140 lbs 5ft 4 Calories

jaycee76
jaycee76 Posts: 325 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I am just wondering how many calories people around this size are eating maximum but still losing? I have a large body frame so only want to lose another 7ish lbs.
Thanks in advance for any helpful responses x

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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    use MFP, set your calories to lose 1/2lb and eat back your exercise cals.
  • delonda1
    delonda1 Posts: 525 Member
    I am a little shorter than you but generally eat around 1500-1700 daily when working out and usually 1300-1400 when not
  • jaycee76
    jaycee76 Posts: 325 Member
    Been there, done that. Been on MFP for 4 years. I am asking for real life experience and not computer generated as we are not all the same.
    I completely agree that MFP works, but everyone has different experiences with numbers and its not really a one size fits all. I wondering more about these experiences rather than what I need iykwim?
  • SueGeer
    SueGeer Posts: 1,169 Member
    Female; 5ft 4.5; 137.3 lbs; aged 50

    I eat at least TDEE-15% (1525) but don't net below BMR (1244). Admittedly, I've only been doing this the last 3 weeks or so.....but am losing about a pound a week on average so far.

    Sue :smile: xxx
  • xidia
    xidia Posts: 606 Member
    I lose best on 1350-1450 and eat back my exercise cals. Even on weeks I don't exercise, I'm still losing.

    1500 a day slowed down the loss too much for my taste, but I did still lose.

    5'4", 30yrs, sedentary (when not in the gym), high 20s% BF.
  • jaycee76
    jaycee76 Posts: 325 Member
    Female; 5ft 4.5; 137.3 lbs; aged 50

    I eat at least TDEE-15% (1525) but don't net below BMR (1244). Admittedly, I've only been doing this the last 3 weeks or so.....but am losing about a pound a week on average so far.

    Sue :smile: xxx
    My TDEE is 1670 calories yet MFP drops me down to 1320 calories to lose 1/2 lb. I think yours seems much more realistic!
  • hbunting86
    hbunting86 Posts: 952 Member
    I'm 5'4'' also - currently around 130lb but my frame is really small (narrow shoulders, hips etc) - so realistically I need to lose around 8lb to be really toned. Damn petite frame!

    I've just recently upped my cals which I'm finding a challenge, but hopefully should work. Doing 30 day shred has lost me an inch all over in 7 days which I'm happy with :)
  • jaycee76
    jaycee76 Posts: 325 Member
    Been there, done that. Been on MFP for 4 years. I am asking for real life experience and not computer generated as we are not all the same.
    I completely agree that MFP works, but everyone has different experiences with numbers and its not really a one size fits all. I wondering more about these experiences rather than what I need iykwim?

    Rereading, that comes across a bit harsh! Apologies, that was not how it was meant to be!
  • hhayes06
    hhayes06 Posts: 189 Member
    I am 5'4" and try to eat around 1400 - 1500 on days that I do not exercise. On days that I do I eat back my exercise calories and end up around 1800-2000. I am 34 with 2 kids, a desk job (where I am literally tethered to my desk for 10 hours 4 days a week) and I started at 141. I have lost 4 pounds since January and in the last week and a half I have lost 1 1/2 inches off my waist. I was eating around 1300 plus exercise cals up until about 3 weeks ago, when I upped my cals is when I started seeing a difference.

    ETA: My goal weight is 125 - 130 so I don't have much to lose either. I mainly want to lose inches off my belly and be toned all over.
  • SueGeer
    SueGeer Posts: 1,169 Member
    Female; 5ft 4.5; 137.3 lbs; aged 50

    I eat at least TDEE-15% (1525) but don't net below BMR (1244). Admittedly, I've only been doing this the last 3 weeks or so.....but am losing about a pound a week on average so far.

    Sue :smile: xxx
    My TDEE is 1670 calories yet MFP drops me down to 1320 calories to lose 1/2 lb. I think yours seems much more realistic!

