Tall ladies with similar stats; what is your calorie range?

I'm 5'10" and currently weigh 166 lbs. Eating about 1900 calories per day as my base, plus often half to all of my workout calories. I've been eating this amount for 6 weeks and am down about 10 pounds.

Most of my workouts are pole dancing, and I also go swimming with my kids a few times per week.

I have a feeling that the MFP goal isn't too high for you OP.

Try putting your stats into Scoobys TDEE calculator to get an idea of what it would take for you to maintain your weight with your current exercise regimen (http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/). It might give you insight into why Mfp set your calories the way they did.

I'm 5'10. Weigh 246 now. Currently I have 1600 calories on mfp.But I eat about 1400. Losing about 1 1/2 to 2 lbs per week.

I am 5'11" too, about 205lbs now and am steadily losing on 1850 cals/day. I have MFP set to Sedentary since I mostly have a desk job. Down 40lbs (wowzers!) since Jan 01 of this year.

I swim once a week, go for a power walk with a friend once a week, do a jog or workout video once a week and any extra exercise I get chasing the kid around. I walk to work too but that is about 15 minutes each way.

I still look at my body and don't see much change. But then again I just bought a large shirt at Old Navy instead of XL or XXL and people other than me can see it. Aiming for 180lbs at the moment then I will reassess.

5'11 and 191 (down from 199 in mid April. Yay!), I'm on 1850 cals per day, exercise 5 days per week, eat back most, if not all, of my exercise calories and have been losing 1lb per week steadily.

P.S. Eating 1200 cal/day.

I'm 5'10" and started at 212 lbs two years ago. Down to 155 now and maintaining there. I think my calorie goal started around 1500 if I remember correctly with a goal of 2 lbs/week. I think that was pretty aggressive and it was a challenge. I did that for a while then reduced it to 1 lb/week goal and later 1/2 lb/week. My calories goal was in the 1600s for a lot of that.

I've always kept my activity level at sedentary and then let my Fitbit (then) or Garmin (now) sync calories for exercise, and I always eat them all back. Now my maintenance calorie goal is 1760 net, but with exercise I typically eat a total of about 2000/day. My exercise consists of running 6 days/week and typically 1 hour or more of walking the dog every day. I started at pretty much just walking and some lap swimming and have worked up to that. Doing more exercise so I can eat more and don't feel deprived has been pretty key for me.

I will say it was slow, and took me a long time to feel like I was making progress. But I was! I think when you are tall it can take a while to be obvious when you are losing gradually. I will also say that I thought that as a "big girl" I wouldn't be able to go under 180 or so, but when I got there I realized I wasn't maybe as "big-boned" as I always thought. Good luck to you! Sounds like you are on your way!

i'm 6'1 , 316 lbs now and alotted 1950 a day with sedentary

I'm 5'10" and 156. My goal is 140. I have a small frame up top, I think I look best around that weight otherwise I have a lot of jiggle in my midsection. Highest weight other than when I was pregnant was 180.

I avg about 1600-1800 calories per day total. I'm losing half to a pound a week.

StacywithaY wrote: »

I changed my settings to sedentary, I'm prob between sedentary and lightly active I wld think, and it brought the calories to 1730. I adjusted up to 1750 (from the 1800 I was using.) Will see how that goes. I log my workouts low, so I'm not tempted to eat back all the calories. I maybe eat back like half.

I'm motivated to see that other tall gals are losing in this same range. And also just to hear from other gals that can understand being 200#s and just wanting to lose a few pounds. Lol. I know it seems crazy to shorter ppl.

LOL i know this post is old but it made my day. People tell me their 9month pregnancy weight and i think to myself...wow I'd like to weigh that!!

I'm 5'10" i have gained weight due to pregnancy and currently losing it and am now at 225lbs. I feel at my best at 180-190lbs. I actually have 2 pictures on my profile at that weight. I've also had disorders when i was a teen at 5'10" and anywhere under 170lbs was hairloss and bones poking out and period free...and i got to 153lbs and was told to gain weight.

We just need to accept being heavier!!

ZhivagosGirl wrote: »

I'm 5'11" and at 241 currently (down from 300!). MFP gave me 1320 when I put in sedentary.

Same here but at 2lbs per week right? How can you sustain that? I tried but after 1.5months when i got to 230lbs i had hunger headaches. Im not at 1.5lbs per week and 1560calories. And i always ate atleast 50% exercise calories back.

@noirelb
2 lbs per week - yes. I've only been using MFP since July 10 so I don't know about sustaining or not. It's been fine so far.

I am 5'10" my calories are set at 1860 to lose 2 lbs a week. I am losing roughly 2 lbs a week like I should. I am set at sedentary but I am trying to walk more skni might have to change my activity level soon. I think your calories are set correctly. I weight everything I eat to be as accurate as possible.