Girls, how many calories are you eating?

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  • TheNavet
    TheNavet Posts: 162 Member
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    5"4, 117lbs / 53.2kg, around 1450-1500 calories a day but I'm on my upping them slowly as I'm barely eating over my BMR and burning around 350 calories from exercice on a daily basis P:

    EDIT: And you shouldn't worry too much about weight gain if you up your calories, it's mainly water retention ;). Just remember if you gain one lbs when eating +200 calories : 1lbs = 3500 calories. Just watch your sodium!
  • treenuh_x
    treenuh_x Posts: 94 Member
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    MFP set mine to 1480, so I usually eat between 1200 and 1400.
  • megalin9
    megalin9 Posts: 771 Member
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    I eat every bit of my 1800 calories. 27yo, 5'7", 199#, strength training 3X/week, cardio 2X/week+. Steadily losing weight, not starving, heavier than I was when I graduated high school but SMALLER. :drinker:
  • Herbastar
    Herbastar Posts: 5
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    I am 5'8" roughly about 127 lbs... I take in about 1500 calories a day with about 100 grams of protein with the help of my Herbalife... I work out 5 days a week and feel amazing! What you want to do is check to see what your resting metabolic rate is. Then you have a starting point of where your personal caloric intake should be. In order to loose about 1 pound a week you will go 500 calories lower than your resting metabolic rate. You DO NOT want to go below 1200 calories a day. If you do then your body thinks it is starving or will go into what some call a hibernation mode. This is when your body starts to STORE what you put into it because it thinks it will not receive food again for awhile. Example if your resting metabolic rate is 2400 than you can safely go down to 1400 calories a day and loose about 2 pounds a week! ;) When you exercise and eat (even just a little something like 1/2 c. cottage cheese) every 3-4 hours than your metabolism will raise. This will cause your calorie burning to increase = more weight loss. I hope this helps! :tongue:
  • Gwyn1969
    Gwyn1969 Posts: 181 Member
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    No longer a girl, but ... 5'9", 160, started logging on MFP at 1700. At that time I was rehabbing a back injury, so my training was curtailed by that. I stayed heavy on bench and press, added HIIT, and curtailed my martial arts training to very light but kept it at three or four times a week. Then when I started linear progression on squat and deadlift, I cut out cardio, and started training harder on the mat. Had to up my calories to 1850. I'm still hungry a lot and eat over that every couple of days, by around 300 extra. I may up it again. Lost 8-ish pounds, rather quickly, want to keep cutting but need to slow it down if I'm going to keep training hard and get my squat and deadlift back up to where they were before I hurt my back (220 and 305).
  • LadyMustard
    LadyMustard Posts: 104 Member
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    227lbs, 5' 6", 1750 calories. Most days I eat about 200 or so less. I eat closer to 1750 on my work out days, MWF. Lost 6 - 8 pounds since starting, and I'm still losing.
  • JustJennie1
    JustJennie1 Posts: 3,843 Member
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    Depends.

    My diary is set to 1530 but I go over it more often than not, especially on the weekends. With workouts I aim for my 1530 period and don't consciously eat back my exercise calories however lately I've been hitting close to 1800 on my workout days.

    I'm 5'3 and 117lbs
  • sarahhlove
    sarahhlove Posts: 2 Member
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    i'm currently 178. 5'7 and i consume about 1500-1600 calories a day, typically. i've lost about 6 lbs in the last 3 weeks alone. exciting stuff! :)
  • Lifting_Knitter
    Lifting_Knitter Posts: 1,025
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    Maintenance at 2100. Have done it for over a month and not gained a lb. :drinker:
  • AncientLullaby_
    AncientLullaby_ Posts: 119
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    700 cals -1500 cals zigg zag :)
  • lumstead0317
    lumstead0317 Posts: 85 Member
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    I just started doing TDEE-22.5%... I'm 5'6'' Starting Weight of 162 calories per day about 1650! Let's see how this goes!
  • newdaydawning79
    newdaydawning79 Posts: 1,503 Member
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    5'9", 254 as of today

    Newest total has me at 1590, down from over 1700 when I started. Lightly active at work, plus exercise 2-4 days a week. Depending on hunger I may or may not eat back all of my exercise cals. Have had no problems dropping weight so far, have lost 35 pounds since January 1 (being so overweight, I'm dropping faster for a bit but it will level out soon).
  • littlelily613
    littlelily613 Posts: 769 Member
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    I'm 5'4", weigh a lot, and I usually eat over 1600 but under 1700 a day (unless I get in a lot of exercise). I had a bad day today calorie-wise and am quite a bit over (don't know how much exactly) but usually that is what I aim for. My calorie intake is set to lose 1 1/2 pounds a week.
  • rosichick
    rosichick Posts: 80 Member
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    I'M 5'5 176lb and i eat 1350 cal but usually eat more because i work out a lot
  • love4fitnesslove4food_wechange
    love4fitnesslove4food_wechange Posts: 6,897 Member
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    2000-2200, about 1x a week I'll eat 2500-2600.

    I'm 4'11 and ~110 pounds.
  • 2013sk
    2013sk Posts: 1,318 Member
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    5 ft 9 and around 135.....eating around 1600, exercising 4 times a week min
  • weloveourboys
    weloveourboys Posts: 133 Member
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    5'8 and 118 lb; eating 2200-2400 a day. Not trying to lose or gain.
  • xxstormynightsxx
    xxstormynightsxx Posts: 20
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    5'6" 128 lbs i eat anywhere from 1200-1800. I think it's good to switch it up a lot, instead of having the same amount every day. This'll help keep your metabolism up and running. I hadn't been exercising for awhile, but I lost 22 lbs pretty much just through food. Now going to the gym a few times a week for cardo/weights to see if it'll make more of a difference, as I am hoping. Good luck!:))
  • weightloser122
    weightloser122 Posts: 87
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    too many! im 5'6" and went from 130 to 106 lbs eating 1300. i increased to like 2200 and ive put on 5 lbs in 3 weeks :/ i guess thats a bit too high for me
  • bizco
    bizco Posts: 1,949 Member
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    I plugged your stats into MFP's BMR calculator and your BMR is 1,450 calories. BMR is the number of calories your body burns just to stay alive. Put another way, it's the number of calories you would burn if you were in a coma.

    Never eat below your BMR otherwise you'll mess up your metabolism and have a whole host of new problems to deal with.

    Edit: find MFP's BMR calculator by click on the Apps tab, scroll down and look for it on the right hand side of the screen.

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