Confused about calorie consumption...

Hey

I'm not new to healthy eating or exercise. I generally eat completely clean at around 1400-1600 calories a day and exercisewise I run an hour a day 5-6 days a week, take exercise classes 2 times a week and do weight lifting for 1 hour 4 days a week.

However I have been looking at the eat meter which is telling me to consume 1200 calories a day even though I log my activity.

I changed my activity level to moderately active and this then said my bmr was 1940.

Basically I'm now a little confused about what I should be eating and what my activity level should be.

I'm 21, 5'2 female, weighing 118 llbs.

Any  help would be greatly appreciated!

The eat meter target does not change as you log exercise - you have to change it manually (under Account Settings).

Your BMR is not 1940. BMR is how much you burn in a coma, not how much you burn when you include an activity level. CC does not calculate BMR.

1400-1600 sounds about right if you are trying to lose weight.

The eat meter daily goal is a number that you enter in your account setting.  If you are exercising this much you should NOT be eating 1200 calories. Definately more.  I'd say 1400-1600 is even too low..probably around 1800 is better - with your exercise you would still have a pretty big deficit.

yeh sorry didn't mean my bmr (thats about 1300) - the 1940 number refers to the burn meter if I set my activity at moderate.

so should I leave activity at sedentary and then change the eat meter?

if so would the exercise be added onto the burn meter and therefore best to leave it at sedentary?

There are two schools of thought - some say set an activity level that describes you and leave it at that. Others say to set it at sedentary, and log the exercise as you do it.

Either way, figure out how much you are burning by the end of the day, and eat ~500 cal less than that.

There's no guarantee that either method will be more accurate, it depends completely on your body, and the intensity of your workouts.

Eating at an avg 1500, have you been losing weight? If so, no need to change anything, I'd say.

If you leave your activity level at sedentary, and add in your exercise using the activity tool, the burn meter will reflect total calories burned.  This is what I do.

After you do this you can see what you are burning on a daily basis and adjust your eat meter accordingly.

no I haven't generally been loosing weight on this. However I am incredibly toned and have good muscle definition all over and my ab definition has generally been improving. do you think this is perhaps loosing body fat but not weight?

sorry for all the follow on questions!

that sure is what it sounds like!