Struggling with fitness pal calories can anyone help?
I really duno how many cals i should be on ive set mine at 1500.
R you really meant to eat them back? Im working out and still not losing weight FRUSTRATED |
My fitness pal tends to greatly over exaggerate how many calories you burn through exercise. Also, calories you put in are generally estimates and usually people unless they are weighing their food are also under exaggerating how many calories you eat. Most people I know don't eat back their calories and consider exercise a bonus. Unless you are doing something which requires you to exercise for multiple hours per day, then eating back your calories is probably non productive.
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Thanks Im going to stay 1500 and not eat back any and see how i go , if still struggling im gona drop cals
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I use fitness pal too and was wondering the same thing...I would not log in the exercise and stick to the 1500 calories. I haven't been losing weight with it either. I'm going to try another calorie counter and see if it makes a difference.
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What are you eating? A calorie is not a calorie. If you calorie is nutritious food, your body burns it for fuel. If its junk and too many at one one sitting its stored as fat.
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what are your stats?
I am 5'9, 249, sedentary except for whatever exercise I do that day. To lose 2lbs a week my daily calories are at 1380. I also do not eat back my calories. I may use a small portion as a buffer but at max 100-150 |
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When I wasn't using my Fitbit, when I would log exercise I would take the estimated amount Myfitnesspal gave me and cut it in half. I knew it overestimated the amount of calories burned, so I didn't want to fall into the trap of giving myself too much buffer room for eating (this was also when I was eating back my exercise calories) and stall with weight loss. Quote:
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just stuck on calories grr.
Im 5,4 228lbs and work at a desk job but when i work out ill do 45mins weights 8min HIIT and 30-45min swim x |
When you say you're stuck, do you mean that it's difficult to stay at 1500 calories or that you are eating 1500 calories and it's not coming off?
What is a typical menu for you? Maybe we can make some suggestions at how to stay around 1500 without hunger - some foods will give you much more volume for the amount than others, which keeps you satisfied and able to stick to it. |
Based on your height and weight, with a sedentary job 1500 cals should burn about 1lb of fat per week. exercise (if you dont eat back the cals) will work you towards more than that.
I would definitely avoid eating the calories back at all. If you are still hungry on 1500 cals then, yea, post a sample menu and we can see if we can help you tweak it a bit to make it more filling. |
A calorie is not a calorie. You body burns carbs and if there are too many for immediate needs they are immediately stored as fat. It takes more calories for your body to process protein. If you Goggled it, you'd see a calorie is not a calorie.
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QuilterInVA -
I am sorry, QuilterInVA, but I am science teacher and I vehemently disagree with your statement. I also have watched numerous documentaries recently with experts in nutrition/obesity saying the exact opposite of what you are saying. Quote:
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The amount of calories you need is definitely something that you need to play around with to determine what works for you. And what works for you isn't going to work for anyone else.
Having said that I'll tell you what worked for me. I lost 35 pounds eating 1600 calories a day without exercising. I ate anywhere from 1200-1700 for a couple weeks before sticking with 1600. I found anything less than 1600 wasn't enough for me. I started off at 211. After losing that 35 pounds I started exercising while keeping my calorie intake the same. After 3 months I lost nothing. It was frustrating but I kept at it because my fitness level was improving. Anyway I finally upped my calories to around 1800 on days I exercised (4-5 a week) and kept it at 1600 on days I didn't. Once I did that I lost an additional 7 pounds in about 3 weeks. As you can see what worked for me was different from what others have said so you really just have to experiment and see what works best for you. Also to add to the is a calorie a calorie argument, I'm a firm believer that it is. I didn't cut out any foods from my diet which meant I could eat anything as long as it fit into my daily allowance. There were days I ate 80% carbs and lost weight, days where alcohol made up half my intake, and a lot of chocolate, milk not the healthy dark stuff, was eaten. It didn't seem to make a difference and I lost 35 pounds in 4.5 months. |
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