Calorie
Yakker04
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Is it 3500 over your calorie intake for example if I'm on 2100 and go over 3000 that is that when I will put on weight or is it 3000 calories all up
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I don't really understand your question, are you trying to lose or add weight?
3500 calories = 1lb. 3500 calories extra will mean a 1lb gain. 3500 calories less will mean a 1lb loss.
Has MFP given you 2100 calories per day? What did you set as your goals?
Sorry but you need to give a bit more information before anyone can help you 👍0 -
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3500 calories over maintenance. Doesn't matter whether it's in one go (eating 5600 cals in one day) or eating 2600 calories every day for a week.4
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3500 over your actual calorie burn would technically mean 1lb weight gain. So if you are 3,500 over every day, you’ll gain 7lb in a week. If you ate 500 cal over every day (500*7=3500) then you’d gain 1lb per week, likely fat unless you are strength training.
This is ‘over’ your actual calorie burn, not a fictional number you have created for yourself. If you set your MFP by instructing it to maintain your weight then it would be over and above the number of calories it gives you per day and assumes you also eat back any exercise calories burnt before the +3,500 starts to come into play.1 -
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sarabushby wrote: »3500 over your actual calorie burn would technically mean 1lb weight gain. So if you are 3,500 over every day, you’ll gain 7lb in a week. If you ate 500 cal over every day (500*7=3500) then you’d gain 1lb per week, likely fat unless you are strength training.
This is ‘over’ your actual calorie burn, not a fictional number you have created for yourself. If you set your MFP by instructing it to maintain your weight then it would be over and above the number of calories it gives you per day and assumes you also eat back any exercise calories burnt before the +3,500 starts to come into play.
Ok that helps thank you yes it gives me 2700 not including all my excercise I do i changed it to 2100. So the 3500 doesn't start til after the 2700 and the excercise calories is this right and I only go way over once a week the rest of week under but that includes the extra calories for excercise
Your maintenance calories on MFP should be a net figure (calories plus exercise) as you should eat back exercise calories.0 -
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TavistockToad wrote: »sarabushby wrote: »3500 over your actual calorie burn would technically mean 1lb weight gain. So if you are 3,500 over every day, you’ll gain 7lb in a week. If you ate 500 cal over every day (500*7=3500) then you’d gain 1lb per week, likely fat unless you are strength training.
This is ‘over’ your actual calorie burn, not a fictional number you have created for yourself. If you set your MFP by instructing it to maintain your weight then it would be over and above the number of calories it gives you per day and assumes you also eat back any exercise calories burnt before the +3,500 starts to come into play.
Ok that helps thank you yes it gives me 2700 not including all my excercise I do i changed it to 2100. So the 3500 doesn't start til after the 2700 and the excercise calories is this right and I only go way over once a week the rest of week under but that includes the extra calories for excercise
Your maintenance calories on MFP should be a net figure (calories plus exercise) as you should eat back exercise calories.
In that case I should be eating 3000 plus
If your calorie burn is accurate, yes.1 -
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So... you entered all your information into MFP, it calculated you the calorie intake for you to maintain weight, and you ignored it and set a much lower goal - why, exactly?1
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So... you entered all your information into MFP, it calculated you the calorie intake for you to maintain weight, and you ignored it and set a much lower goal - why, exactly?
Cause I don't want to put on weight I've worked to hard to put it back on. I've also been told not to eat the calories it gives me for excercise as it's inaccurate but also been told to eat them so i don't know. 2 nutritionist have told me its inaccurate
So maybe increase your daily intake by 100 or so, watch your scale weight with a trend app to assure yourself you're still losing slowly (it will take a longer time to be sure, with each calorie add), then add another 100 if still losing, and keep repeating until your weight stabilizes.
The worst that can happen this way isn't horrifying: If you exceed your true (not necessarily calculator-estimated) TDEE by 100 calories daily, it'll take more than a month to gain a pound. You know how to lose a pound.
If you do this "gradual add" method, you'll lose a small number of additional pounds. That will create a buffer.
Generally, maintenance is a range of weights (because of daily fluctuations), not a single number. The "gradual add" method, as long as you don't do it too slowly, will put you at the bottom of your maintenance weight range. That's the buffer you will've created.
Your current loss rate, over a period of weeks, is a good guide to how many more calories you need to add to maintain weight (assuming you've logged carefully). It's a better guide than any so-called calculator.
