How many calories per day do you eat?

My calories are at 1390 a day, but it depends how active I am that day. If I'm playing a sport/working out, I usually have about 500 calories more or less burned, so then, I would eat around 1600-1700 calories a day. When I'm not working out, it's always a little bit under my goal, but unproductive days like today, I ate 1100 calories.

Btw, my starting weight was 155 pounds, current weight is 150 pounds and I'm 5'6''. My goal weight is 130 pounds.

5'11, 32 yrs old. I started at 236 lbs just over 17 weeks ago. Average calories eaten for the past 17 weeks is 1904.

Right now I burn on average ~ 450 ish cals per day, which is a combination of 10km run days, weight training days, and rest days.

I'm told to eat about 1800 before workout but as I take care of myself I find myself eating less due to lack of appetite. I average about 1300-1600 a day all said and done. I'm still loosing weight so it seems to be okay.

How long do you try each thing?

How much I eat depends on the day and how active I am. On days where I'm at the computer all day designing and I don't get out, around 1300-1400. I don't like doing that little, so thankfully those days don't happen often! I eat 1600-2100 on active days when I'm at the gym and/ or I'm at my part-time job. I eat 750 cals under my TDEE and have a macro ratio of 45/20/35 (carbs/ protein/ fat), run and lift heavy. I also use a Fitbit to track my activity; it's been the best thing I've bought myself!

This isn't an instant thing. I didn't start loosing for at least 3-4 weeks into my weight loss journey. Remember, it's not just how the scale moves, it's clothes fitting better, it's feeling better, and it's doing good things for yourself. If you can run or walk longer than you could a month ago, you're already ahead of the game.

I'm in my 60's and have been at my weight loss journey since March of last year and joined MFP in September. I have lost over 70 pounds and am within a couple pounds of goal. I eat between 1200 and 1500 calories a day (occasionally a few more). I exercise almost everyday for around an hour or more. One of the things I am very careful about is getting a lot of in my diet is protein. I also take 2000 units of Vitamin D3 and Fish Oil.
This has been working for me, but one of my daughters friends joined a fitness challenge group and she too, was having difficulty losing weight. The trainer with that group told them that they should eat 11 times their body weight in calories if they were rather inactive that day, 12 times their body weight if they were moderately active and 13 times if very active. This is the first time she has had any success losing. It might be worth a try.

Age 53, post menopause, 5' 4", currently 230 pounds, approximately 50% body fat.

I have been eating about 1,550 to 1,600 calories a day (approx. TDEE - 20%) for four weeks. Last week, I ate at TDEE (about 1,960 cals) and this week I'm back to eating at a cut.

Note: My BMR is approx. 1,510 and, since I have a really high percentage of body fat, I could cut a bit more, but I don't want to take a chance of feeling deprived and falling off the wagon.

The plan is to continue 4 weeks at cut, 1 week at TDEE. I estimate that I can expect to lose about 3 pounds a month. Yes, it's slow going. I just keep plugging away at it.

Meanwhile, I'm trying to build up a little more strength and cardio endurance. Doing so will help me be healthier and allow me to eat more. :-)

I faced the same problem like you for a long time but since the time I have upped my protein and cut down on carbs, I'm seeing the scale going in direction i want it to. Perhaps that would work for you as well.

2,000 a day, minimum of 100g protein and try to keep my carbs around 100-150. Lifting heavy and doing martial arts for cardio.

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I typically eat between 1200-1500 calories, depending on what my Fitbit tells me (my BMR is between 1200-1350, depending on which calculator I use). Some days I am literally just sitting around doing nothing and other days I am more active and need more calories.

I've gotten to the point where I probably don't need to track anymore because as long as I'm not drinking my calories (especially liquor, which often comes with unintentional snacking), I tend to naturally stay within range. I eat less if I haven't been active and more if I have. Since I measure out portion sizes, use small plates/bowls, and eat slowly, I rarely overeat.

I'm 5' 6", (need calculator...) 28 years old, 215.75 lb +/- 5 lb, and eat between 1,400 and 4,000 calories a day depending on how active I am (I have a Ki Fit to know my calorie expenditure, seems pretty accurate).

ETA: Calorie intake vs exercise...

1,400 if I'm in bed most of the day.
2,300 if I have been to the town centre, post office, or walked about 5-6 miles.
2,500-3,000 if I have visited London and done about 5 miles of walking (including within the confines of the Underground network - platforms, back end of Overground train to front, steps, escalators, etc.)
3,500 if I have visited London and done a lot of walking (attractions, being dragged shopping, etc) or done about 12 miles walking.
4,000 if I have done about 15 miles walking or spent the whole day at a theme park and done 5 miles of walking before/after getting/leaving there.

However, since most of my long walks are done at night and fall on both sides of midnight, and my Ki Fit syncs with MFP putting the exercise calories before midnight on one day and after midnight on the next, some of my meals after the walk will be on logged on MFP for the previous day and some of the meals before the walk will be logged on MFP for the next day, just to balance out the numbers.

About 1600-1800 kcal! I can get around 120-140g protein with some snacking :flowerforyou:

Hi All~~~I know this topic has gone around before, but I am targeting a specific group. I am 5'5"....38 years old...weigh 207. I have NOT been able to take off pounds...inches...nothing.

I'm 45 and a woman. That's 2 strikes. It's easier for men to lose weight than it is for women, and it's easier for young people to lose fat than it is for us older folks. It just is.

You add in hormones (I came off 20 years of smoking cigarettes) and our bodies needing time to adjust, and that ups the ante also.

You have to devise a strategy that's realistic, and please for the love of God, do not compare yourself to other people because fat loss is highly individualized and depends on a lot of different criteria that all come into play together.

That means:
1. Be patient
2. Keep slogging at it for your health's sake!
3. Incorporate some sort of strength training, and focus on fat loss rather than weight loss. Give yourself a year or two to see significant changes.
4. Take a break once in a while, like not logging for 1 day a week or eating at maintenance calories every couple months for a couple weeks.

Fat loss is never linear, real life happens, and you have to adjust your expectations to reality, not try to cram reality into your expectations (that's usually a great recipe to make yourself crazy).

Oh and don't let the scale bully you around. Focus on health and strength gains and on how your body feels and your clothes fit. The scale is only one indicator of many, and not even the most important one!

My TDEE based on 3 days/week of barbell training is about 2500, and I aim for someplace around 2200 calories to lose some fat here and there. The weight is coming off, but sloooowly (about 5 pounds in 2 months), my body is tightening up and getting stronger, and I've lost about 3 inches in a couple places overall in the past 2 months.

Which is fine, because I already made up my mind that this is going to take however long it's going to take. I'm just going to continue to make the best decisions for me possible and trust my body to respond the way it's supposed to. I'm trying to find my happy place that I can stay with for the rest of my time on earth, and as long as I head in that general direction, I know I will be fine. And if bumps in the road happen along the way, then oh well, that's life.

Good luck!