Females: How many calories are you eating daily?

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  • ktfitzgerald
    ktfitzgerald Posts: 369 Member
    I’m 5’1” and 106 lbs and I’m just maintaining. I eat about 1200-1300 calories a day and save my exercise calories for weekend or special occasion splurges.
  • Scorpioangel
    Scorpioangel Posts: 951 Member
    I am eating 1,600 a day. I usually do not eat my burn calories back. On occasion I will though.
  • swagson
    swagson Posts: 11
    I usually eat around 600 or 700 calories, 400 or less if it's a good day for me.
  • Play_outside
    Play_outside Posts: 528 Member
    I am no professional, but I think you are eating way too little, especially for your age.
    I usually eat around 600 or 700 calories, 400 or less if it's a good day for me.
  • joleenerodriguez
    joleenerodriguez Posts: 5 Member
    wow you have lost alot!!! Awesome. I eat back half of my exercise points and am not losing. Only lost 2 lbs in a month :( horrible. Guess everyones body is different.
  • Play_outside
    Play_outside Posts: 528 Member
    I usually eat around 1200/day, sometimes a bit less sometimes a little more. This is not because of goals or anything, it is just how I normally eat. I saw a dietician yesterday and she told me that this is fine since I have energy and am not hungry, but not to eat much less than that, and to try and eat back at least part of my exercise calories. I have worked hard in the last month or two to add more protein and fat to my meals and to eat more regularly (including breakfast) so I think that is helping with my weight loss.

    It's interesting to see the range here!
  • joleenerodriguez
    joleenerodriguez Posts: 5 Member
    how do I find that group you have on MFP?
  • psych101
    psych101 Posts: 1,842 Member
    5'9, 29 years old, 167 lbs currently

    I eat 2100 - 2400 calories
  • CountingTheStars
    CountingTheStars Posts: 11
    I'm 20, trying to gain weight and just started my new diet. I aim for 3,500 per day.
  • KaleidoscopeEyes1056
    KaleidoscopeEyes1056 Posts: 2,996 Member
    because I don't have money, I usually don't reach 1200, but I wish I could...
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    1300.
  • CMmrsfloyd
    CMmrsfloyd Posts: 2,380 Member
    I am 5'4", currently 142 lbs, 29 years old. My goal is set at 1 lb per week which gives me a goal of 1210 per day. I eat at least 1200 on non-exercise days. On days that I do exercise, I normally eat closer to 1600-1800 b/c I do eat most of my exercise calories. And I have had steady success at about the rate I am trying to lose. 23 lbs less than 3.5 months so far. (started the program shooting for 2 lbs per week at 1200, recently adjusted goal to 1 lb per week at 1210).
  • Crystal_Pistol
    Crystal_Pistol Posts: 750 Member
    30 years old, 5'5", 200lbs. Calories set at 1800 daily, 40% carb, 30% protein, 30% fat. I eat whenever I am hungry. Sometimes exercise cals, sometimes not, but ALWAYS when hungry!
  • Learnin2LuvMe
    Learnin2LuvMe Posts: 465 Member
    I usually eat between 1200 and 1500 cals a day. Whether I eat back what I burned that day or not usually just depends on how I feel. If I am hungry and it's not too late at night, I do. If I am not hungry, I don't.
    ^^This^^
  • marielleseastrom
    marielleseastrom Posts: 2
    About 1200, and I don't eat back my calories burned. I'm new to this.
    I find that I am getting a little cranky, ut for the most part I eat the same thing every day.
  • gsager
    gsager Posts: 977 Member
    I'm 58, 5'2" calorie allowance 1200. Eat 1500 or 1600, always eat my exercise calories. Have lost 16 lbs.
    Love not being hungry!
  • bmqbonnie
    bmqbonnie Posts: 836 Member
    I'm 24, weigh 147 and am eating net 1600/day. I eat back my exercise cals (so many days I eat closer to 2000) and am often a little over 1600 but still am losing. So I'm thinking about switching my settings to "very active" which would bump me up to 1742 if memory serves me correctly.

    I don't know how people don't eat them back. Even as it is, most days I am HUNGRY and would have a hard time even sticking to 1700 if it weren't for working some extra cals off.
  • psych101
    psych101 Posts: 1,842 Member
    About 1200, and I don't eat back my calories burned. I'm new to this.
    I find that I am getting a little cranky, ut for the most part I eat the same thing every day.

    heya hun, if you're getting cranky then perhaps you need to eat your exercise calories back - keep some of that sanity

