HELP! 5'8" Calories????

Jitteryspork

Ok.. I need some help. In my plethera of supportive MFPALS are any of you approx 5'8" 245lbs and sedentary job? OR SOMETHING SIMILAR??? I think I screwed up my calorie alotment when I went messing around with my sodium goal... PLEASE HELP! I don't want to over eat, but for some reason I have a memory of only eating 1460 not 1600!!!

bellanean

Im 5'7 250lbs. I am allowed 1450 calories, so it sounds like you might have changed something.

melissa0001

I am 5'8 and 240, I have my goal set to loose 1 lb a week and calories is 1800 and set to sedentry job also. If i change to 1.5 lbs a week it drops to 1550 calories for me

lieselotte2

I am 5'9 and my starting weight was 232 lbs. I put in my goal weight of 180 lbs., and MFP calculated 1,200 calories a day for me. I hope this helps. Good luck and keep up the good work.

Punktorian

go to your home page > goals > change goals > guided and go through that. You will be back at MFP recommendations if you messed something up and you can go back and tinker with sodium or w/e else you need after.

carsonday

http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm

Great tool.

for_a_mittengrl

wow! at my start I was 245 and I'm 5'8" too... I think it was 1460 when I started, but you can always change it back and let the site give you your recommended calorie number to double check. Then you can modify everything and have the correct number for sure!

cmbneeley

i'm 5'7" and started at 236. MFP recommended 1310 to lose 2 lb/week for me with a sedentary job.

Jitteryspork

I went back through the guided thing... and maybe I messed it up for good cause it keeps coming back for 1.5lbs to lose at 1600?? If I change it to 2lbs it goes all the way down to 1350... thats a big jump I think.. and when I put it back to 1.5 it says 1600 again. I screwed something up! GAH!

melissa0001

I think you are ok.... I am 5'8 and 240, when i changed mine to 1.5lbs a week it came up with 1560 for calories. I have it set at 1 lb a week and it is 1810 calories.