5'6 females, 155ish lbs...how many calories are you eating per day to lose weight?

KM0692

(net calories)

cmriverside

It's not going to be one number. Depends on your daily activity and your exercise intensity and type.

Set up your goals realistically, set your Goal to "Lose 1/2 pound per week" add your Exercise and eat until your Food Diary gets to zero.

Do that for a month. Log everything using your food scale. See what happens.

SueSueDio

5'6", 156lbs this morning (have been between 153 and 157 for the past couple of weeks).

I'm eating roughly 1400 to 1500 per day (for a target of 0.5lbs per week), but as I've got closer to goal my results are much more uneven than they used to be! My weight fluctuates a lot anyway and my loss has never been consistent week to week, but now it's much harder to see the results over a shorter time span. Honestly, I probably need to drop it to about 1300 but I don't have the motivation to do so right now.

thetoughequus

I'm about 5'7 and in around 155-160. Like said above it's going to depend on a lot of other factors, but for a basic idea... on sedentary days, with limited walking or activity (college student), I'll eat about 1300. At days at work, where I get between 20,000 and 30,000 steps and it's a physical job (horses), I'll eat roughly 1800-2000. Same as when I have busy days and get 15000 steps plus riding, running, or the gym. I'm set up to lose 1 per week but I'm not strict about it at all, because I know it's going to be hit or miss anyway based on loose estimates of activity and inability to measure accurately (limited access to a scale, no food scale, cafeteria food, etc)

joolie1234

1450 works for me

Sunna_W

I *try* to eat around 1400 calories - sometimes less, if I get more sleep. BTW - I lost about 40 pounds over 6 months eating 1400 calories and going paleo / keto...

sunny_d22

I'm 5'6, 151 pounds and trying to get to 143. I started MFP in 2015 at 205. I generally aim for 1600 calories, but I'm hungry at 1600. If I stay under 1800 net average for the the week then I'm happy. I'm set to lose 0.5/week but that isn't happening. I recently got a new fitbit so I'm using that to adjust my daily calories.