women at 200-220 #'s -how many calories r u at daily?

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  • Cindy393
    Cindy393 Posts: 268 Member
    I'm 5'5" with a start weight at 227. Start calories at 1580 in April. With every 10 pound loss, MFP ask if you would like to adjust you cal intake. I'm now at 1380 and that is as low as I will go. I was thinking about upping that cal intake by 100 cal, but I'll stick with the 1380 for now. I think you started too low. This is a journey and the weight will come off. I'm impatient once I reached my 1st major goal, but I have to keep telling myself this is a journey and not a quick fix. We are doing something that will that daily work, so with a diet you can live with and exercise, you will be fine

    And I try not to eat back my exercise calories

    It's never asked me if I wanted to adjust my cal intake........why? I've gone from 228 to 215.
  • geekyjock76
    geekyjock76 Posts: 2,720 Member
    hi. just curious how many cals women (around 5'2"-5'5" or so) and weight 200-220#'s........ how many cals do u have a day?
    what are you set at??? for how long? how is it going?? i think i started too low...did the whole 2#'s a week thing and got the big whole 1200 cals a day!...did that a mo...upped it to 1380 (1 1/2) pound setting a wk..did that about 3wks ago.... now just upped it another 100 calories.... I exercise a lot 400 cals burned minimum a day and usually more like 500-700 in total a day! (and i eat my exercise cals back of course, croak if not i think.. LOL).. anyway....but i hear things /read/blogs...about how if you are too low on cals you can hurt your metabolism for the long run and wt loss.. lil nervous about upping them again tonight... but might be good!
    and ive also known peeps that weigh much less then me and are at higher cals and loosing wt!! so im like??? :indifferent:
    SW 231 CW 216 GW 155-160
    If you're following the 1200 net MFP sets for you, and you are doing 500-700 calories of cardio, then you need to be eating a total of 1700 to 1900 calories on those days.
  • dobielover1
    dobielover1 Posts: 49
    I haven't been doing this for long...but have been losing slow and steady over the past 4 weeks...I'm at 1600 calories.

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