Ladies - how many calories do you eat a day?

I'm 31yo, 5'3" and 168lbs and eat 1560 on rest days and at least half my exercise calories on workout days. I lose about 1lb per week (averaged out as I maintain for a couple weeks then the scale moves down about 2lbs).

I am almost 47, 5'3" tall, weight = 113 (approximately) and I eat an average of around 1400 calories regularly with low activity level due to a terrible back. I have used a FitBit in conjunction with MFP for many years in order to maintain my weight appropriately and it helps me to determine how many or how few calories I can eat in order to maintain my weight. I HATE clothes shopping.

My biggest thing to keep me full is PROTEIN! I have a protein-something for breakfast (yogurt or egg whites, typically), and try very hard to have some kind of meat at both lunch and dinner as well. It really helps keep me full.

If hunger is your issue, try intermittent fasting to lose the last few. It's more a schedule to eat, and I'm never hungry.

susann4041 wrote: »

The last few pounds are the hardest and lifting heavy weights retains water in your body to heal the muscles.It sounds like your not eating enough maybe if you up your calories to 1700 to 2000 slowly as you are already at a pretty healthy weight ..If it's fat your wanting to loose bring the fat down to 45g a day in your diet but up the protein times your weight DO NOT STARVE yourself.Listen to your body. Cut back on heavy cardio.

losing .5lbs a week is definitely not starving, and adding even more calories would put her at maintenance. I'm confused by your suggestion.

HeidiMightyRawr wrote: »

I'm 5'8 and just under 180lbs. I aim for 2040 to lose 1lb a week, that's based on what I maintain on roughly with exercise already factored in (lifting 4-5 times a week) It's normal for weight loss to slow down as you get closer to your goal but 2lbs a month is still a good healthy amount.

If you want to start upping your calories but don't want to gain weight then I'd suggest gradually increasing them over time. Based on your weight loss you could probably go up around 200/250 a day to start, try that out for a few weeks and adjust as necessary. Also, if you haven't factored your exercise into your daily activity level already, then you should be eating back exercise calories as the deficit is already created without any exercise, just as the activity level you set MFP up with, and eating too little consistently over time can have a detrimental effect on weight loss.

What calories were you set to to lose I've 38lbs to goal weight you are the same height/weight as me?

My calorie range right now is 1,931 - 2,269. The low end of that is a more strict deficit than I am requiring of myself, and the upper end is what should be (approximately) my maintenance at my goal weight.

I'm going through a recomp with a veeeryy slow weight loss.

5'7", 39, F

I workout 5 days a week at the gym, 2 hours with calorie burns in the 400-900 calories a day (depends on the day and what I'm doing that day) - mind you, I'm training for my sport, so it's more intense than what I would likely be doing if my goal was just staying fit.

According to my trend, I'm slowly losing about 1/2 lb/week. Measurements have steadily been heading in the right direction.

At this point, I'm not set on these numbers as I also like to listen to my body. If I'm ravishing, then I'm going to eat something. If I'm not that hungry, I'm not going to force myself to eat into my range. Since my workouts have steadily increased since November, it's also hard to say what I'll need to keep it up. I'm in a workout plan that I will probably maintain for several months if not longer, upping weights and or reps/speed as I can, but not "new" exercises, so hopefully I'll adjust a bit. Hard to say what true weight loss is right now since I kept increasing intensity pretty dramatically as I was able until I got onto this plan.

I try to stick to 1800 calories for weight loss & if I'm feeling hungrier on a particular day I'll eat at maintenance according to my Fitbit calories.

I am 74. 5'7 and currently weigh 144.4. I treat my MFP allotment (1200 calories) ss net calories, not gross. Therefore, I eat back a good portion of my exercise calories. I work out daily, various activities, for 60 to 160 minutes (averaging abot 90 min). I find that exercise actually helps with hunger, as long as I maintain a pretty regular eating schedule.

This has worked well for me. I have lost 38 pounds in 4 months with few problems with hunger. My daily intake is approximately 110 g protein, 130 g carbs, and 65 g fat.

anywhere from 2000-2500 or so