would love to hear success stories from 1500 calorie dieters

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  • divaindy
    divaindy Posts: 108 Member
    Bump
  • kaitgettingfit
    kaitgettingfit Posts: 84
    Bump! This makes me feel so much better about upping my calories to 1400 from 1200.
  • MidwestAngel
    MidwestAngel Posts: 1,897 Member
    1643 cals a day then I eat about 300 exercise cals a day too.
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/918054-what-is-your-excuse-pics-included
  • Sharon_C
    Sharon_C Posts: 2,132 Member
    I have my goal set at 1700 but I usually eat between 1500 - 1700. I lost the most when I stuck close to 1500. I lost the least at under 1500.
  • Melo1966
    Melo1966 Posts: 881 Member
    I crashed and burned doing the 1,200 thing. Upped cals to 2,000 to get my metabolism going again in January. I dropped 6 pounds in four weeks on 1,500 in February refigured my TDEE and upped to 1,650 for March and am still losing. Nom Nom.
  • tuxedord2
    tuxedord2 Posts: 69 Member
    Why are people so hung up on the absolute numbers? I eat around 2200 cals when I am losing weight. It's no different than my friend who eats 1700. And no different from another friend who eats 2500. The key is eating a deficit to *your* TDEE.

    So this is what I am thinking too. I keep seeing "1200 is too low" eat more. Or "I eat 1500 and still lose weight..." Aren't these numbers extremely dependent on your current height and weight? I would like to know less about how many calories people are eating and MORE about what percentage of deficit they have. I have heard the number 20 percent.
  • dixiewhiskey
    dixiewhiskey Posts: 3,333 Member
    I eat between the high 1500s to 1900s.. this has been my result so far, Day 70 and bottom pic taken yesterday. 11-14lb difference, no plateau.

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  • shirleylmartin
    shirleylmartin Posts: 68 Member
    Well, I've lost 30 lbs eating around 1500 calories a day (sometimes more, sometimes less - I'm not too strict about it) since October 2012. But I've also been working out almost every day too.
  • dixiewhiskey
    dixiewhiskey Posts: 3,333 Member
    Why are people so hung up on the absolute numbers? I eat around 2200 cals when I am losing weight. It's no different than my friend who eats 1700. And no different from another friend who eats 2500. The key is eating a deficit to *your* TDEE.

    So this is what I am thinking too. I keep seeing "1200 is too low" eat more. Or "I eat 1500 and still lose weight..." Aren't these numbers extremely dependent on your current height and weight? I would like to know less about how many calories people are eating and MORE about what percentage of deficit they have. I have heard the number 20 percent.

    I'm actually more hung up on my macros.. there are a ton of variables involved as well.. I have been consistently eating over 1600 despite many websites telling me to eat less based on how much/little I workout, weight, BF% etc. I just know if I eat over 1600, I won't hit a plateau.. if I am not close, I just eat to meet my macro goal til I meet the calorie goal.
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    Why are people so hung up on the absolute numbers? I eat around 2200 cals when I am losing weight. It's no different than my friend who eats 1700. And no different from another friend who eats 2500. The key is eating a deficit to *your* TDEE.

    So this is what I am thinking too. I keep seeing "1200 is too low" eat more. Or "I eat 1500 and still lose weight..." Aren't these numbers extremely dependent on your current height and weight? I would like to know less about how many calories people are eating and MORE about what percentage of deficit they have. I have heard the number 20 percent.

    TDEE-20% is a great starting point.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819055-setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets
  • mamabisme
    mamabisme Posts: 59 Member
    I upped my calories to 1650 a week and a half ago. Lost 4.5 lbs the first week. Crazy! Had been losing on less calories but never such a big loss. Will weigh in on Friday, for the second time since the switch. Not expecting another crazy loss like last week but hoping to get the 2 lbs I'm shooting for. I have a lot to lose so I don't think 2lb is unreasonable.
  • biglogger50
    biglogger50 Posts: 2
    I eat around 1500 to 1800 hunderd cals a day and i am loseing a few pounds and i walk around 20 to 50 mins a day.
  • lh1626
    lh1626 Posts: 241 Member
    Bump for info
  • MysticRealm
    MysticRealm Posts: 1,264 Member
    I eat 1500 Mon-Thursday, then eat 1800 (or more sometimes) on the weekends. I have a job where I stand and a slightly active hobby but currently not exercising on top of that so 1500-1800 is net calories. I have lost 25 pounds.

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