Calorie Confusion!!!

Lizzyg1979

I am 33 yr old, female, 5f 6 in, and 206 lbs. I work out about 3-4 times per week (fairly high intensity) and I am confused with how many calories I should be eating.

My personal trainer has me at 1400 calories per day but all the calculators I use online say I should be eating 1600-1650 calories per day based on my stats. Does that sound right to you all out there?

I am not seeing the results I was hoping for, so I am looking for some suggestions to break through this plateau. I was looking into calorie cycling? any thoughts?

jjrichard83

If you are looking for results of losing weight, you should not be using the scale nearly as much as using a measuring tape.

30ismyyear

Well if it's been a few weeks since you've had a loss then from what I've read (and I've read a lot!) I would up my calories by 100-200 and give that a few weeks.

ittybittybadonkadonk

I am your height but I am 237 and MFP has me over 1800 ......so I would experiment try upping your calories and eating 1/2 of your exercise calories for a few weeks and see what happens........GOOD LUCK

anybeary

I think it's perfectly alright if you're overweight and NOT exercising to eat 1200-1400 calories, but if you are exercising, you need FOOD, or your workouts and your recovery ability will really suffer.

When I plateaued recently (after starting to work out a lot harder) I decided to raise my calories by 100 per week until I was at 1700 a day. The weight starting coming off again. I agree with your decision to eat more.

If you're a trainer and you weight NOTHING, you can get away with eating 1400, but if you're a larger person used to eating a ton of calories, it doesn't make any damned sense to go from eating 3000 calories a day to eating 1400. It's nothing but a shock to your body that make everything go haywire, including your emotional ties to food. I say, decrease gradually. It just makes good sense.