If you've been losing 2 pounds a month at your current calorie level, you can eat around 250 calories more to maintain. (0.5 pounds per week = 0.5 x 3500 = 1750 weekly calorie deficit; divide by 7 to get 250 daily).
If your estimated current deficit based on your loss rate is high (>500 calories, say), and you want to do the "gradual add" method, add a couple of hundred daily to start.
Best wishes!1 -
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So... you entered all your information into MFP, it calculated you the calorie intake for you to maintain weight, and you ignored it and set a much lower goal - why, exactly?
Cause I don't want to put on weight I've worked to hard to put it back on. I've also been told not to eat the calories it gives me for excercise as it's inaccurate but also been told to eat them so i don't know. 2 nutritionist have told me its inaccurate
So maybe increase your daily intake by 100 or so, watch your scale weight with a trend app to assure yourself you're still losing slowly (it will take a longer time to be sure, with each calorie add), then add another 100 if still losing, and keep repeating until your weight stabilizes.
The worst that can happen this way isn't horrifying: If you exceed your true (not necessarily calculator-estimated) TDEE by 100 calories daily, it'll take more than a month to gain a pound. You know how to lose a pound.
If you do this "gradual add" method, you'll lose a small number of additional pounds. That will create a buffer.
Generally, maintenance is a range of weights (because of daily fluctuations), not a single number. The "gradual add" method, as long as you don't do it too slowly, will put you at the bottom of your maintenance weight range. That's the buffer you will've created.
Your current loss rate, over a period of weeks, is a good guide to how many more calories you need to add to maintain weight (assuming you've logged carefully). It's a better guide than any so-called calculator.
If you've been losing 2 pounds a month at your current calorie level, you can eat around 250 calories more to maintain. (0.5 pounds per week = 0.5 x 3500 = 1750 weekly calorie deficit; divide by 7 to get 250 daily).
If your estimated current deficit based on your loss rate is high (>500 calories, say), and you want to do the "gradual add" method, add a couple of hundred daily to start.
Best wishes!
Ok this is way over my head im confused. I just want to know the answer to my question is it 3500 calories over after the excercise calories or just 3500 calories all up which will put on weight
3500 calories over your maintenance calories. You have to include exercise in your TDEE (maintenance calories)
With my BMR, regular daily activity, and my exercise, I maintain on about 3,000 calories. If I eat over that amount consistently, I will gain weight. If my surplus calories add up to 3,500 calories I will gain about 1 Lb of fat...this could be in a day, over the course of a week, over the course of two weeks, a month, etc.0 -
So... you entered all your information into MFP, it calculated you the calorie intake for you to maintain weight, and you ignored it and set a much lower goal - why, exactly?
Cause I don't want to put on weight I've worked to hard to put it back on. I've also been told not to eat the calories it gives me for excercise as it's inaccurate but also been told to eat them so i don't know. 2 nutritionist have told me its inaccurate
So maybe increase your daily intake by 100 or so, watch your scale weight with a trend app to assure yourself you're still losing slowly (it will take a longer time to be sure, with each calorie add), then add another 100 if still losing, and keep repeating until your weight stabilizes.
The worst that can happen this way isn't horrifying: If you exceed your true (not necessarily calculator-estimated) TDEE by 100 calories daily, it'll take more than a month to gain a pound. You know how to lose a pound.
If you do this "gradual add" method, you'll lose a small number of additional pounds. That will create a buffer.
Generally, maintenance is a range of weights (because of daily fluctuations), not a single number. The "gradual add" method, as long as you don't do it too slowly, will put you at the bottom of your maintenance weight range. That's the buffer you will've created.
Your current loss rate, over a period of weeks, is a good guide to how many more calories you need to add to maintain weight (assuming you've logged carefully). It's a better guide than any so-called calculator.
If you've been losing 2 pounds a month at your current calorie level, you can eat around 250 calories more to maintain. (0.5 pounds per week = 0.5 x 3500 = 1750 weekly calorie deficit; divide by 7 to get 250 daily).
If your estimated current deficit based on your loss rate is high (>500 calories, say), and you want to do the "gradual add" method, add a couple of hundred daily to start.
Best wishes!
