Calling all ladies..How many calories do you consume?

Age: 52
Height: 5' 5"
Daily Calorie intake: approx 1500 Mon - Fri. 200-2500 on weekends
Workouts: *Varies a lot right now. Lots and lots of weed eating and clearing brush/downed trees right now.
Weight loss goals: Been in maintenance for 2+ years. Just started really trying to lose an additional 10.

*before the massive pasture cleanup effort began, I was mostly doing Turfo Fire, hiking and strength training (body weight and weights)

ETA: maintenance weight has been 155-160 (I'm perimenopausal and it bounces around a lot). Trying now to get to 145 - 150.

27
5'4
1350 plus about half my exercise calories (you can view my diary)
Running 6 times a week, averaging 30 miles a week. Weight lifting about twice a week.
Have lost about 12 lbs so far. 18 more to go!

Age: 41

Height: 5'9"

Weight: 135

Daily Calorie intake: 2000-2400

Workouts: A bit of this, a bit of that - I hike a lot, I take at least 10,000 steps nearly every day, I try to do circuit training a couple days a week. Basically, I do whatever I'm in the mood to do, but I am active in some way every single day.

Weight loss goals: Maintain current weight

Age: 34
Height: 5'4"
Daily calorie intake: I do intermittent fasting, so I have 2 days at 500. The other 5 days are anywhere from 1600-4000.
Workouts: Very little cardio on the elliptical, heavy lifting, and a body pump-type class at my YMCA 3 times a week.
Weight loss goals: Not much, if any. Just get more muscle

My answers, although I'm sort of an atypical case:

Age: I'll be 43 in a couple of weeks
Height: 5'7"
Daily calories: I have a goal to eat 1500 calories a day, but I'm usually under that, sometimes by a lot. It's not intentional, though. I have severe health issues (heart and liver failure) and associated metabolic/malnutrition problems, so I often simply can't eat as much as I'd like to eat. Oftentimes, I'm sort of force-feeding myself, and it's not usually pleasant.

"Workouts:" When I'm feeling well enough, I like to walk my dogs for about 30-45 minutes a day. Sometimes I'm lucky and can do that twice a day. Otherwise, one walk every few days is about the best I can manage.

Goal: My goal is actually to not lose weight too quickly given my medical issues, which is why I try my best to eat 1500 calories a day. However, given that I will retain and lose fluid in a chaotic manner, so my weight will go up and down from day to day, my weight is difficult to track, as are measurements. I AM overweight, but my issue is more one of retaining nutrition rather than worrying about losing "X" number of pounds. That said, I'd LIKE to lose about 30 more pounds. I've already lost about 40 since...um, April. But not in a healthy way.

Age : 40
Height : 5'6
Daily Calorie intake : NET 1500 - normally eat between 2000 - 2500
Workouts; walk, walk, walk, @ 10k - 17k steps + a day I burn at least 2k per day
Weight loss goals: Have lost 60 lbs so far, another 30 ish to go though I am planning to start lifting soon.

What’s your stats:
Age - 29
Height - 5'6
Daily Calorie intake - 1,800-2,000
Workouts - Cardio and Resistance Training 4 days a week
Weight loss goals - Reduction in body fat %, roughly 15-20 pounds in additional weight loss

Age: 65
Ht: 5'3"
Wt 199

I'm following the MFP recommendation of 1200 calories per day. I 'cheat' every Sunday because we eat out after church. I have lost 31 pounds in 3 1/2 months. My exercise is mainly walking 30-40 minutes about 4 times a week, but also do some arm exercises with 2 lb weights. Sometimes I ride stationary bike instead of walking. According to what everyone is saying, I should be eating more calories, but I am scared to do that. Especially since I don't do an extreme amount of exercising.

Age: 30
Height: 5'1
SW: 245lbs
CW: 178lbs
Daily Calorie intake: 1500 + exercise cals

Workouts:
M/W/F - Strength training (45-70min) w/ opt light cardio (10-20 min) after
T/TH/Sat - Cardio (30-90min)
I'll do a mix of hot/vinyasa style yoga or tai chi and elliptical or treadmill...or some workout dvd
Sunday - Shanti Yoga (30-60min).

Weight loss goals: 18-20% body fat

26
5'3"
About 1400-1600 a day
Just started doing cardio and weights about 4-5 times weekly (about 20-30 minutes at a time), lots of walking, some swimming, some aerobics
I'm at 143 right now, I want to get down to between 115-125 where ever I end up feeling comfy really.

25
5'5"
1650 + sometimes eating workout calories back if I am starving
Cardio 7 days a week and weight training 5 days a week
I dont want to lose any weight just get some mad muscle going

Age 32
Height 152cm - 5'0"
Average 1500 calories a day
Lifestyle mostly sedentary. I train with the C25K program 2-3 times a week, and I hike once a week for approx. 2 hours.
Goal is getting fitter, and in the process lose the last couple of kg's.

33 years old
5'5"
1200 calories + exercise
Bootcamp 2-3 x / week
Spinning 3 x / week
I have about 9 more pounds to lose. I have been as low as 117 pounds before by giving up sugar and carbs. However, when I did it before I had ZERO cheat days for about 4 months! I lost weight for my wedding and we totally psycho about it. Now I just want to get to back to my "20s weight" of 125, which is healthy and looks good on me. Another thing I do is only claim 300 calories/workout on MFP. That way I am not eating all of my calories back. Perhaps you should try that too? Everyone feel free to add me!

Age: 37
Height: 5'4"
Calories: 1400 (somtimes less, sometimes more)
Workouts: Walking/Jogging 4-5 times a week
Goals: Lose 10 more pounds and tone up


I'm currently jogging/walking 5k 4-5 nights/week for weight loss and building endurance. I don't usually eat back all the workout calories, but sometimes it depends on how hard I exercise and how many calories I've burned. There are times when I just have to eat more and my body never fails to tell me this.

I have considered trying the Insanity workout to tone up and lose more inches. But I know I will have to up my caloric intake if I do something that intense.

Age: 58
Height : 5' 9"
Daily Calorie intake: While trying to lose.....1200
Workouts: Light weights 3xweek, low-impact aerobics 4xweek
Weight loss goals: lose 25 lbs, from 160 to 135

ONLY 1200 cals, NOT plus exercise cals. When I follow this regimen I lose about 2 lbs a week.

You're doing it wrong.