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1/12/13 4:46 P

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If you update your weight goal, your fitness tracker page will update what it recommends for what you entered as your current weight and your weight goal (and goal date). The site does the calculations for you, but the article was posted because it seemed like you may have wanted to see how it is done. If you find yourself doing more or less than what your Fitness Tracker page has given you as a goal, then you will want to update your calories burned goal to be what you are doing in an average week. Doing that will then update your Nutrition goals. Those 3 things are all connected. Making a change to either your weight goal OR calories burned goal can change your Nutrition goals, but you may not see a change in those depending on where you are with your goals.

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1/12/13 2:58 P

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Okay, thanks!! I have no idea how many calories I want/need to burn though.. I was hoping that by putting in my weight, height, etc. and how much I want to lose, I would be told how many calories I need to burn..



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Your calorie goals are based on your calories burned goal and your weight goal. Have you tried to manually walk through the calculations in the article that was posted? If not, you may want to try to do that to get a better understanding of what is going on with your numbers.

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1/10/13 10:19 P

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I saw that post - thank you. But my question is,I changed my goal weight drastically (to 100 pounds) just to see if my calorie needs would change and they didn't but shouldn't the dalorie needs have changed?

I am so frustrated with this site.

Edited by: GRACERAY at: 1/10/2013 (22:29)

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How much are you exercising?

This should help you understand how your calorie ranges are determined here: www.sparkpeople.com/resource/calorie_calcu
lation101.asp?


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It seemed like my calorie needs were really high, so I lowered my goal weight significantly to see if it would change my caloric needs and it didn't, which makes me believe it's not working or I'm not doing something right. It shows that I need 1500-1850 a day which seems really high. Can someone tell me how to make sure that is automatically calculating my caloric needs? Thanks!



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