Ok this is way over my head im confused. I just want to know the answer to my question is it 3500 calories over after the excercise calories or just 3500 calories all up which will put on weight
If you consistently eat any amount of calories over your net maintenance (calories plus exercise calories), you will gain weight.
When you have eaten 3500 calories over your net maintenance, you will put on 1 lb (roughly speaking; real life is a bit messier). So if you eat 1750 calories over your net maintenance every day, you will gain 1 lb every two days. If you eat 100 calories over your maintenace every day, you’ll gain about 1 lb every month.
And it goes the other way around, too; if you eat 500 calories under your net maintenance every day, you’ll lose 1 lb a week.
Based on the numbers you’ve given, you’re currently eating somewhere around 750 calories under your net maintenance (since you’re doing exercise and not counting it). Are you currently losing about 1 1/2 lb per week?3 -
So... you entered all your information into MFP, it calculated you the calorie intake for you to maintain weight, and you ignored it and set a much lower goal - why, exactly?
Cause I don't want to put on weight I've worked to hard to put it back on. I've also been told not to eat the calories it gives me for excercise as it's inaccurate but also been told to eat them so i don't know. 2 nutritionist have told me its inaccurate
So maybe increase your daily intake by 100 or so, watch your scale weight with a trend app to assure yourself you're still losing slowly (it will take a longer time to be sure, with each calorie add), then add another 100 if still losing, and keep repeating until your weight stabilizes.
The worst that can happen this way isn't horrifying: If you exceed your true (not necessarily calculator-estimated) TDEE by 100 calories daily, it'll take more than a month to gain a pound. You know how to lose a pound.
If you do this "gradual add" method, you'll lose a small number of additional pounds. That will create a buffer.
Generally, maintenance is a range of weights (because of daily fluctuations), not a single number. The "gradual add" method, as long as you don't do it too slowly, will put you at the bottom of your maintenance weight range. That's the buffer you will've created.
Your current loss rate, over a period of weeks, is a good guide to how many more calories you need to add to maintain weight (assuming you've logged carefully). It's a better guide than any so-called calculator.
If you've been losing 2 pounds a month at your current calorie level, you can eat around 250 calories more to maintain. (0.5 pounds per week = 0.5 x 3500 = 1750 weekly calorie deficit; divide by 7 to get 250 daily).
If your estimated current deficit based on your loss rate is high (>500 calories, say), and you want to do the "gradual add" method, add a couple of hundred daily to start.
Best wishes!
Ok this is way over my head im confused. I just want to know the answer to my question is it 3500 calories over after the excercise calories or just 3500 calories all up which will put on weight
My core message is this: You're still losing weight. If you want to maintain, you need to eat more.
Eat 100-200 calories more every day. Wait long enough (probably at least 2 weeks) to see if you're still losing weight. If you're still losing weight, eat another 100 calories more every day, and wait again (might have to wait longer).
Repeat that process until you clearly stop losing weight.
If you do that, you can't possibly regain much (if any) weight (unless you start lying in bed all day every day).2 -
Your question was already answered in your other thread
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So... you entered all your information into MFP, it calculated you the calorie intake for you to maintain weight, and you ignored it and set a much lower goal - why, exactly?
Cause I don't want to put on weight I've worked to hard to put it back on. I've also been told not to eat the calories it gives me for excercise as it's inaccurate but also been told to eat them so i don't know. 2 nutritionist have told me its inaccurate
So maybe increase your daily intake by 100 or so, watch your scale weight with a trend app to assure yourself you're still losing slowly (it will take a longer time to be sure, with each calorie add), then add another 100 if still losing, and keep repeating until your weight stabilizes.
The worst that can happen this way isn't horrifying: If you exceed your true (not necessarily calculator-estimated) TDEE by 100 calories daily, it'll take more than a month to gain a pound. You know how to lose a pound.
If you do this "gradual add" method, you'll lose a small number of additional pounds. That will create a buffer.
Generally, maintenance is a range of weights (because of daily fluctuations), not a single number. The "gradual add" method, as long as you don't do it too slowly, will put you at the bottom of your maintenance weight range. That's the buffer you will've created.
Your current loss rate, over a period of weeks, is a good guide to how many more calories you need to add to maintain weight (assuming you've logged carefully). It's a better guide than any so-called calculator.
