I'm confused..

Kimownsyou
Kimownsyou Posts: 1 Member
edited October 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
My food tracker says i'm in starvation mode and that I'll lose weight slower.... but when I add more calories it says I'll lose less weight in 5 weeks...

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  • MrsDrake678
    MrsDrake678 Posts: 90 Member
    lol I'm right there with you. I don't get it either.
  • Lozze
    Lozze Posts: 1,917 Member
    The 'if every day' number is purely a numbers thing. The lower your calories the more weight it tells you that you will lose. HOWEVER that's not how the body works. You need a general minimum of 1200 calories a day. (it can be lower for some but that's pretty rare) It's far too low for most people.

    It pops that message up once you get past a certain threshold as you're not doing your body any favours.

    Eat what you're advised, it's better for you. There are literally hundreds of post on people not understanding why they're not losing weight when they go under that threshold.
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,165 Member
    The idea is not supposed to be losing as much weight as quickly as possible. It's about losing weight in a healthy, maintainable way.
    Eating too few calories is not only hard, which means you are more likely to give it up, but it can have other side effects which can slow your weight loss down later on.
  • carlypreiss
    carlypreiss Posts: 91 Member
    It means that if your metabolism stayed at it's normal rate and you ate the same amount of calories every day for the next five weeks, theoretically that is how much you would weigh at the end of those five weeks. However, they're warning you that even though you COULD weigh that much, you likely won't because the amount of calories you're eating means that your metabolism
    may slow down.

    Calories in and calories out is the formula, but there are many different factors.
  • Helloitsdan
    Helloitsdan Posts: 5,561 Member
    Its always a good idea to research on the net how to start a lifelong diet.
    Check out Fat To Fit Radio and do the tools.
    Start with the military body fat calc then move on to the BMR calc.
    The BMR calc will give you exactly what to eat at your activity level.
    Its way more than you think.

    MFP has a tendency to drop calories to 1200 to start and thats just silly!
    Chances are if you start out wrong and become discouraged you wont stick around to lose weight.

    To sum up...
    Fat To Fit Radio
    Tools
    Military BF calculator
    BMR calculator

    PM me if you have any questions.
  • teephil
    teephil Posts: 135 Member
    The weight loss calc is not tied in with the "starvation mode" warning. It can't be, as there's no way to accurately predict how much eating too little will hinder ones weight loss. It's looking at things from a purely mathematical standpoint. So to the calculator, you will lose more eating 800 calories a day vs eating 1200. But in reality, that may not be true...
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