Calling all ladies..How many calories do you consume?

bcattoes

Age: 52
Height: 5' 5"
Daily Calorie intake: approx 1500 Mon - Fri. 200-2500 on weekends
Workouts: *Varies a lot right now. Lots and lots of weed eating and clearing brush/downed trees right now.
Weight loss goals: Been in maintenance for 2+ years. Just started really trying to lose an additional 10.

*before the massive pasture cleanup effort began, I was mostly doing Turfo Fire, hiking and strength training (body weight and weights)

ETA: maintenance weight has been 155-160 (I'm perimenopausal and it bounces around a lot). Trying now to get to 145 - 150.

LAnne16

Age: 24
Height: 5'6" (168cm)
SW: 227
CW: Not sure, I'm trying to weight myself once a month.
GW: 165ish, we'll see when I get there
Calories: 2200 (based on TDEE-20%, no eating exercise calories, and a little less on days I don't work out)
Exercise: 5-6 days a week for 50-120 minutes. Walking/running, swimming, 30DS, boot camp. I want to start to weight training too, but my gym is renovating for two weeks haha.
Ultimate goals: Run a 5K in November, complete Tough Mudder in Sept 2014.

KathleenMurry

27
5'4
1350 plus about half my exercise calories (you can view my diary)
Running 6 times a week, averaging 30 miles a week. Weight lifting about twice a week.
Have lost about 12 lbs so far. 18 more to go!

auddii

Age: 31
Height: 5'8"
Current Weight: 205lbs

Uh, I'm supposed to be cutting at 1800 calories. I've been eating way more than that lately. Need to find my willpower and drive again...

Currently doing rowing for 3 hours a week and lifting twice a week. If I add in another cardio session, I could raise my calories to 1900, but I'll play that by ear.

UpEarly

Age: 41

Height: 5'9"

Weight: 135

Daily Calorie intake: 2000-2400

Workouts: A bit of this, a bit of that - I hike a lot, I take at least 10,000 steps nearly every day, I try to do circuit training a couple days a week. Basically, I do whatever I'm in the mood to do, but I am active in some way every single day.

Weight loss goals: Maintain current weight

rachael726

Age: 30
Height: 5'6
Daily Calorie intake: 1260
Workouts: running, walking, jogging, light lifting (primarily my arms- problem area), biking. Beginning insanity 9/1
Weight loss goals: Current weight is 236.4

Goal #1- be 227 by mid Sept
Goal #2- lose a total of 100 lbs
Ultimate Goal -- be in a bikini by my 31st birthday (July 2014) and around 140-150 lbs.

atb0821

Age: 34
Height: 5'4"
Daily calorie intake: I do intermittent fasting, so I have 2 days at 500. The other 5 days are anywhere from 1600-4000.
Workouts: Very little cardio on the elliptical, heavy lifting, and a body pump-type class at my YMCA 3 times a week.
Weight loss goals: Not much, if any. Just get more muscle

mrslcoop

Age 27
Height 5’4”
Daily Calorie intake Depends. 1550 net (cardio) 1850 (lifting)
Workouts 6 days/week 3 cardio, 3 lifting
Weight loss goals 15 lbs

You need to work out your TDEE. At my weight and height I can eat up to 2000 calories without gaining.

http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

Morn66

My answers, although I'm sort of an atypical case:

Age: I'll be 43 in a couple of weeks
Height: 5'7"
Daily calories: I have a goal to eat 1500 calories a day, but I'm usually under that, sometimes by a lot. It's not intentional, though. I have severe health issues (heart and liver failure) and associated metabolic/malnutrition problems, so I often simply can't eat as much as I'd like to eat. Oftentimes, I'm sort of force-feeding myself, and it's not usually pleasant.

"Workouts:" When I'm feeling well enough, I like to walk my dogs for about 30-45 minutes a day. Sometimes I'm lucky and can do that twice a day. Otherwise, one walk every few days is about the best I can manage.

