Base Goal

misturchacko
misturchacko Posts: 1 Member
in Health and Weight Loss

is my objective to stay under the base goal in order to put myself in a calorie deficit?

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  • TracyL963
    TracyL963 Posts: 139 Member

    If you put your information into MFP (My Fitness Pal) and set a weekly weight loss goal, then the calories given include the calorie deficit. This would be the calorie goal you want to meet……a weekly average of this number also works.

    MFP works a little different than many sites, in that if you log exercise (under the cardio section) you will earn additional calories. Be aware though, calorie burn estimates can be high. It's best to start off eating a portion back (say half) until you get the hang of things.

    The Getting Started stickies are helpful:

    Categories - MyFitnessPal.com

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,245 Member

    If all your MFP profile entries are reasonably accurate, and you told MFP you wanted to lose weight at X pounds or kilos of loss per week, your objective is to stay close to the base goal on average over a few days to a week at a time, like maybe +/- 50 calories around goal in your weekly average of daily calories. If you told MFP you want to lose weight, it has subtracted calories behind the scenes that it estimates will accomplish your weight-loss goal.

    It basically uses the statistically-average person of similar demographics to estimate your needs, but individuals can vary from average. Follow your goal reasonably closely for 4-6 weeks, one whole menstrual cycle if you have those. Average your weight change over those weeks. If you're close to the rate you told MFP you want to lose, you're all set. If you're far off, you can adjust using the assumption that 500 calories per day is a pound a week, or 1100 calories per day is a kilo per week, roughly. Use arithmetic for partial pounds/kilos.

    Best wishes!

  • patriciafoley1
    patriciafoley1 Posts: 470 Member

    Does anyone know if this is communicated to fitbit? My fitbit goal tells me I need to burn 2389 calories a day. Since I am 68, this seems high to me, and I often don't make it, even though I walk between 15 and 20k steps a day. I set my goal weight and calories eaten in MFP, and all I use fitbit for is to send exercise calories over to MFP, so I can see what my burned to eaten ratio is.

    I don't know why Fitbit is setting me a goal of burning 2389 calories a day. Of course I asked fitbit support but I never get an answer. And according to the website it calculates it itself.

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