what is your actual maintenance calorie number?
MJ7910
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what is your actual calories for maintenance and then list your stats - height, weight, activity level (exercise how many times a week for how long). just wondering if mfp is accurate or othere sites are more accurate.
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According to MFP it was 1440. Then I used a Bodymedia Fit for a month and figured out it actually is 1700. Both are before excercise calories are added. I'm 5 feet even, 112 lbs. The 1440 mfp gave me was set for sedentary since I have a desk job.0
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MFP says my maintenance is 1600, but i actually net about 2000 - 2100.0
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1670 NET but I have it set to 1600.
Height - 5ft 3.5
CW - 119
Lightly Active
I think the number they have given me is about right as I lose on 1500 and gain if I eat over 1650/1700 (weekly average). Personally I don't think it's ever set in stone!0 -
1670 NET but I have it set to 1600.
Height - 5ft 3.5
CW - 119
Lightly Active
I think the number they have given me is about right as I lose on 1500 and gain if I eat over 1650/1700 (weekly average). Personally I don't think it's ever set in stone!
we sound so similar. i am at about 1550-1600 now, waiting to see what happens this week. wanted to lose just a few more but know that i need to only lose 1/2 lb per week. once i hit my goal weight, was thinking 1650 is about right... not sure though.0 -
According to MFP it was 1440. Then I used a Bodymedia Fit for a month and figured out it actually is 1700. Both are before excercise calories are added. I'm 5 feet even, 112 lbs. The 1440 mfp gave me was set for sedentary since I have a desk job.
I have a question, how's the 1,700 been working for you, have you been doing it for a while? My maintenance calories from MFP are 1,430 when set on sedentary and I thought 1,700 would make me gain! Especially because after exercise I'd be eating 2,000. If I can increase that'd be great.
Oh + to answer the OP I'm 5"2 & 92.5lb0 -
I am 5'2" and 115 pounds. I think your age makes a difference also since our metabolism slows down. MFP says 1440 at sedentary and I think it is about right. When I go over I gain. I exercise to eat.0
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According to MFP it was 1440. Then I used a Bodymedia Fit for a month and figured out it actually is 1700. Both are before excercise calories are added. I'm 5 feet even, 112 lbs. The 1440 mfp gave me was set for sedentary since I have a desk job.
I have a question, how's the 1,700 been working for you, have you been doing it for a while? My maintenance calories from MFP are 1,430 when set on sedentary and I thought 1,700 would make me gain! Especially because after exercise I'd be eating 2,000. If I can increase that'd be great.
Oh + to answer the OP I'm 5"2 & 92.5lb
Funny you ask that because I have actually gained 2 lbs recently. I had been doing the 1700 for 2 months maybe. However I think it might be due to too much cheating on the weekends. This past month or so I had not been logging on weekends and going a little over board. So I think that has caught up to me. Or it very well could be the 1700 not being accurate that the bodymediafit gave me. So I am back to 1200 this week to lose the 2 lbs, then will start back with the 1700 and keep logging on weekends. After that I guess I will know for sure. Also everyone's metabolism is different so even if 1700 works for one person it might make someone else gain. It's all trial and error unfortunately.0 -
I am finding that I gained a few lbs on maintenance cals, so I set it for loss of 0.5 lbs per week. I do go over more often, but I am trying to be consistent.0
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I'm still playing around with finding my maintenance level. MFP originally gave me 1630 net. I tried that for two months, lost maybe a pound. Bumped it up to 1770 for the next two months, no change. So I just increased it to 1890 and will try that for another two months to see what happens (I just increase my activity level settings...I've been told that there are very few people who are truly sedentary by this site's definition).
According to another site that calculates BMR according to your lean body mass, my BMR is 1381...but MFP calculates it as 1308. So that's probably some of the discrepancy.0 -
my BMR differs depending on where i calculate it, ranging from 1200 - 1700
MFP gave me roughly 1590 i think, but at the moment i have it set to 1500 and am monitoring it. i was losing roughly 0.5Ibs a week but then xmas came so that's mucked up my measurements so i will check again this week and next week and then decide whether to increase.
i would like to increase but am wary of gaining
i think maintenance is very hard to gauge - congrats to those that have done haha0 -
I'm a 5'10" woman who weighs 168-170 pounds (that's my normal range) and I'm 27 years old.
MFP has my maintenance calories set at 2130 calories/day for lightly active/
I don't reach that most days (I typically consume between 1800-2000 calories) and I'm maintaining, but I'm probably more sedentary than "lightly active" so that's about right.0 -
I'm about 5'6", maintaining at a range of 119-121.
Even after over a year and a half of maintaining, I'm still trying to up my base, but have landed somewhere between 1550 and 1600 for awhile, eating all my exercise calories (probably between 350-400/day). I think I manually plugged in this number, but it's somewhere between sedentary and lightly active on MFP's maintenance calorie level for my stats.
