Calorie increase?

selenenatalie

Hi I am currently eating a woman 1700 calories weigh 126 pounds and am 5”3. I feel like I’m losing weight to fast. Should I higher my intake 100 or 200 calories this week

Dilvish

Judging by your profile pic I'd say stop worrying about your intake. You look far too young to be worrying about how much you eat. At 126lbs and 5'3" I think your weight is ideal. You are very cute!

Eat healthy nutritious food when you are hungry (no, not just salads!), skip fast food and processed snacks drink plenty of water and get some regular exercise. Avoid sugar and soda, especially diet soda.

Reducing your intake is not the way to go. If you really must lose weight add more calories but exercise more often. Muscle burns calories at three times normal.

LivingtheLeanDream

Yes up your intake, I'm similar in stats to you but older, I maintain my weight on an average of 1950 cals, I'm lightly active.

Chef_Barbell

Dilvish wrote: »

Judging by your profile pic I'd say stop worrying about your intake. You look far too young to be worrying about how much you eat. At 126lbs and 5'3" I think your weight is ideal. You are very cute!

Eat healthy nutritious food when you are hungry (no, not just salads!), skip fast food and processed snacks drink plenty of water and get some regular exercise. Avoid sugar and soda, especially diet soda.

Reducing your intake is not the way to go. If you really must lose weight add more calories but exercise more often. Muscle burns calories at three times normal.

:huh: :noway: Say what?

apullum

You’re already in the optimal BMI range for your height, so I would recommend starting recomp rather than trying to lose weight if you’re unhappy with how your body looks.

deannalfisher

if you feel like you are losing weight too fast - then yes you can up your calories - if you are at 1700 right now, i'd go to 1900 and see how you do on that for a couple of weeks and then creeping them up again if needed

deannalfisher

Chef_Barbell wrote: »

Dilvish wrote: »

Judging by your profile pic I'd say stop worrying about your intake. You look far too young to be worrying about how much you eat. At 126lbs and 5'3" I think your weight is ideal. You are very cute!

Eat healthy nutritious food when you are hungry (no, not just salads!), skip fast food and processed snacks drink plenty of water and get some regular exercise. Avoid sugar and soda, especially diet soda.

Reducing your intake is not the way to go. If you really must lose weight add more calories but exercise more often. Muscle burns calories at three times normal.

:huh: :noway: Say what?

if seems like her OP's post wasn't actually read - she is asking about losing weight too fast and wanting to up calories and people are telling her not ot be concerned with her intake...color me confused

takecharge300156

It could be that the calories that you are logging are wrong. Raw blackberries can be logged with the top entry and 6 oz is over 7000 calories. But if you go down a few entries and log 30 single blackberries, it's only 90 calories. This web site ought to have a way to reporting wrong calories, this is just not acceptable. That said, from the perspective of an old woman, I used to be able to eat anything and not gain weight, because I was active. If I ate that same way now I would balloon. Stick to healthy eating when you are young and this will pay off when you get older. Learn as much as you can about what healthy eating means, and stick to that. If that means more calories that is good, but make them healthy calories.

Chef_Barbell

deannalfisher wrote: »

Chef_Barbell wrote: »

Dilvish wrote: »

Judging by your profile pic I'd say stop worrying about your intake. You look far too young to be worrying about how much you eat. At 126lbs and 5'3" I think your weight is ideal. You are very cute!

Eat healthy nutritious food when you are hungry (no, not just salads!), skip fast food and processed snacks drink plenty of water and get some regular exercise. Avoid sugar and soda, especially diet soda.

Reducing your intake is not the way to go. If you really must lose weight add more calories but exercise more often. Muscle burns calories at three times normal.

:huh: :noway: Say what?

if seems like her OP's post wasn't actually read - she is asking about losing weight too fast and wanting to up calories and people are telling her not ot be concerned with her intake...color me confused

Agreed... and I got flagged for being confused. 🤣🤷🏼‍♀️

deannalfisher

takecharge300156 wrote: »

It could be that the calories that you are logging are wrong. Raw blackberries can be logged with the top entry and 6 oz is over 7000 calories. But if you go down a few entries and log 30 single blackberries, it's only 90 calories. This web site ought to have a way to reporting wrong calories, this is just not acceptable. That said, from the perspective of an old woman, I used to be able to eat anything and not gain weight, because I was active. If I ate that same way now I would balloon. Stick to healthy eating when you are young and this will pay off when you get older. Learn as much as you can about what healthy eating means, and stick to that. If that means more calories that is good, but make them healthy calories.

you can correct bad entries if you find them...the database is user populated...

AnnPT77

Yes, increase calories eaten.

I lost too fast for a short time by accident (MFP underestimated my calorie needs). I got weak and fatigued, even though I corrected quickly, and it took several weeks to get back to normal energy level.

Much better to err on the side of caution.

Best wishes!