Eating over your goal?

daisydreams1234 · February 2020

Today I ate 1,600 calories-- around double what I'd comfortably eat.
My BMR is 1,500, but today I went over it, which I usually don't do, and I feel bad about it
Will I gain weight from eating over my BMR by 100 calories?
I haven't done any exercise today, although I have walked around a bit.

serindipte · February 2020

The fact that 1600 is double what you usually eat is concerning. No, you will not gain weight by eating 1600 calories. Have you entered your stats into MFP? What goal did it give you? How are you determining your BMR? Do you realize "BMR" are the calories required for your organs to function? If you were in a coma, you'd burn your BMR. Assuming you got out of bed and at least walked to the bathroom a few times, you're already well over your BMR.

You'll get more personal advice if you share your stats: Age, height, current weight. Setting your diary to public will also help.

ETA: If 1500 is the goal given to you by MFP, that already includes a deficit. You are supposed to eat at that amount, not significantly under. Depending on how much you set it to lose per week, that deficit is 250 (.5 lbs), 500 (1 lb), 750 (1.5 lb), or 1000 (2 lb). As you can see, even if you're at the slowest rate of loss, you're still coming in under maintenance by going 100 over.

Mjlefty35 · February 2020

I go over sometimes. Please dont feel bad about it. We cant deprive ourselves of everything we like and we cant always have a good day when it comes to our eating. It isnt a test or a race. You did not fail. You start again tomorrow. Maybe you will be on par or maybe you will be over again. This is your journey, be happy in it and dont fret about a few calories over. Tomorrow is another day.

NovusDies · February 2020

You do not make weight loss decisions based on your BMR. You make them based on your BMR+NEAT+Exercise. The sum of all of it is your TDEE. MFP uses a variable system of BMR+NEAT-Deficit and expects you to either log or sync your exercise calories which it will add to your daily calorie goal.

Most likely the reasons you have had a hard time stopping yourself today is because you have been under eating and your body is rebelling to protect itself.

Please use MFP the way it was designed so you can feed yourself enough food to sustain your weight loss in a healthy manner.

ReenieHJ · February 2020

Do you normally take in only 800 calories a day?? That's way too little IMO. No wonder you feel like you've gone overboard at 1600. I eat around 1300-1500 every day and seem to be maintaining. My calories are set at 1290 and I add about 200-300 more with exercise.
Do make sure you're eating enough and don't stress over a day where you indulge, even to the tune of thousands of calories. Yes, I've done that.

I binge eat some days and lose all control. But it's a once-in-awhile thing and doesn't affect my over-all weight because I'll see a lb. up, then get back to it and it's a lb. down.
Please make good choices, this is your health you're talking about. And under eating is as bad(maybe worse) as overeating.

cmriverside · February 2020

daisydreams1234 wrote: »

Today I ate 1,600 calories-- around double what I'd comfortably eat.
My BMR is 1,500, but today I went over it, which I usually don't do, and I feel bad about it
Will I gain weight from eating over my BMR by 100 calories?
I haven't done any exercise today, although I have walked around a bit.

This is really low, if you are eating less than your BMR, you're going to create health problems for yourself.

Read and re-read what NovusDies posted above.

cwolfman13 · February 2020

daisydreams1234 wrote: »

Today I ate 1,600 calories-- around double what I'd comfortably eat.
My BMR is 1,500, but today I went over it, which I usually don't do, and I feel bad about it
Will I gain weight from eating over my BMR by 100 calories?
I haven't done any exercise today, although I have walked around a bit.

Your BMR is the calories you burn merely existing...you would burn them in a coma...so obviously you won't gain weight eating over BMR. Your TDEE is what matters, not your BMR. My BMR is around 1800 calories...I can lose weight eating 2300-2500 calories per day at a rate of about 1 Lb per week because my TDEE is 2800-3000 on average.

You burn calories 24/7 just being alive (BMR) then you burn more calories just going about your day to day stuff, then exercise.

Eating over your goal?

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