Your calories before vs now??

I just worked it out, before I was eating about 2,500 worth of cals a day now i'm averaging about 1,500 and exercising!

My usual day before MFP

breakfast : BEFORE: multigrain bread & peanut butter NOW: Usually Multigrain bread and vegemite

Snacks: Fruit & energy drink NOW: Water/sugar free enegry drink maybe fruit or carrot

Lunch : Soup & snack of more toast and peanut butter// NOW: just soup

snacks: salt and vinegar chips with vinegar// FRUIT or CRACKERS etc

Dinners: usually healthy around 400- 500 cals

And

Dessert: usually mcdonalds sundaes! // Lower cal desserts or none at all

Total guess 3-5k cals a day probably, maybe more.

I can eat like a champ.

I have been eating between 700 and 900 calories a day now for about two weeks and have not lost anything. Before I had been eating 1000 to 1200 calories a day and losing like crazy. I am two pounds away from my minus 25 pound mark and I can't seem to see it happen. Any advice? I exercise about an hour a day doing cardio and weights, too. What's going on with me? Should I just have a little more patience and just keep doing what I am doing? What?

You are not eating enough. Strange as it sounds, but you NEED to eat a minimum of 1200 a day.

My original weight was 120lbs, and I gained SIXTY POUNDS in a year and a half :noway: With my knowledge of calories, I reckon I was eating between 3000 and 5000 calories most days, of complete and utter CRAP! Not a fruit or veggie used to pass my lips, and now I'm addicted to healthy foods. I eat clean, and stick to anywhere between 1400 and 1900 per day depending on exercise

Ugh...when I think about how much I used to be able to polish off in one day...its disgusting! I was never hungry, EVER...was just emotional eating/eating out of boredom/eating things that tasted good due to additives & MSG.

YES! I logged what I was eating before and with all the ready meals, takeaways and soda - it was over 3000 cals

Have no clue! But... it's scary to admit that I was consuming maybe 450 calories + every couple of days in alcohol alone. I don't think I overate. I drank way too much alcohol, so my macros were probably not the best. Wine is like liquid sugar... and alcohol is the first thing your body burns if it has a choice between alcohol, fats, carbs or protein. Alcohol is metabolized first, so this meant whatever extra bit of fat I had on my body would just kinda hang around while I was burning all that alcohol off. At my highest, was only maybe 155 lbs and I'm 5'7"... so not really overweight, but I have a smaller frame. I'm around 123 lbs now and happy to stay here. I imagine it's possible I'll gain a few more lbs of muscle in the next few years, since I lift weights.

Have no clue! But... it's scary to admit that I was consuming maybe 450 calories + every couple of days in alcohol alone. I don't think I overate. I drank way too much alcohol, so my macros were probably not the best. Wine is like liquid sugar... and alcohol is the first thing your body burns if it has a choice between alcohol, fats, carbs or protein. Alcohol is metabolized first, so this meant whatever extra bit of fat I had on my body would just kinda hang around while I was burning all that alcohol off. At my highest, was only maybe 155 lbs and I'm 5'7"... so not really overweight, but I have a smaller frame. I'm around 123 lbs now and happy to stay here. I imagine it's possible I'll gain a few more lbs of muscle in the next few years, since I lift weights.

I was doing the same! Although my eating was pretty horrible, I know most of my cals were coming from alcohol. A large bottle of wine a night? It was awful! I didn't even realize how fattening alcohol was until I started tracking every bit of it I have and cringing at the results. Now I just don't want to waste my cals on it more than once a week.

I recon I used to eat about 2500 - 3000 a day :noway:

But now I eat 1500 - and my exercise calories

Omg I was the same way!! Now I'm in control lol... Sometimes haha

I didn't know how much I was eating then but was seriously BLOWN AWAY when I started keeping track- at how much calories, fat, sodium, sugar everything is! Geez, no wonder I got fat. I eat 1700 or under now so I must have been eating thousands.

3-4000 calories a day on average. But could easily go over that, by eating a half a pack of oreo's and a half gallon of milk, in one setting!

i used to eat like 2300 calories a day i eat close to 4000 now

before i could eat anthing from 2000-3000 a day now i tend to try and eat 1000, sometimes it is over to the 1200 limit sometimes its less like 800... cut out all the crap like mountains of crisps and popcorn and chocolate till i burst, down to a bar of weight watchers or slimfast chocolate bar, and a light single packet of crisps

Just for fun! I don't know exactly what I was eating before (because I was way too scared to every count), but considering I used to drink 2-3 44 oz. Mountain Dews a day at around 600 calories each, I know it was way more than now! I was probably topping 3,000 calories! Now I'm down to about 1,900 a day. Has anybody else made a huge cut and is equally shocked at how awful they were before?

I used to drink 4-5 cans of Mt. Dew a day. 170 calories each - that's 850 calories in soda alone! Add a fast food lunch of about 1100 calories, plus my "healthy" 450 breakfast sandwich from Subway (that I ate EVERY day). Plus snacks and dinner. I'm sure I was around 4000 a day. And I seriously wondered (at the time) how I got fat. There's a river in Egypt.......

I'm now at about 2000 calories a day. TDEE is a little over 2500.

I used to drink Dr. Pepper once a day, and iced tea/hot tea the rest of the day. Rarely any water.
I also used to eat about 2,700 calories a day, and 80% of it bad calories (sweets, soda, and high-cal bad-for-you foods).

Now?

Eating between 1700-2100 calories a day of good, clean food and drinking 8-9 glasses of strictly water a day. Okay...maybe some wine on the weekends.

I was probably up near 3000 - 4000, depending on the day. Now I eat between 1400 - 1600. My max is 1800, but that's on special days, like get-togethers or going out to dinner with my boyfriend.