What is everyones daily calorie goal?

wild_wild_life · October 2013

BMR = 1709

Calorie intake set by MFP = 1200

Am not sure daily intake should be this low.........I'm losing but not sure how I can reduce more when/if I plateau???

Good luck!

Do you eat more when you exercise? 1200 net might be OK (looks like you are trying to lose around 100lbs per your ticker) but 1200 total probably isn't enough if you're exercising.

wild_wild_life · October 2013

BMR: 1500
TDEE (without exercise): 2000

Daily goal: 1750 + exercise calories. Generally land somewhere between 3000 and 4000 calories a day and I'm still losing so all's good

You can lose at 4000 cals per day? What kind of exercise do you do?

Says Triathlete on her profile

Yeah but . . . unless she is doing an ironman every day, burning 2000 cals in exercise is a lot. I'm not doubting it, just curious.

CindyArlene · October 2013

BMR = 2263
Daily Goal = 1740

I end up under the goal on most days though, often by about 400-500

Mischievous_Rascal · October 2013

BMR: 1375
TDEE: 2300
Goal: 2100

I've included my exercise in my TDEE calculation, so I eat the same amount daily and I don't have to worry about tracking how much I burn each day. This is my fave TDEE calculator: http://scoobysworkshop.com/accurate-calorie-calculator/

Also, I think a lot of people may be confused re BMR vs TDEE, or they're eating a VLCD - difficult to sustain longterm without yo-yoing back up. (BMR is your base calorie level to stay alive, TDEE is the total calories burned in a day and includes your BMR.)

basal metabolic rate (BMR)
The rate at which energy is used by an organism at complete rest, measured in humans by the heat given off per unit time, and expressed as the calories released per kilogram of body weight or per square meter of body surface per hour.

total daily energy expenditure (TDEE)
Total daily caloric expenditure, consisting of basal metabolic rate, diet-induced thermogenesis, and energy expenditure for physical activity; in the clinical setting, TDEE can be estimated by calculation or measured by indirect calorimetry.

Mischievous_Rascal · October 2013

BMR: 1500
TDEE (without exercise): 2000

Daily goal: 1750 + exercise calories. Generally land somewhere between 3000 and 4000 calories a day and I'm still losing so all's good

You can lose at 4000 cals per day? What kind of exercise do you do?

Says Triathlete on her profile

Yeah but . . . unless she is doing an ironman every day, burning 2000 cals in exercise is a lot. I'm not doubting it, just curious.

A triathlete will have a body that's pretty efficient at burning calories all day, everyday. (Especially if they're training regularly, which you have to assume they are.)

Lisa4750 · October 2013

Hi 'PlasticPsycho', I'm also on such a low calorie goal (1200) and I'm feeling weak since I eat so few calories. So do you eat more, and then because of eating more, exercise everyday to get to your netto calorie goal?

heybales · October 2013

all those calculators don't seem to apply to everyone, i have over the past 9 months tested myself twice with my heart rate monitor for a 24hr period and my TDEE on a non exercise day is alot higher then what all the calculators say it should be, i'm apparently very active when i am seated the majority of the day so this whole time tho it has been working for most of that 9 months, i was setting myself at sedentary/lightly active and eating 1600-2000 calories varying assuming my TDEE was around 2300 when in actual fact my TDEE tested just last week is 2800 for a 24hr period then exercise ontop.

rounding down that would put me in a Moderate-Very Active when as i said my job is a forklift driver i'm sitting for 14hrs+ day 10 of which is at work. Doesn't make sense. Mind you i am overweight still and til i get properly tested i have around 25% body fat.

SO in summary seems i've been undereating and overtraining the whole time

Sadly your use of the tool is incorrect and you got bad values.

HRM formula for estimating calorie burn based on HR is totally based on exercise level activity in aerobic range of 90 - 160/170.
Not anaerobic lifting or sprints, and not daily activity below exercise.

You got inflated figures.

heybales · October 2013

BMR: 1500
TDEE (without exercise): 2000

Daily goal: 1750 + exercise calories. Generally land somewhere between 3000 and 4000 calories a day and I'm still losing so all's good

You can lose at 4000 cals per day? What kind of exercise do you do?

Says Triathlete on her profile

Yeah but . . . unless she is doing an ironman every day, burning 2000 cals in exercise is a lot. I'm not doubting it, just curious.

2 hrs at decent training rate is easily 2000 calories.

Per VO2 test, if I keep my HR slightly above mid-aerobic HR zone for an hour, 1000 calories. And that's an easy workout. I could do that 2 x daily if I had the time.

Just as people claim MFP grossly exaggerates calories burns, the majority with their cheap Polars I know are getting badly under-estimated calorie burns.

heybales · October 2013

Hi 'PlasticPsycho', I'm also on such a low calorie goal (1200) and I'm feeling weak since I eat so few calories. So do you eat more, and then because of eating more, exercise everyday to get to your netto calorie goal?

You do eat more.

I'm betting you selected 2 lb weekly loss goal, young and want to do it fast, right.
But with so little to lose, you feel like losing muscle mass, so you can start a lifetime of yo-yo dieting? Ask many women on MFP how their lives have been wasting it away hating their relationship with food because they diet ever year or two, and put weight on faster and easier each time, harder to lose each time.

