator online and i filled everything out, my age, height, weight, gender and days per week exercing. it said I should eat 1600 cals to lose weight and that’s including workout calories. So on activity level I changed it to lightly active which says now i should eat 1600 calories. Before my activity level was set to sedatary level.
I workout 6 days per week. On Monday I do BBG legs and cardio and tue kickboxing wed bbg abs and arms Thursday kickboxing and Friday BBG total body and sat LISS.

So my question is do you think my calories are too high? 1600 calories including workout calories?

You need to stop getting nervous every time you read another article and switching plans.

All the calculators are just estimates. There is literally no way to know ahead of time what number is 100% right. The only way to tell is to pick a reasonable goal, log accurately and consistently for 6-8 weeks, and then tweak if your results are too fast or too slow. 1600 sounds reasonable, unless you are very small or large or very active.

atgnat1 · February 2019

How is working out six days a week only lightly active?

tinkerbellang83 · February 2019

atgnat1 wrote: »

How is working out six days a week only lightly active?

Because MFP Activity Level has nothing to do with exercise, it's your Non-Exercise Activity i.e. what you do at work/home/school. Sedentary being a desk job, Lightly Active being someone who spends a little of their day on their feet, etc.

This is stressing me out!!!! Calories for weight loss?

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