Daily Calorie Amount Question

brunzella92

Hi, i'm new here as of yesterday and very excited! I've been through alot to lose weight and never really simply tried calorie counting. When I joined i picked a number of daily calories with the ideal weekly weightloss.

I was wondering what other's were eating for daily calories if you don't mind sharing? Hope it's ok to ask.
I want to make sure i'm eating enough daily so i'm not starving! Thanks in advance!

superdrood

My diary is open to the public. You're welcome to peruse it (:

TXBlonde81

I eat my 1200 calories a day plus or minus 100 based. You are more than welcome to friend me and view my diary to get food ideas.

chevy88grl

I try and stay around 2300 NET calories on days I don't work or workout.

On days I work and/or workout I aim for closer to 2500 NET calories.

MacInCali

Welcome to MFP! I hope you'll love it here!!

My diary is open if you'd like to take a look. My best tip: Eat something every couple of hours to keep your hunger at bay and your energy levels up.

Best of luck to you!

MissMaryMac33

The number of calories varies based on your age, height, weight, current weight, goal weight, activity level etc.
You will see a ton of people tossing around 1200 as some magic number, but for most people that is too low and anything less is definitely too low. I don't know your stats, so the best I can do is give you some guidelines:

Setting your goals based on weight you need to lose:

75lbs or more: Choose to lose 2lbs/week
40-75 pounds: Choose to lose 1.5lbs/week
25-40 pounds: Choose to lose 1lb/week
15-20 pounds: Choose either 1/2lb or 1lb

For instance, I have 15 lbs to go so I have my settings to lose 1/2lb a week. My daily net is around 1400 and if I exercise I eat most if not all of those calories back too. I wear an HRM with a chest strap so I know my calories burned is pretty accurate. If you don't have an HRM or you're using MFP to guess what you burned, I would only eat half of them back.

For my situation a lower carb diet works best so I changed my settings here to 40% protein, 30% carb, 30% fat.
I watch my sodium and changed it to 2000mg a day -- trying to get it under 1500mg eventually.

You'll need to play around and figure out what works best for YOU.

LolasEpicJourney

My diary is also open - but I am not a great role model lately...

brunzella92

Thank you so much! So much to still learn here! My diary was on private! I'm finding depending on the day, like yesterday i went over by 70 calories but accounted for it. The problem i was having on ww was i had NO clue how many calories i was eating based on the points system. That's where i was having a really hard time. For all i knew i could have been eating 800-2500? That's why i chose to come here!