How many calories do you eat a day?
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1200 a day as I'm 5.1. Have consistently been losing. Hope when I get to maintenance I get more calories. Have lost 23 pounds so far sine Jan and just 9 pounds to go for maintenance.0
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thatdesertgirl777 wrote: »
How do you know that? I cut at about 1200, being pretty active as well. Some of us who are smaller in height and weight actually maintain at around 1500, so being in the 1200 range is necessary for some people to lose weight.
Because losing 2 lbs per week is aggressive unless you're very short, sedentary with a lot of weight to lose...you do not fit that profile at all. You may be short as you say, but losing 2 lbs per week is no good for your health, you're basically eating muscles away.4 -
I am 4'11, weigh around 95 pounds, burn around 500 calories a day in exercise and eat 2000ish calories for maintenance.2
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thatdesertgirl777 wrote: »
How do you know that? I cut at about 1200, being pretty active as well. Some of us who are smaller in height and weight actually maintain at around 1500, so being in the 1200 range is necessary for some people to lose weight.
Because losing 2 lbs per week is aggressive unless you're very short, sedentary with a lot of weight to lose...you do not fit that profile at all. You may be short as you say, but losing 2 lbs per week is no good for your health, you're basically eating muscles away.
I'm not sure if your comment is directed at me, or the first poster VanaMaria. but yes I agree though, 2 lb a week is too aggressive for her based on her last profile picture, but that could have been an old photo for all we know and maybe her stats actually do put her at obese.
If you are referring to me, I never said I cut at 1200 to lose 2lbs a week. I'm not an idiot. At my stats, and from personal experience, on an average day, I maintain at about 1500-1500 calories, so it takes a 1200 calories diet to lose 1/2 pound a week, with slight room for error. That's of course if I'm not lifting or walking a ton.0 -
1500-1600 to lose weight0
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2200~ net calories for weight loss
2700~ net calories for TDEE
5'9" athletic build
desk job and I log 6 workouts moderate to high intensity a week1 -
Sorry, I got the wrong person, my message was directed to that person who eats 1200 calories, doing all kinds of activities and I thought it was you for some reason.thatdesertgirl777 wrote: »thatdesertgirl777 wrote: »
How do you know that? I cut at about 1200, being pretty active as well. Some of us who are smaller in height and weight actually maintain at around 1500, so being in the 1200 range is necessary for some people to lose weight.
Because losing 2 lbs per week is aggressive unless you're very short, sedentary with a lot of weight to lose...you do not fit that profile at all. You may be short as you say, but losing 2 lbs per week is no good for your health, you're basically eating muscles away.
I'm not sure if your comment is directed at me, or the first poster VanaMaria. but yes I agree though, 2 lb a week is too aggressive for her based on her last profile picture, but that could have been an old photo for all we know and maybe her stats actually do put her at obese.
If you are referring to me, I never said I cut at 1200 to lose 2lbs a week. I'm not an idiot. At my stats, and from personal experience, on an average day, I maintain at about 1500-1500 calories, so it takes a 1200 calories diet to lose 1/2 pound a week, with slight room for error. That's of course if I'm not lifting or walking a ton.
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went waay overboard with two pot pies (800 calories!) and spinach salad with light french dressing (dressing even it is light has tons of calories). also drank many beers since I am depressed. total = 15881
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I try and eat about 3200 everyday1
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My TDEE is 1600-3000+. My daily calories are different. They range from 700-3,000. I don't see a point in forcing myself to eat the same number of calories daily. That's going against my body's natural appetite fluctuation. I use weekly calories.2
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Mid-twenties, 5’5” - quite a bit to lose. I’m eating 2,000 whilst breastfeeding my 10 week old and losing 2lbs/week.0
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I’ve just finally decided to take care of myself again. Been ten years and up to a whopping 418#. Started out getting in the food logging habit about 10 days ago without changing anything and wa pretty shocked at how horrible I treat myself. Thousands of calories a day sometimes.
Now I’m in the 2100 range to lose slow and steady. I’m 50, need new knees. Other than that all of my labs just came back completely normal two days ago. Glucose and everything else are great. Triglycerides kind of high. But thank God no diabetes or anything.
Of course as I lose the intake will have to gradually decrease but yeah, 2100 or so a day.2 -
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Approx 1400.1
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1000 to 12005
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All of them0
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iamjanice7 wrote: »1000 to 1200
Why?4 -
25 years old | 5'11" | 189.6 pounds
1700-2000 cals per day (depending on if I'm working out or not)
In an aggressive cut right now0 -
Average around 3000 cal at the moment but varies from about 2200 - 4500.
(Medium sized old fart maintaining weight and doing a high volume of exercise and often high activity levels too.)0 -
22000
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1400-15000
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20000
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1200 calories...or try to anyways!
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around 13500
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Sticking to around 1800-2000 at the moment. Don't know how people manage on 1500 or less, I'd be a feeble mess in no time!1
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Around 1600kcal0
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Sticking to around 1800-2000 at the moment. Don't know how people manage on 1500 or less, I'd be a feeble mess in no time!
It's rare that I only eat 1500 calories...which is good because I'm STARVING the next day when I do.
I average about 2100-2200 on the weekends and maybe 2400 on week days but I exercise a lot to support those numbers.0
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