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Thank you! I am now down 5lbs.
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Update - I weighed myself today and definitely lost 1.5 lbs. I also rested for the last two days to give my body a break. I will keep going.
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Thank you. I haven't been feeling tired or hungry under my current plan. Just havent seen any change on the scale and thought I may be doing somwthing wrong. I will give it another two weeks at 1450/lightly active.
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Ok so should I ve sedentary or lightly active?
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Sorry for the confusion. So my weight is 240 at 5'5. I was originally set to 1230 intake because I marked myself as sedentary based on their definition. I have a desk job and was merely walking. The following week I changed it to livhrky active because I was hitting the 10K steps consistently and working out for 70 mins.…
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Thanks! I actually updated it but it says edit in 45 mins. Long story short I realized that I was doung this wrong (again). Apparantly I asked this question 5 years ago when I was 35 lbs lighter. Basically,I need 2850 to maintain weight. The last 2 weeks my caloric budget was set to 1230 and 1450 based on sedentary and…
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I get it. I have to eat what I burn because the calories are already subtracted for me. So If I am to eat 1400 cals a day and I burn 600 then I need to eat that back to maintain the 1400. So right now i am probably burning too much and not eating enough. Got it. I will pay attention to my net cals, too. Thanks all.
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Thanks for the responses and additional questions. I see that I am not the only one who is confused here, Just to be clear, my caloric needs to maintain my current weight is 2400. MFP has my caloric intake at 1400, it cut 1000 so I can lose 2lbs a week. My BMR is 1730.65 So, if I am supposed to eat 1400 calories to see a…
