calories

crystal479
crystal479 Posts: 59 Member
edited November 17 in Health and Weight Loss
Can I ask how many calories every one is on, my age is 68 . I weight 13 stone, I have health problems so cant do much exercising. I would like to get down to 9 stone thats a 3 stone weight lose , 0n here they tell me my calories are 1200, but I no I will be unable to stick to that as I would get to hungry, can anyone tell me if I had 1400 calories would i still lose weight. has anyone got any advice please thank you.

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  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    Your calories are set after taking your age, height, weight, sex, activity level, weekly weight loss target etc in to consideration.... It is an individual number.

    Have you tried changing your goal to 0.5lb a week? It will likely give you more calories - whilst loss will be slower, it might be more sustainable for you.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    Your calories are set after taking your age, height, weight, sex, activity level, weekly weight loss target etc in to consideration.... It is an individual number.

    Have you tried changing your goal to 0.5lb a week? It will likely give you more calories - whilst loss will be slower, it might be more sustainable for you.

    This. A pound a week is good too, but at your age and height it may still only give you 1200.
  • crystal479
    crystal479 Posts: 59 Member
    I rearly could not do 1200 i have tried i always go over
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    crystal479 wrote: »
    I rearly could not do 1200 i have tried i always go over

    Unfortunately you may have to, depending on your stats - if you can't do more, sometimes eating less than you'd like is necessary.

    You can maximise your intake by making smart choices though - sufficient protein, which will help keep you full, fats, and if you pick the right carb sources an awful lot of food!
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,454 Member
    Try 1400. Log it all every day for a month and see how you do. You will find 1400 hard, too. You probably find being overweight hard as well.

    Pick your hard.
  • lore11a
    lore11a Posts: 166 Member
    Hi, Crystal479. I am 67 years old and have my calories set at 1450. I also have my weightloss set to lose .5 per week. I am like you, 1200 calories is too low for me. I still lose weight at the 1450, just not real fast.
  • crystal479
    crystal479 Posts: 59 Member
    thank you lore11a thats good to know I thought it was just me
  • TxTiffani
    TxTiffani Posts: 799 Member
    MFP is designed for you to eat back your exercise calories (or at least some of them) so maybe the answer is adding in some walking or water aerobics or exercise of your choice to increase how much you can eat. For me, also eating 1200 cals most days (34 yr old 5'0 143.4 lbs) I eat a lot of low calorie foods so that I can eat more. If I ate really high calorie foods I would be hungry all the time. I eat veggies with lunch and dinner and l snack on a pc of fruit sometimes when I'm hungry with yogurt. I don't eat 'clean' but you're welcome to look at my food diary.
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