Menopause weight

jackkro

I’ve gained 10 pounds in the last year. 15 in 18 mos. I’m 56 I weigh 158 lbs. I don’t know how many calories I should be eating in a day. Help!

yirara

Use the guided setup and enter your data. Run this a few times, adjusting the weightloss goal per week so that you get more than 1200 calories. You're not heavy, thus I guess 0.5lbs to maybe 1lbs per week would be appropriate. Use a foodscale in grams and weigh everything you eat, don't forget cooking oil and condiments.

cmriverside

You don't tell us enough about yourself for us to be any help, so set your Goals the way the instructions tell you to. Like yirara said above, set it to either lose one pound per week or one half pound.

Log food. Take a walk. Do that for 4-6 weeks and then adjust your calories based on that 4-6 tracking data.

Corina1143

So you're gaining 10 pounds a year, or a little under a pound a month, average. If you cut just about 105-110 calories a day from what you're eating now, you should stop gaining. If you eat about 210-220 a day less, you should lose at about the same rate you've been gaining.
It might be worth the effort to eat normally and log everything for a couple of weeks, average it, subtract from there.
Also, it might be fairly easy to burn part or all of that through exercise. Everyone always says pounds are lost in the kitchen, not the gym. True. But you don't have a lot to lose.
Always adjust as you go.

AnnPT77

Corina1143 wrote: »

So you're gaining 10 pounds a year, or a little under a pound a month, average. If you cut just about 105-110 calories a day from what you're eating now, you should stop gaining. If you eat about 210-220 a day less, you should lose at about the same rate you've been gaining.
It might be worth the effort to eat normally and log everything for a couple of weeks, average it, subtract from there.
Also, it might be fairly easy to burn part or all of that through exercise. Everyone always says pounds are lost in the kitchen, not the gym. True. But you don't have a lot to lose.
Always adjust as you go.

This is true. But with a caveat for this particular OP, who is not currently logging food: It's super easy to eat more when more active, without even noticing. In fact, it's easy to eat enough more to wipe out the extra exercise calories. Many people have a higher appetite when they work out. Many people think exercise burns more calories than it actually does.

I know you know this stuff, @Corina1143, but since the OP isn't tracking, I'm not sure she does.

If a person wants to lose weight simply by increasing exercise, they need to be very careful to keep eating the same (or less), in calorie terms. That doesn't necessarily require food logging or calorie counting, but logging makes accomplishing that much easier IMO.