Will I lose weight on 1,400 calories?

The short answer is yes! Your daily targets are calculated based on the information you input about yourself.

To lose 1lb a week you need to create a calorie deficit of between 500 - 600 calories a day which is best achieved through a combination of eating less and exercising more. This is why you are also set an exercise target to burn 200 calories each day in additional activity. So if for example, your allowance is 1,400 calories, your net daily calorie target is in fact 1,200 calories per day – 1,400 less 200 cals burned in extra exercise.

Exercise has many benefits for our health, but it's great for helping weight loss not only by burning extra calories while you are doing it, but over time it actually changes your body's composition (more muscle/less fat) which has a positive effect on your metabolism.

As you start to lose the fat and build more muscle, your body – even at rest – will start to burn more calories as muscle is an active tissue requiring energy, meaning it burns calories just by being there – unlike fat which doesn't. For maximum benefit, your daily exercise should be activity over and above what you would usually do.

The bottom line is that if you achieve the 500-600 daily calorie reduction compared to what you were eating before, weight loss will happen! When our system set your calorie target, this calculation will have been taken into consideration.