4:11 and calories

It depends on more than just height. Starting weight, age, and sex also matter. Best to put in your own stats and let MFP calculate it for you.

I'm 4'11" and 120lbs, I try to net 1300.

cnjg420 wrote: »

I’m 40 4’11 and weigh 100 but mfp gives me 1200 calories to lose and maintain and I just want to maintain should I up it 50 calories a day or would that cause me to gain please help

Wait...MFP gives you 1200 to lose and also 1200 to maintain? Like, you ran your stats through with both options and it gave you the same number? Something's not right there.

You shouldn’t have the same calorie goal for maintenance as for weight loss. There’s something wrong with the calculation.

I’m 34, 4’11.75” (every fraction of an inch matters when you’re short!). I lost 100 pounds on 1200 + exercise calories and I now maintain at 115 lb. on about 1425 + exercise calories. I exercise regularly but have a sedentary job.

Your maintenance calories will probably not be very much, but they should be more than 1200.

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middlehaitch wrote: »

@AliceDark, I get the same numbers.
5'1, 100-105lbs maintenance at sedentary is 1200.
If I put in to lose it is still 1200.
In fact when I was losing, starting at 130lbs I got 1200 for 1lbs a week, then .5lbs a week, until I hit 105lbs and that was where I switched to maintenance.
I have been steady between 100-105 for 8yr.
Height, weight, age, and the variability of activity can mean 1200 for a very few.

@cnjg420, try with 1250 for a while. If you are not gaining after about 6 weeks up your cals to 1275. Keep slowly pushing your cals up by 25-50 at a time.

Cheers, h.

I figured that was the case, but I wanted to double-check that I understood the OP correctly.

I am taking it that you were asking me @cnjg420.

When I first went into maintenance I continued logging and eating my 1200 plus approx 200 for each hour of exercise. This worked well.

Over the first 6-9 month I gradually pulled away from logging, but would weigh calorie dense foods still.

By the end of the first year I had switched to TDEE and just ate 1400 cals a day for 5x1hr exercise a week, so a 400 cal a week increase from the MFP numbers I started with.
Test logged for a month to make sure the numbers worked.

During the next few years that worked well and if I put in a bit more of a work out, or had a very active day, I just added a few more calories. Not logging just doing test logs every few months.

This past 2-3 years I have slowly pushed the numbers up and my last test logging had me holding steady at 1600.

I found that lifting really needed extra calories. Though people on higher cals say the burn is negligible, I think when one gets a low cal allowance even that 'negligible' amount is needed.

I haven't done a real test log in 9 month. I am mid way through changing my routine so will probably do one at the beginning of March unless I think I am losing.

I should say that I spent most of my life at 100-105. Putting on, then losing, 30lbs was the anomaly, so my natural eating habits support my weight, and that, I think, is why I could back off logging and weighing myself without any angst.

So,, the short and the long of it- 1600 cals TDEE. This included 3 lifting days and 2 days LISS (walking, rowing, or yoga).

Cheers, h.