I'm so confused with all these #s!!!

willis84
willis84 Posts: 86 Member
edited December 18 in Health and Weight Loss
I'm really confused as to how many calories I should be having left over at the end of the day in order to lose weight. That's including my excercise. I'm 150 and my bmr is 1400. I want to lose 1.5/wk

Goal Food: 1400(bmr)
Food consumed: 1440
Excercise: 712
Net: 728
Remaining: 672

What is the one number or area that I need to focus on to loose weight?
I know that 3500cal=1lb. So that's 500/day
So do I need to eat back 212calories to have burned 500?

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  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    You've broken the MFP calculation by setting your goal at your BMR, so we don't know what your target would have been.

    If you want to lose 1.5 per week (is this reasonable ? how much to lose ?) you need a deficit of 750 per day.

    That is eat 750 less than you expend.

    So if you expend 1700 plus 712 of exercise = 2412

    and subtract 750

    you need to eat 1662

    but the "1700" is my estimate.
  • willis84
    willis84 Posts: 86 Member
    How do I find my target? Sorry, I meant lose 1lb/wk
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    How do I find my target? Sorry, I meant lose 1lb/wk

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/my_goals

    It'll tell you something like :-

    Calories Burned
    From Normal Daily Activity 2,070 calories/day
    Net Calories Consumed*
    Your Daily Goal 900 calories/ day
    Daily Calorie Deficit 1,170 calories
    Projected Weight Loss 2.3 lbs/ week
  • willis84
    willis84 Posts: 86 Member
    Thanks. I think I have it figured out. I just need to have my remaining calories be at 500 to lose 1lb/wk. so I can still eat 208cal!
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    can you stick the number up for completeness. The 500 is built into the goal MFP sets, if you then eat what you've exercised you have a 500 deficit and are on track so there should be nothing left if you use MFP's goal.
  • willis84
    willis84 Posts: 86 Member
    I was wondering about that because under my goals, my daily calorie is set at 2020 but then it calculated it at 1520 (so yeah, 500 deficit was already calculated). So your saying eat back all my calories burned thru excercise?
  • ladyraven68
    ladyraven68 Posts: 2,003 Member
    I'm really confused as to how many calories I should be having left over at the end of the day in order to lose weight. That's including my excercise. I'm 150 and my bmr is 1400. I want to lose 1.5/wk

    Goal Food: 1400(bmr)
    Food consumed: 1440
    Excercise: 712
    Net: 728
    Remaining: 672

    What is the one number or area that I need to focus on to loose weight?
    I know that 3500cal=1lb. So that's 500/day
    So do I need to eat back 212calories to have burned 500?

    You are overthinking this. MFP has laid it out for you.

    You don't need to have any left - you eat until the "Remaining" is zero.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    I was wondering about that because under my goals, my daily calorie is set at 2020 but then it calculated it at 1520 (so yeah, 500 deficit was already calculated). So your saying eat back all my calories burned thru excercise?

    That's it. Exactly.

    MFP sets the goals assuming no "formal" exercise, based on activity level throughout the week. So if you burn another 200 cals with exercise you can eat them and maintain the original weight loss goal. If you enter the 200 cals in MFP as exercise it automagically increases your calorie goal for food accordingly.
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