do you follow the settings that mfp gives you or do you crea

RunConquerCelebrate
RunConquerCelebrate Posts: 956 Member
edited October 2 in Food and Nutrition
I am curios on to how many people follow the settings that mfp gives them and just way exercise calls back or do you set your own settings and not eat any back.

For example MVP gives me 1220 cals and than I eat exercise calls back or I have also set my cals to 1500 and not eat any back
Just curious on what you are doing

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  • horsepullerlovesme
    horsepullerlovesme Posts: 228 Member
    1200-1500 calories consume daily and no eat exercise calories.
  • NoAdditives
    NoAdditives Posts: 4,251 Member
    I follow the MFP settings and as long as I stick to it I have great results. My daily calorie goal is between 1500 and 1600 calories and I try to eat all my exercise calories back. I experimented a lot with different calorie deficits and I found that mine can't be too big. If it's too big my body just won't burn fat. So for me, daily exercise and generally increased activity is more important than the calorie deficit, which is why I aim to eat all my exercise calories.
  • cjasins
    cjasins Posts: 93
    I completely ignored MFP recommendations. I would be eating WAY too few calories. I used this calculator: http://www.theloseweightdiet.com/calculator.html to determine my maintenance calories (-500 for weight loss) and am doing a 50/30/20 split (protein/carbs/fat).
  • otr12
    otr12 Posts: 632 Member
    I found that the whole eating exercise calories thing was making me crazy. So I took my MFP recommended calories and multiplied that by 7. Then an average of the calories I burn exercising in a week and added that. Took the total and divided it by 7 and that's how many calories I eat every day.

    MFP calories per day = 1400
    1400 X 7 = 9800
    Average exercise calories per week = 2500
    2500 + 9800 = 12300
    12300 / 7 = 1757

    I rounded to 1700 and that's how many calories I (try to) eat every day.

    I log my exercise calories, but also log that I eat an equal amount of calories with a false food I created that is 40% carb 40% protein and 30%fat. That way my ratios stay in order and I am still watching my true totals. I also have my activity level set at Sedentary.
  • _Ben
    _Ben Posts: 1,608 Member
    I normally eat close to 1200 a day, but mfp reccomends closer to 1620. I follow a (self monitored) zigzag diet, of eating 1200 for about 3 days, then 2 of 1600, then back to 3 of 1200. I pretty much never eat back my calories, except for special events, like birthdays, and in the last month have only once exceeded my goal. You really gotta do what works for you. In all honesty, as a 20 year old male, I could just eat 1000 calories a day and be fine, but I have more sucessful weightloss with staggering my calories.
  • RunConquerCelebrate
    RunConquerCelebrate Posts: 956 Member
    I completely ignored MFP recommendations. I would be eating WAY too few calories. I used this calculator: http://www.theloseweightdiet.com/calculator.html to determine my maintenance calories (-500 for weight loss) and am doing a 50/30/20 split (protein/carbs/fat).
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  • fallenangelloves
    fallenangelloves Posts: 601 Member
    I joined MFP to follow MFP... I entered that I wanted to lose a pound per week and guess what... I HAVE! It suggests to eat my calories back, and at first I ignored it and my weight loss slowed down. Now I eat them and my witless has been better.

    I beleve in this site and have had great success wi it. But that's just me....
  • ajbeans
    ajbeans Posts: 2,857 Member
    I use my own settings and eat my calories back. So... I choose option C.
  • Zeromilediet
    Zeromilediet Posts: 787 Member
    MFP set me to 1200 calories per day and that works for me. Sometimes I go over but no biggie. I did change the default settings to my goals which are 20% carbs 50% fat 30% protein. Note those fats aren't french fries, it's healthy fats :-)
  • tbrown1025
    tbrown1025 Posts: 165
    I set my own calorie goals. I use MFP to track my food, not tell me how much to eat. For that, I'm following the guidelines suggested my training program.
  • RunConquerCelebrate
    RunConquerCelebrate Posts: 956 Member
    I joined MFP to follow MFP... I entered that I wanted to lose a pound per week and guess what... I HAVE! It suggests to eat my calories back, and at first I ignored it and my weight loss slowed down. Now I eat them and my witless has been better.

    I beleve in this site and have had great success wi it. But that's just me....

    I also believe in this site, if it was not for the site I would not be able to stay on track. But my weight loss has stalled and I am just trying to figure out what things I could change.
  • RunConquerCelebrate
    RunConquerCelebrate Posts: 956 Member
    I follow the MFP settings and as long as I stick to it I have great results. My daily calorie goal is between 1500 and 1600 calories and I try to eat all my exercise calories back. I experimented a lot with different calorie deficits and I found that mine can't be too big. If it's too big my body just won't burn fat. So for me, daily exercise and generally increased activity is more important than the calorie deficit, which is why I aim to eat all my exercise calories.

    That is what I am trying to do experiment with my calories to find my sweet spot
  • stephyy4632
    stephyy4632 Posts: 947 Member
    I fallow what MFP sets for me :) its working great so far why mess with a good thing kwim

    I do eat my exercise cals most all of them

    when I first started i was set at 1.5 per week loss but now that I`ve gotten withing 30ish pounds of my goal weight I have switched it to 1 pound loss per week and I plan to switch again to .5 pounds loss per week once I`m 20-15 pounds from my goal weight. I`ve done alot of reading and fallowed alot of posts from (trainers) on these boards and from what I gather this is what your ment to do on the site so I`m give it a go in this manner. along with cardio 5-7days a week (my a cardio junky) and weight / strength working 3 times a week and I have been upping my weights regularly to keep in challenging

    current cal before exercise is added for me is 1440 add exercise of between (400-1000 cals and yes I have a HRM so I`m pretty certain of my burn) thats anywhere from 1840-2440 and I`m very comfy with that and loosing weight well.
  • foremant86
    foremant86 Posts: 1,115 Member
    MFP is set up the way it is for a reason, i'll never understand why people sign up and just say "nope not gonna do it that way, gonna do it MY way"

    I changed my carb/fat/protein settings but other than that I eat what MFP says I should eat and generally eat my workout calories back but on some days when i burn a lot i can't always eat them back but I do my best without eating junk.

    Tons of people spout how they don't eat their exercise calories back and yea it's gonna be ok in the beginning but those people are more thank likely going to hit a brick wall about -30lbs in...soooooo many posts about how when people finally started eating their exercise calories back the weight started dropping steadily.

    MFP already builds in a healthy deficit for you, if you're netting less than 1200 calories a day then you aren't doing your body any good. The body needs fuel to pump blood and keeps organs alive, continue to leave it running on low fuel and it's going to stall out on you.
  • JNick77
    JNick77 Posts: 3,783 Member
    I am curios on to how many people follow the settings that mfp gives them and just way exercise calls back or do you set your own settings and not eat any back.

    For example MVP gives me 1220 cals and than I eat exercise calls back or I have also set my cals to 1500 and not eat any back
    Just curious on what you are doing

    No, 58% from carbs and 20% from protein is f'in stupid, period.
  • michedarnd
    michedarnd Posts: 207 Member
    I reset my percentages of protein/carbs/fat to 40/30/30, and I eat back my exercise calories (mostly). My body starts resisting weight-loss REALLY easily (I know this from personal experience), so I avoid making huge deficits. I also know that I won't maintain a diet with that little protein and that many carbohydrates, which is why I switched it. I am going for a maintainable lifestyle change, so the "eat enough raw carrots to fill your calorie count" routine wasn't going to last more than 3 days, if that. Having made these adjustments, I try to avoid going over or under my recommended net calorie count. So, I do a combination.
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