Calories question and a little history

pezzynez

I've been gaining and losing weight since I had my son two years ago. About six month after I had him I went to the gym and talked with a trainer that said it was perfectly fine to have about 1000 calories (even while BFing), I now know this is wrong, I got sick and got to the point to where I was getting maybe 500 calories because of BFing.
Two year later my dieting and eating is screwed. I've tried different diets, 3 day diet being the most recent which didn't work. I decided to get try some slimquick gummies, reading the bottle it said best when used with a low calories diet at 1350 calories. That's a lot for me, I eat closer to 1000 (except on days that I eat anything, not good I know).
The last month I have been taking the gummies and eating closer to 1350 and I'm feeling much better but I haven't weight myself yet. I really just needed to know how many calories I should be eating, anything above 1100 seems like a lot. I'm female, 5 foot even if that helps any. I just need lose this extra weight so I can start feeling better about myself. So someone point me in the right way on finding something that works. Thanks

jemhh

What are your current and goal weights?

In general, you can fill out your MFP profile to determine your daily goal. Unless you have more than 75 lbs to lose, I would suggest not choosing anything over 1 pound per week as your weight loss goal.

If you are truly overweight/obese, you are not maintaining on 1000 calories. It is extremely common for people to underestimate the number of calories that they are consuming each day. In order to avoid this, I suggest the following:

• Measure all solids with a digital kitchen scale
• Measure all liquids with a measuring cup
• When it is necessary to measure solids with a measuring cup (i.e., the batter in your scale has died) don’t jam as much possible into the cup. Instead, I suggest filling it to just below the top. You may end up overestimating calories for that food item but doing that once or twice in the time period before you get your new battery will not cause you to starve.
• When using a scale or measuring cup isn’t feasible (e.g., you are out at a restaurant) use your estimating skills. To get a good idea of how to do this, Google “serving size chart” and look at the image results. You may want to print out a chart and put it in your wallet to refer to until a time when you become comfortable with doing this on your own.
• Log all of your food and drink using solid nutrition information. Such info can be found on food labels (you may be able to scan the UPC code on the packaging to find this) and can often be found by searching the MFP database for USDA entries. I prefer to enter searches in this manner “usda [food]”. For example, if I were to look up cucumbers I would search “usda cucumber.” You can also search the USDA’s online nutrition database for this info. Finally, Googling the food ("cucumber calories") on a computer (this may not work on a phone browser) will give you a results screen that shows the USDA’s full nutrition info.

pezzynez

Sorry just getting to this, I kinda forgot I posted this. thanks for replying
My current weight is 165 I'm trying to get down to 130 or 120. I did gain more weight because of the holidays and I just stopped dieting. I'm sure sometimes I underestimate the exact amount of calories. I'll probably look into getting a scale thanks for advise