Can any nice person work out my calorie intake to lose 1.5 lbs a week please ?

size102b

Hi I have yoyo dieter all my 32 adult years
But
Last year I told myself off and started WW
I lost 32 lbs in 21 weeks using weight watchers plan and walking 6-7 miles every day.
Then beginning of January I added in 2 Zumba classes a week and c25k 3 times a week and some weights in the gym.
Since then I have been yoyoing 1.5 lbs off and on but since 4th Jan 6 weeks I’m the same weight.
I have tracked weighed measured everything I’ve had full health checks as I’m 50 this year all normal thank goodness so it must be what I’m eating 😡

I have used mfp years on and off for years and my calories set up as 1520 mfp gave me. I don’t eat exercise calories x

Would anyone help me find what I should be having as it can’t be right ? Or I’d be losing weight.

I’m female
Aged 49
5 foot 2 inch
I walk 5 miles a day
Do 2 high impact Zumba classes a week
I do c25k 3 times a week on a treadmill week 4 atm
I do weights a little twice a week.
I weigh 184 lbs
My highest weight was 244 lbs
My weight when I started this time was
216 lbs on 13 th August 2018
Since August I have lost 50 inches ( 3 dress sizes )
I’m a US size 10 a UK size 14

Thanks

jmnicholas

I suggest you go back to the goals section on your profile, and update it - I am about 170lbs, and a little taller than you, and I find that my calorie intake needs to be around 1350 in order to lose weight about 0.5 lb per week - I have a sedentary job, so I put in sedentary and then I log all specific activities - e.g. Zumba or running, but not walking (unless it is a fell walking hike!). I do eat back some of my exxercise calories (after exercising for 2 hours, some of that energy needs to be replenished!), but generally not all of them.

tinkerbellang83

Same answers as your last post 4 days ago? Give it more time.

It's not what you're eating it's your patience that is the problem.

TavistockToad

So you decided not to try what MFP gave you for 6 weeks, like we discussed in your other thread?

size102b

TavistockToad wrote: »

So you decided not to try what MFP gave you for 6 weeks, like we discussed in your other thread?

Yes but I don’t know what I should put in for activity level hence the post

Thanks

size102b

jmnicholas wrote: »

I suggest you go back to the goals section on your profile, and update it - I am about 170lbs, and a little taller than you, and I find that my calorie intake needs to be around 1350 in order to lose weight about 0.5 lb per week - I have a sedentary job, so I put in sedentary and then I log all specific activities - e.g. Zumba or running, but not walking (unless it is a fell walking hike!). I do eat back some of my exxercise calories (after exercising for 2 hours, some of that energy needs to be replenished!), but generally not all of them.

Okay thanks I am active I don’t drive and am on my feet a lot so 1350 is low for 184 lbs and quiet active ?

size102b

tinkerbellang83 wrote: »

Same answers as your last post 4 days ago? Give it more time.

It's not what you're eating it's your patience that is the problem.

Okay well I still don’t know what my calories should be as inside in what activity level to put in and did youbrelaky check to see what and when I last posted 😂😂

size102b

tinkerbellang83 wrote: »

Same answers as your last post 4 days ago? Give it more time.

It's not what you're eating it's your patience that is the problem.

6 weeks is quiet patient I think
I’ve been the same weight for 6 weeks on 1200-1300 calories a day at 184 lbs and active I feel.

tinkerbellang83

size102b wrote: »

tinkerbellang83 wrote: »

Same answers as your last post 4 days ago? Give it more time.

It's not what you're eating it's your patience that is the problem.

6 weeks is quiet patient I think
I’ve been the same weight for 6 weeks on 1200-1300 calories a day at 184 lbs and active I feel.

You said in that last post you'd only changed the settings a week ago, I didn't need to check to see when you last posted, I remembered commenting on it, I posted the link for reference so others can see that you've already been given plenty of good advice.

Re-read that thread, and take it in. You're not giving it enough time without making changes. If you keep making changes, without giving it time to establish a trend, you won't know what works.

