Why?

freespirit420
freespirit420 Posts: 12 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Why does MFP only give me 1200 calories a day to eat when my BMR is 1457? Is that to include deficit to lose the weight? I thought we were suppposed to eat at least our BMR?

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  • freespirit420
    freespirit420 Posts: 12 Member
    P.S. I am not losing infact scale seems to be going up (yo-yoing) with exercise.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    With 34 pounds you want to lose, make sure your weekly goal is set to one pound a week, and your activity level is set accurately. Also, when you exercise, it adds calories to your daily goal. Be sure to eat them.

    Otherwise, you'll end up being at the bare minimum of 1200.
  • Rilke
    Rilke Posts: 1,201 Member
    Set your goal to one pound per week.
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    She probably does have it set to one pound per week. Try 1/2 pound per week. MFP sets your goal depending on the information YOU put in.
  • freespirit420
    freespirit420 Posts: 12 Member
    Thank you all. I did change the setting to 1 lb a week and it changed the amout of calories for me. It was just starting to get hard when having grapes and it eating up a lot of my daily calories. I mean they are grapes! lol

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