That is really unrealistic and bad results. You should be at the lowest goal weekly loss, really.

And if you exercise, you do eat more. Ever noticed that when you log exercise and the calories burned, your daily goal goes up?

A goal is something to reach, not to try to stay well under.

If you didn't care about getting within 10% of daily calorie goal, then are you within 10% of your goal weight? Why not stop trying to lose weight then?

Take your sign of being weak seriously. Also notice if your hair has stopped growing as fast yet, or you get cold easier, or nails growing slower.
That's your body slowing down higher level functions to try to provide them for more required functions of life.

heybales · October 2013

BMR = 2263
Daily Goal = 1740

I end up under the goal on most days though, often by about 400-500

Wow, so you miss your goal by 25%, that's extreme.

Are you willing to stop trying to lose weight when you get within 25% of goal weight?

Why not?

heybales · October 2013

BMR = 1709

Calorie intake set by MFP = 1200

Am not sure daily intake should be this low.........I'm losing but not sure how I can reduce more when/if I plateau???

Good luck!

Exactly, what direction do you have to move then calorie-wise at that point?
Some give common recommendation, eat less and/or exercise more. Then that works for couple weeks, now what?
Screwed up metabolism.

Wouldn't it be better to come near goal with full burning metabolism where you can eat more and still be losing?

Also, what exactly do you think you are losing in weight right now eating so little - fat mass only, or fat and muscle mass?
How would you know?

SaraAxm · October 2013

BMR: 1500
TDEE (without exercise): 2000

Daily goal: 1750 + exercise calories. Generally land somewhere between 3000 and 4000 calories a day and I'm still losing so all's good

You can lose at 4000 cals per day? What kind of exercise do you do?

Apparently I can

I work out 2-5 hours a day swimming, cycling and running and I have a fairly active job

SaraAxm · October 2013

BMR: 1500
TDEE (without exercise): 2000

Daily goal: 1750 + exercise calories. Generally land somewhere between 3000 and 4000 calories a day and I'm still losing so all's good

You can lose at 4000 cals per day? What kind of exercise do you do?

Says Triathlete on her profile

Yeah but . . . unless she is doing an ironman every day, burning 2000 cals in exercise is a lot. I'm not doubting it, just curious.

2 hrs at decent training rate is easily 2000 calories.

Per VO2 test, if I keep my HR slightly above mid-aerobic HR zone for an hour, 1000 calories. And that's an easy workout. I could do that 2 x daily if I had the time.

Just as people claim MFP grossly exaggerates calories burns, the majority with their cheap Polars I know are getting badly under-estimated calorie burns.

My calorie burn according to my HR monitor matches up fairly well with MFP. I'm not super tedious with counting my exercise calories since I eat so much anyway I'm sure it evens out somehow.

and yeah, can't see why burning 2000 calories would be such an impossibility - after all that is a part of my daily life and if I'm allowed to brag a bit I'm pretty fit so I must do something right xD

dunnodunno · October 2013

I have mine set at 2112.

FrauHaas2013 · October 2013

Mine changes everyday (my MFP account syncs with my fitbit and auto-adjusts) but it's usually anywhere from 1300-1400 or so. I usually stick to anything from 1000 - 1300 or so; sometimes under, sometimes over.

technobunny · October 2013

RMR: 1173
Lifting Days: 1792
Rest Days: 1559

ChrisS30V · October 2013

BMR-1815

I've been maintaining on 2500-3000 everyday, usually a bit more on long run days.

tilmoph · October 2013

BMR: 1907 as of now; starting was 2379
Morbid obese limit (300lbs-280lbs) 1000
Severe obese - regular obese limit (280lbs - 220lbs) 1200
Overweight Limit (current, 220lbs-183lbs): 1500
Normal (183lbs-160lbs or 130lbs, will see when at 160lbs) : current plan is 1750 limit

I don't see my goal as a target to shoot for; I see it as the maximum amount I can get (with the occasional 10 cal overage because somedays screw it, it's 10 cals) hence the use of the term limit. Normally I've been within 50 cals of the limit for that stage.

I've been upping my cals as I lose mainly to try and limit any metabolic adaptation/slowdown from a prolonged heavy calorie restriction.

Chococoa999 · October 2013

1200, but it's pretty much always less than that.

xoxobollywood2 · October 2013

BMR: 1550
Daily goal: 1200

annakow · October 2013

whats BMR?

I eat 1460

candiceh3 · October 2013

Net 1200 (averaged over a week or so)

davert123 · October 2013

depends on the exercises I do :-)

FarAway02 · October 2013

1600 with eating back as many of my exercise cals as I can stomach. In short I eat til I'm full

I'm not ridiculously active but I am tall so I get to eat that bit extra and keep losing

kenna44cat · October 2013

1340. I'm 5'7" and 69 years old. Don't know my BMR but I think it's about 1800.

Lunnunis · October 2013

1430 without exercise
I started on 1270 but it was too hard to stick to. Adjusted to a lower weight loss per week and got on better. I'm not in a rush. Have lost 50lbs in a year and two months so far.

I'm aged nearly 57 and height 5ft 7"
Starting weight around 215lbs