    I used http://scoobysworkshop.com/accurate-calorie-calculator/ to calculate TDEE - hope this helps!
  • domdoan
    domdoan Posts: 30
    everybody aint the same. record your weight one day. eat and record macros and calories for one week. if your weight stayed the same, then thats your maintenance caloric intake. then go on a 200-500 calorie deficit by dieting or exercising.
  • mich1902
    mich1902 Posts: 182
    I'm 5ft 4, 28 years old. I am 140 pounds. I have a desk job so add exercise seperately. my tdee is around 1700. i eat -20%. My calories are basically my bmr! I usually earn just under 150 for strength training and maybe another 100 doing some interval on the treadmill for 20 mins. I make sure my protein intake is always spot on or higher. I really struggle to lose weight, as soon as i go over cals I just don't lose. i have taken my measurements at the start of this month as well as pictures so will check them out at the end of this month. i'm also eating as clean as I possibly can and it did seem to budge my weight last week.
  • jaycee76
    jaycee76 Posts: 325 Member
    everybody aint the same. record your weight one day. eat and record macros and calories for one week. if your weight stayed the same, then thats your maintenance caloric intake. then go on a 200-500 calorie deficit by dieting or exercising.
    I am totally getting this! There are so many of us in that are so similar and yet what works for one, does not work for another. This is why I am interested in finding out what others are doing. I am so afraid of calories, I need to see that eating a few more is not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes we can get obsessed with 1200 calories and I need to prove to myself that this is not the same for all!
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    everybody aint the same. record your weight one day. eat and record macros and calories for one week. if your weight stayed the same, then thats your maintenance caloric intake. then go on a 200-500 calorie deficit by dieting or exercising.
    I am totally getting this! There are so many of us in that are so similar and yet what works for one, does not work for another. This is why I am interested in finding out what others are doing. I am so afraid of calories, I need to see that eating a few more is not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes we can get obsessed with 1200 calories and I need to prove to myself that this is not the same for all!

    i am 5ft5, 130ish lbs and i eat NET 1800 cals (eating roughly 2200 on days i do insanity) and i am losing bodyfat.
  • jaycee76
    jaycee76 Posts: 325 Member
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    I used http://scoobysworkshop.com/accurate-calorie-calculator/ to calculate TDEE - hope this helps!
    Thanks for that. Interesting results too. It gave me 300 more TDEE calories per day!
  • jaycee76
    jaycee76 Posts: 325 Member

    i am 5ft5, 130ish lbs and i eat NET 1800 cals (eating roughly 2200 on days i do insanity) and i am losing bodyfat.

    It's body fat I would love to lose too! I am really boney in my upper body (for anyone checking my pics the bangers are not real lol!) , but lower body is really fat. My waist is almost 2 clothes sizes smaller than my butt and legs!
  • domdoan
    domdoan Posts: 30
    everybody aint the same. record your weight one day. eat and record macros and calories for one week. if your weight stayed the same, then thats your maintenance caloric intake. then go on a 200-500 calorie deficit by dieting or exercising.
    I am totally getting this! There are so many of us in that are so similar and yet what works for one, does not work for another. This is why I am interested in finding out what others are doing. I am so afraid of calories, I need to see that eating a few more is not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes we can get obsessed with 1200 calories and I need to prove to myself that this is not the same for all!

