5'3 women,how many cals are you eating?

00mid
00mid Posts: 79 Member
edited November 12 in Health and Weight Loss
Also, what's your current and goal weight?
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  • Kekekylene
    Kekekylene Posts: 112 Member
    2600, currently 203, goal 150 ish
  • Jakiepaper
    Jakiepaper Posts: 57 Member
    1240, Current weight is 130 GW is 120.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    1800 (progressing into maintenance), weight 136-138. Goal weight is 130, if I find that I don't have the patience for the recomp I'm getting ready to try. I'm 5'4" though.
  • Nottafattie
    Nottafattie Posts: 140 Member
    5'2"
    SW 140+
    CW 125ish (it varies from day to day)
    GW 115

    Eat between 1100 and 1350 cals a day, depending on activity level. Losing around 1/2 lb a week. Seems like a brutally slow pace, but I'm close to goal, in my healthy BMI range now, and I'm still going to hit my goal weight by summer (bikini, bikini, bikini!!!). Slow and steady wins the race.
  • IAmAPearl
    IAmAPearl Posts: 35 Member
    5 3 here.
    I'm currently 154, goal 130.
    I aim for 1500 but I usually go over by a lot, so I eat honestly about 1800 on average. I keep losing steadily though, but I exercise and am breastfeeding still.
  • omma_to_3
    omma_to_3 Posts: 3,265 Member
    Net 1240. On long run days that can approach 2400 gross! But typically, gross is 1500-1600, netting around 1250
  • Blueseraphchaos
    Blueseraphchaos Posts: 843 Member
    edited February 2015
    I'm 5'3.75" (lost some bone density over the last couple years, used to be 5'4.75")...current weight is 174, goal weight at the moment is 150 (but i think I'm going to push that down to 140 later). My goal is set to 1450 a day, i don't always eat back exercise calories. It depends on how i feel at the end of the day. I'm losing pretty steadily at about 1 lb per week or more.

    ETA I'm almost 35. If that matters, lol
  • dontjinxit
    dontjinxit Posts: 82 Member
    I read that as "how many cats?"
  • ScalySquash50
    ScalySquash50 Posts: 41
    edited February 2015
    between 5'3 and 5'4 (edit: i'm 24)

    1230 cals, sedentary
    143 currently
    135 goal
    1lb a week
  • fevrale
    fevrale Posts: 170 Member
    I'm 5'3'', 28 years old.
    My current weight is 179 and my goal is between 130-145.
    I try to net between 1200-1500 daily.
  • Laurend224
    Laurend224 Posts: 1,748 Member
    5'3
    SW: 221
    CW: 192
    GW: 125
    Cals: 1430
    I am 36 and don't exercise a whole lot.
  • Cortneyrenee04
    Cortneyrenee04 Posts: 1,117 Member
    I'm 5'3" and 157. I eat about 1500 calories every day. I usually do some type of exercise every day, with varying intensity/duration. My goal weight is about 135 for now.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    5'3, 125, 1750, goal is 120 or so.
  • redfiona99
    redfiona99 Posts: 116 Member
    5'3, present weight 163 lb, goal weight 139 lb, cals = 1400, but work is mostly sedentary and I eat ~ half my exercise calories back. (It's also reasonably close to my TDEE, I think).
  • Azathera
    Azathera Posts: 48 Member
    I am on 1240 cals and I am 5'4
    Right now I weight 125 (started at 130 but already lost 5 pounds) and my goal is 117 (my pre-pregnancy weight).
  • noaddedsugarx
    noaddedsugarx Posts: 169 Member
    5'2
    SW - 140
    CW - 113
    GW - 105
    1000-1200 cals week days and closer to maintenance on the weekend (I really need to work on that)
  • Sheseeksstrength
    Sheseeksstrength Posts: 138 Member
    5'3"
    Current Weight- 124.6 lbs.
    Eating: 1800-2200 calories per day to maintain.
  • tigerblue
    tigerblue Posts: 1,526 Member
    5'2.5"
    47 yo
    SW 156
    CW 131
    Lowest weight while on MFP-112

    Hoping to get back under 125. 112 was too difficult to maintain. I want to maintain between 120-125, but mostly I want to lower bodyfat, so if the weight doesn't go down I am ok if the fat comes off and is replaced by muscle.

    Calorie goals--I seem to maintain at around 1550. At least as I report it. Could be a little higher, since we all tend to under report a bit.

    To lose I need to stay under 1400 which is very difficult for me. Basically I am hungry all the time. Which is why I am experimenting a bit with maintaining/body recomp while eating around maintenance and lifting.

    We will see.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    136 cw- don't care much on goal weight, as I'm in a recomp. Calories 1350-1550.
  • marenba21
    marenba21 Posts: 6 Member
    5'3"
    45 y.o.
    SW 197
    CW 187
    Goal 169 (trying to go from "Obese" to "Overweight"at least)
    1550 Cal. (Have exceeded only twice)
    On MFP for 5 weeks, goal was set up at 1 pound per week but I end up losing 10 in 5 weeks.
  • higgins8283801
    higgins8283801 Posts: 844 Member
    5'2
    SW: 171
    CW:123.6
    GW: 125

    When I was losing I ate about 1400 calories after exercise. My gross was always between 1700-1900 on exercise days.

