Come on, mfp. 1200?

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  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    Ila1227 wrote: »
    Hi. I just rejoined minutes ago. Yes, 1200 was what I got too. 5'0 only. Actually I am a little worried about this number. It said I would lose 1 pound a week. yikes. Its depressing how fast I can put it on and how slow if at all it leaves :(

    Don't forget to log your exercise and eat back some of those calories!

    Honestly, I settled for half a pound per week and made sure I got my activity level up so I could eat 1500 cals, because I really struggled when I was eating less. You'll figure it out - good luck!
  • Ila1227
    Ila1227 Posts: 71 Member
    I want to loose 40-50 pounds. But I am 67 and it seems to even get harder to lose weight


  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    Ila1227 wrote: »
    I want to loose 40-50 pounds. But I am 67 and it seems to even get harder to lose weight


    Sorry :(. Us shorties don't have a lot of wiggle room. Hang in there!
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    Ila1227 wrote: »
    I want to loose 40-50 pounds. But I am 67 and it seems to even get harder to lose weight

    My mom is 78 and hovers around Under Weight. But she is extremely active - she gardens, walks, does yoga, will be swimming soon, and goes to the gym twice per week for strength training with a trainer. She also eats a lot of higher volume/lower calorie foods.

  • katandwaves
    katandwaves Posts: 67 Member
    OP I'm 5'9" and I lost all my weight eating an average of 1800 a day. If you're worried you won't stick to it because you'll be too hungry, I would set your diary to lose .5 pounds a week.

    How much weight did you lose and how long did it take? It's comforting to know that it's possible to lose weight without starving or depriving ourselves :)
  • katandwaves
    katandwaves Posts: 67 Member
    SezxyStef wrote: »

    When I start here I was at the same weight...I chose 1lb a week...got the same calorie goal as you and it was great...I ate back exercise calories, was never hungry, and I have lost 50+ lbs and have kept most of my muscle.

    What kind of food did you eat? I'm always mesmerized by people who can lose the weight and keep it off!
  • Maxematics
    Maxematics Posts: 2,287 Member
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    OP I'm 5'9" and I lost all my weight eating an average of 1800 a day. If you're worried you won't stick to it because you'll be too hungry, I would set your diary to lose .5 pounds a week.

    How much weight did you lose and how long did it take? It's comforting to know that it's possible to lose weight without starving or depriving ourselves :)

    I wish I could remember which MFP veteran user was the one who used to say, "the winner is the person who eats the most and still loses". That's the philosophy I've tried to aspire to here, no point in being miserable!

    I feel like it's @rabbitjb, but I could be wrong about that.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    synacious wrote: »
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    OP I'm 5'9" and I lost all my weight eating an average of 1800 a day. If you're worried you won't stick to it because you'll be too hungry, I would set your diary to lose .5 pounds a week.

    How much weight did you lose and how long did it take? It's comforting to know that it's possible to lose weight without starving or depriving ourselves :)

    I wish I could remember which MFP veteran user was the one who used to say, "the winner is the person who eats the most and still loses". That's the philosophy I've tried to aspire to here, no point in being miserable!

    I feel like it's @rabbitjb, but I could be wrong about that.

    Sounds like me :bigsmile:
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    synacious wrote: »
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    OP I'm 5'9" and I lost all my weight eating an average of 1800 a day. If you're worried you won't stick to it because you'll be too hungry, I would set your diary to lose .5 pounds a week.

    How much weight did you lose and how long did it take? It's comforting to know that it's possible to lose weight without starving or depriving ourselves :)

    I wish I could remember which MFP veteran user was the one who used to say, "the winner is the person who eats the most and still loses". That's the philosophy I've tried to aspire to here, no point in being miserable!

    I feel like it's @rabbitjb, but I could be wrong about that.

    Sounds like me :bigsmile:

    It is a great saying, but not nearly witty enough to be a rabbit saying...
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    edited June 2016
    synacious wrote: »
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    OP I'm 5'9" and I lost all my weight eating an average of 1800 a day. If you're worried you won't stick to it because you'll be too hungry, I would set your diary to lose .5 pounds a week.

    How much weight did you lose and how long did it take? It's comforting to know that it's possible to lose weight without starving or depriving ourselves :)

    I wish I could remember which MFP veteran user was the one who used to say, "the winner is the person who eats the most and still loses". That's the philosophy I've tried to aspire to here, no point in being miserable!

    I feel like it's @rabbitjb, but I could be wrong about that.

    I thought it was @SLLRunner or the regular member who was pushing the big red ball in her profile. I'm certain it was one of those 2
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    synacious wrote: »
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    OP I'm 5'9" and I lost all my weight eating an average of 1800 a day. If you're worried you won't stick to it because you'll be too hungry, I would set your diary to lose .5 pounds a week.

