I'm so confused!! Help!!!

Graszlgirl95
Graszlgirl95 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Okay so I'm trying to figure out how many calories I should be burning in a workout. I'm 5'7 167lb female. My bmr is 1591. Right now I'm eating about 1200 calories per day and working off about 1000 calories per workout. I don't feel hungry, but I m confused on how much I should be eating and how much I should be working off. I should also add that my goal weight is 140lbs.

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  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    How are you calculating the calories for your workout? What exercise are you doing?

    Are you currently losing weight? How much per week?

    In general, most people eat back about half of their estimated exercise calories, with the expectation that their estimate of calories burned is too high. But 1200 is pretty low for being as active as you seem to be.
  • Lillymoo01
    Lillymoo01 Posts: 2,865 Member
    1000 calories is a huge workout. How have you come at that figure?
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    edited May 2017
    Workout an amount that feels like progress but does not feel like too much, and eat a calorie level that doesn't feel like too much or leaves you hungry/tired. After a few weeks assess: if you have lost more than 0.5 - 1 pound a week, 1.6 absolute max if that ends up at an appropriate calorie level, increase your food calories until your loss settles at that level. The exact numbers don't matter right now, the right numbers for you is what matters and you reach those by evaluating your actual weight loss.
  • LisaEatSleepRun
    LisaEatSleepRun Posts: 159 Member
    Graszlgirl95 wrote: »
    working off about 1000 calories per workout

    What exercise are you doing to burn 1000 calories? While I am smaller than you (5'2 & 132 lbs), it took me 2 hrs 12 mins to burn 1055 calories on a 21 km run last weekend according to my Garmin. I also ate roughly double what you eat at close to 2200 cals that day and couldn't imagine eating less & not being super hungry! I am wondering how accurate your logging is for food & how you are estimating calorie burn? Generally, people tend to underestimate how much they eat and overestimate how much they burn. If you are measuring intake & output accurately, you really should be eating quite a lot more, especially not eating less than 1200 cals net as opposed to your current 200 cals!!! Your body will use muscle for survival and you will likely burn out & become unwell.
  • Muscleflex79
    Muscleflex79 Posts: 1,917 Member
    as others have said, what are you doing to burn 1000 calories?? it is likely that that is a gross overestimate of calories burned.
  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    what did MFP give you for your daily goal? eat that (since it takes into account your base caloric burn), then eat back a portion of workout calories

    because if you are truly eating 1200cal a day and burning 1000, that is a net of 200
  • lemonychild
    lemonychild Posts: 654 Member
    1000 cals yeah right.. that means 200 net cals which would mean ud be draggin
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