An easier way to setup goal calories - eating for who you wi

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  • Femtec74
    Femtec74 Posts: 347 Member
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    Bump to read later.
  • mmorford
    mmorford Posts: 4
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    Thank you for taking the time to explain this! I have really been struggling since I've been on MFP, not losing hardly anything. This makes sense to me.
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    geecee77 Posts: 149 Member
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  • apvalletta
    apvalletta Posts: 110 Member
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    bump. interesting
  • angie_04
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  • Jessicaruby
    Jessicaruby Posts: 881 Member
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    great ideas bump
  • marx4
    marx4 Posts: 236 Member
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    sounds like what I need to do
  • tsjourney
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  • sammys1girly
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  • peacefulsong
    peacefulsong Posts: 223 Member
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    Okay, this is a little tough to wrap my head around. That site tells me that my current BMR at 266 lbs is 1922, and my total calories at goal weight of 150 would be 1942.

    Currently I eat 1500-1600 per day (before you subtract exercise calories). And am going nowhere. So I need to up my calories from 1500-1600 to 1942? I feel like you're telling me to put out a fire with gasoline instead of water. :)

    Question. Considering that I've apparently been consistently eating 300-400 calories below BMR for months and months, what's likely to happen if I suddenly up that by 300-400 calories? Am I likely to see an initial weight gain before things adjust? Because I'm thinking of trying this and I want to know what to expect so I don't get freaked out.

    And it's entirely possible I'm not understanding this correctly at all.
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  • donna9089
    donna9089 Posts: 87
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    bump for later working...I cannot eat what MFP says I should eat. I think this will make it even more, but maybe that is why I do not lose pounds
  • tsjourney
    tsjourney Posts: 156 Member
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    At 5'7" currently 252 GW 160, if I calculated it correctly, it says I should consume 1905 calories a day. I should really change my calories to that a day?? That is about 700 more than I usually take in. I put 8 hours rest and 16 hours very light, i have a desk job and don't exercise regularly right now. I can really lose weight eating that many calories?
  • memobe
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    very interesting, will check this out :)
  • AEB_WV
    AEB_WV Posts: 323 Member
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    Okay, this is a little tough to wrap my head around. That site tells me that my current BMR at 266 lbs is 1922, and my total calories at goal weight of 150 would be 1942.

    Currently I eat 1500-1600 per day (before you subtract exercise calories). And am going nowhere. So I need to up my calories from 1500-1600 to 1942? I feel like you're telling me to put out a fire with gasoline instead of water. :)

    Question. Considering that I've apparently been consistently eating 300-400 calories below BMR for months and months, what's likely to happen if I suddenly up that by 300-400 calories? Am I likely to see an initial weight gain before things adjust? Because I'm thinking of trying this and I want to know what to expect so I don't get freaked out.

    And it's entirely possible I'm not understanding this correctly at all.

    I'm with you. I think I'm not grasping the concept. If I change the weight in the calculator to my current weight there is only ~200 calorie difference in the total calories. At that rate a 1 lb loss would take 17.5 days? What is the danger of underestimating your activity level? (which I have probably done). I definitely need a change as I have had no loss in months. I am slowly getting a little bit smaller so that kind of keeps me motivated, but that # on the scale is maddening!
  • lillydlc
    lillydlc Posts: 162 Member
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    Bumping to save to my topics:flowerforyou:
  • Pam3
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