Calorie help please

abs1970
abs1970 Posts: 235 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Yesterday I asked how to hit my calorie target (which I'm consistently under). Today, I'm curious to know whether 1750 sounds right for a female, 5ft2, 49kg, 20.58% body fat, training and lifting weights regularly (was every day but now trying 4x a week) . Happy with weight but want to get more lean and finding it hard to drop that last bit of body fat :wink: :) Thanks

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  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    Other than the training, are you sedentary? What is your training? 1,750 doesn't sound outrageous, but it's hard to know exactly without knowing an estimate for how many calories you use each day.

    If I remember correctly from your other thread, you're logging right now and maintaining your weight. How many calories a day are you getting now?
  • abs1970
    abs1970 Posts: 235 Member
    Other than training I have a desk job, so yes pretty sedentary. I'm probably getting between 1400-1500 a day.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    abs1970 wrote: »
    Other than training I have a desk job, so yes pretty sedentary. I'm probably getting between 1400-1500 a day.

    If you are maintaining on 1,400-1,500 a day, adding calories is going to result in weight gain. You can use all the calorie calculators in the world, but your real life results are what to go by.

  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    edited April 2017
    Desk job is 8 hrs of day perhaps.
    Workout is 1 hr.
    Sleep maybe 8 hrs.

    You a total bump on a log for the other hours, AND the weekend?
    No kids or family making for more household responsibilities of movement?

    Vast majority I've seen get an activity tracker that have desk job discover they get more than the 4000 steps max that Sedentary activity level about stops at. And that is before motivated to do more by the device.

    Sedentary desk job does not mean a sedentary activity level outside of exercise.

    They are actually Lightly Active, day to day and more on weekends.

    And if last bit of weight to healthy level - deficit should be minimum so as not to stress the body to retain water weight and freak you out more. Or cause you to undereat too much and cause even more stress.
    250 deficit probably right.
  • abs1970
    abs1970 Posts: 235 Member
    @janejellyroll I think I'll stop worrying about not hitting my calories - you're right, if I'm not gaining weight then I should be fine.
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