Newbie question
ks20150903
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Hello all,
I am new to MFP coming from WW, I love WW but I just stopped losing, anyways. Stupid question so sorry ahead of time, is the goal calories what I should eat or am I supposed to eat under that in order to be in a deficit ? Again sorry for the dumb question
I am new to MFP coming from WW, I love WW but I just stopped losing, anyways. Stupid question so sorry ahead of time, is the goal calories what I should eat or am I supposed to eat under that in order to be in a deficit ? Again sorry for the dumb question
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Hi and welcome! The goal calories amount already includes your deficit for weight loss so eat at that amount. 🙂2
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In your goal set up if you pick "maintain current weight" you get an eating goal for a day with no exercise that in theory would be no loss / no gain. You would undercut that number to create a deficit and lose weight.
If you pick "lose 1lb a week" you will get an eating goal that takes 500cals/day away from your maintenance calories to give you an eating goal to achieve that 1lb a week.
Again that's for a day with no exercise as that's estimated after the event,1 -
For simplicity’s sake, we usually say a pound is 3500 calories. To lose a pound per week, you divide seven days (7) into 3500 to arrive at 500.
If you ate 500 calories less per day than what it takes to maintain your current weight, consistently and reliably, you’d average a pound per week.
Bear in mind, though, that human nature is neither consistent or reliable. You’re going to have good days, and you’re going to have crazy days- which are not the end of the world or reason to pull out hair and gnash teeth. Stuff happens. (In my world, “stuff” generally happens in the form of cookies.)
Go to the “goals” page and enter your height, current weight, goal weight, and activity level, and set your loss for “maintenance”. You’ll see how many calories you can eat per day to stay right where you are.
Now set it for 1 pound per week loss. It should return a number that’s very close to 500 calories less than the first number.
If you have only a small amount to lose (say 20 or less) choose half or quarter pound per week. Losing a pound a week when you’re that close near goal can be brutal.
Remember that slower loss may feel sloooooow, but it gives you time to learn new habits, incorporate new exercise and make other changes you can stick with. You’ll be surprised how fast time flies, and also how fast new habits snowball. I ended up losing faster than I planned after I got organized and educated myself reading here on the forums and elsewhere.
People who try to burn the candle on both ends by setting large weekly goals on the one side and introducing new exercise on the other usually crash and burn pretty quick.3 -
How do I add people?0
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Queenpudding0616 wrote: »How do I add people?
I assume you mean “how can I add friends”?
Click the name of the person you want to add, then click their name a second time.
Click on the silhouette with the plus sign. Don’t bother filling in a messsge. That function is blocked right now due to Spammers,
Your person will get a friend request. Once they add you, you’ll be able to see each other’s feeds.
One heads up. Due to the spambot attack, many of my friends aren’t adding people who who haven’t set up a profile, including a profile pic, so they can vet potential friends first.
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Welcome!! You will start to find some differing information based on how you have calculated your calorie goal.
NEAT vs. TDEE --- MFP uses NEAT, so if you use the guided set up the goal that it sets for you is at a deficit already based on how much you said you'd like to lose.
And your goal is a GOAL --- not a limit. So eat that much. Please. And also - it's set at a deficit already, so if you do additional intentional exercise and log it in MFP, it will add those calories to your daily goal. Eat ~50-100% of those depending on how hungry you are so that you don't end up netting too few calories.1 -
Queenpudding0616 wrote: »How do I add people?
It helps to fill out your profile and make it public or MyFitnessPal members (you can still make your status updates private, or friends only, or MFP members only). That includes a real picture of your face (unless you're in the witness protection program). Distinguish yourself from the fake accounts by sending a note along with your friend requests, unless you know the person outside of MFP.0 -
The note function is currently disabled due to the spambots. No one will ever see your words of wisdom and welcome.hjahangiri wrote: »Queenpudding0616 wrote: »How do I add people?
It helps to fill out your profile and make it public or MyFitnessPal members (you can still make your status updates private, or friends only, or MFP members only). That includes a real picture of your face (unless you're in the witness protection program). Distinguish yourself from the fake accounts by sending a note along with your friend requests, unless you know the person outside of MFP.
Agree with @hjahangiri though that a profile picture distinguishes you from the bots.1 -
springlering62 wrote: »hjahangiri wrote: »Queenpudding0616 wrote: »How do I add people?
The note function is currently disabled due to the spambots. No one will ever see your words of wisdom and welcome.
Agree with @hjahangiri though that a profile picture distinguishes you from the bots.
Is it, still? I thought it had been re-enabled? I guess the law of unintended consequences got that backwards!0 -
hjahangiri wrote: »springlering62 wrote: »hjahangiri wrote: »Queenpudding0616 wrote: »How do I add people?
The note function is currently disabled due to the spambots. No one will ever see your words of wisdom and welcome.
Agree with @hjahangiri though that a profile picture distinguishes you from the bots.
Is it, still? I thought it had been re-enabled? I guess the law of unintended consequences got that backwards!
It has been re-enabled. I just tested it out.0 -
hjahangiri wrote: »hjahangiri wrote: »hjahangiri wrote: »Queenpudding0616 wrote: »How do I add people?
The note function is currently disabled due to the spambots. No one will ever see your words of wisdom and welcome.
Agree with @hjahangiri though that a profile picture distinguishes you from the bots.
Is it, still? I thought it had been re-enabled? I guess the law of unintended consequences got that backwards!
It has been re-enabled. I just tested it out.
What was your testing method? The disabling didn't stop you from typing a message with your friend invite. It just stopped the potential friend from seeing it.
Edited to fix quote nesting.1 -
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »hjahangiri wrote: »hjahangiri wrote: »hjahangiri wrote: »Queenpudding0616 wrote: »How do I add people?
The note function is currently disabled due to the spambots. No one will ever see your words of wisdom and welcome.
Agree with @hjahangiri though that a profile picture distinguishes you from the bots.
Is it, still? I thought it had been re-enabled? I guess the law of unintended consequences got that backwards!
It has been re-enabled. I just tested it out.
What was your testing method? The disabling didn't stop you from typing a message with your friend invite. It just stopped the potential friend from seeing it.
Edited to fix quote nesting.
Over here, it was actually throwing up an error message while it was disabled.0
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