Calorie Intake for a 17 year old male Consume to maintain?

oshjj
oshjj Posts: 17
in Goal: Maintaining Weight
Error in the topic name sorry bout that : *Calorie Intake for a 17 year old male trying to maintain?*

Hey there just asking for someone that was concerned about how many calories they should be consuming a day, he is 183 cm's, 60 kg's, and exercises 6 days a week, what should his calorie intake be on a day without exercise? I've been reading around for him and many sites state 2500-3000 but he has told me his even gaining on 2000 a day, Please help :)

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  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819055-setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets
  • bridgie101
    bridgie101 Posts: 817 Member
    Error in the topic name sorry bout that : *Calorie Intake for a 17 year old male trying to maintain?*

    Hey there just asking for someone that was concerned about how many calories they should be consuming a day, he is 183 cm's, 60 kg's, and exercises 6 days a week, what should his calorie intake be on a day without exercise? I've been reading around for him and many sites state 2500-3000 but he has told me his even gaining on 2000 a day, Please help :)

    http://scoobysworkshop.com/accurate-calorie-calculator/#results

    I'm getting 3015

    Ask him what he eats on the weekend. Tell him he needs to weigh and log. Unless he's defying the laws of physics he's doing the calories wrong, and/or having a big feed up at the weekends which makes up for all his starving during the week.
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    Edit: whoops. forgot to add his age. Now it's 2871
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    A 17 year old male could be still growing, therefore the scooby calculator thingy may be an underestimate. Even if he's finished growing in height, his shoulder may still be getting wider. (the clavicle is the last bone in the body to finish growing, which is why men usually have wider shoulders at 21 than they did at 17)

    growth calories would be quite a bit less than at around 14 (an active adolescent boy may need double the calories of a grown man while going through the adolescent growth spurt)...... but if he's a late developer he may need more growth calories than the average 17 year old

    There is a very good reason why MFP has an age limit of 18... because the calculators are for fully grown adults and don't take into account the additional calories children and adolescents need for growth. Not getting enough to eat during childhood and adolescence can result in the growth being stunted - which is why children and adolescents should take advice from paediatricians not internet sites for this kind of question.
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    also, just to add - a 17 yr old male shouldn't be eating to maintain anyway... what I said in my last post about shoulders getting wider - that equals getting heavier (as well as stronger) without going to the gym (although the degree of muscle and strength development is greatly increased by going to the gym)

    it's the same as when a 17 yr old girl wants to weigh what she did age 14... this isn't a realistic target. Growth doesn't stop when you stop growing in height, your skeleton is still growing outwards... with girls the pelvis widens, with boys the shoulders widen (and the opposite is true in both genders as well, just not to the same extent)....... a man probably doesn't reach his adult weight until around 20-21, a woman maybe around 17-18. Below this age the focus should be on being active, eating a healthy diet and letting your body develop into an adult's. While it is important to try to keep your body fat percentage in the healthy range at any age, focusing on scale weight is a really bad idea while you're still growing and developing. Learning to focus on what really matters - health, quality of life, happiness - is something that all adolescents need to learn sooner rather than later.
  • FromHereOnOut
    FromHereOnOut Posts: 3,237 Member
    Looking at his stats, I'm surprised he is wanting to maintain. He seems to be very underweight, if I converted correctly 6' and 132lbs. (Or maybe I'm misunderstanding the situation.)

    Being so underweight, but being 17yo (plenty of hormones) and exercising 6x/wk, he could really do a great bulk right now around 3100 (and that would go up as his weight would go up)

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