Women, losing weight eating 1700+ calories?

I consumed an average of 1910 calories a day for the last 4 weeks and lost an average of 0.55 pounds per week. I lift heavy 3 times a week and average 2 hours of yoga and two hours of cardio a week.

ETA I'm 5'5"130lbs

I am 5'10 and 220 lbs. Mfp has me at 1720 calories per day.

Yes, I'm a lot older than you and was losing on 1700 a day. Now I'm eating more because I added strength training.

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Does anyone want to take me on? I have been at plateau now 5 months...imagine how sad I feel. This is also when I started exercising properly too. Since Christmas I did the mfp figures which put me at 1300 plus exercise calories (to lose 2llbs a week). Nothing happened. 3 weeks ago I went and had my rmr done and it was pretty high at 1770 cals. So that plus sedentary life put me at2200, minus 500 cals for wanting to lose weight, I am back to 1770, then adding in exercise cals puts me now anywhere between 1770 and 2200 . Still haven't budged on those scales in three weeks.. Can you imagine how disheartened and sad I feel? I exercise 6 times a wok at different things and intensity. Tennis, jog, insanity, circuit and boxercise. I measure myself instead of weigh and yes there is minimal differences...but I feel like I have wasted 5 months! Someone said we are not unique like a snowflake, but I sure feel like one. What am I doing wrong, why does nothing work for me?

40 years old/ 164lb/ 5ft8

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Thanks guys, but TDEE works out/guesses at your BMR. As I know mine exactly as I have had it tested, it means that I can use that figure...so on scoobys site it guesses my BMR is 1208 but it is actually 1770.(this is the amount of cals I need to just survive) so the TDEE thing doesn't work out right for me unless I use my BMR and then even when I look at his results, that is what I was doing a few weeks ago when I still wasn't losing.

You take your BMR, and you multiply it by an activity factor based on how active you are to figure out your estimated TDEE. Then you reduce by 20% and do not eat back exercise calories since that is figured in to your TDEE.

Activity Factors
Sedentary = 1.2
Lightly Active = 1.3
Moderately Active = 1.5
Highly Active = 1.7
Extremely Active = 1.9

Thanks guys, but TDEE works out/guesses at your BMR. As I know mine exactly as I have had it tested, it means that I can use that figure...so on scoobys site it guesses my BMR is 1208 but it is actually 1770.(this is the amount of cals I need to just survive) so the TDEE thing doesn't work out right for me unless I use my BMR and then even when I look at his results, that is what I was doing a few weeks ago when I still wasn't losing.

I calculated my TDEE after logging my food for six months. Most of the calculators give me a TDEE of 2100-2300, and that Katch-Mcardle one that people like to brag about, gives me a TDEE of only 1900! They are a good place to start when you have no clue, but once you have been logging for a while, you can figure out your true TDEE.

This is the best thread I've seen on that topic:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819055-setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets

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Been at 1800+ calories for nearly a year. I'm near goal weight, but even better, I'm losing fat and inches and going broke buying smaller clothes, even when the scale didn't move for six months.

I follow the road map method, and my macros are 40/30/30. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12

My diary is open, although the past four days are not typical as I've been sick and camped out on my sofa since Thursday.

Bump? Anyone else??? I'm loving the stories. I recently (2 weeks ago ish) upped my cals to 1700 after recalculating my TDEE -20% and haven't seen a ton of results yet but I'm committing to 6 weeks before I judge. Anymore insight out there MFP'ers?

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I am 225, started out at 238. Eat 1750 ish and am losing weight slowly but surely. And I don't do much exercise!

I'm heavier than you, and I don't work out as much (3 days cardio, 3 days lifting). My calories are set at 1720, and I eat back all exercise calories. Most days I gross around 2000. I've found that if I net too low on a regular basis, like under 1620 each day, I plateau. If I'm right on target for the week, I usually drop 1-1.5 pounds. I concentrate more on my weekly totals than daily. It took me awhile to get my head around the fact that I don't want to dip too far below my weekly allotment since that's already a 20% deficit.

Lifting is the way to go.