    How much weight did you lose and how long did it take? It's comforting to know that it's possible to lose weight without starving or depriving ourselves :)

    I wish I could remember which MFP veteran user was the one who used to say, "the winner is the person who eats the most and still loses". That's the philosophy I've tried to aspire to here, no point in being miserable!

    I feel like it's @rabbitjb, but I could be wrong about that.

    Sounds like me :bigsmile:

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  • Maxematics
    Maxematics Posts: 2,287 Member
    synacious wrote: »
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    OP I'm 5'9" and I lost all my weight eating an average of 1800 a day. If you're worried you won't stick to it because you'll be too hungry, I would set your diary to lose .5 pounds a week.

    How much weight did you lose and how long did it take? It's comforting to know that it's possible to lose weight without starving or depriving ourselves :)

    I wish I could remember which MFP veteran user was the one who used to say, "the winner is the person who eats the most and still loses". That's the philosophy I've tried to aspire to here, no point in being miserable!

    I feel like it's @rabbitjb, but I could be wrong about that.

    I thought it was @SLLRunner or the regular member who was pushing the big red ball in her profile. I'm certain it was one of those 2

    I think you're right! Either way, both great posters who continuously post helpful advice on the forums.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    Some one HELP me!! What's the username of the big red ball pushing woman, it's going to drive me nuts until i know. And yes, she was always very helpful.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    Some one HELP me!! What's the username of the big red ball pushing woman, it's going to drive me nuts until i know. And yes, she was always very helpful.

    I'm pretty sure @SLLRunner used to push a ball. She has a different avatar now.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    Some one HELP me!! What's the username of the big red ball pushing woman, it's going to drive me nuts until i know. And yes, she was always very helpful.

    I'm pretty sure @SLLRunner used to push a ball. She has a different avatar now.

    Aha that could be i am confussdeded :lol:
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    edited June 2016
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    Some one HELP me!! What's the username of the big red ball pushing woman, it's going to drive me nuts until i know. And yes, she was always very helpful.

    I'm pretty sure @SLLRunner used to push a ball. She has a different avatar now.

    Aha that could be i am confussdeded :lol:

    Ya, @rabbitjb has been back for some time and I didn't notice until today because she's not using her usual avatar.
  • Rocknut53
    Rocknut53 Posts: 1,794 Member
    edited June 2016
    savithny wrote: »
    WinoGelato wrote: »

    Im always intrigued as to why people defend the 1200 cal goal? If it is possible to eat more and still lose, why do people not want to try? Why would you want to be "mildly hungry" all the time. That sounds miserable.


    For decades now, women's magazines and "nutrition" magazines have touted "1200 calorie diet plans!" as the "right way to do it." I remember standing in the checkout line at the grocery store, scanning across Women's Day and Family Circle and Good Housekeeping and all the rest, each of them in a row with their covers offering "1200 calories to lose 10 by Memorial Day!"

    It's so ingrained as the "calories a woman needs" that I have met women who think that 1200 calories are *all* a woman *should* eat. Period. Ever. Daily. Not for weight loss, but they think that's all a woman *needs.*

    Yes, and they always had pictures of the newest baked goods to try like a yummy chocolate cake or pastry or whatever....
  • Shana67
    Shana67 Posts: 680 Member
    edited June 2016
    SezxyStef wrote: »


    as I said if you really are eating 1200 chances are you are losing more muscle than you think.

    ETA: muscle definition comes from losing the fat on the muscle not from building extra muscle.

    Does it really. I had no idea =/ I am not losing muscle, and I am very strong. Not everyone is built the same, burns calories the same, has the same body. This is how I have always been.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,285 Member
    Ila1227 wrote: »
    Hi. I just rejoined minutes ago. Yes, 1200 was what I got too. 5'0 only. Actually I am a little worried about this number. It said I would lose 1 pound a week. yikes. Its depressing how fast I can put it on and how slow if at all it leaves :(

    1200 is too low a number for most people.

    Unfortunately for you, at 5 ft tall and 67 years old, you are probably one of the older smaller women for whom it is right ( plus eating back some exercise calories)
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    Some one HELP me!! What's the username of the big red ball pushing woman, it's going to drive me nuts until i know. And yes, she was always very helpful.

    @lifting4lis or similar username, was the other poster i was thinking of. She says "SNORT" a lot :lol:
  • WayTooHonest
    WayTooHonest Posts: 144 Member
    SezxyStef wrote: »
    Google Scooby Calculator. Go to that website. Read about TBEE and BMR. Calculate yours and use THAT number.

    Most people should NOT be eating a mere 1200 calories unless they are 4'11" or 88 years old. That's less than they would feed you intravenously if you were in a coma for heaven's sake.

    Scientific research can be very eye opening. The amount of nonsense perpetuated on these message boards is astonishing and quite frankly, with the ease of Google, inexcusable.

    not yet...TDEE is for someone who is consistent with exercise...it is best to just use the number here when the stats are entered in correctly and find out how many exercise calories to eat back and calculate your own TDEE using your numbers not some guesstimate from a website.