    Yeah, you should feel awesome during a weight loss, not depleted and stressed. I think I can speak for the most of us, we rather lose .5 lbs a week eating a lot of food rather than 2lbs and feel like crap eating nothing and exercising for the whole day.
  • Mouse_Potato
    Mouse_Potato Posts: 1,509 Member
    5'4", SW: 149, CW: 135, small frame. Desk job, but lightly active. TDEE ~2000. I usually eat around 1800 or whatever my BodyMedia tells me to.
  • Kst76
    Kst76 Posts: 935 Member
    Is that you on profile pic?
  • RxVirus
    RxVirus Posts: 61 Member
    I'm 5'4 and have set myself to a 1200 calorie diet, it works when I cooperate hahaha. I have lost 7lbs so far!
  • fruitloop2
    fruitloop2 Posts: 437 Member
    I'm just shy of 5'3 and tuning 41 next month and I eat between 1600-1750/day depending on how much exercise I did that day and i never NET below my BMR. My TDEE is roughly 2100 and my BMR is roughly 1469. I'm eating at a -20% and am losing a steady 3.5-4 lbs/month.
  • MysticRealm
    MysticRealm Posts: 1,264 Member
    I am exactly that height and weight and eat 1500 monday to thursday, and 1800-2200 on the weekends.
    I work a job where I stand all day, and ride horses (5-6 days a week) but that's all the exercise I am currently doing. Losing a good pound a week generally.
  • learnerdriver
    learnerdriver Posts: 298 Member
    170lbs 5 ft 5- upped from 1200 to 1600 and lost 8 lbs first month. Now stalled, but just waiting it out- on the plus side, am beginning to look chicken-legged!
  • jaycee76
    jaycee76 Posts: 325 Member
    Is that you on profile pic?

    Yes.
  • jaycee76
    jaycee76 Posts: 325 Member
    5'4", SW: 149, CW: 135, small frame. Desk job, but lightly active. TDEE ~2000. I usually eat around 1800 or whatever my BodyMedia tells me to.


    I would love a body media gadget! I can't believe there are so many different numbers coming up that work for different people!
  • melaniecheeks
    melaniecheeks Posts: 6,349 Member
    Maybe because everyone is different? I do think it's something you have to experiment with yourself, and see what works FOR YOU.
  • chkn_WANG_Train
    chkn_WANG_Train Posts: 143
    I am 5'4" and was eating 1200 + exercise calories which brought me up to 2200 somedays. Lost 13 pounds my first 6/7 weeks on here.

    I just started doing TDEE - 20% last month, with two vacations in the last couple weeks, I am just starting to see results.

    1500 - 1600 calories a day, no eating back exercise, I bike at least 20 minutes everyday, jog 3 x week,

    But I'm also doing the whole39, and 30 day shred this month (to get me warmed up to start lifting) and the scale just started moving again.

    I keep making minor adjustments to find the "right" program for my body, taking bits from each change and making it my own. try things out, listen to your body! I know in my head though, that the last pounds I'm going to have to work the hardest for! I'd make sure you're getting plenty of protein and doing plenty of strength training... Play with the calories, increase a little at a time if its a drastic change your predicting.

    Good luck!
  • Cincypsych
    Cincypsych Posts: 116 Member
    I'm just shy of 5'3 and tuning 41 next month and I eat between 1600-1750/day depending on how much exercise I did that day and i never NET below my BMR. My TDEE is roughly 2100 and my BMR is roughly 1469. I'm eating at a -20% and am losing a steady 3.5-4 lbs/month.

    Can I ask what deficit you are getting on Bodymedia?
    My average burn is 2250, I have been advised to eat 1900 per day, but 2 weeks of that and no scale results.....
    Thinking about unsyncing my BM , I don't think that I like it that it gives my burned calories for activity other than deliberate exercise
  • fruitloop2
    fruitloop2 Posts: 437 Member
    I'm just shy of 5'3 and tuning 41 next month and I eat between 1600-1750/day depending on how much exercise I did that day and i never NET below my BMR. My TDEE is roughly 2100 and my BMR is roughly 1469. I'm eating at a -20% and am losing a steady 3.5-4 lbs/month.

    Can I ask what deficit you are getting on Bodymedia?
    My average burn is 2250, I have been advised to eat 1900 per day, but 2 weeks of that and no scale results.....
    Thinking about unsyncing my BM , I don't think that I like it that it gives my burned calories for activity other than deliberate exercise

    I don't use Bodymedia. I get my numbers from either Scooby or Fat2fitradio and go from there. I adjusted the MFP calories to what I wanted them to be and don't eat back my exercise calories because they are already figured in to the TDEE. I just always make sure I NET my BMR.
  • Kst76
    Kst76 Posts: 935 Member
    Sorry, I did not mean to ask that, The message got cut off and I don't know how to delete it. Sorry :)

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