Caloric Intake on track at all?

matthewsteinmetz
matthewsteinmetz Posts: 2 Member
edited November 20 in Health and Weight Loss
I had a question or two about the calories I'm eating per day.

22
Male
Currently 138(9) pounds
5 foot 4

I have MFP set to 2 pounds a week and it has me down at 1560 calories a day. I more or less his that mark +-50 to 100. Now my question is what is my maintenance caloric intake if MFP is pinning it at 1560. Around 2500? I have a job where I clean a school and I also hit the gym 5 days a week, strength training and cardio (HIIT, about 15-20 minutes) 3 days a week.

Am I under eating here? Or am I where I need to be?

Breakfasts are a cup of Greek Yogurt (Cabot) with two scrambled eggs, 16 oz coffee 1 tbp of creamer.

Lunch is a sandwich 60g bread 1.70 oz of turkey and ham each, two 40 calorie slices of provolone.
Dinner is made from scratch, usually around 500 calories; like I said, +- 100 at the end of the day of 1560.

Thanks!

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  • shancourcy16
    shancourcy16 Posts: 49 Member
    To find out what your maintenance is you can always change your goals to see what your maintenance calories are and then change them back. I would trust the system and see how you progress over 2-3 weeks. How much are you trying to lose? A setting of 2lbs a week might be too high, try 1lb a week? Especially if you have less than 25lbs to lose.. which im guessing you do by your height and weight already sounds like your at a healthy weight as is:)
  • matthewsteinmetz
    matthewsteinmetz Posts: 2 Member
    Thanks for the reply! I think I will lower it; I've noticed that I'm feeling sluggish during the day, probably not enough calories going in. I started out at around 153 back in mid April so I've definitely been making progress. I set my goal weight at 125 in the beginning, I overlooked mentioning that! I'll knock it down to 1 pound a week from here on out and I'll gauge the change.

    Thanks again!
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