Correct daily calorie intake??

labrennan

1370 calories a day? Wondering if this is a low number. I've been exercising between 3-5 days a week and haven't lost anything....I end up getting pretty hungry at night before bed....not eating everything in sight but end up going over that 1370. I know I don't get my all my water in. That's hard. It takes me all morning to drink 1 cup of coffee, and then I sip water throughout the rest of day. Wondering if the water is keeping me from losing. I only want to lose 10-15 lbs!

Cytherea

Are you eating back any of your exercise calories? You should be eating them back, sans the ones that you would have burned anyways at rest.

Mads1997

It would depend on how you have set yourself up on MFP ie weight, height, age and goals.

gp79

What is your height, weight and if you know it, bodyfat %?

Also, how active are you on a daily basis (aside from intentional exercise)? How often do you exercise on a weekly basis and are you tracking your calories burned on a Heart Rate Monitor?

Emi_chan

I find that once I started eating back my exercise calories, that I started losing weight again. I was eating at a net of 800 calories before, not eating back my calories burned and never lost weight. But now, I've been eating about 1500-1700 calories and then burning about 350-400 calories to get to my net of 1200 calories or as close to it as possible. For the past few weeks, I've actually seen a loss. So that would be my suggestion.

tbrittenham9

don't cut back on water...you should be drinking 8 cups a day....at least.

yvonnej1

Just to pick up on the water drinking, you will get people on here swearing by drinking LOTS of water, I don't drink much at all (of anything) and it never stopped me losing weight. Everyone is different, I have say though that my sodium intake is normally fairly low.