Can some one help me please

debbiek75
debbiek75 Posts: 50
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi all

Would someone be able to help me please I'm on 1200 cals a day to lose weight but would like to now work out my tdee and move on to the cals it says for these reasons

1) I'm tired all the time and always hungry
2) I seem to be playing with the same last 5 lbs

I weigh 152. I'm 5 ft 7 and 37. I work 5 days a week cleaning and workout every day.


Everytime I try and work it out I get different numbers and can't work out % for the life of me

This is slowly getting me down now thanks debs x

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  • scullygirl78
    scullygirl78 Posts: 1 Member
    I'm having the same exact problem. I can't seem to shake these last 5 pounds. And I can go days eating UNDER my 1200 calories a day but not lose an ounce. BUT if I eat 50 calories over my daily allowance I gain a pound I can't lose again. Are you exercising? Maybe we're eating the wrong things? Not exercising enough?
  • dupaboo
    dupaboo Posts: 174 Member
    I used http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools/ to figure out my TDEE. Pretty easy to use, just plug in your numbers and voila!
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

    That's a good calculator. 1200 is way too low for you, I'd be starving too! Moderately active seems about right for you if you're on your feet cleaning 5 hours a day.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    Tired all the time and hungry=eat more food
    NOt loosing weight but exercising all the time and eating 1200 a day=eat more food
    Eating under 1200 a day and not loosing=Eat more food

    Or

    And if you are not at least measuring preferably weighing food you are probably eating more then you think

    TDEE is calculated by Food calories in +Calories from weigh loss/number of days for weight loss.

    That being said I was having issues as well so I bought a food scale and weighed my food for 3 weeks got accurate calories consumed so now I have an accurate TDEE.
  • erickirb
    erickirb Posts: 12,294 Member
    Hi all

    Would someone be able to help me please I'm on 1200 cals a day to lose weight but would like to now work out my tdee and move on to the cals it says for these reasons

    1) I'm tired all the time and always hungry
    2) I seem to be playing with the same last 5 lbs

    I weigh 152. I'm 5 ft 7 and 37. I work 5 days a week cleaning and workout every day.


    Everytime I try and work it out I get different numbers and can't work out % for the life of me

    This is slowly getting me down now thanks debs x

    With only 5lbs to go I suggest setting your goal to lose 0.5lbs/week and eat back most of the cals burned from exercise, and to make sure your activity level includes your job, should be set as light active or active.
    If you like the TDEE option, go for TDEE -15%, not 20%. The less you have to lose the smaller your deficit (weekly weight loss goal) should be.
  • lizziecheek
    lizziecheek Posts: 65 Member
    1200 calories is way to low. For a 5'7 woman 1500-1700 is the range.
  • beachlover317
    beachlover317 Posts: 2,848 Member
    Here are a couple of links that really helped me clarify how to lose fat in a healthy way:

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/974889-in-place-of-a-road-map-short-n-sweet

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Amt7QBR9-c6MdGVTbGswLUUzUHNVVUlNSW9wZWloeUE


    Good luck!!:flowerforyou:
  • debbiek75
    debbiek75 Posts: 50
    Thank you for all the helpful comment s
  • lesliegehris
    lesliegehris Posts: 1
    I have found that in order for me to lose weight I have to do resistance training! I do kettle bell exercises with a 15 lb kettle bell. My husband generated a workout for me and if you are interested I could send it to you. Don't get frustrated that makes it really hard to stay motivated to lose the weight. Try to change up your workouts. I play beach volleyball twice a week and that helps keep me motivated and it is so much fun. I don't know if this helped at all, but good luck!
  • lisamarie1780
    lisamarie1780 Posts: 432 Member
    http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

    enter your stats in here and select TDEE -10%

    It will give you your BMR (which you should always eat above) and the calories you can eat to maintain or lose

    Once you've got your numbers you can manually change your calories on MFP and not worry about logging exercise or eating exercise calories back etc as this method has already accounted for your exercise

    If that makes sense... :indifferent:
  • clarkeje1
    clarkeje1 Posts: 1,641 Member
    go to iifym.com and go to the calculators section. it should say iifym calculator

    http://iifym.com/iifym-calculator/
  • JeffGDDG
    JeffGDDG Posts: 252 Member
    I took several different bmr sites and just averaged them all together. There are tdee calculators you can do the same with. I ended up with a Fitbit though and use the calories tracked there as my tdee. I use the bmr for the minimum calories I eat then strive for a weekly deficit on my tdee of an average between 500 and 750 calories a day. A little more math but it works for me.
  • HeinekenMan
    HeinekenMan Posts: 80 Member
    Make sure that you're logging everything correctly. With a 1,200-calorie diet, there's not a lot of wiggle room. Are you counting the butter on your toast, the ketchup and mustard on your burger, the carrots in your salad? Are you measuring properly? A lot of people judge serving size with their eyes, and most people underestimate. Your food diary isn't viewable. So it's hard to know how completely you log your meals.

    By the way, you are never going to lose MORE weight by eating MORE food. It's just not going to happen. What you need is to make sure you have accurate data for figuring your TDEE and accurate data for figuring your daily nutrition. Start there.

