Short ladies, what's your daily calorie goal?

segacs

I'm 5'1", 35 years old, 105lbs. I'm working on finding my maintenance right now, but I think it's around 1600 including exercise (I use TDEE method). I'm eating at 1600 now anyway, and I'll adjust as needed.

middlehaitch

Segacs that is very interesting.
My TDEE is 1400 ( self derived) same stats but 27y older. Looks like it lines up with expected decrease in BMR over the decades.

Cheers, h.

segacs

middlehaitch wrote: »

Segacs that is very interesting.
My TDEE is 1400 ( self derived) same stats but 27y older. Looks like it lines up with expected decrease in BMR over the decades.

Cheers, h.

Yay, something to look forward to!

(Haha, seriously, good for you.)

kacey65

Hi Verdinal - thank you for taking up the thread! I will look into the protein sparing fast. (I'm willing to try anything for a short time - as long as my long term nutrition is good, then the more I know about how MY body reacts the better. At least that is what I think.)

H - how do I know what my maintenance calories will be ? I am currently eating at/under 1200 calories per day, and riding my bike (outside - up and down hills, in the wind) for over an hour 5 times per week. I am, basically, not losing. Is this my maintenance level ? Then OMG what is my 'losing' level ?

This is a great thread - and interesting to see the variability in people.

Kim55555

spunkypug100 wrote: »

Just looking for input from other shorties. I'm 5'1" and MyFitnessPal set my calories to 1670 to lose a pound a week. I'm not in a hurry, I just want to find something I can stick with long term so I didn't want to cut my calories way back. I'm curious what everyone else has theirs set to and what results they are seeing?

Hi

Kim55555

Kim55555 wrote: »

spunkypug100 wrote: »

Just looking for input from other shorties. I'm 5'1" and MyFitnessPal set my calories to 1670 to lose a pound a week. I'm not in a hurry, I just want to find something I can stick with long term so I didn't want to cut my calories way back. I'm curious what everyone else has theirs set to and what results they are seeing?

Hi

spunkypug100 wrote: »

Just looking for input from other shorties. I'm 5'1" and MyFitnessPal set my calories to 1670 to lose a pound a week. I'm not in a hurry, I just want to find something I can stick with long term so I didn't want to cut my calories way back. I'm curious what everyone else has theirs set to and what results they are seeing?

I'm 5'2 and atm weigh 64.4 kg. I want to get back to 57 kg. I'm losing eating a gross weekly average of 2000 calories. I'd say I'm at about a 10 % deficit. I don't mind if it takes 7 months to lose it. I'm in no hurry either.

3 times per week sprints, 1 moderate intensity session, 2 times per week heavy weights. Plus I walk to and from my car to work 30 mins there, 30 mins back.

Everyone is different and lose at a different pace. I guess you just gotta work out what works best for you. For me I like to have the energy for my activities, I need the extra fuel to achieve my performance goals. I also don't like to go hungry.

LivingtheLeanDream

I'm 5ft 2" and been maintaining my goal of 133lbs for 2 years, I maintain on 2200 gross calories, when I was losing I ate 1800 gross to lose around 1/2-3/4lb a week. (46yrs old /average 17k steps a day/ lift 3 times a week/ yoga - twice a week)

Optimistical1

I'm 5'0". I started MFP August 29th at 149.5 pounds. As of yesterday, I weighed 140.5 pounds. I'm keeping it at 1200 calories a day and underestimating then eating back half of my exercise calories. There have been three occasions within the past month that I've cheated (big time) and drank so much that I failed to log, but overall, I think sticking to the 1200 calories a day is what prevented a weight loss plateau/setback over the cheat days. So far it's working great for me. As long as I stick to my protein goal, I never feel hungry or deprived.

MarcyKirkton

My diary spells out thst BELOWI 1000 is not recommended.

I'll stick to abiding by the actual Mfp guidelines, not individuals who obviously are unaware.

Verdenal

AnnPT77 wrote: »

medion21 wrote: »

Hello. I'm 5ft 2 and set to loose 2lb a week. I've put my self as inactive because I hate exercise . I want to change that though. ...that's why I've joined MFP. Oh yeah I'm on 1200....finding it hard to stick to that xx

Two thoughts:

One reads "I need to exercise; I hate exercise." on MFP a lot. I spent most of my life way too inactive. The reason I became active? I found something I love that involves activity. So, I suggest trying to think of it in terms of "fun ways I could be moving more" not The Dreaded Exercise.

Also, if it's hard to stick to 1200 . . . that "fun thing that involves movement" will buy you more calories to eat every day you do it. That may make it even easier to enjoy it!

