What is everyones daily calorie goal?

Everyone is mentioning BMR but I doubt half know what its importance is ( the half that are eating under it i mean)

BMR 1650
TDEE 2685
Daily goal 1800 - 2200 to lose weight.

BMR: 1663
Goal: 1240:flowerforyou:

BMR - 2,335
Goal - 1940

I try and maintain a 500 calorie deficiency 5 days a week and eat to my goal the other 2. I've lost an average of 2 lbs a week since I started using MFP.

Goal is 1200-1400 net (usually go over though, lol).

1560

BMR 1570

Calorie goal 1470

I eat all my exercise calories back.

BMR: 1,861 calories/day
Daily goal: 1,500

just starting... but this time, I won't stop until I reach my goal!



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BMR: 2300

Goal: 3200 (eating back exercise calories)

TDEE 1959
BMR 1264

Daily Intake usually 1500-1600

BMR 1361
Actual 1200

Do you all eat your exercise calories???
I haven't been doing this and average 400 + per day in exercise..Have come to a slump this week....with no weight loss despite keeping to 1200 everyday....
Ideas....?
Daren't eat any more..could be dangerous!!!!
Have just checked TDEE and it says 2200.

I am also doing the Rosemary Conley diet plan whch tells me to eat 1200..
Bloody confusing if you ask me!!!!!

BMR ~ 1750
Daily goal 2000

Have I been reading many of the threads wrong? I thought the goal was to NEVER eat below BMR? I recently increased my calories so I could stay above this and still below maintenance. Either way, I guess I'll stick with it for at least a month and see what happens. I workout, I eat healthier than I used to so I figure what I'm doing now is better than what I was doing before.

You're doing it right. Welcome to the winning team

#1 source of confusion on MFP: "Why not eat less than my BMR? Won't that make me lose faster?"

No. Did you know that eating less than your BMR will help keep you from ever reaching and maintaining your goal (that's rhetorical, I know you didn't know that or you wouldn't be eating less than your BMR). ha.

Anyway, here's why fat people stay fat, and why people with the "last 10 lbs to lose" can't ever get there by restricting calories too low:

From one of my old posts from a similar topic:

OK. I'm gonna give this a shot. I am an avid lifelong athlete. I have never been overweight, however, I used to eat too few calories (without knowing it), and a couple years ago, I actually GAINED weight bc of having slowed my metabolism to the point that every little extra treat I ate caused a weight gain, even though overall my calories were too low. THIS DOES HAPPEN.

It is also the reason so many fat people stay fat. They restrict their calories so low, slow their metabolisms, binge (even a little), gain weight, restrict more . . . . and so on and so on. But they are still fat.

It is also the reason most people can't lose that last 10-20 lbs. For real.

1. MFP has a deficit built in. Let's say you're trying to lose 1 lb/ week. That is a 500/day deficit from your BMR (the amount of calories your body needs to complete basic functions.

2. You exercise and burn 500 calories. Now you are at a 1000 deficit. If you eat back those 500 exercise calories, you refuel your body and you still have a 500 deficit for that 1 lb loss. If you DON'T eat back those calories, you have too little fuel. This is bad. This is too much of a deficit for basic functions. If you do this for a long time, you will STOP LOSING WEIGHT. Why? bc your metabolism will slow down -- it's like a brownout--not quite enough electricity to make the whole city (your body) run, so it has to slow down some things. You will probably start being tired a lot, your skin and hair might start to look worse, and you might even gain weight. But you might NOT be hungry -- your body is getting used to fewer calories. That's bad.


That's when you start to gain weight. Let's say you're running along, eating 1200 calories a day, and exercising 400 calories a day, so net is 800. You're losing, you think this is great. You keep doing it, but after a while you stop losing. hmmmmm. One weekend you go out to a special event and have a slice of pizza and a beer. 1 slice of pizza and 1 beer. So you ate maybe 2000 calories that day and exercised off 400, so net 1600. BOOM! You gain 3 lbs! What?!

Next, you freak out and restrict yourself down to 1000 calories a day and work out extra hard, burning 500 calories. Great, netting 500 now. You don't lose any weight, but you sure feel tired. Better get some red bull.

Are you getting the picture?

EDIT: When you work out, you need fuel. Food is fuel. If you don't eat back those exercise calories, you will not only have a big calorie deficit, you will have an ENERGY deficit. Remember, the calorie deficit for weight loss is built in when you use MFP. Exercising basically earns you more calories because you must refuel.
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There are many people who will tell you not to eat exercise calories. Before you take their advice, you might want to see whether they are at goal, have EVER been at goal, or have ever been able to maintain at goal. If anyone says to you 'THE LAST TIME I LOST WEIGHT", just stop listening right there.

Ask some athletes whether or not they replenish their bodies with food equal to the calories they burn. Ask people who are fit and have achieved and maintained a healthy weight for some years. Don't ask people who count walking across a parking lot as exercise.

Here's an interesting case study about how to stay fat while consuming only 700 calories a day. Take a moment, you'll be glad you did:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/3047-700-calories-a-day-and-not-losing

blessings.

Thank you for taking the time and effort sleepytexan - much appreciated.

BMR: 1381

Eat daily: around 2217

Just thought I'd share this weeks experience. my NET has been ABOVE my maintenance calories over the entire week and I've still lost weight. I've been trying to eat at about maintenance+exercise calories for months now, and managed to get to 121 pounds at 5'7, and I'm still going down. No need to starve!

121 lbs:


BMR: 1311 <-always net more then BMR
Maintenance: 1650

This weeks calorie intake at 5'7 and 121 pounds has looked like this:

Monday: 1561
Tuesday: 1787
Wednesday: 1556
Thursday: 2954
Friday: 1774
Saturday: 1917