How many calories do you eat a day?
pinksunnyrose
Posts: 453 Member
Just what the title says. Curious about your responses.
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I'm currently at 2170cal a day, losing 1lb/week pretty steadily.3
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About 2,200. Currently maintaining.2
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Around 1950, but I just switched to maintenance and as such, I'm slowly raising my daily calories, trying to find the right number.0
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OP, are you trying to figure out how many calories you should eat per day? The answer will vary from person to person depending on your goals and body composition.
Currently I'm eating ~2,400 calories/day. My body burns 2,900 calories each day (TDEE). I'm losing about 1lb per week.8 -
2100-2600 depending on my hunger level and exercise. Maintaining.3
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I'm looking to stay in the 1800-2200 range. Right now I'm working on not starving, not binging, and just generally learning to be normalsauce around food. I give myself a fairly wide range so I can pay attention to and follow my hunger cues, enjoy the natural ebb and flow of food (occasional high-cal social events and occasional sick days with just broth, etc.), and not stress too much about perfection. I am tall, muscular, and obese, so even when sedentary my maintenance calories are fairly high for a woman.10
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Maintaining on around 2200/day. 5'6'', 118 lbs and pretty active.1
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2800-3000 for maintenance.1
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I maintain on about 2,100 calories a day, with a net average of 1,700-1,800.1
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1900 to 2100 losing about 2 lbs per week.3
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1600, losing about a lb a week. Trying to get some blood work under control.1
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All I want. Some days I want to stay within my budget, some days I don't. My budget for sedentary with no exercise logged is 1730. That's easy enough. Consistency isn't.1
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I am at 1200 right now. Trying to lose.13
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A pet peeve of mine when comparing calorie intakes...
No one knows for sure how many calories they are eating. Some people's estimates are more precise than other, but everyone is just estimating. So my 1800 cals per day may be very very different from someone else's 1800.
But to answer your question... For me, anything between 1600 and 2000 net is acceptable (trying to lose/cut currently).14 -
A pet peeve of mine when comparing calorie intakes...
No one knows for sure how many calories they are eating. Some people's estimates are more precise than other, but everyone is just estimating. So my 1800 cals per day may be very very different from someone else's 1800.
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I'm all over the map with my daily calories. I think my lowest was 1085 and my highest has been close to 4000. (just checked - it was 4411 - whew!)
I've lost 21 pounds since Jan. 18. March was bad eating wise and I lost 0 pounds but maintained what I'd lost up to that point so that was good.
If I try to be too aggressive with my weight loss, I always end up overeating and set myself back a few days. That's very tiring. I'm still trying to find my happy place with the calorie limit. It might be more of a range for me from day to day. Say 1500 - 1900.4 -
I range from 1450-1850 if I'm doing good. Female, 5'6", losing about 1 lb/week if I stick with it.0
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Depends on what's for supper.8
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Currently cutting so anywhere from
3000-6000 depending on work2 -
It depends on my activity level. on active days i'm at 1450-1550. On basically comatose days i'll do 1250-1300. i'm losing about 1.7-1.8lbs a week which is on track for me.6
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