I have questions for those who have been successful.

M/F?
Age?
Height?
Start weight?
Goal weight?
Time it took?
Aloted daily calories?
Did your aloted calories change with loss?
Did/do you eat back your burned/worked off calories?

THANKS in advance!
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  • Female
    5'8
    18
    205
    145 (13 pounds away!)
    6 months
    1200
    Not really, I believe I started at around 1350
    Nope

    GOOD LUCK!
  • laceybrobie
    laceybrobie Posts: 495 Member
    Female
    27
    228
    CW 187
    GW 140
    APRIL - JAN = 9 MONTHS
    1200-1900 CALORIES
    NO
    I DIDNT EAT BACK MY CALS.

    i set a pretty low cal intake at first. now I am back up to 1500-1800 cals.. I do not eat my cals back and I do not feel hungry.
    I do not eat the best so I know my loss is slow.. I am ok with that because my lifestyle is not ready for a full change on food yet.

    42 lbs and over 21 inches lost so far.
  • HokieMama4
    HokieMama4 Posts: 112 Member
    Great questions! I'm looking forward to reading everyone's responses!
  • larryc0923
    larryc0923 Posts: 557 Member
    M/F? Male
    Age? 55
    Height? 6 ft 3 in
    Start weight? 284
    Goal weight? Initial was not a target weight but was to lose 1 lb on average a week for 52 weeks
    Time it took? So far (9 months into journey) have exceeded the 1 lb a week. Currently average losing about 1.5 lbs a week.
    Aloted daily calories? Varied. Started at about 2100 calories a day as weight is lost this goes down. Currently about 1980.
    Did your aloted calories change with loss? Yes, see above.
    Did/do you eat back your burned/worked off calories? In general no but sometimes yes.
  • txylxr
    txylxr Posts: 19 Member
    M/F? Female
    Age? 18
    Height? 5'5
    Start weight? 210
    Goal weight? 125
    Time it took? 2 1/2 years
    Aloted daily calories? Started at 1200-1300 for about a year, then gradually increased my calories to 1500-1700 and now am maintaining at 1900
    Did your aloted calories change with loss? ^
    Did/do you eat back your burned/worked off calories? Usually not

    GOOD LUCK!! :smile:
  • M/F?
    Age?
    Height?
    Start weight?
    Goal weight?
    Time it took?
    Aloted daily calories?
    Did your aloted calories change with loss?
    Did/do you eat back your burned/worked off calories?

    THANKS in advance!


    female
    52
    165cm
    86kgs (2.2lbs per kg)
    64kgs (current 65.7kgs)
    5 months
    1200
    no...always 1200
    and no...not unless I was absolutely starving, then I'd only eat back a small portion of them
    Good Luck on your journey
  • LiziAB
    LiziAB Posts: 55
    M/F? F
    Age? 43
    Height? 5"10
    Start weight? 190
    Goal weight? 165 (about 8 pounds to go)
    Time it took? about three months
    Alloted daily calories? Started at 1650, down to 1530 now
    Did your alloted calories change with loss? Yes, they went down
    Did/do you eat back your burned/worked off calories? Some, not all. I am trying to lose about 1lb a week, not starving, not overdoing it.
  • Railr0aderTony
    Railr0aderTony Posts: 6,803 Member
    M/F?
    Age?
    Height?
    Start weight?
    Goal weight?
    Time it took?
    Aloted daily calories?
    Did your aloted calories change with loss?
    Did/do you eat back your burned/worked off calories?

    THANKS in advance!
    M
    42
    5'9"
    370+
    200?
    still going 12 months in
    2100
    yes
    every damn exercise calorie that I could(only reason to exercise)
  • peacemongernc
    peacemongernc Posts: 253 Member
    Female
    44
    5' 7"
    Start weight: 304 pounds
    Goal weight:164 pounds (and then I'll see)
    Current weight: 207 pounds
    12 months to lose 97 pounds
    Calories: started at about 1800, soon dropped to 1500. Currently upped to 1650.
    Calories changed. I used to eat back exercise calories. When I started lifting weights regularly, I upped to 1650 and now I try to not eat my exercise calories anymore.

