How many Calories are you eating?

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    At the moment about 2600 - 2800 to maintain...I can cut about 1 Lb per week on 2100-2300...more if I up my training load, but I'm not training for anything in particular at the moment.
  • SandraNancy
    SandraNancy Posts: 127 Member
    5'7 female, 135 lbs, eating ~1500/day, losing about 1 lb per week. I expect maintenance to be somewhere around 1900-2100.
  • MileHigh4Wheeler
    MileHigh4Wheeler Posts: 67 Member
    When I first "got serious" a year ago I was doing about 900-1200 a day and I hit a wall pretty fast, within a couple of months, so I upped it. Now I'm in shape and extremely active and I don't do less than 1,800 - which is hard some days even with throwing a grilled chicken breast in as a afternoon protein snack. The days I train I'll up it to 2,300 or more.
  • Graelwyn75
    Graelwyn75 Posts: 4,404 Member
    5'9.2
    128Ibs (BMI 18.8)
    Maintaining at net 1830.
    With exercise between 2300 - 2700.
  • lucerorojo
    lucerorojo Posts: 790 Member
    MFP has me at 1280 calories per day. I'm trying to lose 2 lbs. a week, and I usually eat back my exercise calories, meaning, I'll eat between 1400-2000 a day. I've lost 13.5 lbs. in 8 weeks, so I'm close. My goal was to lose 100 lbs. (now have 86.5 to go!) I'm female. I walk 4 times a week, 80 minutes each. Swim 2x a week, 25 minutes each, and usually 1 60 min. zumba class per week. When I lose another 20-30 lbs. I will add another zumba class, and with 40 lbs. hoping to jog again and add some strength training. I think my TDEE is around 2300. I calculated it on another site but didn't write it down so I don't remember exactly. I'm just going by MFP and it's working well.
  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,839 Member
    TDEE-500 which right now as a 66 y.o. 259 lb sedentary female is 1540. I started out at 1660 and recalculate every time I lose a new pound so I stay at TDEE-500. I've been losing a pound and a half per week.
  • SaraydaB
    SaraydaB Posts: 120 Member
    1200 calories (if I exercise I eat some back)
    currently 179 pounds
    Started at 204 on april 22
    I feel pretty full all the time ;)
  • caammph
    caammph Posts: 105 Member
    38 y/o female
    Height 5' 9"
    SW 218
    CW 213
    GW 160

    Net intake: 1650
    Maintenance: 2120

    I've set my goal to lose a pound a week and I've been doing so fairly consistently over the past month.
  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
    female in 40s
    height 5'8"

    Lost 2-3 lbs per week, for a total of 40lbs, at 1500 kcal and occasional walking for exercise. Weight loss slowed to 1-2 lbs per week in the last 10 lbs.

    Maintenance is between 1800 and 2500. Usually around 2000kcal.
  • SCoil123
    SCoil123 Posts: 2,110 Member
    Usually about 1800 depending on activity
  • SafioraLinnea
    SafioraLinnea Posts: 628 Member
    1700 is my bare minimum intake goal. I also eat back all my exercise calories and breastfeed so I average more like 1900-2100 consumed daily. I am losing between 0.75 and 1.5 pounds a week.
  • SammieCosme
    SammieCosme Posts: 48 Member
    Mfp started me at 1360 but now I'm at 1200 but net 1000-1100 daily
    SW: 252
    CW:195
    GW:140
    It took me 9 months to lose 57 pounds
  • Enjcg5
    Enjcg5 Posts: 389 Member
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    I'm currently maintaining on net 1900 cals (5ft5, 136lbs female)
    My goal! I'm 5'5 144lb currently
  • Sunna_W
    Sunna_W Posts: 744 Member
    1400 - 1500 a day with some walking thrown in.
  • MegaMooseEsq
    MegaMooseEsq Posts: 3,118 Member
    edited August 2017
    34 year old woman here, 5'2", 180 lbs:

    TDEE: 2500-ish
    Current net goal: 1950-ish
    Losing: ~5 lb/month

    I'd like to get down to the 130-140 vicinity, but I figure I'll see how things go as I go. I'm really happy with the 27 lbs I've lost so far.
  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    55 year old woman, 5'1" 119 pounds:

    TDEE: 2200ish

    I have MFP set to sedentary maintenance and have Fitbit send over a calorie adjustment for all my exercise/activity. I calculate my deficit by leaving a calorie remainder at the end of the day.

    I don't log with 100% precision and know this, so I leave a few extra calories on the table to account for this.

    Saying that, I eat around 1700-1900 a day to lose half a pound a week.
  • Paris4885
    Paris4885 Posts: 8 Member
    Meant to be eating 3180 a day started today and really struggled I've made my dairy public so you can see what I've ate today
  • Danimri84
    Danimri84 Posts: 262 Member
    32, 5'8"
    SW: 250
    CW: 238
    GW: 155
    I have myself set at sedentary, Fitbit set up to send over exercise data. MFP is set to lose 2 lbs a week and gives me 1350. I usually eat 1500-1600. I earn waaaaaay more calories than that, but I'm not super tight on my logging yet so I leave myself a cushion. I'm only about two weeks in this time so I know there will be a lot of adjusting as I go.
  • nowine4me
    nowine4me Posts: 3,985 Member
    2000 here
  • romenaholbert
    romenaholbert Posts: 4 Member
    deannalfisher wrote: »
    SuezTommo81 wrote: »
    My current calories are 1671, but I am obese. If you drop your calories too low, your metabolism will slow down to hang on to stored fat. Be careful how low you go. If you find you're stalling, have a day of low carb and then ramp it up next day. Leave your body guessing.

    nope and nope - metabolism slowly down and storing fat or keeping your body guessing have both been debunked many times

    Really? My dr just mentioned both of these to me last week. Are you saying that its ok to start low calorie and stay that way for an extended period without slowing loss dramatically due to more than just the idea of loss slowing slower when closer to goal?
  • lucerorojo
    lucerorojo Posts: 790 Member
    DeannalFisher, do you do a lot of exercise to get such a high maintenance calories?
  • BarneyRubbleMD
    BarneyRubbleMD Posts: 1,092 Member
    edited September 2017
    Male, 57 years old, 5'3" tall, now 230 lbs (down from 317 lbs on 1/1/2017 with a goal weight of 145-155 lbs),
    2 lbs/week weight loss for sedentary & not exercising (but will start lifting weights in a few weeks).

    MFP "estimates" about 1600 calories/day for me (back when I weighed 300 lbs) but that # of calories was just way too low for me & I kept "binge eating" right off my diet almost every week or two thereby practically wiping out an entire weeks worth of daily deficits!

    I've found I had to increase my daily calories quite a bit (> 35%), to around 2200/day, to be able to stick to my diet (& not binge) and still lose about 2 lbs/week.
  • hydechildcare
    hydechildcare Posts: 142 Member
    Normally I eat 1200 to 1300 calories. (I eat very low carbs because I can't eat just on of those. I am hoping to work it back in small portions to my diet.) This pass week I have been doing 1400-1500 calories but that will go away in a week. I have started running and strength training so we will see if my calories stay in the higher range. I eat till I feel satisfied if I am still hungry in 30 minutes I get more food. So far so good 3 weeks in. This app wants me to eat 1800 calories a day to loose 1/2 per week. (I set everything on the lowest so I could see the max amount of calories I can consume and still loose.)
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    3,200 to 3,500 and losing weight very slowly. Make, 39.

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