    *not starting an exercise calories war here, just making a suggestion xxx *
  • FairyMiss
    FairyMiss Posts: 1,812 Member
    i am 42 203 i goal is 1200 but i rarely hit it, usually around 1000 caloris, i do not record my exercises so no i dont eat them back
  • _blackbird
    _blackbird Posts: 27
    I'm 5'5, 139 pounds, and I eat between 1,100 and 1,500 daily, depending on the amount of exercise I do that day.
  • agthorn
    agthorn Posts: 1,844 Member
    30 years old, 5'5", 130, maintaining and 'lightly active'. My net cals are 1770 so with exercise cals I average about 2100 a day. I would be a sad panda if I didn't eat back all my exercise calories. I was originally set to half a pound a week at sedentary, which gave me 1430 net and I ate all my exercise calories back then too. I lost 12 pounds in 4 months.
  • NeonNikki
    NeonNikki Posts: 87 Member
    I average 1,250-1,300. Don't eat back my exercise cals and work out on average 30 or so minutes a day. I figure if it is part of the way I live, why eat back the calories. -I zig zag a ton! My weight has been a stable 118 pounds - 5'7in and I'm happy with that. If I wanted to loose I'd probably eat 1,000-1,200...maybe I have a slow metabolism? But I feel good and am satisfied with how much I eat :) I've been counting calories for a very long long time and know that 1,300-1,400 calories I maintain, 1,600 up I gain, 1,000 ish I get smaller. :)

    Considering you're at the LOWEST weight to be considered healthy for your height it's not surprising that you're maintaining on a weight loss amount. 1250-1300 calories is "dieting" for MOST people and should be for you as well but I suspect that this is an unnaturally low weight for your body and it simply isn't losing because you're already at a dangerously low weight/body fat for your height.

    Her weight is no where near "unnaturally" and "dangerously low." Where are you getting your information, and where do you get off thinking it's acceptable to jump to all of these judgmental conclusions? <.<

    Really looking at exactly everything I eat I may be closer to 1,500 calories. I am not very accurate so I aim low knowing I'll eat a few extra more. I try to track everything but I'm a grazer and a nibbler. Also very ADD :) So yeah. Def. eating enough.
  • gettingskinnysoon
    gettingskinnysoon Posts: 46
    For me it's usually between 800 - 1400 a day, depending on my mood etc etc. I don't get my TOM very often so that doesn't usually effect me much. And when I do, I lose my appetite. I hate eating my exercise calories because to me it feels as though I've spent all that time exercising and burning calories only to eat them back. If anything it makes me feel worse, and when I eat over 1200 calories I freak the **** out.
  • agthorn
    agthorn Posts: 1,844 Member
    For me it's usually between 800 - 1400 a day, depending on my mood etc etc. I don't get my TOM very often so that doesn't usually effect me much. And when I do, I lose my appetite. I hate eating my exercise calories because to me it feels as though I've spent all that time exercising and burning calories only to eat them back. If anything it makes me feel worse, and when I eat over 1200 calories I freak the **** out.
    Hon - do you realize that you are very literally starving yourself? If I've done the math correctly (and I think I have) at 161kg and 6 feet tall, your daily calorie expenditure before any exercise is nearly 3200 calories a day - you are barely netting 25% of that. MFP gives you a goal of 1970 and that should be a little more than a 2 pound per week loss, so even if you weren't eating back your exercise calories you could more than DOUBLE what you're eating now.
  • unsuspectingfish
    unsuspectingfish Posts: 1,176 Member
    For me it's usually between 800 - 1400 a day, depending on my mood etc etc. I don't get my TOM very often so that doesn't usually effect me much. And when I do, I lose my appetite. I hate eating my exercise calories because to me it feels as though I've spent all that time exercising and burning calories only to eat them back. If anything it makes me feel worse, and when I eat over 1200 calories I freak the **** out.
    Hon - do you realize that you are very literally starving yourself? If I've done the math correctly (and I think I have) at 161kg and 6 feet tall, your daily calorie expenditure before any exercise is nearly 3200 calories a day - you are barely netting 25% of that. MFP gives you a goal of 1970 and that should be a little more than a 2 pound per week loss, so even if you weren't eating back your exercise calories you could more than DOUBLE what you're eating now.

    This.

    I'm 5'6", usually net between 1,600 and 1,700, and have consistently lost between 1 and 3 pounds a week since May. There is no need to freak out about going over 1,200.
  • foremant86
    foremant86 Posts: 1,115 Member
    between 1500-1800 a day, never less unless i'm sick or something.

    Yes i eat my exercise calories.
  • sunnyzephyr
    sunnyzephyr Posts: 114
    I am 19, 5' 8", and 168. My calorie "goal" is 1200, but I try to stay under that. And eating back the calories you burn, unfortunately defeats the purpose of burning them. Technically, you're supposed to burn more calories per day than you eat. But that is not limited to your workout, it includes normal everyday activity.
  • SassyCalyGirl
    SassyCalyGirl Posts: 1,932 Member
    I am 44 weigh 120 am 5'5. Trying to lose 10 lbs. My calorie budget daily is 1061. I burn 500 calories in circuit training 5 days a week. You do NOT add those calories back into your budget! I am using Herbalife to help with my weight loss. 2 shakes and 1 meal daily.
  • Shannonigans84
    Shannonigans84 Posts: 693 Member
    I'm 27, 159lbs, net 1540 daily and eat back most of my exercise calories.
  • sunnyzephyr
    sunnyzephyr Posts: 114
    wow you have lost alot!!! Awesome. I eat back half of my exercise points and am not losing. Only lost 2 lbs in a month :( horrible. Guess everyones body is different.

    Its really important that you are burning more calories than you are eating. The way that MFP is set up doesn't really help us with that, but your net calories should be low.

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