help with calories please

Alamiie

hey so i have been eating healthy for the past week without tracking but i realise now is the time to do it. and i'm really confused and would love someone to tell me how many calories i should be eating per day to lose weight? thank you.

i am a 5ft1 female and weigh 75kg
i currently don't work out so would like to know how many i should be eating on the days i don't exercise and then how many i'd need if iwere to work out 5 days a week?

thanks so much.

sunsetzen

You should put your stats in the MFP calculator. It will tell you how much you need to net in order to reach your goal weight.

qtgonewild

exactly. thats what mfp does. tells you how many you should eat.

TeaBea

hey so i have been eating healthy for the past week without tracking but i realise now is the time to do it. and i'm really confused and would love someone to tell me how many calories i should be eating per day to lose weight? thank you.

i am a 5ft1 female and weigh 75kg
i currently don't work out so would like to know how many i should be eating on the days i don't exercise and then how many i'd need if iwere to work out 5 days a week?

thanks so much.

MFP will give you a calorie limit BEFORE exercise based upon the number of pounds you want to lose each week. So your question should be ..... how many pounds per week should I try to lose?

Pounds per week goal
75+ lbs to lose 2 lb range
Between 40 - 75 lbs to lose 1.5 lb range
Between 25-40 lbs to lose 1 lb range
Between 15-25 lbs to lose 1 -.50 lb range
Less than 15 lbs to lose 0.5 lbs range

Because this calorie goal is BEFORE exercise MFP will ask you to eat your exercise calories back. The reason you eat back (at least some of them .... calorie burns can be inflated) ..... is the same reason you choose an appropriate weekly goal .............

If you try to lose weight too quickly .... you will likely lose muscle as well as fat

TKRV

I would actually suggest comparing MFP's calculators to others and then find what works for you with trial and error. I found this site be helpful for me.

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

Many people find the calories MFP suggests are far too low. It all comes down to what works for you, but I wanted to give you another options. I currently use the calculator from that site and have customized my goals on this site so I can track my calories. I pay special attention to the macros it suggest for me.

loneaffliction

When you first signed up, MFP should have set your calorie goal based on how many pounds you expected to lose per week. Just go to the "Food" tab or click "Add to Diary" from your main page and add the food you eat each day. You can search for each item and it will plug in the calories and nutritional information so you can keep a log. Watch the bottom of the page on your diary each day to see that you're staying under your goal. Using it for a couple of weeks now, I can already see it is enlightening. There are a lot of things you may think are healthy, but you don't realize the impact they have on your daily intake. Tracking it helps me make wiser choices, knowing when to cut back or what things I need to remove from my diet. If you stay consistent with your tracking, you can also check out the "Reports" on MFP, and it will show you different progress statistics and red flags (i.e. eating too much sodium). I usually track after each meal from the MFP app on my phone. It works about the same. You can monitor, too, if you've taken in too many calories early in the day so you can try for a lighter dinner or when you have room for a snack or a heavier meal without going over your goal if you regularly keep up with it. Aim for staying under your calorie goal, but don't fret if you go over every once in a while. Paired with exercise, you should start to see results. Tracking your daily exercise too will let you know where you stand, but you want to stay under that primary goal which should appear on your main page.

HeyGoRun

check here!
http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm