Calorie help, how many should I eat?

It's definitely a good idea to try to shoot for more calories... And you can eat healthy food and up those calories by adding a couple of things into your diet. I love to eat sliced apple with some peanut butter... you can get around 300 calories just from that alone!!! It really does help out by keeping your body from feeling like you're starving it.

I would at least eat your excercise calories for awhile then listen to your body. You need to eat to feed your body. Only you know what works. But you have to feed your body when you excercise or you will going into starvaion mode. You don't want that. :noway: Drink your water also that does help :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

Its all about tweaking your calories to what you need to hit your goal.

So try doing what MFP says for a couple of weeks and eat your calories. If you lose weight then great keep it up- If you gain weight stop eating your calories. There isn't no real science to calories because everyone is different- Like if you are eating 1200-1300 calories a day (for a couple of weeks) and you haven't loss any weight then try increasing your calories or just eating your exercise calories.

What works for some may not work for others. Good luck and remember the weight didn't come on over night or just over days it took months and possibly years so don't get discouraged it takes time.


Keep up with your workouts.

hi cindy,

I think you should at least be eat 1200 cals a day PLUS your exercise cals. That's the minimum you need to consume to keep your body functioning properly. So if you burn away 400 cals through exercise today, you should eat a total of 1600 cals. I have been doing this for 11 months now and have had great success and I am one of many. MFP really works if you let it :drinker: Welcome and good luck!

I know your just trying to help but eating ALL your exercise calories doesn't work for all I actually didn't lose anyway eating my workout calories. Thats why I said she needs to tweak it to her needs because everyone is different. There are plenty of people on MFP that don't eat ALL they exercise calories, and some that don't eat any and they are losing and even some that do eat them and are losing- There is no one size fits all in weight loss. It varies by person.

MFP is a great helpful guide but you have to find whats best for you.

The heavier you are- you are able to make more drastic changes to your calories but nobody should try and go from eating ALOT of calories then dropping them overnight to 1200-1300 calories.

Changing your calories should be gradual- not instantly.

Like I said before she should try what MFP suggests for a couple of weeks and if that doesn't work maybe she should just try and tweak it to what she needs whether thats increasing or decreasing her calories. Its all about trial and error

Welcome to the program, Just remember that it is going to time to lose the weight. Remember that this is a lifestyle change. Only you will know your body. So get some advise from all of us and try it. You will slowly learn. Remember you have to challenge your body so working out along with healthier meals. If your not losing the weight or come to a stop that when you will need to change your routine. Walking faster, or longer, and another day, then try the jogging,
Keep it up

I agree