    Now that I'm maintaining I gross 2200 calories on exercise days to make my net around 1800.
  • 47Jacqueline
    47Jacqueline Posts: 6,993 Member
    My MFP activity level is very active and that results in a baseline of 1970 calories

    5'3"
    SW: 155
    CW - 127
    GW: 126-129

    I lost on 1450 a day + exercise using an HRM, not MFP's estimates.
  • KathleenCora
    KathleenCora Posts: 160 Member
    SW: 213lbs
    CW: 168.8lbs
    GW: 140lbs

    I'm eating between 1500-1700. I just hit overweight rather than obese! Wahoo! I have never been at a healthy weight as an adult so my first main goal is just barely in the healthy range. I might readjust when I get there.... But for now I'll be thrilled worth 140. I don't eat calories back and I workout 5 days a week.
  • omgcarlie
    omgcarlie Posts: 1
    5'4 height. Current weight 127lbs, goal weight 110lbs. Lost 10 pounds already by cardio 4 days a week and low cal (1200) day diet.
  • GarnetCarnation
    GarnetCarnation Posts: 2
    5'3
    22 YO
    Current weight: 103-104 lbs/47kg
    Normal weight: 97 lbs/44kg
    Goal weight: 99 lbs (to be honest I don't care much, I just want to 'look it')
    I am a student and get stress weight, lack of sleep and not the healthiest food, so I gained 3kg over the past 3 years!
    I'm eating 1600-1800 calories a day, but I don't exercise.
    I go through these phases where I would go to the gym 2-3 times a week but I can't stick to it because of deadlines/exam etc :(
    It says that I should be eating 13xx calories a day, but if I exercise more I can eat more so that's fine.
    My bone mass is only 2kg though, and I bloat a lot.
    I would say it is relatively easy for me to go from 47 to 45-45.5kg but not easy to keep it that way!
  • 1971MLJ
    1971MLJ Posts: 137 Member
    5'3
    43 yo
    Started at 155lb
    CW 126
    Been at maintenance since March 2014. Eating between 1590 (sedentary) and 2000 (very active) calories, normally around 1800 daily.
  • 39flavours
    39flavours Posts: 1,494 Member

    omgcarlie wrote: »
    5'4 height. Current weight 127lbs, goal weight 110lbs. Lost 10 pounds already by cardio 4 days a week and low cal (1200) day diet.

    That's the same plan I'm following- cardio (eliptical and bike) Fri,sat,sun, mon aiming for a 400 cal burn each time and eating 1200 with some of my exercise cals added in.
    - SW 146.6
    - CW 137
    - GW 120
    - I'm 34 and 5'4

    Still a ways to go but it's good to see other's successes!
  • glutenfreechic
    glutenfreechic Posts: 57 Member
    I'm 5.3, 62kg and goal weight is 58-60kg.
    My first mfp goal to lose 1/2kg p/wk was in the 1200's, to lose .5kg per week. Too low to fuel my workouts, 6-8hrs pr/wk vigorous/strenuous les mills gym sessions, pump, combat, attack and one weights workout per week. I absolutely love working out and give it my all. I'm also a busy mum with 3 kids. On just over 1200 cals I could manage for approx 10 days then I'd eat everything in sight and feel like a failure, despite eating back some of the exercise cals, and I'd also barely lose if at all each week.

    After a lot of reading on mfp I've dropped my goal down to the lowest on the mfp scale to .25kg per week which has bumped up my cals to 1480. Far more doable tho I'm very concerned I'll just maintain or gain, but I'm trying it anyway in the hope it avoids the failure and overeating that the lower cals seemed to induce. It's all such a balancing act and I don't feel I've got it right as yet but I'm trying! Not much to lose so that's probably the tricky part but I've made good progress swapping fat for muscle so that's still a positive
  • crepesuzetteorange
    crepesuzetteorange Posts: 128 Member
    I'm 5''4
    current weight is 130.4lbs
    goal weight is 115lbs
    MFP is allowing me 1240 cals in order to lose 0.5lbs a week.
    I haven't lost any weight since joining but can see the reason why
  • LyssaJ1
    LyssaJ1 Posts: 240 Member
    I'm 5'2.5" 44y.o. disabled veteran.
    Cals: 1100 (sedentary) 1250 (active)
    SW: 171
    CW: 139
    GW: 130

    Ideally, I'd like to be at 115, but due to age and (dis)ability, 130 seems to be about 'safe' to my body. We'll see how it goes.

    Also, contrary to my lame-photo-taking abilities, I'm actually "fine boned" (combined with the sedentary lifestyle) I don't really require 1200+ calories...at least that's what my doctors say.
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