How active would you say i am? calories do i need?

As far as I understand it, MFP doesn't take exercise into consideration, just general activity level. So you may want to eat at least a portion of your exercise calories back, especially if you want to gain weight. Maintenance requires a little trial and error. Try eating 2200 calories a day for a couple of weeks and see what happens. If you continue to lose, start eating some of your exercise calories and keep monitoring. You should come to a point where you stay within a certain weight range, or start gaining a little.

If you want to get an idea of what your calorie goal might be, you can use one of the online BMR calculators to determine your TDEE. You would probably put in very active in your determination. This will give you a starting point, but you will still have to play around with it to see what is going to work for you. Good luck.

I would start with lightly active. Track the results for 4-5 weeks, and then adjust as necessary.

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No one is going to be able to give you a remotely accurate number. Pick something reasonable, monitor results for a month and then add/subtract calories to fine tune your results.

If you are trying to gain weight, you shouldn't be exercising. Your daily activity burns enough calories. Start with 2200, you may need to increase it. Try it for a month and see where you are at.

I'd skip the skim milk and see if you can handle drinking 1% or even 2%, also forget the weight watchers hot chocolate and get the real stuff. I noticed you are under in your fat intake, use a little real butter or foods that are high in omega 3s and 6s. Try adding nuts to your diet. They will help you with the calories and the fats.... And they are healthy fats! Just keep going the way you are, log your exercise and try to consume the calories mfp suggests. Try really hard to meet the calories for a couple of weeks then weigh yourself and see how you are doing. Good luck!

If you are trying to gain weight, you shouldn't be exercising. Your daily activity burns enough calories. Start with 2200, you may need to increase it. Try it for a month and see where you are at.

I totally disagree, everyone (who is able) should be exercising!

As others have suggested, try eating at 2200 per day and monitor that for 4 weeks. If you are losing or not gaining then start logging your extra activity, e.g. biking, in your food diary and eat back the calories that you burned.

If you have money to burn and like gadgets then getting something like a Fitbit might be a good idea - you wear it during the day and it monitors how much movement you are doing and will then calculate for you how much energy you are burning by walking around the hospital at work. It's not an exact science but many people on here like them, and if you are having problems knowing what your energy expenditure is then that could be one way to measure it.

If you are trying to gain weight, you shouldn't be exercising. Your daily activity burns enough calories. Start with 2200, you may need to increase it. Try it for a month and see where you are at.

Please do not follow this advice.

You work in a hospital!? I would believe there are a few dietitions, nutritionist, physical therapist, etc. who could help answer your question more clearly. Heck, I wouldn't even be surprised if they had a few gadgets lying around you could borrow for a few days.