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According to my TDEE I should eat 2009 cals to maintain my weight so that's 14,063 calories per week. On two days I eat 500 cals so that's 1000 gone. Then it varies between 1500-1900 a day so based on say 1800 a day that's 9000 gone, a total of 10,000 a week so I am bound to lose weight, as I walk to work 5 days a week (45 mins) and walk my dogs twice a day! Plus I am trying to stick to around 1500 in the week!

I just love this way of looking at cals, I know they say you don't have to cal count, but I feel I need to as I just love food so much, but I find MFP fun to use so I enjoy that. I felt bad Fri evening as we had an Italian takeout and my cals for the day were 2258 but then yesterday I had 1577 to make up for it!!

True, it's easier when you don't have to restrict calories everyday! I love the weekly graph on MFP as it tells me how many calories I have saved overall

Wow, I didn't even know about that one! My goal on there is 1500 a day and I saved 2486 cals last week!!!

It has a graph on the android app, I'm not sure about the website
2486 is awesome!
I saved about 4000 this week as ended up doing a 4:3!

Well done!!! I did 4:3 in first week and did lose a pound more than when I did 5:2 last week!

Thanks for the post Claire. I've worked out my calories using your method and should be close to losing 1 pound a week. I did initially but haven't lost much at all for the last month. I think feed day calories must have crept up so now I'm using MFP for a week or two to track exactly what I'm eating. I eat quite healthily but we tend to have big portions so I'm weighing everything. I'm working on the principle that once I 'get my eye in' I can go back to to calorie counting. I swim a couple of times a week before work and OH and I walk after our evening meal if the weathers ok. Lucky you to have dogs!

Its ok just thought I would share, as I feel less guilty for having bad things at the weekend if I am looking at the cals per week! I wouldn't be able to cope with MFP, not yet anyway! It gives me structure! I am sure your weight loss will kick in again with using MFP, I like big portions too but do weigh things now - hubby gets fed up of me scanning bar codes all the time!

True, it's easier when you don't have to restrict calories everyday! I love the weekly graph on MFP as it tells me how many calories I have saved overall

Where can I find this weekly graph? Thanks

Pia

If you go to the home page, then it has summary, daily and weekly at the top, click on weekly, then you will see a little pic of a bar chart so click on that

If you go to the home page, then it has summary, daily and weekly at the top, click on weekly, then you will see a little pic of a bar chart so click on that

Maybe I am a little brainless hehe - but which home page? ( sorry but I am Danish )

I hadn't realised quite how generous our portions were until the other day when I got a M&S ready meal for OH. We hardly ever have ready meals and when it was on the plate it was tiny! The calorie count was 500 so it gave me a wake up call. Thanks for tip about the weekly calorie graph too.

If you go to the home page, then it has summary, daily and weekly at the top, click on weekly, then you will see a little pic of a bar chart so click on that

Maybe I am a little brainless hehe - but which home page? ( sorry but I am Danish )

It's the first page that opens automatically when you click on the app icon, the starting page

Just had a look at MFP. Do you set it to lose or maintain to get your calories?

I hadn't realised quite how generous our portions were until the other day when I got a M&S ready meal for OH. We hardly ever have ready meals and when it was on the plate it was tiny! The calorie count was 500 so it gave me a wake up call. Thanks for tip about the weekly calorie graph too.

I love the m and s ready meals, I always top them up with veg!

Just had a look at MFP. Do you set it to lose or maintain to get your calories?

I am sorry for asking that much . I now found out what you mean about MFP.. My fitness Pal hehe.. I didn't even know THAT . We have similar in Denmark so I will try to find a site with the same chart.

Thanks a lot for helping out

Pia