Tall women - 5'9" and over...question

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sweetie1975
sweetie1975 Posts: 154 Member
in Food and Nutrition
How many calories are you eating for weight loss? Do you exercise? How much weight have you lost and how long did it take you?

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  • bellaa_x0
    bellaa_x0 Posts: 1,062 Member
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    i'm 5'10" eating ~1650 on workout days and ~1485 on non-workout days. i have lost 10lbs over the last 13 or so weeks (the holidays and a vacation included). i should also add that i have hypothyroidism and PCOS which have worked against me in the past.
  • Asher_Ethan
    Asher_Ethan Posts: 2,430 Member
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    5'9" eating 2000 a day and for the first 16 weeks I lost exactly 16 pounds, but recently I lose about .5 pounds a week. I'm a dance teacher so my job can be pretty active at times. I teach 5 dance classes a week and usually weight lift when I go to the gym to work out (3-4 times a week.)
  • toe1226
    toe1226 Posts: 249 Member
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    I am 5'9.75 eating about 1500 a day, active to very active (workout, walk a lot)- I'm still exploring the science of my loss, i'm early in and think I'll likely up my intake soon.
  • SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage Posts: 2,671 Member
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    I'm 5'10". I don't recall how many calories I was eating for loss, but my maintenance is 2040 cals. I'm also hypothyroid.
  • jusbar71
    jusbar71 Posts: 117 Member
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    I'm 5'9, I do very little exercise due to health issues, I stick to 1260 or just under, I have lost 15lbs in 4 weeks
  • joolsmd
    joolsmd Posts: 375 Member
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    5'10. I eat 1400 a day, and walk 4 miles a day. I've lost 11lbs in a month.
  • rainbow198
    rainbow198 Posts: 2,245 Member
    edited February 2016
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    I'm 5'11. I lost weight eating around 1900 calories with no exercise. I'm very athletic with a sedentary job. I ate most of my exercise calories back.

    Took me 15 months to lose 80 pounds. This is my 3rd year keeping the weight off.
  • sweetie1975
    sweetie1975 Posts: 154 Member
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    Great responses. I'm 5'9" with a desk job, trying to get exercise in at least 3 times a week and eating 1900, maybe my calories are too high.
  • kitaemma
    kitaemma Posts: 40 Member
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    6'1" eating 1600, lost 8 pounds in 6 weeks. Close to goal though, not sure if that makes a difference
  • cookielover_96
    cookielover_96 Posts: 177 Member
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    5'9" . 1300 for maintenance, 1800 for slight bulk (me right now). And of course anything below 1300 would be weight loss...which is not my goal anyways.
  • verdebug
    verdebug Posts: 20 Member
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    This is a great thread. I'm not just 6'0" tall, I'm muscular, too. My ultimate weight goal would make a lot of my smaller MFP sisters laugh, I suspect, but I like being able to play basketball with the guys and have them bounce off of ME when I set a screen, haha..... My MFP calorie goal is around 1,500 which is just too low for me, so I eat about 500 of my exercise calories back most days. I've lost 60 pounds, and I've got about ten to go. I have a desk job, too, so for me, the key isn't trying to "fit in" exercise but rather structuring my life to be active. I never take the elevator. I walk 45 mins during my lunch hour. I garden, and haul around wheelbarrows full of heavy things. I play sports that I think are fun. I do go to the gym, but, it's almost secondary to the activity that I purposefully build into my day.
  • MamaMc3
    MamaMc3 Posts: 213 Member
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    I am 5'9", and I eat 1,580 and walk 30 minutes 5 times a week. I am about 6 weeks in, and I have lost 15 lbs.
  • bridgetsuzanne7
    bridgetsuzanne7 Posts: 4 Member
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    I'm 5'9". I eat 1,700 cals/day, do 40-60 mins of cardio 5x/week, strength train 5x/week and do yoga once a week. I am in the beginning of my 4th week and I have lost 5lbs.
  • julie_broadhead
    julie_broadhead Posts: 178 Member
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    I'm 5'9". I eat between 2100 and 1900 Calories daily. I'm breastfeeding and I do circuit training and HIIT style workouts 4 days a week, Pilates once a week, and do something fun and physical every weekend (last weekend was climbing this weekend will be cross country skiing). I have no Idea what I weigh right now, but since December I have dropped a pant size.
  • Karmc2k
    Karmc2k Posts: 98 Member
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    Hi Sweetie1975, thanks for the post. I am 5'10" and just started on MFP about 3 weeks ago. I have lost about 3 pounds in that time. I am eating 1200 calories a day plus all my exercise calories. I go to the gym about 5 times a week and do both cardio (about 1/2 hour) and weights (45 mins).
  • Panda_Poptarts
    Panda_Poptarts Posts: 971 Member
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    I am 5'11 with a desk job, work out 5-6 times a week vigorously. I stick around 1800 calories and don't eat back exercise calories. Just bumped up recently from 1400 calories, on which I was starving.
  • eritchey11
    eritchey11 Posts: 2 Member
    edited February 2016
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  • kirstenb13
    kirstenb13 Posts: 181 Member
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    I'm 5'11 and eat between 1800 and 2100 usually. I lost around 35 lbs since the end of last October that way (currently 158). I'm relatively active in my daily life, normally 10 - 15k steps on my fitbit and I eat most of those calories back. I like to go running a few times a week, but mostly just on the weekend, no other exercise.
    I guess I got really lucky with my metabolism...

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