Girls- How many calories does everyone eat daily?

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  • ChitownFoodie
    ChitownFoodie Posts: 1,562 Member
    1200 net, but I eat about 1250-1300. I work out, so I am always under my calories
  • GLLove
    GLLove Posts: 77
    Good question! I would like to know the anwers too! I lost 10 pounds on WW and then stopped going. Have been eating 1200 cal/day for about 3 months and i havent lost anything. Also doing three to four Jillian Michaels workouts a week. I can't figure it out. The weight should be falling off, shouldn't it?? Very frustrated!!!!

    Sounds like you may not be eating enough. It seems backwards but its about finding a balance where your body feels comfortable letting the extra fat go.
  • ksherbak
    ksherbak Posts: 12
    I'm with JENTORRES... I'm at 1200 and surprised at the end of the day when I still have 500 left. I am making excellent food choices and feel great!
  • bar403
    bar403 Posts: 28 Member
    I started this leg of my journey on 1/1 eating 1200 cal/day and not eating my exercise calories back. I lost 18 lbs quickly but the last 6 weeks I have been stalled out. I have gained and lost the last 3 lbs in varying amounts over these 6 weeks. I started eating back my exercise calories but it wasn't working. No change. Now I'm upping my calories to closer to 1500 starting this week and I will see where that takes me! Trying to break through the mental block of eating more calories may be better!

    I'm 5'2" and started at 171 - got down to 152 and this past Sunday was 155. I've been up and down with these "extra" three lbs for 6 weeks....
  • RedHotRunner
    RedHotRunner Posts: 850 Member
    I'm at 1290 if I want to lose 1/2 a pound a week. If i'm maintaining, I like to keep it between 1400 and 1600 a day.
  • ddawnjones
    ddawnjones Posts: 1
    Great job! I eat between 1200-1400 daily or less:smile:
  • SLD0125
    SLD0125 Posts: 22
    I know what it says to do, I just don't know if it is always right. If I set for 1 pnd a week I get 1380 daily. 2 pnds is 1200. 1 1/2 is 1200 also .

    But.... at 2 pnds a week and 1 1/2 pounds a week calories it still only estimates 1.4 a week weight loss.
  • bar403
    bar403 Posts: 28 Member
    I had lost 110 pnds on Weight Watchers and I switched to here about a month ago. Now my weight is up far to much for my liking.

    Just wondering bc there is so much fuss from doctors and others that 1200 calories is far too little for a person to eat daily!

    AND BTW, CONGRATULATIONS on the weight loss with WW! You look amazing :)
  • barbacasec
    barbacasec Posts: 106
    I am 5'4 194 lbs and I eat between 1600-1700 calories a day - including exercise calories-

    my BMR is 1571 and I multiple that by and activity level of 1.5 (lightly active) which give me calories burned in a day of 2356 so then if I take my deficit of 500-1000 per day for a 1-1.5 lb weight loss a week I am at a needed calories of aprx 1600 cals - I do eat closer to 1700 when I have a really good/long run or gym day... and closer to 1600 on none gym days or light activity days.

    it is completely different for each person- and yes MFP does calculate your deficit in your net calories however I think they grossly over estimate the calories burned for each exercise- (based on a few trials with MFP vs my heart rate monitor burn) I do think if you are at a net of 1200 you def need to eat your exercise calories back but be really careful with what they say you are burning off.
    Also because a 5.5 mph jog for a "fit" person is going to have a completely different caloric burn then a "not fit" person. they only factor in height and weight. not fitness level....

    anyway thats my 2 cents :)
  • EmmmyK
    EmmmyK Posts: 21 Member
    My doctor and personal trainer agreed 1245 -1400 is perfect..for me.. I'm 5'8 and was 220, now I'm down to 203 it's been about 11 months since I started, but I did get really sick 6 of those months and gained some back. but Now I'm on the right track.. It really depends on your weight.. Biggest Looser Book tells you exactly how to figure it out too.. But, if you eat less than 1200 a day, if something happens when you get ill or eat over you will gain all back quick.. Don't listen to others about what they say.. it all matters on how you feel..

    Ok, I found my biggest Looser book, In the book it suggests calories for different zones of weight.. I hope this helps you

    Take your present weight and x's by 7 equals your calorie zone that you should stay with, for weight loss. and each time you loose, you will change those calories. Now when you work out, try not to eat those extra calories you burn.

    Good Luck,
    Emily
  • FearAnLoathing
    FearAnLoathing Posts: 4,852 Member
    On days I dont exercise I net 1200 to 1300 sometimes more,on days I do exercise 800 to 1000
  • suzycreamcheese
    suzycreamcheese Posts: 1,766 Member
    i usually eat about 1300/1400 net
  • RMinVA
    RMinVA Posts: 1,085 Member
    For those of you saying you're eating 1200 and not losing... it means you need to eat MORE... there are SO many people on this site who think it's 'counterproductive' and stupid, but there are also SO many people on this website who have UPPED their calories after hitting a plateau and then STARTED losing again! It could be a simple matter of you aren't fueling your body properly and just need to eat more to lose more.