    When I started I lost about 2 1/2 pounds a week. It gradually decreased as my weight decreased, and at the end of December, I was losing about 1 1/2 a week. Since upping my calories and lifting heavy, I'm down to about 1 pound a week or less.
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    M/F? Female
    Age? 28
    Height? 5'4"
    Start weight? 169
    Goal weight? 130 (CW 129)
    Time it took? I worked on it on and off over the last 2 years
    Allotted daily calories? at least 1400
    Did your allotted calories change with loss? Yes, I increased them as I went
    Did/do you eat back your burned/worked off calories? Yes


    Edited for spelling.
  • emills1970
    emills1970 Posts: 118 Member
    bump...
  • kat5556
    kat5556 Posts: 164 Member
    M/F? Female
    Age? 51
    Height? 5' 4.5"
    Start weight? 131
    Goal weight? 120 (this was a total guess when i started)
    Current Weight - 108
    Time it took? 7 months
    Allotted daily calories? 1400 when losing - now 1600 on maintenance
    Did your allotted calories change with loss? yes, once on maintenance
    Did/do you eat back your burned/worked off calories? yes.

    Also like to add - eat healthy foods and move! Regardless of what type of exercise you choose - keep moving! Yes, some types of workouts are better than others but you have to do what motivates you so that you'll keep doing it.
  • offthedeependay
    offthedeependay Posts: 435 Member
    M/F?
    Age?
    Height?
    Start weight?
    Goal weight?
    Time it took?
    Aloted daily calories?
    Did your aloted calories change with loss?
    Did/do you eat back your burned/worked off calories?

    THANKS in advance!
    male
    50
    5'10"
    248lbs
    157lbs
    took me 16 months to lose the weight ,been on maintanace for 5 months losing bf%
    mfp took me down to 1200 cals after 5 months,stalled out for 2-3 months then uped my cals to 1700 and started losing weight again
    didnt eat back my workout cals. but now that I am lifting heavy weights I eat 2500 on workout days and 1800 on rest days
    I hope this helps anyone out there ,,add me as a friend if you like
  • M/F? Male
    Age? 24
    Height? 6'1
    Start weight? 198
    Goal weight? 155
    Time it took? 1 year
    Aloted daily calories? Started around 2200 for the beginning of the year, eventually worked down to 1,600. Also switched to a very sedentary job and had to cut working out back to 3 days a week.

    Did your aloted calories change with loss? Yep!
    Did/do you eat back your burned/worked off calories? No, I never input workouts into MFP. I watched and "listened" to my body over the weeks/months.
  • Arleigh7
    Arleigh7 Posts: 150 Member
    M
    54
    5'9"
    267
    215 (but actually around 205 now and working towards 195)
    since April 1, 2012
    started at 2300 and has dropped now to 1750
    yes
    yes somewhat
  • pg3ibew
    pg3ibew Posts: 1,026 Member
    M/F? Male
    Age? 45
    Height? 5' 10"
    Start weight? 250
    Goal weight? Just start losing and went from there
    Stopped losing and started maintaining? 162. 88 Pounds lost.
    Time it took? 10 months
    Aloted daily calories? Whatever MFP alloted
    Did your aloted calories change with loss? Yes, I reset my goals every Sunday. After I weighed myself.
    Did/do you eat back your burned/worked off calories? Very Very Rarely

    THANKS in advance!

    EDIT: I use MFP religiously.
  • Jerrypeoples
    Jerrypeoples Posts: 1,541 Member
    M/F? - M
    Age? - 42
    Height? - 6 foot
    Start weight? - 297
    Goal weight? - 212
    Time it took? -61 lbs after 6 months
    Aloted daily calories? - started with 2250 and is now at 1950
    Did your aloted calories change with loss? yes, once i lost x amount of weight it asked it i wanted to change
    Did/do you eat back your burned/worked off calories? no, i look at those as bonus not to be used unless its a dire emergency

