How much should I exercise to lose weight

heybales

Leezy55 wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

Leezy55 wrote: »

I'm 65, 5'2.5" and weigh 165. If I don't exercise how many calories should I eat daily to lose 40-50 lbs? I have always been on the thin side. Started gaining weight the closer I got to 60. Yes I started eating more and moving less. I do not have any health problems.

Use the guided setup in your MFP profile, it will estimate the calorie goal for you. At your size, around 1 pound a week is the maximum you should shoot for, IMO. If you do exercise, log it and eat those calories in addition to the base goal calories MFP gives you. (FWIW, I'm 5'5" and 64, formerly 183 pounds, joined MFP at 154 pounds at age 59, now about 130 pounds and in year 4+ of maintenance.)

The calorie goal for loss has nothing to do with what total amount you want to lose, except that if one doesn't have lots to lose, it's safer to stay away from 2 pounds a week loss. Mostly, your goal weight just tells you when to stop losing; the process of getting there is basically the same regardless: Eat fewer calories than you burn, more days than not, by a sensibly moderate amount.

Best wishes!

Hi Ann, thank you so much for your comment I follow you quite a bit on this site. I guess what I'm confused about is that prior to this diet plan or this new lifestyle I was eating approximately 7000 calories per day. This was primarily avocado toast, peanut butter toast, handfuls of mixed nuts, ice cream chocolate those are kind of the things I love to eat. I have always been physically active so I was still hiking with the hiking group maybe three to four times a week as well as cycling. I never was a fan of fast food in fact I rarely if ever eat it and I also don't enjoy going out to eat so my weight gain isn't from those areas. so now here I am eating 1200 calories per day and since lockdown now I do a 45-minute Peloton spin ride everyday and I do two different sessions at three to four mile walks which includes elevation gains. I've been doing a lot of housework and yard work so I am not idle my days are approximately 18 hours long. so my question is why am I stuck for months on end at my weight between 163 and 165? so why going from 7000 calories a day to 1200 calories a day am I not losing weight? I would have expected the weight to just melt off but here I am 3 months later with two pounds down and then two pounds up I don't get it.

Oh - forget my 1250 figure then which was based on you saying not doing much.

You need to start your own topic, give your body stats, info in that paragraph, and how you log food (weight or measure).

Leezy55

heybales wrote: »

Leezy55 wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

Leezy55 wrote: »

I'm 65, 5'2.5" and weigh 165. If I don't exercise how many calories should I eat daily to lose 40-50 lbs? I have always been on the thin side. Started gaining weight the closer I got to 60. Yes I started eating more and moving less. I do not have any health problems.

Use the guided setup in your MFP profile, it will estimate the calorie goal for you. At your size, around 1 pound a week is the maximum you should shoot for, IMO. If you do exercise, log it and eat those calories in addition to the base goal calories MFP gives you. (FWIW, I'm 5'5" and 64, formerly 183 pounds, joined MFP at 154 pounds at age 59, now about 130 pounds and in year 4+ of maintenance.)

The calorie goal for loss has nothing to do with what total amount you want to lose, except that if one doesn't have lots to lose, it's safer to stay away from 2 pounds a week loss. Mostly, your goal weight just tells you when to stop losing; the process of getting there is basically the same regardless: Eat fewer calories than you burn, more days than not, by a sensibly moderate amount.

Best wishes!

Hi Ann, thank you so much for your comment I follow you quite a bit on this site. I guess what I'm confused about is that prior to this diet plan or this new lifestyle I was eating approximately 7000 calories per day. This was primarily avocado toast, peanut butter toast, handfuls of mixed nuts, ice cream chocolate those are kind of the things I love to eat. I have always been physically active so I was still hiking with the hiking group maybe three to four times a week as well as cycling. I never was a fan of fast food in fact I rarely if ever eat it and I also don't enjoy going out to eat so my weight gain isn't from those areas. so now here I am eating 1200 calories per day and since lockdown now I do a 45-minute Peloton spin ride everyday and I do two different sessions at three to four mile walks which includes elevation gains. I've been doing a lot of housework and yard work so I am not idle my days are approximately 18 hours long. so my question is why am I stuck for months on end at my weight between 163 and 165? so why going from 7000 calories a day to 1200 calories a day am I not losing weight? I would have expected the weight to just melt off but here I am 3 months later with two pounds down and then two pounds up I don't get it.

Oh - forget my 1250 figure then which was based on you saying not doing much.

You need to start your own topic, give your body stats, info in that paragraph, and how you log food (weight or measure).

Oh sorry for the misunderstanding. Moving less I meant I no longer snow ski or backpack just hike and cycle.