How many calories do you eat to maintain your weight

Between 1500 and 2500

5'6, 125lbs was maintaining at 2000 calories (net, I eat back ever single exercise cal! )

Now bulking and eating more and have put on a few lbs since I began (woot).

I'm 35, 5'2", 101 pounds. I have to eat more than 1900 or I will continue to lose weight. But, the amount I eat fluctuates. Usually averages around 1900 to 2200.

Last year I started at 186lbs on 24th April and went down to 153lbs by 14th August, which I decided was about ideal for me.

I then tried to slowly ween myself of MFP and constant tracking of everything by just being concious of what I was eating against what I was doing exercise-wise (no gym stuff, just walking, working etc.). I didn't want to be a slave to MFP for the rest of my life if I could help it!

I did weigh myself daily for couple of weeks, then gradually every other day, then once a week just to keep a check on things. Like others have said, I went more on clothes size than anything... I'm a size 32" waist jeans, with a belt, and sometimes can get in size 30" depending on the fit. So I knew when my 32" jeans got a bit on the tight size that I needed to cut back on the calories for a few days.

Here's how my actual weight panned out since then:

14th August 153lbs
7th Sept 154lbs
22nd Oct 155lbs
- so very slow increase.

A pig-out for my birthday just before Xmas put on a couple of pounds taking me to 157, and then over Xmas period itself I put on 4lbs by sitting around too much and eating all the good stuff! =

1st Jan 161lbs - peak of my xmas binge!!

then back on strict MFP, 1200 cals/day and trying to keep to around 60g of carbs =

8th Jan (today): back to 154lbs.

So I think I got on pretty well between August and Xmas with my first real concious attempt at maintenance. Previously in my life, like many, its been a case of diet, put back, diet, put back, in a cycle. Determined to beat that this time (Xmas indulgence to be excepted!)

The real challenge is to be able to maintain long-term without MFP propping us up. I guess for many people that simply isn't possible - but give it a go, I very nearly got it right the first time, exluding the xmas binge, I put on half a pound per month. OK - that is basically half a stone a year which isn't good! - but is much better than previously when I've put weight back on faster than its come off, generally.

My top tips would be this:

I started off with 36" waist jeans... it was having to buy them as I'd bust the buttons on my 34" that made me realise I needed to take action! - so as soon as I got back into 34", I threw the 36" away... and as soon as I got back to 32" waist, I threw all the 34" away - and vowed never to buy any bigger sizes again... so if I got fatter, I just couldn't go out!
TIP - get rid of clothes as soon as you slim down out of them, it is a great sense of achievement!

Try and be concious all the time of what you're eating. It doesn't hurt to go out with friends and have a big meal now and again, but next day try and have a real cut-back on calories to immediately balance out what you had the night before, and do some extra excercise, even if its just going for a long walk. Sounds obvious, of course! - but often I find if I have a big meal in the evening, I'm really hungry next breakfast. Weird!.
TIP - try and always take immediate action for any binges, one day of salads doesn't hurt!

Continue to weigh regularly. I normally weigh daily and look at the trend over a week or so. We all know weight fluctuates daily (a lot more for women of course than us men) - some say weigh once a week, but my argument against that is you might happen to weigh one week on a "heavy day" and the next week on a "light day" and fool yourself into thinking you've lost 4lbs when in fact you are exactly the same weight (I.E. the two fluctuations were 2lbs out each time). That can give you a very false sense of what is going on. When I was dieting hard, I weighed every single day, but only logged the weight when it was less than the previous logged weight - so sometimes I might not actually record a loss for several days or even a week at one point, due to fluctuations.
TIP - it's all about the trend - if you see a weight gain over more than a week or so, nip it in the bud with a quick diet day (or two).

Anyway, hope that helps someone!

Without exercising, about 2000. I am eating 1500 right now and exercising about 300 - 700 a day.

I am a 43 YO male, 180 cm and weigh 78 kg. I maintain on approximately 2750 calories per day.

When I went to maintenance, I initially used the MFP maintenance number for sedentary (around 2200), then added and ate back most of my exercise calories. After a couple of weeks of doing this, I figured out the weekly average and divided by 7. Then I compared that number to various online calculators (like the Scooby's one mentioned earlier). They all came out to about 2,700. I was still very slowly losing (maybe .5 kg/month) so I added 50 calories. My weight seems to have stabilized, but I do weekly checks to see if I need to tweak anything.

Exercise-wise I work out about 1 hour per day 4-5 times per week with a mix of resistance training and cardio (running to train for 5k, 8k, and 10k races).

29, 5'7, 72kg, my weight fluctuates a couple of pounds, nothing to worry about.

I eat whatever i want

I'm transitioning into eating my maintanence calories after over a year of being in a deficit - eeep!!! Pretty scary for me!

I'm 5"2.5 and weigh 135lbs. I don't live a particularly active lifestyle - I'm a University student so I spend a lot of time in front of the computer screen but on my Uni days I walk for about 40 mins. I do, however, work out very intensely about 5-6x a week, sometimes twice a day (I'm a total endorphin junkie) doing things ranging from heavy weight lifting, Insanity, Jillian Micheal's videos and sprinting on the treadmill.

My TDEE is between 2200-2400 according to all the calculators I've checked out. It does make me go 'OMG 2200 CALORIES I CAN'T POSSIBLY EAT THAT MUCH AND STAY SLIM' lol but I'll try and not complain!! Food is food

I've been maintaining since September at 73kg which is a good weight for me in terms of size (I wear a UK size 10) and how I feel. MFP reckons I need 1780cals to maintain but I find that if I eat consistently at that level I continue to lose. Practically I need to eat an average of 2,200 to stay about the same, which suggests that I am more active than I think I am!

I've found maintenance surprisingly easy, in fact at one point I was struggling not to lose weight... It is a big mind **** at first though, not seeing the numbers consistently go down and even though i've done this successfully for four months now, i'm still terrified of seeing the numbers start to creep up...

38, 5'10, 134Ibs.
I net 1900-2000 to maintain, and eat a total of 2500-3000 calories with exercise, to maintain.