2000 Calorie Limit?

sammieparcell

Do you think that 2000 calories is too much? I have lost 54kgs so far in my journey. I have gone from 1200-1500-1700 now I feel like I need to do 2000 calories. I feel hungry all the time and fatigued when I go to gym. I still want to loose about 5kgs.
What's people's thoughts?

bbell1985

You provided no stats about yourself or rate of loss. How can we tell you? I would not lose weight on 2000 calories. If you were losing .5 pounds per week at 1700, 2000 would be about maintenance for you too.

usmcmp

Depends on your height, weight, age, and activity. I can maintain weight between 2,800 and 3,200 calories per day. 2,000 could easily be below maintenance for many.

Jthanmyfitnesspal

Could be fine!

Calculate what you need using MFP or this: http://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html

(You'll get about the same answer since they use the same formula.)

You can set for sedentary and add in exercise calories.

Or, if that's too much work, up your daily from "sedentary" by a ballpark average daily extra. See what happens.

The bottom line is the line of your bottom, as they say.

sammieparcell

sammieparcell wrote: »

Do you think that 2000 calories is too much? I have lost 54kgs so far in my journey. I have gone from 1200-1500-1700 now I feel like I need to do 2000 calories. I feel hungry all the time and fatigued when I go to gym. I still want to loose about 5kgs.
What's people's thoughts?

My stats:
I am 23, 169cm tall, weigh 64kgs, lost 54kgs in 15 months, losing about 0.5kgs every 2 weeks now whilst on 1700 calories, do weight training and cardio, exercise 6 days a week, gaining muscle mass, all bodily measurements go down approx 2-3cm every month.
That enough?

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PAV8888

You are losing 0.5kg every two weeks.

That comes to losing about 0.55lbs a week or a deficit of about 1929 Cal a week or 275 Cal a day.

You are also at the tail end of a long loss.

Increasing your calories by 300 would be a very good experiment in starting to determine whether some additional calories in may help you actually increased your calories out which have been naturally decreasing due to your long term deficit.

An increase of 300 Cal may prove to be maintainance; but chances are quite good that it will continue to be a deficit.

You won't know until you try.

Note too that if you haven't already been doing so, you should use a trending weight app or website to estimate your weight trend instead of relying on scale readings.

When losing ~0.5 lb a week you can end a month weighing more than you did the first day of the month...while having actually lost 0.5lbs a week on schedule. This can happen just based on water weight variations.

sammieparcell

PAV8888 wrote: »

You are losing 0.5kg every two weeks.

That comes to losing about 0.55lbs a week or a deficit of about 1929 Cal a week or 275 Cal a day.

You are also at the tail end of a long loss.

Increasing your calories by 300 would be a very good experiment in starting to determine whether some additional calories in may help you actually increased your calories out which have been naturally decreasing due to your long term deficit.

An increase of 300 Cal may prove to be maintainance; but chances are quite good that it will continue to be a deficit.

You won't know until you try.

Note too that if you haven't already been doing so, you should use a trending weight app or website to estimate your weight trend instead of relying on scale readings.

When losing ~0.5 lb a week you can end a month weighing more than you did the first day of the month...while having actually lost 0.5lbs a week on schedule. This can happen just based on water weight variations.

That's really helpful. Thank you!