    IMO, it's probably because they are eating more than they think and not burning as much. Tom Venuto wrote a great article about this last week. "Mythical girl" that claimed she couldn't lose weight on 1200 cals a day gets put into a controlled environment where she actually GOT 1200 cals a day...and she lost weight.

    And although I can't prove it, I would also wager that when people stall they probably "up the ante" a little bit and start paying a bit more attention to what they are actually doing: i.e. tracking better, eating better, upping their exercise intensity, etc. I know that I do!

    For many reasons, even if you are tracking everything, it is still very easy to underestimate what you are eating and overestimate exercise (unless you have an HRM, and even those are only as good as the information you give them.). I would also argue that the nutrition density of the calories plays a role too. big difference between 1200 cals of overly processed foods and 1200 cals of a balanced diet.
  • fanceegirl75
    fanceegirl75 Posts: 620 Member
    I was at 1200/day but hit a plateau and haven't lost at all in the last month. Luckily I haven't gained. So this week I changed my settings. Monday It was at 1600 but that was far too many so Tuesday I changed them again and they are now at 1350. I'm going to try this for the next couple weeks and see how I do along with making some other changes to what I eat.
  • otr12
    otr12 Posts: 632 Member

    i see a lot of girls setting their goals at 1200 and i often wonder if its because that is the lowest MFP recommends on here.

    Guilty.
    Before I got here I was eating less than that, but all at once. I only ate once a day. Eating 1200 is scary for me. Eating 1200 net is even more scary and seems wrong to me. But I'm trusting what the seasoned veterans of weight loss say and doing it anyways.
  • baisleac
    baisleac Posts: 2,019 Member
    For those of you saying you're eating 1200 and not losing... it means you need to eat MORE... there are SO many people on this site who think it's 'counterproductive' and stupid, but there are also SO many people on this website who have UPPED their calories after hitting a plateau and then STARTED losing again! It could be a simple matter of you aren't fueling your body properly and just need to eat more to lose more.

    IMO, it's probably because they are eating more than they think and not burning as much. Tom Venuto wrote a great article about this last week. "Mythical girl" that claimed she couldn't lose weight on 1200 cals a day gets put into a controlled environment where she actually GOT 1200 cals a day...and she lost weight.

    Sometimes this is true. Other times... read the article here http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/3047-700-calories-a-day-and-not-losing
  • SLD0125
    SLD0125 Posts: 22
    Hmm that gives me about 1270!
  • Zombriana
    Zombriana Posts: 764 Member
    I eat between 1300-1400 a day.
    But I exercise 200-400 a day.
    So my net is usually around 1100.
  • ladyhawk00
    ladyhawk00 Posts: 2,457 Member
    Please remember that MFPs calculator is a "dumb" tool - meaning that even if you should not be aiming for 2 lbs loss/week, because it will be unhealthy and unrealistic, due to where you are in the process, it will still try to help you get there (within the 1200 lower limit.) Choosing too high of a loss goal is a common mistake and causes a lot of issues. Pleeeease don't just arbitrarily pick 2 lbs/week just because it's an option. Pick the right settings for YOU and your body.

    Here are some threads that may help in determining healthy, realistic cal goals/deficits.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/186814-some-mfp-basics

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/61706-guide-to-calorie-deficits
  • Christina915
    Christina915 Posts: 15 Member
    1210 for me. but i mean if you go over by like 100 or so its not going to kill you. and thats just the bare minimum.. if you workout then you can eat more :D

    you can actually eat A LOT with only 1200 calories. like i ate through a whole day i never ate when i felt hungry and i still wasnt over my calories.. youre not supposed to go longer than 4 hours without eating. and i Know my body is not "in starvation mode " ive lost 5 pounds already in 2 weeks :)

    congrats btw!
  • meka325
    meka325 Posts: 47
    I would rather take my weight off slowly over a longer period of time to make it more maintainable and this site suggested a very non-restrictive goal of 1810/day, variable with exercise. I need to take off about 80lb, I'll get to goal in about a year and a half at the rate of one pound lost per week. Calorie counts of below 1500/day do seem awfully restrictive to me, personally and I'm not sure I could keep that up life-long. Especially if I was exercising alot. 1200 seems really, really low and I'm almost positive anything much below that would be medically unadvisable period, but I noticed that alot of people here have 1200/day as goal. But I'm not a physician or a nutritionist. I suppose if a person was naturally a small-framed person, they would have lower calorie needs. My aim is to weigh 140, which some would consider heavy for themselves, but is just perfect for me being 5'5 and having a sort-of stocky frame (or "big-boned" as they used to say, lol).
  • DancingYogini
    DancingYogini Posts: 377
    It depends on the day (weekends are bad for me). I can NET anywhere from 700-2300. The other day I got done with Yoga and was 1000 cals under net, and forced myself to eat until I was only 200 cals under. I am on maintenance now, with 1910 cals/day. With exercise I usually have about 2400...which honestly is hard to get down! I take 1-2 days off a week from exercise. I hate forcing myself to eat when I am not hungry, but I also know that having that big of a deficit is unhealthy. Peanut Butter is my friend :smile:
  • astromachine
    astromachine Posts: 9 Member
    1200 and I eat my exercise calories. :)
  • AriesGrl
    AriesGrl Posts: 174 Member
    I eat 1200 a day and dont excersise due to physical limitations...
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