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How many Calories should I be taking in?
KristyIB
Posts: 4 Member
How did everyone figure out how many calories they should be taking in? I run 4 days a week and lift 2 times a week. I just got back to counting calories and would like to lose 15-20 lbs.
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Go to goals on your app for my fitness pal. Set your weight, height and activity level (based on what you do most of the day) that will give you a general ballpark. And depending on how much you run you may need to log calories burned and eat back some.0
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Ok thanks. I already did that. Wasn't sure if runners were setting their calories higher because of all the running.0
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If you log your running every day, you will see the number of calories burned added to your daily total. In my case my net goal is 1600 calories. Most days I run 6 or so miles and walk 2-3, so my total calorie intake is about 2300 calories. On long run days it's a lot higher.0
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TavistockToad wrote: »
100 calories a mile about. I mostly run trails so I might be burning a little more.1
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