Stupid App says I am not eating enough
lg503114
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I am eating less calories than I am expending so how is that bad.
I am eating better than I ever have in my life. I am exercising. I feel fine.
Why does this app say I will NOT loose weight?
I am eating better than I ever have in my life. I am exercising. I feel fine.
Why does this app say I will NOT loose weight?
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what is your calorie goal and how many calories are you actually eating?
i doubt it is saying you wont lose weight.
it is not giving you a 5 week weight loss prediction because you are eating too few calories to get adequate nutrition.10 -
1. If you feel fine and eating well, but the app is cranky at you for being under your goal, chances are your log is not accurate. I fell into that trap, estimating what I ate and wondering why I was so full on 1200 calories - it was because I was eating more than 1200 calories.
2. Your goal already gives you a gap in calories to what you need, so if you are under that goal you are essentially 'doubling down' on the calorie gap, which can be very unsustainable at best and dangerous to health at worst.
3. It won't give weight predictions is you are under 1200 calories as it is in the range of disordered eating.
Fixes;
1. Make sure you are logging accurately, make sure what your eating is being accounted for. A food scale is best.
2. Eat to your goal.
3. Meet your goal and be given predictions, but remember it's just an estimate and doesn't account for fluctuations, water retention etc.
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That's happened to me a few times, too, on days when I had some really long runs.2
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It doesn't say you won't lose weight; it says you're eating at a level that, unless you're under a doctor's care, is unhealthy and can damage your body. You still need to eat enough to get a good amount of nutrients to help your body run.5
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You need a minimum of 1200 calories to sustain bodily functions. This is net calories, meaning you need 1200 calories after eating exercise calories you earned. If you eat 1200 and earn 300 from exercise, you should eat back those calories to net 1200. This assumes your calories are correct using a food scale weighing grams.
1200 is the minimum for women and 1500 for men.
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Mine will give me a prediction so long as I stay above 1000...how low is your intake?4
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It purposely doesn't give you a figure so as not to encourage an eating disorder when you see that drastic 5 week number on poverty calories. Don't be a hero, you didn't get fat in 5 weeks.13
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Some days I eat less than my calorie goal [650-700 cals] and walk for a bit. I don't lose any weight either.
But I don't mean to not eat, I just am not hungry! lol. I guess the body is trying to hold on to something? 0 -
AngelaOStrong wrote: »Some days I eat less than my calorie goal [650-700 cals] and walk for a bit. I don't lose any weight either. But I don't mean to not eat, I just am not hungry! lol. I guess the body is trying to hold on to something?
Your body isn't holding onto anything. If you don't provide it with fuel, it will take it from somewhere on your body. It can't run on nothing.
OP: If this is something that only happens once in a great while, don't worry about it. If it's something that happens often, you should make sure you're logging correctly (are you using volume measurements for solids? Using other people's homemade food entries from the database? Eyeballing? These things could add up to huge errors). If you are logging correctly and are really under 1000 calories a day, you need to eat more. Add in some fatty foods. They have more calories for less volume so you're not overstuffing yourself.11 -
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Clare_Bear1986 wrote: »
wow do you folks not understand that the minimum amount of calories to sustain minimum RDA nutrition is 1200 for woman and 1500 for men and that if MFP gave 1200 then it's based on the rate in which you wish to lose the weight.
and that if you continue to eat 1200 and less you are losing muscle mass, damaging yourself such as bones and heart damage...that weight loss is not a race and if you want to lose and keep it off you have to build good habits etc.
at 1k or less for extended periods of time you will eventually have hair loss, brittle bones and nails and muscle loss which slows metabolism...
at 1lb a week weight loss my daily intake was 1460 calories and I lost 1lb a week...if I wanted to eat more I exercised.11 -
AngelaOStrong wrote: »Some days I eat less than my calorie goal [650-700 cals] and walk for a bit. I don't lose any weight either. But I don't mean to not eat, I just am not hungry! lol. I guess the body is trying to hold on to something?
that's fine as long as you're eating at maintenance on the other days - otherwise you're potentially doing yourself serious damage if you keep it up for any length of time.2 -
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Clare_Bear1986 wrote: »
I believe that's how it is for everyone. At one point it was below 1200, but they changed that to 1000 some time ago.
(1200 isn't actually "recommended." You put in how active you are before exercise and your desired goal and it's spitting out 1200 based on those inputs. This is also why MFP's method assuming eating back exercise, as the calorie goal assumes none.)0 -
Clare_Bear1986 wrote: »
wow do you folks not understand that the minimum amount of calories to sustain minimum RDA nutrition is 1200 for woman and 1500 for men and that if MFP gave 1200 then it's based on the rate in which you wish to lose the weight.
and that if you continue to eat 1200 and less you are losing muscle mass, damaging yourself such as bones and heart damage...that weight loss is not a race and if you want to lose and keep it off you have to build good habits etc.
at 1k or less for extended periods of time you will eventually have hair loss, brittle bones and nails and muscle loss which slows metabolism...
at 1lb a week weight loss my daily intake was 1460 calories and I lost 1lb a week...if I wanted to eat more I exercised.