    THANKS in advance!
  • KittyViolet
    KittyViolet Posts: 220 Member
    Female
    22
    5'1"
    160 lbs.
    Was 120, then 110, now the number doesn't matter. My goal is to reduce my body fat to ~15%.
    Exactly 1 year to get down to 109 lbs.
    1370, but see below
    I only started using MFP right before I hit 109 lbs., so I was at 1370 for just a few weeks before I upped to TDEE at 1780.
    I try to, but I find that it's quite a lot to eat. I do my best to net at least 1500 cals at the end of the day.
  • petersonabt
    petersonabt Posts: 518 Member
    M/F? Female
    Age? 24
    Height? 5'5
    Start weight? (210) since MFP 182
    Goal weight? 135 ( I am 137.8 as of this morning)
    Time it took? 6 months
    Aloted daily calories? started at 1200 bumped up to 1500 recent and started loosing again.
    Did your aloted calories change with loss? yes I platued a lot with 1200
    Did/do you eat back your burned/worked off calories? not really. if I am feeling ill or light headed I will eat more.

    THANKS in advance!
  • M/F? F
    Age? 29
    Height? 5'4
    Start weight?147
    Goal weight?130 now 127
    Time it took?4 months
    Aloted daily calories?1250 plus exercise calories
    Did your aloted calories change with loss? No, thought it would but i had less to lose
    Did/do you eat back your burned/worked off calories? I ate until I was full, never went to bed hungry. So I ate more some days and less others. It is easier for me at a maintenance level to eat most of my calories ( within fifty) because I workout less. Also, I made sure not to be under 1200 unless I was sick.
  • kbogati
    kbogati Posts: 39 Member
    m/f:-F
    age-28
    height- 5ft 3
    start - 193
    goal- 130
    time- about 7 months of taking it seriously. lost the 1st couple pounds before that tho i was off and on, i would stop and start. now i have put 12lbs back on :( so i am back on here.
    daily calories- 1430
    change?- kind of. i lost the 1st 33lbs before i joined MFP. didnt start counting cals til then.
    eat back? yes, at least some/most
  • NatalieWinning
    NatalieWinning Posts: 999 Member
    F, 51 yrs old, 5'2". Started around 180-ish, goal was a lowest of 128, I did hit it. Realistically 130 is better, and I've bounced up to it. Fat to Fit website says for my age and height 128 is on the low end for me, and my body agrees. (Another good website is My Body Gallery for realistic visuals)
    It took about a year set at 2 lbs a week loss in this program. At the last 10 lbs when I realized it was taking much longer I raised my calories to 1/2 lb loss a week and thats how I lost the last 10 lbs, by eating more.

    As I got fitter I burned less calories per expercise at the same intensity, I ate back ALL of my exercise calories. Half way through the year I got a Heart Rate Monitor and that was motivating me to exercise more plus harder, as well as motivating me to burn off what I overate. Because I could exercise to the overeating amount and then stop. Instead of trying to convince myself to get up and exercise more it seemed more managable. My calories burned were more accurate, so I felt more comfortable eating up to my goal amount. I realized I was doing some exercise at a higher rate than MFP database, and some at less burnage. So I felt more in control of my hunger as I ate enough.

    Additional things I learned: Eating too little and my weight loss stalled. There was a "sweet spot" of how much I needed to eat. Predictible plateaus before every loss. Intense and longer exercise did not make me lose faster, more often it also stalled my weight loss. Though, I felt I was getting fitter when I did it. Consistant logging and being honest with myself was more important than being awesome and then having "cheat days". I didn't have cheat days. Occasional spikes in eating did nothing at all. Occasional is once every several weeks or longer. If I was really true to logging then it took about 4 days to see a pound drop. The last 10 pounds took months longer than I expected, but fitness was happening all along. Take your measurements and put them in the "check in" NOW because inches happen when there seems to be no progress. It's motivating and realistic instead of feeling like you are doing things right and stalling. So is logging all days, good or bad, so you can see "reports" and your mind can't tell you "but I did everything wrong, so I must just never be able to lose". Your mind lies. Keep pictures, too. Because the mirror lies and you won't believe how far you came some times until you look.
  • Acg67
    Acg67 Posts: 12,142 Member
    Successful in what, hitting some arbitrary goal weight?
  • chimebird
    chimebird Posts: 57 Member
    M/F? F
    Age? 26
    Height? 5'10"
    Start weight? 220 lbs
    Goal weight? My initial goal was 155. I met and maintained this for nearly a year but lost some ground in the fall and gained about 8 lbs. Now I'm back to losing again and aiming for 145 lbs.
    Time it took? about 15 months
    Allotted daily calories? 1500-1700 when I initially lost the weight, now around 1450.
    Did your allotted calories change with loss? Yes, once I was close to my initial goal I started eating close to maintenance, I was losing a pound every three weeks or so.
    Did/do you eat back your burned/worked off calories? Yes, I always eat back some but rarely do I eat all. Almost every day I'm burning 300-600 calories with exercise so that allows me to set my calorie goal quite a bit lower than I'd be happy eating. When I enter my exercise times I see what MFP gives me for calories burned and then manually enter 80% of that number, since I feel like MFP overestimates calories burned.