I will never give up trying to find a way to be active every day because it promotes health, but I don't like exercising. Even when I rigorously exercised, it didn't burn that many calories. The well-known expression is that "abs are made in the kitchen, not the gym".

I walked 16.5 miles last weekend. I'm not averse to all activity. But it's not a major factor in weight loss. In fact, after exerting myself I reward myself by indulging more. This is a common phenomenon.

Verdenal

middlehaitch wrote: »

Verdinal, thanks for the reply.
You have what works for you worked out, good.
can I just ask you what your maintenance will be when you reach your goal weight?
As I said, my maintenance is between 1200-1400, and I was curious what another petite older woman would maintain on, recognising that we are all different.

Cheers, h.

I'm enjoying this thread too. Kindred souls.

I'll have to see what it is when I lose weight. Right now, I'm resistant to committing and I really need to. To be honest, I don't track my maintenance rigorously. After I get my weight down to a certain level, I try to eat reasonably well and weigh myself several times a week. If my weight goes up I make adjustments. Sometimes I'm sure I eat 1,800, 2,000, or 2,400 calories. But it catches up with me.

I'm in a situation now in which I'm surrounded by junk food that I can't get rid of and indulging is inevitable. So at least a couple of times a year I'll have to do something more drastic to get things under control.

Azuriaz

middlehaitch wrote: »

Verdinal, thanks for the reply.
You have what works for you worked out, good.
can I just ask you what your maintenance will be when you reach your goal weight?
As I said, my maintenance is between 1200-1400, and I was curious what another petite older woman would maintain on, recognising that we are all different.

Cheers, h.

43, just under 5'3:

Maintenance is around 1450 if I sit on my behind all day. By the time I'm done losing this last bit I'll be lucky if it's 1300.

spunkypug100

Wow, There are a lot of us Shorties!

ButterflyBites

Interesting post. I'm 5' , 31 and eat 1350 cals which seems to be working. 1200 did not work for me but I do not have a thyroid which makes it all a little harder - 1200 worked great for me before my thyroid went to crap.

AnnPT77

Verdenal wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

medion21 wrote: »

Hello. I'm 5ft 2 and set to loose 2lb a week. I've put my self as inactive because I hate exercise . I want to change that though. ...that's why I've joined MFP. Oh yeah I'm on 1200....finding it hard to stick to that xx

Two thoughts:

One reads "I need to exercise; I hate exercise." on MFP a lot. I spent most of my life way too inactive. The reason I became active? I found something I love that involves activity. So, I suggest trying to think of it in terms of "fun ways I could be moving more" not The Dreaded Exercise.

Also, if it's hard to stick to 1200 . . . that "fun thing that involves movement" will buy you more calories to eat every day you do it. That may make it even easier to enjoy it!

I'm not averse to all activity. But it's not a major factor in weight loss. In fact, after exerting myself I reward myself by indulging more. This is a common phenomenon.

Verdenal, I was responding specifically to medion21's statement "I'm on 1200....finding it hard to stick to that" in a post where she also said "I hate exercise . I want to change that though."

I absolutely agree that it's difficult (impossible) to exercise enough to out-work poor eating habits. I've been approximately as active as I am now for a dozen years. It improved my fitness, my mood, my body composition, and my ability to do everyday chores. But despite robust activity, I stayed fat. Obese, actually.

However, for people on a low calorie goal, exercise can be "a major factor" in weight loss, *if* eating back some of their exercise calories gets them to a gross calorie level that feels more sustainable to them. As long as the "reward" is not excessive, it can be a good strategy . . . . though like any strategy, it's not for everyone.

I don't, myself, "exercise" (at least in my mind). To me, "exercise" sounds like something one does out of duty because it's good for one. I've proven to myself that I'm too weak a character to spend lots of time on things that are merely "good for me".

Instead, I do things that I find fun (not everyone would find these same things fun, of course). I row, on water in-season and on machines in off-season, and take spin classes. Both are fun to me, and feel *great*. I feel physically and emotionally worse if I can't do them. Regular robust activity has also been shown, in well-conducted research, to markedly reduce recurrence (including deadly metastatic recurrence) in breast cancer survivors, independent of weight. (I had stage 3 - quite advanced - breast cancer 15 years ago.)

So, I don't think (Verdenal) that we disagree in any material way. We've each found different paths to weight loss that work for us, and have somewhat different attitudes toward being active (which is a tastes & preferences thing, after all).

PinkPixiexox

Not sure if I've posted on this thread before!

I'm 5FT2, 126lbs and eating at around 1450-1500 a day to lose 0.5 a week. Almost at maintenance! Yaaaay!