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5'2" ladies, What is your calorie goal?

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  • JeSuisPrest
    JeSuisPrest Posts: 2,005 Member
    I have just once again changed my goal, it is now at 1765, not going to count exercise calories and see how this goes. It really makes me feel nutty and confused. Am I the only one who gets obsessed like this??
  • coopersmom2006
    coopersmom2006 Posts: 839
    I'm 5ft 2in and am at my happy weight of 110.4 (fluctuating between this and 113 depending on the way the wind blows). I'm eating 1927 a day and doing just fine. :)
  • JeSuisPrest
    JeSuisPrest Posts: 2,005 Member
    I'm 5ft 2in and am at my happy weight of 110.4 (fluctuating between this and 113 depending on the way the wind blows). I'm eating 1927 a day and doing just fine. :)


    Wow...what I'd give to be that small again!! Kudos to you!! How often do you exercise? Do you still eat at 1927 when you don't exercise?
  • Mandys_Getting_Fit
    Mandys_Getting_Fit Posts: 70 Member
    Between 1700 & 1800 calories daily.

    I'm 5'3" 30 years old and approximately 130 pounds. I was around 127 pounds, but I haven't weighed myself in well over a month and a half. I'm assuming that I gained a few pounds though because during that time I was doing the complete metabolic reset and also had family visiting from out of state (so I know I was eating TDEE or above).

    According to the scooby calorie calculator, here are my numbers:

    At 130 pounds:
    BMR = 1281.
    TDEE for light activity is 1762.
    TDEE for moderate activity is 1986.

    A 10% cut from 1986 is 1788. So I figure that I'd try to eat between 1700 & 1800 (the cut from TDEE for moderate activity). I strength train 3x a week and do light cardio 2x weekly; each for approximately 30 minutes. I'm also getting ready for my daughters school year to start back up and I walk her to & from school 5 days per week. That totals about 30 minutes daily. It all equals about 5 hours per week.

    I do NOT want to under eat ever again!

    Also, fat2fit calculates these numbers to maintain my GOAL weight of 120 lbs:
    Sedentary (little or no exercise, desk job) = 1598
    Lightly Active (light exercise/sports 1-3 days/wk) = 1832
    Moderately Active (moderate exercise/sports 3-5 days/wk) = 2065
    Very Active (hard exercise/sports 6-7 days/wk) = 2298
    Extremely Active (hard daily exercise/sports & physical job or 2X day training, i.e marathon, contest etc.) = 2531

    It also states that ... "As you get closer to your goal weight, your weight loss will start to slow down. It is OK to eat a few hundred calories less per day (200-300) to speed up your weight loss at this point".

    200 - 300 calories below the moderately active calorie goal is in the 1700 - 1800 calorie range.

    Whew ... that was long-winded. :laugh:

    * edited to add* If I'm still hungry at 1800, I'll gradually up my calories all the way to TDEE for my goal weight. YAY for feeding the muscle and letting it beat out the fat!*
  • lucyhoneychurch
    lucyhoneychurch Posts: 576 Member
    I'm 5'2", 39 yrs old, currently weigh 131lbs. I don't care what the scale ends up at, as long as I can get rid of my love handles and see the muscle buried by my recent 6-wk reset. I'm in week 3 of my cut.

    TDEE: 2300-2400 (I use a BMF for this)
    TDEE - 15%: 2000-ish

    And I'm discovering that having a 500 cal deficit from my TDEE is not doing me any favors: my body is holding onto its weight! The ideal deficit seems to be approx. 200-300 cals. Slow going, but I'll take it as long as things are trending downward!
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