Women who need to lose 50+ how many calories do you eat?

rawrrgenn

I'm 5'4'' and 212 lbs. Ive lost about 40 lbs within the last year eating about 1300-1450 on a keto/low carb diet. These last couple of months I've been eating about 1300-1400 kcals on a vegetarian diet and am close to having lost another 10lbs. There are days I just would like to eat more (e.i 1700kcals) but I try to exercise on those days too. My goal is 120-130lbs

bigmamabird

MFP put me at 1560 but I often eat closer to 1700. I've been on for 2 weeks now and have lost 3 lbs. I am pleased and hope to continue at that pace.

ryenday

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I started off the year needing to lose about 75 lbs. I started out netting (i.e. after exercise) about 2200 calories a day, reducing every couple of weeks or so, and am now around 1800 calories a day. I've lost about 30 pounds so far. To be fair, my metabolism is on the higher end of these things, but I doubt that accounts for all that much difference.

ETA: I think 1200 is bonkers and unnecessary and mostly just an excuse to mask sloppy portion control. I think most people who believe they're eating 1200 calories aren't, and the rest are so miserable I wouldn't bet on them sticking it out. But that's just me. I can be opinionated sometimes.

Just have to say, MFP & on-line calculators estimate I will lose 1 lb a week at 1200. So “bonkers and unnecessary“ is insulting imo. And “an excuse for sloppy portion control” is worse. But you are right about unsustainable, tho, unfortunately. I did 1200 ish (+ an extra protein shake on exercise days) for 6 months and couldn’t take it anymore. I had to bump it up to 1450 this month and probably another before I can face 1200 again. But I don’t lose any weight on 1450 and only lost about 1/3 pound per week on 1200. And no, my portion control isn’t sloppy and yes, I do weigh out everything even the 5 grams of butter or 1 tsp of oil, or 1 oz of nuts, and no I didn’t wreck my metabolism with fad diets, and yes my thyroid is fine according to blood work - and if one does the math, my rate of loss is within 20% margin of error for the expert estimates ...

Sorry to hijack your thread OP, I won’t say anything more on this topic but those types of baseless claims don’t deserve to go unchallenged.

Meh, it's cool. I was being a bit snarky there. I most certainly did not mean to make any statement about you personally, as I don't know you or your life, and there are always exceptions and outliers. My observation could be true for 99.9% of people and still not for you, who knows. There just seems to be a ton of sloppy measuring going on around here, which isn't a moral judgment at all, it's just an observation. When I said "excuse" I meant that a lot of people who think they can only lose weight on "1200 calories" are actually eating more than that and not realizing it. Excuse sounds much more intentional than I meant, so it was a poor choice of words.

Thanks, I’m touchy about this I know. It just totally sucks to have to practically starve myself to lose weight - but so many people here keep telling me that it’s not true- and they don’t know what they are talking about. You totally nailed it tho, I could no longer survive on 1200 and had to stop dieting for a while and move to maintenance. 1200 for extended period of time is not sustainable imo.

bellaesprita000

I eat between 1650-1750 depending on whether or not I workout. I use the TDEE-20% and don't eat back exercise calories. I've been at it for 6 weeks and am 14 lbs down. I'm losing at ~2 lbs a week.

SafioraLinnea

I've lost 60 pounds of a 90-100 pound goal. When I first started losing I was dropping 2-3 pounds a week eating 2000 calories a day. After a bit of that and the loss slowing, I lowered my calories to 1900 and stayed there until I was losing less than a pound a week. Then I dropped down to 1700 a week.

Trust me when I say that I am not particularly active (my highest activity days is a brisk walk for 2 hours a day or hiking up a hill for 20 minutes a day). I was really minimally active at first. You do not usually have to automatically drop to 1200 calories in order to succeed at losing when you have 50+ pounds to lose.

amtyrell

Plug your stats into mpg. Set it to 1.5 or 2 lbs a week. Eat that plus half your exercise calories back. Log everything before you consume it.
I've been following this plan doing what mfp tells me for calories since Feb and have lost 54 lbs. Seriously 1200 or even 1500 is way to low. Consistency for the win.
P.s.i am down to 1 lb a week now as I have only about 10 or 15 lbs to go

rickiimarieee

I'm trying to lose 30-40 pounds. I'm at 22 lost right now. I eat 1200. But I'm also a stay at home mom, lightly active.

georgiapeach4468

I've lost 61 lbs since January on 1800 a day. I have no thyroid and diabetes. My only exercise has been cleaning and wAlking to the mailbox or car....wish I could do more but I do stay on the go as much as possible. Good luck