Who eats over 1500 and manages to lose ?

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  • Goatsmith
    Goatsmith Posts: 29 Member
    MFP gives me 1490 per day to lose 2lbs a week. I usually eat much more, but that's because of working out at least once a week, often twice, plus walking to work. On days when I'm off, like today, I usually end up eating a lot less, somewhere around 1000.
  • Itreadlightly
    Itreadlightly Posts: 86 Member
    I am eating around 1700/ day and I am only 5'0 - 61 yr. lost 25 lbs doing the MFP way. I average 10 miles walking per day ( Fitbit tracking) I walk so much because 1200 is just not enough - I like to eat well!
  • jessicapittman79
    jessicapittman79 Posts: 2 Member
    I'm at 1350 a day and 5'4. It seems to be working and helping so much! :) I have lost 13-15 lbs since December 26 2015.
  • bendyourkneekatie
    bendyourkneekatie Posts: 696 Member
    I eat around 2100. I'm breastfeeding (though she's 19 months so not feeding as much anymore) I run 14-20 km 3 times a week, hiit at the gym 4 hours a week, walk my 2 young kids everywhere. I've lost 15.5 kg (34lbs), and gone from a bmi of 26 to 20.8 in the last 8 months.
    I love my food. And wine and beer. I'm happy to brag as I work damn hard to earn both my slim fit body and my yummy food.
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    edited January 2016
    Sandytoes71 wrote: »
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    I am eating 1700/ day at 5'2" and 42, I'm down 45lb so far. I am losing about 1.5lb/week on average. I am enjoying this much more than when I was doing 1200.

    Is 1700 what you NET? congrats on your loss!!!!

    I set it at 1700 and let Fitbit adjust up, since MFP tried to set me at 1200, I have to be pretty active to get extra. I rarely get extra calories from Fitbit, and on weekends I am mostly parked in front of my laptop studying, so I figure the active days balance against the inactive days. I hope that makes sense :smile:

    And thank you! I have another 47 to go, but it's happening!
  • jmgj27
    jmgj27 Posts: 531 Member
    I'm on just over 1600 for a 2lb a week weight loss on lightly active. That's fine for me as I've lost 17lbs and have 83 to go so need plenty of room for manoeuvre for sure. Lightly active is definitely right for me as I have young twins and spend my life running around after them! I then log my exercise calories from walking and swimming but don't eat those back for the most part. 1200 calories a day would be pretty miserable for me (5.8 and 247 currently) and just not sustainable in the long term.
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    edited January 2016
    CalorieCountChocula wrote: »
    MFP is the land of food braggers. Everyone is eating. I don't know how but they're doing it. I've been poking around the reddit loseit forums asking similar questions I ask here. How many calories guys my size eat, etc. The answers here seem high. Here you get guys swearing they lose weight eating 2500-3000 calories. Women eating more than me losing weight (I'm a 230lbs male and lose nothing at 1800 calories). There you get more honest answers. Guys saying they started out higher but when they hit walls they had to dip way down. Some eating 1500 calories a day. Whatever answer you hear take it with a hugggggge grain of salt. You're probably talking to people who either a) have mutant metabolisms or b) do more cardio than they really are admitting.

    You forgot this is called myfitnesspal. MFP has a good percentage of people who are very fitness-oriented. Many of the guys who lose eating at 2500-3000 have a few things going for them: high activity, often a good muscle mass and a reasonable deficit.

    I'm sedentary with a limited ability to be active all the time, but on days I am able to be active I lose a pound a week on 2000 calories. Of course I'm also still quite heavy, so I have that going for me.

    The comparison is not really valid because on other websites I have noticed people tend to want to lose a lot within a short time and if they don't they are quick to jump to the conclusion that they are not losing. Add to the that the lack of emphasis on accurate logging. Here you will find more people perfectly happy with losing 1/2-1 pound a week eating at a higher calorie level.
  • maryroser9
    maryroser9 Posts: 16 Member
    So if I'm not mistaken my calorie intake should be higher than 1200. I'm not a over active I generally do some walking health issues restrict me. Advice please
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    maryroser9 wrote: »
    So if I'm not mistaken my calorie intake should be higher than 1200. I'm not a over active I generally do some walking health issues restrict me. Advice please

    It's usually a matter of preference and stats. If you have a lot to lose, you can handle to eat more than 1200 calories even if inactive. If you are inactive, short, and close to your weight goal, you may be stuck at a lower allowance unless you are willing to have more food at the expense of less weight lost per week.

    It really is a personal balance. What calorie budget would you find yourself more comfortable at? And are you willing to have slower loss but be able to keep it up for longer? As a rule of thumb, enter 1 pound a week and let MFP calculate your calorie allowance for you then adjust from there if needed.
  • NotGnarly
    NotGnarly Posts: 137 Member
    scolaris wrote: »
    I base what I eat every day on what my Fitbit HR is telling me I am burning. It has been very accurate so far. I aim for no more than a 500 per day deficit. If I have done really big workouts during the week and have a bigger weekly deficit than 3500 I eat some of those calories back on Saturday. Being very moderate really keeps me on track. I average 1 lb per week when I do this, but it isn't exactly the same week to week. It never is. I am not just trying to fit in 'z-size jeans by y/x date.' No. I am retooling my entire health. Fat loss is just one of many other goals. Running big deficits would defeat those purposes. I like to hike & get outdoors so i often eat 1800-2000 calories.

    Same here! I log my food on mfp but I eat the amount that my Fitbit charge HR tells me to eat. My weight loss is set to lose 1 pound a week. I eat about 2000 cals a day. I run/walk a mile, usually takes about 20 mins, then fast walk for another 5 mins. So with 25 mins of cardio, then several mins of walking in place to get to about 9 thousand steps. Fitbit says that I burn about 2500+ cals a day.

    Sometimes I struggle to eat what Fitbit tells me to eat and most times I end up under but I rarely way under 1600. Oh and yes since I started this I've been losing.
  • Protranser
    Protranser Posts: 517 Member
    I eat a lot more than 1500 a day. I've been trying to maintain since October, but have been losing.
  • kristen6350
    kristen6350 Posts: 1,094 Member
    I can eat 1580 daily and lose .5lbs week. And this is without exercise.
  • evileen99
    evileen99 Posts: 1,564 Member
    Francl27 wrote: »
    CalorieCountChocula wrote: »
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    Or c) people who claim not to lose at 1800 calories are eating way more than they think (or use inaccurate entries). or d) the people not losing have some medical issues that they should really bring up with their doctor.

    In the end though it all comes to how active you are. My maintenance is probably around 2300 calories, but I exercise a lot (10 hours of cardio a week) and I fidget a lot - I was trying to read a book earlier and probably got up 10 times to put the laundry in the dryer, get some water, take the laundry upstairs, put a couple things in the dishwasher... plus doing groceries, chores etc... Someone who exercises one hour a day but sits the rest of the day will not burn as many calories by a long shot.

    In my answer, I said I was active. I used a BodyMedia (before they deserted me) and I would normally log between 13000-19000 steps a day. I also do a lot of yard work and gardening, and I lift weights, so yeah, my calorie burns are high. Days when traveling and I spend almost all day sitting in a car? I might burn 1700. So as pp said, if you sit most of the time, you're not burning calories.

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