I just started a nutrition course at my college, and my first assignment was to evaluate my current nutrition based on MyPlate recommendations. For those of you who might not know, MyPlate is the US government website that provides nutritional guidelines that replaced the food pyramid that used to be recommended.
I’ve been using MyFitnessPal to track my food for a year now, and my goal is currently set to 1200 per day. I’ve adjusted my goal a few times as I also adjust my exercise and weight, but it’s always been between 1200-1600. When I add my current stats to the MyPlate calculator, (5’6”, 203 pounds, 19 years old, 30-60 minutes of exercise per day, breastfeeding a child over 6 months old) it recommends 2800 calories per day. I am seriously amazed at how high that is. The obvious difference is MFP doesn’t have an option to add breastfeeding, but I was under the impression that I only burn around 300 calories for that. Does anyone have a good understanding of why the government recommends so much more than MFP? I’ve lost 70+ pounds over the last year which is great but not nearly as high as it would be if I was eating at a 1400 calorie deficit per day like the government suggests I am.
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