How many calories do you eat to maintain your weight

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  • iammelli
    iammelli Posts: 42 Member
    I'm 5'4'' and weigh 125 pounds. MFP says I need 1650 calories to maintain my weight. I admit I'm secondary so I trust that I shouldn't go over 1650 to much. Sometimes I wish I could eat more though.

    and me!!!
  • chezjuan
    chezjuan Posts: 747 Member
    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).
  • SusieCuteYay
    SusieCuteYay Posts: 59 Member
    I think you made a really good point about trying to find that calorie number that will not set off binge eating. Its also a challenge for me too, I have an eating disorder since i was a little girl. And depriving myself on a diet, is one fast way to trigger binge eating for me... Since i signed up here, ive tried to maintain my calorie between 1700 and 2000. Its really weird, as i have noticed an increase in hunger around,, prior to my time of the month too,,, also the more i exercise the more hungrier i get... As a child i also went hungry, i dono if that has something to do with my body triggering hunger,,?
  • MoJokes
    MoJokes Posts: 691
    29, 5'7, 72kg, my weight fluctuates a couple of pounds, nothing to worry about.

    I eat whatever i want
  • farzinfn
    farzinfn Posts: 1
    Best of luck to everyone in losing or maintaining their ideal weight. From my experience of losing 85 lbs. last year in 4 months I can tell you this is probably the best on-line site to accomplish your goals. That being said please keep in mind everybody and every body is different so these calculators and charts are really just estimates and kinda of a baseline at best. What has worked for me to maintain in a long term is having an accurate, made for me, measurement of my body composition. Since the first day I walked into my gym, and every 6 months since then I've done a Hydrostatic test, click here, http://www.bodyfattest.com, to get a 4 page report which includes the following. It's the best $40 I've ever spent:

    *Your body fat and lean mass percentages and weights
    *How your percentage body fat compares to others
    *How much fat, if any, needs to be lost in order to reach your composition goals
    *Basal metabolic rate—how many calories/day you burn without exercising
    *Personal caloric intake and expenditure chart—how many calories/day you burn when doing various exercises and activities

    This is as accurate it gets. Unfortunately I found out long time ago that hand-held devices found in gyms and on-line calculators as well as those smart scales and tiny devices you strap on can be hugely overestimating your caloric burn. I bought them all in my pursuit and have given them all away.

    Just my 2 cents here.

    Frank
  • healthybodyhealthylife
    healthybodyhealthylife Posts: 189 Member
    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 ;)
  • onyxgirl17
    onyxgirl17 Posts: 1,722 Member
    To maintain: Around 1700-1800 :)
  • HapThompson
    HapThompson Posts: 48 Member
    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...
  • beetsbeaton
    beetsbeaton Posts: 1
    HI all...I am 132 lbs and 5 foot 4 in, I want to lose 7 lbs.. I just started doing hip hop abs with Shaun T and loving it ..I have some bad habits I am working on as I used to drink a large gingerale a night and I have a glass of wine or two a night! I am gluten free and dairy free so I so eat a lot of veggies and protein and rice...but I am around the 1200 mark with food calories and then whatever I have to drink minus what I worked out that day ... I need a better idea of what to eat a day cal wise.. am I too low, as so far no lbs lost but only in my first week?? and does anyone know how much u can burn on HHA as I have been entering 160 for med aerobic activity ? I am pretty lean and build muscle fast ..
  • Graelwyn75
    Graelwyn75 Posts: 4,404 Member
    38, 5'10, 134Ibs.
    I net 1900-2000 to maintain, and eat a total of 2500-3000 calories with exercise, to maintain.
  • ROBOTFOOD
    ROBOTFOOD Posts: 5,527 Member
    25M, 5' 11'' 147LB. Cals vary. If I'm on the couch all day doing nothing, around 2500- 3000. If I'm out running 20 milers or running up mtns, 3500-4500. Most I've ever eaten in one day was 5,800 after climbing for 16hrs.
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    This post made me realize I'm not sure I've ever "maintained" a day in my life. Huh.
  • MB2MN
    MB2MN Posts: 334 Member
    http://www.muscleandstrength.com/tools/bmr-and-daily-calorie-calculator.html

    Calculate your BMR here then subratct 500cal and that's what you should be eating in order to lose weight :tongue:

    You're joking right? You know your BMR is what you need to consume just for basic organ functions, right? You should always be eating AT LEAST your bmr, and definitely more if you're active. Plus, OP is asking about maintenance so I don't understand how this would apply even if it was in the slightest bit correct.

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