    Another habit that has been essential to my successful weight loss maintenance has been calculating my calories weekly as well as daily. I wouldn't be able to live a happy, balanced life if I couldn't go out to eat and drink with my friends a few nights a week, which means a way bigger calorie intake Thursday-Saturday. So I offset this with my Sunday-Wednesday eating habits and keep a Google Doc that calculates my average intake throughout the week.
  • CyberEd312
    CyberEd312 Posts: 3,536 Member
    M/F?
    M
    Age?
    42
    Height?
    6 ft. 1 in.
    Start weight?
    560 lbs.
    Current Weight?
    249 lbs.
    Goal weight?
    238 lbs.
    Time it took?
    Still ongoing 42 months in......
    Alloted daily calories?
    3000-3400 (based on exercise calories for that day)
    Did your aloted calories change with loss?
    Yes started at 2500
    Did/do you eat back your burned/worked off calories?
    I eat back my exercise calories based on my HRM (eating back 85% leaving 15% for error in logging)
  • jedikrissy
    jedikrissy Posts: 106 Member
    M/F? - Female

    Age? - I was 28 when I started & now I am 29

    Height? - 5 feet 6 inches

    Start weight? - I fluctuated between 176lbs and 180lbs

    Goal weight? - 125 lbs

    Time it took? - 8 months

    Allotted daily calories? - 1200

    Did your allotted calories change with loss? - No my calories never changed always 1200

    Did/do you eat back your burned/worked off calories? - I did eat back my exercise calories in the beginning but I wasn't getting very good results. So I stuck with my 1200 a day and I did great. (& I still do) Also I would never starve my self, I would go over 1200 if I worked out extra hard but never more than 1400. The one thing that I think was key for me was I would always make sure that every day I would have proper fruits, vegetables, whole grains and dairy.
  • my daily calories do change, when I update my profile and let fit bit figure out the pace/goals, it only happens though when you adjust your profile settings.
  • chimebird
    chimebird Posts: 57 Member
    Successful in what, hitting some arbitrary goal weight?

    No need to be trollish. When you know you have a lot of weight to lose it helps to have a number to work toward, even if it is arbitrary. I think most of us adjust our goal number throughout the process anyway. We all have other weight loss aims besides a number on a scale, that's just the easiest one to quantify.
  • tachyon_master
    tachyon_master Posts: 226 Member
    M/F? Female
    Age? 32
    Height? 5'2"
    Start weight? 141 lbs
    Goal weight? 105 lbs (though I am now at ~101 and more or less starting to go onto maintenance rather than loss)
    Time it took? 12 months
    Aloted daily calories? 1200 (without exercise). Up to 3500 with exercise.
    Did your aloted calories change with loss? No.
    Did/do you eat back your burned/worked off calories? Not all of them. I'd eat back maybe a half of them.
  • onyxgirl17
    onyxgirl17 Posts: 1,722 Member
    M/F? F
    Age? 26
    Height? 5 feet 6 inches
    Start weight?177
    Goal weight? 130 (current 146)
    Time it took? (May-Jan) 8 months to where I'm at currently
    Aloted daily calories? Started at 1200 (not eating back exercise calories), now avg. ~1400)
    Did your aloted calories change with loss? yes
    Did/do you eat back your burned/worked off calories? not at first, currently yes
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