If you've been losing 2 pounds a month at your current calorie level, you can eat around 250 calories more to maintain. (0.5 pounds per week = 0.5 x 3500 = 1750 weekly calorie deficit; divide by 7 to get 250 daily).
If your estimated current deficit based on your loss rate is high (>500 calories, say), and you want to do the "gradual add" method, add a couple of hundred daily to start.
Best wishes!
Ok this is way over my head im confused. I just want to know the answer to my question is it 3500 calories over after the excercise calories or just 3500 calories all up which will put on weight
If you consistently eat any amount of calories over your net maintenance (calories plus exercise calories), you will gain weight.
When you have eaten 3500 calories over your net maintenance, you will put on 1 lb (roughly speaking; real life is a bit messier). So if you eat 1750 calories over your net maintenance every day, you will gain 1 lb every two days. If you eat 100 calories over your maintenace every day, you’ll gain about 1 lb every month.
And it goes the other way around, too; if you eat 500 calories under your net maintenance every day, you’ll lose 1 lb a week.
Based on the numbers you’ve given, you’re currently eating somewhere around 750 calories under your net maintenance (since you’re doing exercise and not counting it). Are you currently losing about 1 1/2 lb per week?
Ok so include excercise calories yes
If I go over once a week will I put on weight
Have you understood anything that anyone has said to you all thread?
ETA: Sorry for being a bit short with you, but a number of people have carefully explained exactly how calories and weight work. You have all the information you need in this thread to answer your own question.4 -
So... you entered all your information into MFP, it calculated you the calorie intake for you to maintain weight, and you ignored it and set a much lower goal - why, exactly?
Cause I don't want to put on weight I've worked to hard to put it back on. I've also been told not to eat the calories it gives me for excercise as it's inaccurate but also been told to eat them so i don't know. 2 nutritionist have told me its inaccurate
So maybe increase your daily intake by 100 or so, watch your scale weight with a trend app to assure yourself you're still losing slowly (it will take a longer time to be sure, with each calorie add), then add another 100 if still losing, and keep repeating until your weight stabilizes.
The worst that can happen this way isn't horrifying: If you exceed your true (not necessarily calculator-estimated) TDEE by 100 calories daily, it'll take more than a month to gain a pound. You know how to lose a pound.
If you do this "gradual add" method, you'll lose a small number of additional pounds. That will create a buffer.
Generally, maintenance is a range of weights (because of daily fluctuations), not a single number. The "gradual add" method, as long as you don't do it too slowly, will put you at the bottom of your maintenance weight range. That's the buffer you will've created.
Your current loss rate, over a period of weeks, is a good guide to how many more calories you need to add to maintain weight (assuming you've logged carefully). It's a better guide than any so-called calculator.
If you've been losing 2 pounds a month at your current calorie level, you can eat around 250 calories more to maintain. (0.5 pounds per week = 0.5 x 3500 = 1750 weekly calorie deficit; divide by 7 to get 250 daily).
If your estimated current deficit based on your loss rate is high (>500 calories, say), and you want to do the "gradual add" method, add a couple of hundred daily to start.
Best wishes!
Ok this is way over my head im confused. I just want to know the answer to my question is it 3500 calories over after the excercise calories or just 3500 calories all up which will put on weight
If you consistently eat any amount of calories over your net maintenance (calories plus exercise calories), you will gain weight.
When you have eaten 3500 calories over your net maintenance, you will put on 1 lb (roughly speaking; real life is a bit messier). So if you eat 1750 calories over your net maintenance every day, you will gain 1 lb every two days. If you eat 100 calories over your maintenace every day, you’ll gain about 1 lb every month.
And it goes the other way around, too; if you eat 500 calories under your net maintenance every day, you’ll lose 1 lb a week.
Based on the numbers you’ve given, you’re currently eating somewhere around 750 calories under your net maintenance (since you’re doing exercise and not counting it). Are you currently losing about 1 1/2 lb per week?
Ok so include excercise calories yes
If I go over once a week will I put on weight
Yes! Once a week over or every day over if you're eating more calories than you are burning then yes, of course you will gain. The amount of that gain depends on how much over youre calories you eat.
I'll say it again, if you eat 3500 extra calories (in 1 day or several days) you will theoretically gain 1lb of weight per 3500 calories extra.0 -
Bu if you just go over a little bit on one day, and are under a little bit on the other days, you’ll maintain or lose rather than gain.0
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