I have been over quite a bit because of the holidays lately and haven't weighed for awhile but when I finally do, I may find I can up the calorie level a bit ...hope so!0 -
I am also 5'6" and weigh 128 and want to maintain 130-135. My daily calorie goal is around 1540 and I generally do not eat back my exercise calories. I may have to adjust this since I tend to have days below that and if that happens, I still lose weight. My sense is that if I keep up my present exercise regime, which includes quite a bit of strength training, I may have to go up to 1600-1700 to stop further weight loss. I still do not have this completely figured out yet as I have been in Maintenance mode only a few months now.0
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I'm 5'3" and my maintenance range is 109-112. I usually work to weekly net cals rather than daily ones and my cals are set to 1610 which seems to be okay at the moment. I ended up losing a couple of pounds in maintenance when I began.0
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Usually I find the recommendation to be about 300 calories more than what works for me to maintain my weight. If I am walking 4 miles a day for a minimum of 5 days a week (1 hour a day), I find I can consume 1400 calories. In order to lose weight, my number is 900 calories. I am 5'2" tall and my ideal happy weight is 110 pounds. I am carrying an additional 51/2 pounds of what I call emotional weight right now. Ideally I prefer my range to be 110-114 tops. No matter how active I am I have a slow metabolism. In order to eat more normally, I must exercise daily.0
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Usually I find the recommendation to be about 300 calories more than what works for me to maintain my weight. If I am walking 4 miles a day for a minimum of 5 days a week (1 hour a day), I find I can consume 1400 calories. In order to lose weight, my number is 900 calories. I am 5'2" tall and my ideal happy weight is 110 pounds. I am carrying an additional 51/2 pounds of what I call emotional weight right now. Ideally I prefer my range to be 110-114 tops. No matter how active I am I have a slow metabolism. In order to eat more normally, I must exercise daily.
question about this, what is MFP saying your calories shoudl be to maintain? are you staying you are sedentery, lightly active, etc? i use sedentery because i work a desk job and it says 1590. just wondered.0 -
I think your age makes a difference also since our metabolism slows down.
Not if you exercise it doesn!!0 -
I'm 5 2, atm weight 136 lbs (62 kg) I want to lose a few more kgs. Perhaps get to around 58 - 60 Kg. I dunno yet.
I can maintain my weight eating in the range of 2000-2600
I am very active. Excericse intensely, play lots of sport too. I also do lots of incidental exercise which includes things like lunchtime walking and commuting to work by bike.
I am losing centimetres eating around 2000 gross calories. I burn anywhere between 300 - 600 calories per day.0 -
I have been struggling with this too, i'm trying out 2500 calories but i don't eat back my calories. I'm 5' 10 and currently am 172. I'm tyring it out for a week and will see what happens.0
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My maintenance calories are somewhere between 2000-2450 NET. Mfp thought that my maintenance would be 1900 if I was a bicycle courier, but I lose at that and I'm just a teacher!
I probably mislog a lot for the stats to be like that, but I guess I'm mislogging pretty consistently or I'd be gaining.
I was at goal but gained weight through an unfortunately short pregnancy. I seem to be losing gradually now, just by staying a few 100 in the green each day.
I walk to and from work, and I log that, but the rest is incidental... Right now it must mainly be coughing!
I'm 5'5", about 125lb.0 -
still trying to figure this one out. any updates from those who have been doing this a while? i am now 5'4" 124 lb. i am stepping away from the scale for a little over a month. want to see if 1600-1650 is right.0
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Over 50 years old, 1710 calories is my goal, moderately active. I exercise about 6 days a week, sometimes only a half hour. Exercise goal is 225 minutes weekly. I almost always do more than that, including two days of circuit training at my "Y". I usually don't eat up to my caloric goal. But I am trying to slowly get up to it. Reached my goal weight in December. I feel good at this weight --around 135-38. No real problem maintaining, but I still log all my food, sort of phobic about backsliding.......Have lost control for a day or two here and there.0
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I have been struggling with this too, i'm trying out 2500 calories but i don't eat back my calories. I'm 5' 10 and currently am 172. I'm tyring it out for a week and will see what happens.
good idea, but 1 week isn't long enough. If you are trying a different calorie intake its best to give it a good month!
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1730 calories/day before exercise. I am a sedentary desk worker and I walk briskly for about a mile a day and do pilates. Sometimes I eat those calories, sometimes I don't. Doesn't make a huge difference to me since I don't rack up huge calorie burns like in spinning, running, zumba, etc.
Stats:
5'7"
35 years old
Maintaining at 145 pounds (only on week 2 of maintenance, still figuring this all out)0 -
I am 5'4" and 105 pounds. MFP gave me a maintence calorie number of 1405. I sit all day with my job (from 9:00am - 6:30pm) but I do have a FitBit so when I am more active(days I am not working) it tells me I can eat about 1550-1600. <---Love those days 0
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I have maintained at 105lbs for 10 days now, so it's early days, but my figure is about 2300
that includes exercise, I don't try and make adjustments for individual days, I just aim for 2000 minimum and usually hit between 2100-2500. 0 -
MFP says my maintenance is 1600, but i actually net about 2000 - 2100.
About the same here. Maintaining since April. A 3xxx number here and there hasn't hurt me yet.0 -
1450 Cals per day
5'2"
50kg (110 pounds)
I like to eat/drink more than that so exercise to eat back those extra calories. Been maintaining for 3 weeks now and all is going well with this plan0 -
Height 5' 10"
weight 154 lbs
Settings in MFP maintain, very active
Calories per day 2420
maintained this weight since February 2012.0 -
I'm not sure if I'm done yet, but right now I am at 1700 + exercise calories.
I'm 132 lb and 5 foot 8.0
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