How many calories are you eating?

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  • Rae6503
    Rae6503 Posts: 6,294 Member
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    About 2000 on average.
  • magerum
    magerum Posts: 12,589 Member
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    I'm 5'10" and eat 3200+ a day on maintenance.
  • paulaviki
    paulaviki Posts: 678 Member
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    500 aday. Lunch and dinner. It's actually big portions just completely unprocessed, only healthy food. I eat either grilled chicken, steak or fish, one large veggie and one fruit for each meal. Lost 15 pounds in four weeks!

    Seriously you only eat 500 calories a day? That's really not good, you are going to give yourself serious health problems if you carry on like that!

    I'm 5ft5 and eating 1500-1800 a day including eating back my exercise calories and have lost 7lb in a month. Eating my calories is definitely working!!
  • moxiecowgirl
    moxiecowgirl Posts: 291 Member
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    5'5" and I average around 1300 daily. I'm on a strictly supervised medically-endorsed diet, and my doctor would have a FIT if I went below 1000 calories a day! When I dropped down to around 1100, just to try it, I almost immediately stopped losing.
  • munny_p
    munny_p Posts: 73 Member
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    5'2 and was doing 1200 but not losing...upped it to 1,500 and I exercise daily. I feel better already than I did eating 1200.
  • UpEarly
    UpEarly Posts: 2,555 Member
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    5'9', 40, female, 137 pounds - I eat about 2200-2400 calories a day.
  • llpleslie
    llpleslie Posts: 53
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    I'm 5'8 an only eating 1,000 and I have to push to do that.
  • joecollins9385
    joecollins9385 Posts: 355 Member
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    im 6' and eating 2000-2600 calories per day. always under my goal for the day thanks to exercise
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
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    I'm curious.
    How many calories are you ladies/gentlemen eating in a day? :p

    2000+ while on a deficit.
    I'm 5'1, and I try to eat below 1,000 every day :p hah

    sorry to hear you find undereating humorous.
  • MrsSorenson
    MrsSorenson Posts: 450 Member
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    1330 to 1530 cals a day.

    I used to eat less than 1,000 a day and it made me very sick. That is not recomended at all. I wouldn't advise. Even my doctor said that isn't good.
  • kathym59
    kathym59 Posts: 51
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    Is this thread for people wanting to starve themselves or something? o_o
    I eat around 1500.
    Oh and I'm 5'6 ?
    Same here, netting around 1500
  • sjschewlakow
    sjschewlakow Posts: 120 Member
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    I am set to lose 1/2 lb a week (only 10 more lbs to go) and it has me at 1690. Just started yesterday though with higher cals. Kind of scary! :D I was set to 1440. I am 5'6 (lost an inch somewhere :D)
  • Blaineyyy
    Blaineyyy Posts: 151 Member
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    Did eating <1,000 calories a day suddenly become a good thing?

    And I try to get 1,200-1,300.

    1,400-1,500 on days I workout.
  • DixiedoesMFP
    DixiedoesMFP Posts: 935 Member
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    5'4" , 1800 - 2000 calories a day
  • swilliams121262
    swilliams121262 Posts: 1
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    I'm 5'6" female - my dr. advised me to eat 1200 per day to lose 8 pounds - so far it is working - very easy to do!
  • jlmoses91
    jlmoses91 Posts: 87 Member
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    I'm 5'9 and eat about 1400 unless I exercise a lot that day, then depending on how many calories ive burned i would eat more.
  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
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    I'm 5'8 an only eating 1,000 and I have to push to do that.

    I always wonder how people have to push/force themselves to eat more than 1200 cals. How did you gain weight in the first place? Most likely over-eating...
  • Blaineyyy
    Blaineyyy Posts: 151 Member
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    500 aday. Lunch and dinner. It's actually big portions just completely unprocessed, only healthy food. I eat either grilled chicken, steak or fish, one large veggie and one fruit for each meal. Lost 15 pounds in four weeks!

    Good luck keeping that up. 1,000 sounded bad enough but then I saw this... Please encourage yourself to eat more - preferably 1,200 minimum, but any more than 500 is a start. Even if it's just more of the same stuff, considering none of it looks bad.
  • raystark
    raystark Posts: 403 Member
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    Im 6'3, eat around 2500 to lose weight and 3000 to maintain

    Ditto to height, deficit calories and maintenance calories.
  • jkrim941
    jkrim941 Posts: 226 Member
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    1333/day + exercise. 5'8"

    Since I started eating more calories than the MFP recommended amounts, the losses have been steady.

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