It really depends on height, weight and gender. There's no one-size-fits-all. A 6'3" woman would absolutely suffer negative consequences from eating 1000 net calories a day, while a 4'8" woman with only a few pounds to lose could probably follow a 1000 calorie to reach her goal without suffering negative health implications.2 -
hmmm OP has one post, OP has not returned, I think I know where this is going...2
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I was on a doctor mandated 900 calories a day for three months -- I just added an extra banana each day to keep MFP from scolding me
MFP is set up this way for a very good reason -- to discourage people with eating disorders. If you have a legitimate, medically-supervised reason for having a lower than recommended calorie goal for a period of time, either put up with the scolding (the system will still keep track of your logging streak) or add some phantom food. I was monitored every week with blood tests and vitals checks, so don't fool around with this!
If you don't have a medically-supported plan that takes you under 1000 calories a day and you're eating too few calories, then there are some serious consequences you need to educate yourself about.5 -
Clare_Bear1986 wrote: »
wow do you folks not understand that the minimum amount of calories to sustain minimum RDA nutrition is 1200 for woman and 1500 for men and that if MFP gave 1200 then it's based on the rate in which you wish to lose the weight.
and that if you continue to eat 1200 and less you are losing muscle mass, damaging yourself such as bones and heart damage...that weight loss is not a race and if you want to lose and keep it off you have to build good habits etc.
at 1k or less for extended periods of time you will eventually have hair loss, brittle bones and nails and muscle loss which slows metabolism...
at 1lb a week weight loss my daily intake was 1460 calories and I lost 1lb a week...if I wanted to eat more I exercised.
Actually...my point was that her calories must be extremely low and that instead of giving her dieting advice we should look at how extreme her deficit actually is...but thanks for the talking down to...i alway miss it when I haven't seen my mother in a while.7 -
Clare_Bear1986 wrote: »
wow do you folks not understand that the minimum amount of calories to sustain minimum RDA nutrition is 1200 for woman and 1500 for men and that if MFP gave 1200 then it's based on the rate in which you wish to lose the weight.
and that if you continue to eat 1200 and less you are losing muscle mass, damaging yourself such as bones and heart damage...that weight loss is not a race and if you want to lose and keep it off you have to build good habits etc.
at 1k or less for extended periods of time you will eventually have hair loss, brittle bones and nails and muscle loss which slows metabolism...
at 1lb a week weight loss my daily intake was 1460 calories and I lost 1lb a week...if I wanted to eat more I exercised.
dont forget the 1200 is also for short/sedentary/elderly or a combo of the 3.1 -
It's just a piece of GIGO software. Don't get so emotionally wrought about it.3
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AngelaOStrong wrote: »Some days I eat less than my calorie goal [650-700 cals] and walk for a bit. I don't lose any weight either. But I don't mean to not eat, I just am not hungry! lol. I guess the body is trying to hold on to something?
Kay but no. Don't take this the wrong way buuuuut if you are at a point where you need to lose weight then how are you NOT hungry now to the point of only eating 700 calories in a day?
The body isn't holding onto anything . . . you're eating more than you need to if you're not losing weight - it's that simple.3 -
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Lots of people are giving reasons why this is happening.
If u want to avoid this you could...
1) not sink your steps/exercise with the app so if you east 1300 cal and burn 400 it wont say you arent eating enough as it wont deduct the exercise
2) If you are a male say you are a female and you will get a lower goal by 200ish calories (probably only healthy to do this if you are a small male but some males are the size of females)
3) quick add the excess calories to get your day recorded and see a rough prediction of weight loss then remove the quick add later
4) scan packages of food rather than searching for them and measure out portions to be more accurate
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Clare_Bear1986 wrote: »
wow do you folks not understand that the minimum amount of calories to sustain minimum RDA nutrition is 1200 for woman and 1500 for men and that if MFP gave 1200 then it's based on the rate in which you wish to lose the weight.
and that if you continue to eat 1200 and less you are losing muscle mass, damaging yourself such as bones and heart damage...that weight loss is not a race and if you want to lose and keep it off you have to build good habits etc.
at 1k or less for extended periods of time you will eventually have hair loss, brittle bones and nails and muscle loss which slows metabolism...
at 1lb a week weight loss my daily intake was 1460 calories and I lost 1lb a week...if I wanted to eat more I exercised.
I'm 5'2 and it is set to sedentary. 1700 calories is maintenance for me. I have 40 pounds to lose. 1 pound a week is not unreasonable. I do eat back my excercise calories. Thank you for your concern....and your assumptions and judgment 😜0
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