5ft -5ft 3 ladies how much are you eating?

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  • goblue8426
    goblue8426 Posts: 41 Member
    5'3", 1340 calories per day to lose 1lb per week, have about 45-50 pounds to lose. Just yoga and walking for exercise right now. It's working nicely!
  • speedoftheshire
    speedoftheshire Posts: 2 Member
    At 4'11" and 107, and pretty much trying to maintain at this point, MFP tells me to be around 1,300 - based on my shortness and sedentary occupation. I just can't sustain myself on that with a busy half marathon schedule and lifting a few times a week (depending on my mileage for the week). I go over my calories pretty regularly, but have still dropped a pound or two since I started logging again a few weeks ago.

    I think it's all trial and error. Start with what MFP gives you, then work up or down from there after a couple of weeks. Everyone's body is a bit different.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    1400-1500 a day.
  • 20Grit
    20Grit Posts: 752 Member
    5'5 , 145lb, 40 years old.... 2400cals a day, I lift, little cardio, if any.....I keep talking about adding it, I have yet to do so on a regular basis.
  • Original_Beauty
    Original_Beauty Posts: 180 Member
    I'm 5'2" and I am eating 2200 calories

    I oft, do classes, and cardio
  • EHisCDN
    EHisCDN Posts: 494 Member
    5'1 and I eat 1600 a day to lose 0.5lbs/week
  • steff274
    steff274 Posts: 227 Member
    Always over 2000.. I am 5ft 2 and 7st 7 (105 pounds) if I just eat 2000 I will actually lose weight so need to eat a proportion of my excersize calories back I average between 2300 and 2500 to maintain ;)
  • mgalsf12
    mgalsf12 Posts: 331 Member
    5' -2.5" I am eating between 1200 - 1600 calories a day. I am fairly active and I went from 141.5 pounds to 133.5 pounds since the beginning of January. Damn yummy holiday's. :) My goal is 128.
  • muffinsquee
    muffinsquee Posts: 8 Member
    edited March 2015
    4'11", I've got 3kg left to lose and I'm eating an average 2000 cals.
  • mirrim52
    mirrim52 Posts: 763 Member
    5'0", 130 lbs. Eating 1670ish calories a day and losing an average of 1 lb a week. I have 5 hrs of roller derby practice and 3 sessions of StrongLifts 5x5 per week.
  • wick3tgirl
    wick3tgirl Posts: 47 Member
    I cant even with the different calories here :D . cant wait till I get to goal weight and begin to experiment with the numbers. too scared to touch a thing thats working right now :)
  • Delenaandjohnlock
    Delenaandjohnlock Posts: 2 Member
    edited March 2015
    5 foot, eating around 400-800 calories per day, losing around 3-5 pounds a week, along with doing the 30 day ab and squat challenge, but I am going on a super crash diet and wouldn't necessarily recommend it to anyone. I am also currently 104 pounds, if that makes a difference
  • katiejanecollins
    katiejanecollins Posts: 236 Member
    5 ft 3
    20 y/o
    120.6 lbs
    workout 5 days a week for minimum of 30 minutes
    eat between 1600 and 1800 calories a day
  • rachylouise87
    rachylouise87 Posts: 367 Member
    Delenaandjohnlock wrote: »
    5 foot, eating around 400-800 calories per day, losing around 3-5 pounds a week, along with doing the 30 day ab and squat challenge, but I am going on a super crash diet and wouldn't necessarily recommend it to anyone. I am also currently 104 pounds, if that makes a difference
    400-800 per day?
  • 20Grit
    20Grit Posts: 752 Member
    Delenaandjohnlock wrote: »
    5 foot, eating around 400-800 calories per day, losing around 3-5 pounds a week, along with doing the 30 day ab and squat challenge, but I am going on a super crash diet and wouldn't necessarily recommend it to anyone. I am also currently 104 pounds, if that makes a difference



    You wouldn't recommend, but you are doing it to yourself, this doesn't make sense to me.
  • dagnus
    dagnus Posts: 7 Member
    Yay short ladies thread! I'm 5' and still working out what is my best calorie range - I'm at about 1300-1400 now, but really just got myself to the point where I'm consistent. I started at 142.6 and am down to 138.6 now - 4 lbs in just over a month - and it's been slow because it took me several weeks to work on getting consistent, lowering calories, logging accurately, adjusting goals, etc. I've always been most comfortable in the past anywhere between 105-115 so my goal is to get to about 110 or 115.
  • jenlo1971
    jenlo1971 Posts: 49 Member
    5'2 on 1200 calories a day- no exercise due to back issues- have lost every week
  • Iamnotasenior
    Iamnotasenior Posts: 234 Member
    I'm 5'2", 55 years old and don't exercise much at all other than walking the dog because of a back problem. I'm on 1,200 calories a day and I have a steady weight loss so far of 1 pound a week.
  • vchan000
    vchan000 Posts: 38 Member
    edited March 2015
    5'0
    Start 250
    Current 202lbs
    Exercise is 3-5 days a week cardio at the gym and a desk job and sedentary hobbies the rest of the time.

    I eat 1200 on the days I don't get any exercise in and 1400-1600 on the days I do get moving.

    *edit* Another thing to note is I'm not super strict about measuring everything so the numbers might be a bit higher. I'm not going to sweat it until the weight stops coming off, then I'll tighten up the measuring/logging.
  • brynnsmom
    brynnsmom Posts: 945 Member
    I'm 5'2" and weigh 108; 38 years old. My average daily intake is around 1750. I eat more than that on the weekends, slightly less during week to compensate. I will vary it somewhat based on activity for the day but I work out most days for about 45 minutes. Obviously am not trying to lose weight.

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