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I seem to be having the same issue on both the app and website.

I don't understand people commenting here 'but can you do 1200 calories for life?' to those saying that 1200 is do-able if you plan correctly. Um...it's not for life. It's to lose weight, then adjustments can be made once goal weight is reached. I'm on 1200 net a day right now, and once I reach my goal I won't need to be…

1200 cals (plus exercise cals) here as well!

Height: 5' SW: 211 lb CW: 172 lb GW: 110 lb MFP put me on 1200 cals, thought I earn more through exercise: Curves (with Smart tag) almost every day, plus I use a FitBit One to make sure I burn about 2450 cals a day through walking as well. So far I've lost about 1.4lb a week on average since I started this in April this…

I'm 30 and 5' nothing and generally eat between 1600 to 2000 cals thanks to walking around 15,000 steps a day plus Curves (with a Smart tag) three times a week and sometimes I go down 2.5 one week and almost nothing the next, but it averages out to about 1.5 lb a week which is fine by me. I'm trying to net 1200 cals a day…

I've been to Handmade Burger many times and if I haven't had a 'skinny' lunch I get the chicken skewers, sometimes two sets of them which gives you a very nice serving for about the same price as a burger and not too much lettuce - sort of like the opposite ratio of meat to salad as the Caesar salad with chargrilled…

I have gone through several calculators for BMR, both automated and the ones on that roadmap thing where you plug the numbers into a calculator yourself. I have worked out my BMR and from that my TDEE which is about 1750 or 2000 depending on the exercise settings and if I take 750 off that to lose 1.5lb a week (not the 2lb…

1200 calories is not necessarily under-eating depending on your height and activity level and how much weight you are trying to lose. Some people around here forget that not everyone is of average height or more ¬_¬ 1200 is perfectly do-able if you have things like soups for lunch with some yoghurt/low-fat dessert, cereal…

I'm 5' and I have lost just shy of 24lb since I started going to Curves in late March and 19lb since I started using MFP in mid-April - an average of about 1.6lb a week. I started at 211lb and am now at 187.2lb. No pictures I'm afraid, I am still camera-shy =( So not super-fast or super-slow weight loss, but I think it's…

5' nothin' short-*kitten* here - I started at 211, though 2 years ago I was 215 and lost 20lb with my second attempt at Weight Watchers, but the slow rate made me lose motivation and I bobbed back up :( I started MFP in early April and I'm 20lb down again and determined to make it to about 112 this time. I've lost 55lb…

Have you just started using your FitBit? I had some difficulty with mine on the first couple of days I was using it and had it synced up with MFP. it was not receiving my food diary entries from MFP correctly - entire meals would be missing. I got it to work by removing and adding my food on MFP until the FitBit site…

I'm on 1200 too, though I earn between 350-800 extra calories a day through exercise which I try to eat. I'm a titch (5') who sits on her bum all day at work and at home, unless I'm at Curves or out walking to get my 10k steps a day. My work *and* hobbies are sedentary, so I that's what I set my activity level as. In…

Thank-you for explaining! The asterisks were for emphasis, I'm sorry for any confusion NatureChik198. I just really dislike using capitals for emphasis, the asterisks are almost automatic for me!

I've been going to Curves since late March and I've lost almost 20lb doing that and watching my calories, plus walking now that I have my FiBit. The one I go to uses the Smart system, which uses a barcode-tag to tell the machine how fast you should be working and keeps you working harder as time goes on. I don't know if…

My calories were set at 1200 by MFP because of my height (5'), age and sedentary workday, plus my goal of losing 2lb a week, what I had been told at Weight Watchers was the maximum amount you could healthily lose per week. I have since changed this goal to 1.5lb, but my calorie limit remains the same. I had not heard of…

I'm just getting up to 20lb lost and I'm only noticing because of some of my clothing, but when I lost weight 5 years ago (it all went back on) it wasn't until I had to get new bras that I really thought 'gosh, it's actually working' - before then it was just seeing the numbers on the scale going down. I guess it depends…

Good luck to you peep, you can do it!

I'm only 5' tall and have a sedentary job, so my calorie target was set at 1200. I go to Curves three times a week and that adds quite a few calories, though I heard that Curves overestimates how many calories you burn during one of their Smart-tab workouts so I don't want to get too close to my calorie goal...but I'm not…

I have been confused about this also. I'm 5' tall, 200lb and aiming for 112lb - my calories have been set at 1200, as I have a desk job and unless I go to the gym am about as active as a rock. I do Curves three times a week and burn around 450 each time, plus I burn around 350 on Sat/Sun when I go for a walk. I've been…