Girls, how many calories are you eating?

5'3 here.

MFP is set to 1400 and I eat back all the exercise calories (both cardio and strength.. Well, I add 300 on strength days). So really, I eat between 1700 and 1900. Still losing!

I'm 5'1, 167 lbs and was eating 1200 per day but plateaued and just upped my calories to 1400.. I'm so freaked out I'm going to end up gaining weight. How many calories are you guys eating and what are your stats?

5'1" working out 3x a week can easily eat 1600-1800 and still lose fat.
Lift weights and youll be amazed!

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I'm 5'1" 140 lbs & workout 3-4/week. I was eating 1200 until last week when I read ^^^this guy's posts! I recently upped it to 1600.

I'm 5'7 and currently 123 lbs (down from about 140)

I started on here at 1200 a day, but being around my mum and my friends, they literally would not let me eat that little, thought it was dangerous, so (because I was already working out a lot, I just upped it a bit) I ended up working out about 3 hours a day so that I'd have all the exercise cals to eat so I could still net 1100-1200 but eat 2000 and make my friends and family happy. I then had no access to a scale for a month. Next time i weighed myself I'd GAINED 10 pounds. And now I have shin splints and insomnia from overexercise. I think stressing so much over trying to burn so many calories made my body produce a lot of cortisol, causing it to retain fat. That, and the muscle I was building from working out meant I gained.

Now, as I can't do any high impact cardio at all, it'd be impossible for my goal to be on 1200, so I've upped it to 1600, lowered my deliberate cardio (as in, go to the gym to burn cals, though if I end up having to walk my dog twice, too, I'll log that as well) to about an hour a day and I've suddenly dropped 6 lbs again. AND I'm sleeping properly again, and my shin splints are healing.

Don't be worried about raising! It's only once you raise your net cals to over about 2000 a day that you'd gain! 2000 is the daily recommendation for women.

I'm 5'7 and currently 123 lbs (down from about 140)

I started on here at 1200 a day, but being around my mum and my friends, they literally would not let me eat that little, thought it was dangerous, so (because I was already working out a lot, I just upped it a bit) I ended up working out about 3 hours a day so that I'd have all the exercise cals to eat so I could still net 1100-1200 but eat 2000 and make my friends and family happy. I then had no access to a scale for a month. Next time i weighed myself I'd GAINED 10 pounds. And now I have shin splints and insomnia from overexercise. I think stressing so much over trying to burn so many calories made my body produce a lot of cortisol, causing it to retain fat. That, and the muscle I was building from working out meant I gained.

Now, as I can't do any high impact cardio at all, it'd be impossible for my goal to be on 1200, so I've upped it to 1600, lowered my deliberate cardio (as in, go to the gym to burn cals, though if I end up having to walk my dog twice, too, I'll log that as well) to about an hour a day and I've suddenly dropped 6 lbs again. AND I'm sleeping properly again, and my shin splints are healing.

Don't be worried about raising! It's only once you raise your net cals to over about 2000 a day that you'd gain! 2000 is the daily recommendation for women.

wow that's awful you worked so hard to gain. They just did an article about exercising more than an hour per day regularly is actually bad for your heart, as well. Glad you're losing again and thanks for the advice!

Maybe if you regularly over train, but most doctors recommend that obese people (w/o any other conditions) exercise for at least an hour a day to take weight off. The body will produce cortisol if it is over-worked.

5'3. Currently 116 lbs as of today. I am usually anywhere between 1200 -1600.

I usually have a 1600 cal day once a week, a 1200 day twice and the rest are usually in between. Am maintaining. my body seems to know when to take that 1600 cal day now.. I am not afraid of the high cal day now. It's just not everyday which makes a difference for me.

5'7", 24 y.o., between 145-150 lbs. I eat ~2300 cals/day. I'm maintaining in my stated weight range.

Five foot, one and three quarters. I weighed 263 and I'm now at 257, my calories are 1,820 but I usually eat around 1,500 if not less and I work out six days a week, 30 minutes a day, burning around 500 - 700 calories. :flowerforyou: Oh, and I don't eat back my exercise calories.

I'm 5'7", currently 144 lbs with goal of 135, eating about 1400-1500 cals per day, but have been plateau-ing for several weeks ...

4'10" and I try to stay right at 1200 calories. I eat anywhere from 950 to 1300 calories, but mostly right at 1200 calories.

I started out at 180 pounds and have managed to lose 9 pounds so far. It took me about 5 weeks to lose the 9 lbs.

I don't eat back my exercise calories.

I eat what MFP says to eat, so it all depends. If I don't exercise, I believe Im set at 1240. But when I do, I eat 1/2 back. So somewhere around 1600-1800. And I rarely plateu for more than a week.

Well that's not necessarily true, sometimes I eat them all back, sometimes I eat more, like on the weekends. I'm 80% behaved. LOL

My Fitness Pal has calculated 1240 calories per day for a 1 pound per week weight loss. I am 5'7" but I am 55 so my metabolism is that of a slug. I have really kept it around 1000 net and I am losing 1 pound per week. I have been on the program since June 1.:sad:

I'm 5'7 and somewhere around 135 lbs (don't weight much anymore). I aim to eat around 1600 calories

I'm 5'2" and I weigh 122lbs. I eat 1200 calories but I do go over at least once a week. If I workout I tend to be fine but if I don't move my butt I end up in the red.

I am 5'3". I work out 5 days a week and am nursing my 9 month old. At 1800 calories I wasn't losing but when I would go over I started losing. So, I upped my calories to 2300. I know this seems high but my daughter is still getting up 2 plus times a night so between being active with her, lack of sleep, nursing, and exercise I guess I am burning quite a few calories.