1200 calorie diet

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    fiddletime wrote: »
    OP. I thought you did look great in your photo so also wonder your height and weight. I’m 5’2”, 129#, 63 yo, and maintain at 1350. I need to be at 1200 to lose weight and have so little wiggle room that a little slip keeps me in maintenance rather than losing. I weigh my food and I think that I probably overestimate my calorie burn, even though I only eat half my exercise calories back.

    As I’ve decided to work on getting down to 121 where I was a few years ago, I’m eating back less of my exercise calories. You can play around with your numbers as it sounds like you aren’t losing but certainly could be. MFP tells me to eat 1200 calories to lose 0.5, 1 or 2 pounds a week. So I have no way to know what I’m supposed to lose except by tweaking things. I lose about a pound every 3 weeks on 1200 cal and eating half my exercise calories back.

    According to her post last night she's 5'7" and a college athlete, so she needs the calories (but logged accurately)

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