Calorie intake?

johannamstanley
johannamstanley Posts: 10 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I am 5"5' and weigh around 294 pounds. MFP is giving me a Dailey intake of 2400 to lose 1 pound a week. This seems pretty high to me. Thoughts?

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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    How active are you?
  • johannamstanley
    johannamstanley Posts: 10 Member
    Trying to get more active and take 10,000 steps a day but can't always get there. I am a substitute teacher so I am often up and walking around
  • Jules_farmgirl
    Jules_farmgirl Posts: 225 Member
    If you feel its too high it will give you the option of 2lbs a week. But I don't think that's unreasonable. Try it. Give it a few weeks and see what happens. If you feel you want to adjust down, then do that. You have to know your own body and what it needs for calories. I am slowly adjusting up, as I felt like I was getting enough calories to have healthy losses.
  • EricaCraigie
    EricaCraigie Posts: 1,396 Member
    I personally don't follow what MFP tells me, I make my own numbers and I count macros not calories.
    But mine equals out to 1640 calories on normal days and 1880 on each of my two refeed days. I'm 5'7" and 116lbs. I lift 6 days a week and do some cardio every day of the week.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,089 Member
    EricaCraigie wrote: »
    I personally don't follow what MFP tells me, I make my own numbers and I count macros not calories.
    But mine equals out to 1640 calories on normal days and 1880 on each of my two refeed days. I'm 5'7" and 116lbs. I lift 6 days a week and do some cardio every day of the week.

    OK, but since you weigh not much more than a third of what OP weighs, it's not really relevant to her question.

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