If you stick to whatever activity level you had set, you'd know in 4-6 weeks how accurate it was and just adjust your calorie intake up or down to account for the average rate of loss.

dawnymo1

size102b wrote: »

Hi I have yoyo dieter all my 32 adult years
But
Last year I told myself off and started WW
I lost 32 lbs in 21 weeks using weight watchers plan and walking 6-7 miles every day.
Then beginning of January I added in 2 Zumba classes a week and c25k 3 times a week and some weights in the gym.
Since then I have been yoyoing 1.5 lbs off and on but since 4th Jan 6 weeks I’m the same weight.
I have tracked weighed measured everything I’ve had full health checks as I’m 50 this year all normal thank goodness so it must be what I’m eating 😡

I have used mfp years on and off for years and my calories set up as 1520 mfp gave me. I don’t eat exercise calories x

Would anyone help me find what I should be having as it can’t be right ? Or I’d be losing weight.

I’m female
Aged 49
5 foot 2 inch
I walk 5 miles a day
Do 2 high impact Zumba classes a week
I do c25k 3 times a week on a treadmill week 4 atm
I do weights a little twice a week.
I weigh 184 lbs
My highest weight was 244 lbs
My weight when I started this time was
216 lbs on 13 th August 2018
Since August I have lost 50 inches ( 3 dress sizes )
I’m a US size 10 a UK size 14

Thanks

You have come a long way and I can understand wanting the scale to move. Perhaps change up your foods we all get stuck in eating the same thing (if you have not done so already) It seems like a lot of activity for your caloric intake maybe eat some of the exercise calories it may help to jumpstart your loss again. Good luck

sijomial

size102b wrote: »

jmnicholas wrote: »

I suggest you go back to the goals section on your profile, and update it - I am about 170lbs, and a little taller than you, and I find that my calorie intake needs to be around 1350 in order to lose weight about 0.5 lb per week - I have a sedentary job, so I put in sedentary and then I log all specific activities - e.g. Zumba or running, but not walking (unless it is a fell walking hike!). I do eat back some of my exxercise calories (after exercising for 2 hours, some of that energy needs to be replenished!), but generally not all of them.

Okay thanks I am active I don’t drive and am on my feet a lot so 1350 is low for 184 lbs and quiet active ?

Yes that seems low if you are actually on average eating at that level over an extended period of time.
Making your food diary public would help as the #1 issue is people aren't actually eating what they think they are eating due to poor logging accuracy.

ibrailk12

Hi.

I've personally found that what I consume for my calories and when I consume them accounts for my weight loss as much as how many calories I eat. Try to not eat 2-3 hours before sleeping. Get plenty of rest because my next question would be "how are you sleeping". Finally you hit plateaus. I did and its only been 7 weeks. Plateaus are normal. Shake it up. Have a day where you eat a high fat diet with the same calories followed by an all salad and veggies day. That will wake your system up.

size102b wrote: »

Hi I have yoyo dieter all my 32 adult years
But
Last year I told myself off and started WW
I lost 32 lbs in 21 weeks using weight watchers plan and walking 6-7 miles every day.
Then beginning of January I added in 2 Zumba classes a week and c25k 3 times a week and some weights in the gym.
Since then I have been yoyoing 1.5 lbs off and on but since 4th Jan 6 weeks I’m the same weight.
I have tracked weighed measured everything I’ve had full health checks as I’m 50 this year all normal thank goodness so it must be what I’m eating 😡

I have used mfp years on and off for years and my calories set up as 1520 mfp gave me. I don’t eat exercise calories x

Would anyone help me find what I should be having as it can’t be right ? Or I’d be losing weight.

I’m female
Aged 49
5 foot 2 inch
I walk 5 miles a day
Do 2 high impact Zumba classes a week
I do c25k 3 times a week on a treadmill week 4 atm
I do weights a little twice a week.
I weigh 184 lbs
My highest weight was 244 lbs
My weight when I started this time was
216 lbs on 13 th August 2018
Since August I have lost 50 inches ( 3 dress sizes )
I’m a US size 10 a UK size 14

Thanks

TavistockToad

size102b wrote: »

TavistockToad wrote: »

So you decided not to try what MFP gave you for 6 weeks, like we discussed in your other thread?

Yes but I don’t know what I should put in for activity level hence the post

Thanks

We talked about that in the other post too.

Fivepts

I don't have any advice but you look fantastic for 49. You must be doing a lot right.