Goal: My goal is actually to not lose weight too quickly given my medical issues, which is why I try my best to eat 1500 calories a day. However, given that I will retain and lose fluid in a chaotic manner, so my weight will go up and down from day to day, my weight is difficult to track, as are measurements. I AM overweight, but my issue is more one of retaining nutrition rather than worrying about losing "X" number of pounds. That said, I'd LIKE to lose about 30 more pounds. I've already lost about 40 since...um, April. But not in a healthy way.

zeusbella

Wow! Congratulations on your weight loss. WTG!

Koldnomore

Age : 40
Height : 5'6
Daily Calorie intake : NET 1500 - normally eat between 2000 - 2500
Workouts; walk, walk, walk, @ 10k - 17k steps + a day I burn at least 2k per day
Weight loss goals: Have lost 60 lbs so far, another 30 ish to go though I am planning to start lifting soon.

Achrya

What’s your stats: Scorpio, born in the year of the Rabbit.
Age: 25
Height: 5'3", give or take .5
Daily Calorie intake: set to 1825 as of this week, was 1725 before (averaged 1690 or so for the past two weeks)
Workouts: Strength training 3 days a week (30-40 minutes each) and then I try to get 1-3 hours of cardio, but that doesn't always happen.
Weight loss goals: 20% bodyfat, which I'm hoping will happen around 135-130; body fat calcs say I'm at about 26% now.

jpolinisse

What’s your stats:
Age - 29
Height - 5'6
Daily Calorie intake - 1,800-2,000
Workouts - Cardio and Resistance Training 4 days a week
Weight loss goals - Reduction in body fat %, roughly 15-20 pounds in additional weight loss

BlueBombers

Age: 34/F
Height: 5'7
Daily Calorie intake: Around 1500
Workouts: HIIT cardio 3 days per week / heaving lifting 3 days per week - 6 workouts per week total
Weight loss goals: 24 more lbs to go

memawx12

Age: 65
Ht: 5'3"
Wt 199

I'm following the MFP recommendation of 1200 calories per day. I 'cheat' every Sunday because we eat out after church. I have lost 31 pounds in 3 1/2 months. My exercise is mainly walking 30-40 minutes about 4 times a week, but also do some arm exercises with 2 lb weights. Sometimes I ride stationary bike instead of walking. According to what everyone is saying, I should be eating more calories, but I am scared to do that. Especially since I don't do an extreme amount of exercising.

Legs_McGee

What’s your stats:
Age 43
Ht: 5'10
Wt: 136 - 138
Daily caloric intake: 1800-2000
Weight Goal: Maintenance

I run 4 or 5 times a week, between 25 and 40 miles, depending on whether I'm training for something. i do either a boot camp or a HIIT class 3x a week - that's primarily bodyweight exercises - and I lift weights 3x a week.

PikaKnight

Age: 30
Height: 5'1
SW: 245lbs
CW: 178lbs
Daily Calorie intake: 1500 + exercise cals

Workouts:
M/W/F - Strength training (45-70min) w/ opt light cardio (10-20 min) after
T/TH/Sat - Cardio (30-90min)
I'll do a mix of hot/vinyasa style yoga or tai chi and elliptical or treadmill...or some workout dvd
Sunday - Shanti Yoga (30-60min).

Weight loss goals: 18-20% body fat

BeachGingerOnTheRocks

Age - 40
Height - 5'7"
Weight - 127 today
Calorie intake - 2000+, up to 2500

I lost averaging 1700 or so calories a day.

Exercise - 4x week heavy lifting 60-90 minutes, 4 major lifts plus some accessories, 2x week 60+ minute walks, 2x week running 30 minutes (5K).

tmm_0127

26
5'3"
About 1400-1600 a day
Just started doing cardio and weights about 4-5 times weekly (about 20-30 minutes at a time), lots of walking, some swimming, some aerobics
I'm at 143 right now, I want to get down to between 115-125 where ever I end up feeling comfy really.

suziepoo1984

26
5'5"
1485 + eating back most exercise calories
Run 3x week, Strength 2x week
Very close to goal/about 5 lbs away

I calculated my TDEE at no exercise level and took that number minus 20% for my calorie goal. Since I calculated it without exercise, I eat most of my exercise calories back.

http://iifym.com/tdee-calculator/

^^Same height and same calories But i am 29

yellowbd

25
5'5"
1650 + sometimes eating workout calories back if I am starving
Cardio 7 days a week and weight training 5 days a week
I dont want to lose any weight just get some mad muscle going

amandatapar

Calories per day: 1200-1500, only around 1500 when I work out otherwise 1200.

