Help figuring out new calorie goal

TheRealSlim_Shelly
TheRealSlim_Shelly Posts: 66 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I need some individualized help.

I had my settings at losing 1lb per week. MFP gave me 1220 calories per day. This was fine except I’ve been accurately weighing/logging for the last 10 weeks and overall averaging losing 1.6lbs. This was fine in the beginning when I was overweight but I’ve made it into the healthy BMI weight range now and would like to slow down and even eat at maintenance. I do not do any specific exercising currently, which was why I thought I should be set to sedentary. MFP is giving me a maintenance caloric intake if 1720 per day but by my calculations, I should be maintaining at 2000 calories per day to account for the additional .6lbs I’ve been losing (I see now I am more active than I thought). At “lightly active,” MFP still only gives me 1930 calories. (I don’t feel I could possibly be more than lightly active, unless my metabolism still has some fire in her.) Can someone double check my math on this? 2000 seems like the right number, although could it be high (I’m not looking to gain either)? Perhaps lifting a baby up and down burns more than I thought 😳.

Thank you in advance. This has been quite a learning process for me.

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  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,106 Member
    edited August 2019
    Edited to delete completely loopy math.

    Sorry, major brain fart on what 1.6 lbs suggests your deficit is.

    VV What NovusDies says. Including the "run with it and keep checking your scale results."
  • TheRealSlim_Shelly
    TheRealSlim_Shelly Posts: 66 Member
    Thank you both ...I kept running the numbers to the point of confusing myself 🤪 I’m glad I’m not the only one who felt their math was loopy 😂🤦‍♀️. Thank you for the quick responses... I will go with 2000 and see where that takes me on average for at least 2-4 weeks time. I expect there may be some initial bloating for the first week or two.
  • Cahgetsfit
    Cahgetsfit Posts: 1,912 Member
    go to tdeecalculator.net - plug in your stats. It will spit out all the numbers you need. But then you don't "eat back calories" from MFP. You just set it to whatever TDEE calculator told you and enter all exercise as 1 calorie burnt.

  • concordancia
    concordancia Posts: 5,320 Member
    The difference of 70 calories a day is going to take quite a while to show up, so eat somewhere between 1930 and 2000.
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