How many Calories are you eating?
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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.1 -
Usually about 1800 depending on activity0
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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.2
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TavistockToad wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »
I know. I just raised it to 1400 from 1250 this week though. I mainly track for a low number because I don't trust the numbers provided by the app for some stuff. I'm probably actually eating about 1500-1600.
Still far too low, presumably you're trying to lose muscle by doing this?
don't think so. I lift 3-5 days a week and my weights have been going up and up. I put on about 3-5 pounds of lean mass in the first month of my current diet and workout regimen, but have kept about the same lean mass for the last 2 months.
I probably should be losing weight faster, but by going so low for so long I may have shot myself in the foot a bit early. I'm gradually increasing my intake and trying to more rigorously log my food.5 -
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 pounds4 -
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.12
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TavistockToad wrote: »I'm currently maintaining on net 1900 cals (5ft5, 136lbs female)
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1400 - 1500 a day with some walking thrown in.0
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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.1 -
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.1 -
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 times6 -
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 today0
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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.2 -
2000 here1
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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?2 -
adaptive thermogenesis is a thing but it just means you will burn less calories - your body won't store additional fat (starvation mode does not exist)...
Dr's in general get VERY limited nutrition training (approx. 10-16hrs across their entire med school education)
I would start as high calorie as you can go and lose weight - remember who said it, but the winner is the person who can eat the most and still lose weight (I maintain on 2700ish calories as a 5'3" female)5 -
DeannalFisher, do you do a lot of exercise to get such a high maintenance calories?1
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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.
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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.)2
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3,200 to 3,500 and losing weight very slowly. Make, 39.1
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