    If you just know that all of that is completely accurate, then you may need to have greater patience. It will take more time for you to drop a pound than someone like myself. And one day over your maintenance number will cause a greater setback for you than it will for me. My maintenance number is 3,100. If I go over by 200 calories, it amounts to less than 1/10 of my TDEE. If you go over by 200 calories, you are over by 1/6.
  • TATYEO
    TATYEO Posts: 1
    I had to start keeping a paper journal instead of just mfp because I noticed I would "forget" to log little things: tasting dinner whilst I was cooking it (it's still calories), having one of whatever I was giving my son for his lunch (it's still calories), having a bite of a friend's dessert or starter when we were out (it's still calories). The calories were creeping up on me. If you add up all these "tastes" in a day, they can equal almost a meal, or at least a snack. When I started doing this, realized where it was coming from, and stopped "tasting", I started losing weight gradually.
  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
    If I was you, I'd go re-ask in this group. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/10118-eat-train-progress


    Also open your diary.
  • KeyHmm
    KeyHmm Posts: 1 Member
    At this point you have to shock your body. You need to switch up your workouts, something you haven't done or don't do often. Have you tried zumba or water aerobics? These are GREAT workouts that gets the heart rate up and the pounds shedding
  • _EndGame_
    _EndGame_ Posts: 770 Member
    There is a calculator on MFP that measures your TDEE (i think)

    1200 calories is usually a guideline for an absolute daily minimum anyone should be eating.

    Try eating at TDEE - 20%, incorporate exercise, then eat at least half of your exercise calories back.

    Works for me.

    Good luck.
  • SkinnyMsFitness
    SkinnyMsFitness Posts: 389 Member
    Hi all

    Would someone be able to help me please I'm on 1200 cals a day to lose weight but would like to now work out my tdee and move on to the cals it says for these reasons

    1) I'm tired all the time and always hungry
    2) I seem to be playing with the same last 5 lbs

    I weigh 152. I'm 5 ft 7 and 37. I work 5 days a week cleaning and workout every day.


    Everytime I try and work it out I get different numbers and can't work out % for the life of me

    This is slowly getting me down now thanks debs x

    Recommended by many:

    http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

    Good luck!!
  • red0801
    red0801 Posts: 283 Member
    Here are a couple of links that really helped me clarify how to lose fat in a healthy way:

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/974889-in-place-of-a-road-map-short-n-sweet

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Amt7QBR9-c6MdGVTbGswLUUzUHNVVUlNSW9wZWloeUE


    Good luck!!:flowerforyou:


    ^^THIS

    Probably one of he most informative post on MFP.

    But never forget to listen to your body. If ur hungry..eat. If your always hungry, take a look @ where your calories are coming from. Are you getting enough protien? Are you giving your body enough nutrients via vegetables & fruits so it can optimize your calorie intake? Is there a way you could add a veggie snack (celery/peanut butter) somewhere in your mid morning?
  • arlenem1974
    arlenem1974 Posts: 437 Member
    I'm 5'1 39 years old I eat 1500 a day plus exercise calories. I go to school, I walk at lest 1 hour a day plus stepping machine and stationary bike 10 min each. I'm set at .5 lbs. per week and I still lose.
  • Ophidion
    Ophidion Posts: 2,065 Member
    This covers it all nicely...a big shout out to Sidesteel and Sarauk2sf for doing the leg work.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1080242-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants
  • angelahammon
    angelahammon Posts: 114 Member
    when i was around the same weight and i am the same height as you i was eating between 13 to 1400 calories a day, more if i was exercising, and lost a pound a week, i am now a pound of from my target weight of 10 stone and i am loosing half a pound a week eating 1600 calories more if i am more active, the best thing i did was get a fitbit as that showed me how little i was eating and that i should have been eating a lot more, 1200 calories is not enough
  • mdcoug
    mdcoug Posts: 397 Member

    I work 5 days a week cleaning and workout every day.

    Oh wow, make sure you put yourself down as strenuous activity in those calculators, at least. Just to give you an idea, I work a desk job and according to my bodymedia device, I burn about 2200 calories a workday, counting my workouts. However, yesterday, with only a 45 min *very* leisurely walk and doing chores around the house, I burned 2800 calories. You definitely need to make sure you account for your active lifestyle.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member

    By the way, you are never going to lose MORE weight by eating MORE food. It's just not going to happen. What you need is to make sure you have accurate data for figuring your TDEE and accurate data for figuring your daily nutrition. Start there.

    If you just know that all of that is completely accurate, then you may need to have greater patience. It will take more time for you to drop a pound than someone like myself. And one day over your maintenance number will cause a greater setback for you than it will for me. My maintenance number is 3,100. If I go over by 200 calories, it amounts to less than 1/10 of my TDEE. If you go over by 200 calories, you are over by 1/6.

    Really at 1200 calories she is not loosing perhaps because of a metabolism slow down(the whole thermogenics thread)....increased calories help. Esp if working out 5-6x a week. My TDEE -20% is 1533 and that causes 1lb loss a week and I only workout 4x a week same height and I weigh more.....

    My TDEE (with help from Eat Train Progress Group) was calculated with accurate data from a food scale using the formula

    Calories consumed+calories from weight lost/# days to loose weight
    29744+10500/21=1916*.2=383 1916-383=1533 to continue to loose weight 3/4lb a week or I can up it to 25% less and loose 1lb a week...not doing that too little food.
  • BlueBombers
    BlueBombers Posts: 4,064 Member
    You need to eat more than 1200 calories at your height and weight.

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