Is 2400 a lot?? Help

I eat 2400 cals a day!!! Heathy food that is!! My question is: is 2400 too much or not??
Weight - 132.2
Ht- 5'1
Female
I workout 5 days a week for 60 mins!!

It sounds like a lot, however you can always just monitor your progress over a couple of weeks and see what happens.

It depends on what you do all day When I was working a physical job 60 hours a week I ate roughly 3000 calories a day at 4`11. I was 110 lbs then. However, I ate the same for oh.... 5 months after starting my desk job and gained just shy of 50 lbs lol. I'm sure you'll find the balance!

Depends on the intensity of your workouts and if you are trying to lose or maintain. I exercise 60-90 minutes, 6x a week, and am 126Ibs, and my TDEE is around 2800, so I wouldn't say 2400 is too much to maintain but possibly too much to lose. Just monitor your weight and see if it is going up or staying the same(allowing for a few ibs fluctuations as most people get at a maintenance weight).

I don't think I've ever eaten that much even on my binge days so its seems like an awful lot especially for a girl and it also seems like you'd be eating way over your BMR but if you're losing weight eating that then I guess it's fine for you but it certainly seems like an awful lot to me.

Many females here are losing on 1800-2200 so no, it is not necessarily an awful lot. 1800-2000 is a general maintenance level for many women. If someone has a bmr of 1700, and burns 1000 in exercise/activity each day, then 2400 is definitely not unrealistic.

I'm 6'3" and 550, I eat 2400 or less per day and I lose. For you, may be a bit much. Do you feel over full after you eat? Are you gaining? Really depends on the person and the activity level.

Your BMR is estimated to be 1,316. If you're extremely active, you might be able to maintain on 2,400, but I'd be very surprised if you lost weight. You are young and a hockey player, though, so it's possible.

I'm 6'0", 208 lbs., and I currently eat 2,400 calories a day. I do resistance training and 200 meter or 400 meter sprints 5 times a week. I lose about 1 lb. a week eating 2,400 calories.

Like the others wrote, it does seem high, but it's easy enough to test.

Maybe if you're working out for an hour five days a week, but on your rest days you may need to eat a little less. I'm also 5'1 and I try to eat at least 1,300 calories every day but I always allow myself to go a little over on days that I exercise. I get really sick to my stomach if I eat too much.

I'm 23 years old and 5 3 and when I used to walk to work every day+physical job+exercised 5 to 6 days a week I routinely ate 2500 to 2800 and didn't gain any weight..... I eat super healthy for the most part as well.

Since you are an athlete, do not assume too large of a deficit or it will affect your training. You can read Lyle McDonald's notes on setting the appropriate deficit:

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/setting-the-deficit-small-moderate-or-large.html

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