    That is simply untrue.

    TDEE is short for Total Daily Energy Expenditure. This is the amount calories your body burns in a 24 hour period, sleeping, working, exercising, playing and even digesting food! The IIFYM TDEE Calculator is designed to give you your exact TDEE based on a few key factors:

    BMR – Basal Metabolic Rate (The number of calories your body burns at rest, with zero activity)
    TEF – Thermic Effect of Food (The number of calories burned in the process of digesting food you eat)
    NEAT – Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (The number of calories burned in all activity outside of exercise)
    TEA – Thermic Effect of Activity (The number of calories you burn exercising (or higher than usually energy output)

    Add these all up and we arrive at your TDEE, or Total Daily Energy Expenditure

    http://www.iifym.com/tdee-calculator/
  • LisaKay91
    LisaKay91 Posts: 211 Member
    adoette wrote: »
    Sailrabbit.com/bmr/

    That's what I used to set my deficit (you can set a custom calorie count). I want to lose around 1.5 a week (1 pound would be more comfortable, but I'm on a deadline) but it was spitting me out 1200 calories at 5'6" and 170 lbs.

    I get hangry sometimes at 1380! I'd straight murder someone at 1200!

    I like the sailrabbit.com calculator because there's a section towards the bottom where you can say you want to burn an average of X calories a day in exercise. Plug that in with your guesstimate of a weeks exercise ÷7 and you get one with exercise calories built in.

    It works better for me, and might give you a more reasonable deficit, whatever your goals are. Even if you don't use it like that, you can still see how your exercise calories affect your weight loss in a clear(er) way than with MFP. Helps to make a more sensible goal all around.


    It's telling me to eat 271 calories to lose 2lbs/week at 250lbs... uhhhhmmmmmmm hahaha.

    I usually eat 1200 and lose 2lbs a week since mid-May... I don't think I trust those calculators. MFP tells me to eat 1400
  • ogtmama
    ogtmama Posts: 1,403 Member
    edited June 2016
    Are we talking about eating 1200 or netting 1200? As a 5'2 woman I have to say netting 1200 seems entirely filling, satisfying, and reasonable.

    Yesterday I ate an English muffin with peanut butter for breakfast, a green dragon roll for lunch and a chicken fajita salad WITH SOUR CREAM (sorry, that's just my favourite things in the world)...with a one hour walk and netted almost exactly 1200 calories.

    I feel healthier and stronger and happier than I have in ages...just because it doesn't work for everyone doesn't mean it doesn't work for anyone.

    ETA: I also had a skinny cow chocolate truffle bar after dinner :)
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    SezxyStef wrote: »
    Google Scooby Calculator. Go to that website. Read about TBEE and BMR. Calculate yours and use THAT number.

    Most people should NOT be eating a mere 1200 calories unless they are 4'11" or 88 years old. That's less than they would feed you intravenously if you were in a coma for heaven's sake.

    Scientific research can be very eye opening. The amount of nonsense perpetuated on these message boards is astonishing and quite frankly, with the ease of Google, inexcusable.

    not yet...TDEE is for someone who is consistent with exercise...it is best to just use the number here when the stats are entered in correctly and find out how many exercise calories to eat back and calculate your own TDEE using your numbers not some guesstimate from a website.

    That is simply untrue.

    TDEE is short for Total Daily Energy Expenditure. This is the amount calories your body burns in a 24 hour period, sleeping, working, exercising, playing and even digesting food! The IIFYM TDEE Calculator is designed to give you your exact TDEE based on a few key factors:

    BMR – Basal Metabolic Rate (The number of calories your body burns at rest, with zero activity)
    TEF – Thermic Effect of Food (The number of calories burned in the process of digesting food you eat)
    NEAT – Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (The number of calories burned in all activity outside of exercise)
    TEA – Thermic Effect of Activity (The number of calories you burn exercising (or higher than usually energy output)

    Add these all up and we arrive at your TDEE, or Total Daily Energy Expenditure

    http://www.iifym.com/tdee-calculator/

    TDEE factors your weekly exercise into the number. If some weeks you go to the gym every day or take long hikes, and other weeks you don't exercise at all, or maybe you are super active in the summer and never move in the winter, TDEE will cause you to overeat on some weeks/months, and underfuel your exercise on others.
  • LisaKay91
    LisaKay91 Posts: 211 Member
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    What am I doing wrong? I spend most of my days in a chair and laying down at home. I do go to the gym 1-3 days a week for cardio but it isn't constant.. and adding exercise adds 100 calories lol
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    edited June 2016
    Height (hard to read). Gender button must default?

    5'2" = 62 inches.

    Exercise will be averaged out over 7 days. Kind of nice not to have the up/down of exercise vs. rest days