5'5" 175 ... how many calories per day

freedom2016mfp
freedom2016mfp Posts: 75 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Can anyone relate and share with me your daily calorie count?

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  • eok902
    eok902 Posts: 56 Member
    I'm 5'5" and 165 so close-ish. I recently set mine to a slower loss than previously as I have been losing continually since last May and didn't want to burn out. I have set MFP to lose 1/2 pound per week and MFP has given me 1690 per day.
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    edited March 2017
    Plug your stats into MFP.
    Select your activity level based on daily activity without including exercise.
    Log your exercise and eat 50% of the calories burned to start with (after 4-6 weeks reevaluate and adjust up or down as needed based on average rate of loss).

    I'm 5'4.5" and during my weight loss I ate an average of around 2000 calories a day (total...not net). Even now, I'm in the 130's and would lose eating 2000 calories. The key factors though are that I am fairly active and I use a food scale 90% of the time.

    Edit: forgot to add that my heaviest was 260 lbs. I didn't start tracking calories till I was around 220 lbs. So the average is from 220 lbs to where I am now.
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