I've lost 52 pounds so far and have 31 more to go. I am 5 foot 8 inches tall and started out at 223 pounds. I work out 3-5 days a week and do a hr of cardio each of those days and sometimes do some weights.

DesireeNL

Age 32
Height 152cm - 5'0"
Average 1500 calories a day
Lifestyle mostly sedentary. I train with the C25K program 2-3 times a week, and I hike once a week for approx. 2 hours.
Goal is getting fitter, and in the process lose the last couple of kg's.

BHKLEIN

Age: 28

Height: 5'3"

Calorie Intake: 1200-1400 +exercise cals (sometimes more if I exercise rigorously or feel like eatting more)

Workout: While at work I do planks, side planks, back extentions, bridge, squats, neck and shoulder stretches, various different arms curls (both with 8 lbs free weights and resistant bands with handles) : I work in an office and sit on butt all day so I shut my door 3-4 times a day and workout a little. I also take a 35 mins walk at lunch every day. Then I'll go home at night and walk with my daughter in the stroller and dogs for 60-90 mins and play with my kiddo outside or at the park occasionally after that.

Weight goal: started at 190, currently at 135, goal weight 123-127.

ladygrly

33 years old
5'5"
1200 calories + exercise
Bootcamp 2-3 x / week
Spinning 3 x / week
I have about 9 more pounds to lose. I have been as low as 117 pounds before by giving up sugar and carbs. However, when I did it before I had ZERO cheat days for about 4 months! I lost weight for my wedding and we totally psycho about it. Now I just want to get to back to my "20s weight" of 125, which is healthy and looks good on me. Another thing I do is only claim 300 calories/workout on MFP. That way I am not eating all of my calories back. Perhaps you should try that too? Everyone feel free to add me!

Trechechus

23 years old
5'3"'
130 lbs
Lifting / rock climbing ~3days a week
Running / some other cardio 2-3 days a week
Net 1500-1700 calories per day. (Sometimes around 2000)

frostypaws

Age: 37
Height: 5'4"
Calories: 1400 (somtimes less, sometimes more)
Workouts: Walking/Jogging 4-5 times a week
Goals: Lose 10 more pounds and tone up


I'm currently jogging/walking 5k 4-5 nights/week for weight loss and building endurance. I don't usually eat back all the workout calories, but sometimes it depends on how hard I exercise and how many calories I've burned. There are times when I just have to eat more and my body never fails to tell me this.

I have considered trying the Insanity workout to tone up and lose more inches. But I know I will have to up my caloric intake if I do something that intense.

goingthedistancexc

I'm 120lbs I consume around 2000-2300ish a day and I'm 5'4

odusgolp

Age: 58
Height : 5' 9"
Daily Calorie intake: While trying to lose.....1200
Workouts: Light weights 3xweek, low-impact aerobics 4xweek
Weight loss goals: lose 25 lbs, from 160 to 135

ONLY 1200 cals, NOT plus exercise cals. When I follow this regimen I lose about 2 lbs a week.

You're doing it wrong.

aarar

Age 31

Height 5'6

Daily Calorie intake - bare minimum is set to 1750 however I'm averaging around 2000 on non running days and that plus whatever I burn on my running days.

Workouts - at the moment I'm only running however I plan to start strength training soon.

Weight loss goals - Another 15lbs or so. The goal weight in my ticker was really just a random number I had picked last year and I'm not sure yet if I want to lose that much. I started at 234 and am 148lbs now