is my calorie intake good?

JohnDaConqueror
JohnDaConqueror Posts: 52 Member
edited March 2019 in Health and Weight Loss
Currently, I weigh 359.8lbs, as of today. I weighed 370lbs on Sunday, March 3, 2019. This past week I have been having about 1300-1600 cals daily, is this too low for a male, I am also 19 yrs old? Because I don't wanna mess my metabolism up since I heard you can if your calories are to low. I believe I'm doing ok with the calories a day since the scale has been going down?

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  • JohnDaConqueror
    JohnDaConqueror Posts: 52 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    1500 is really the lowest a sedentary male should go...with your stats you can lose weight with a lot more calories. Starting off at the lowest leaves you nowhere to go when eventual plateaus and whatnot happen.

    You also may want to consider that it is going to be a long road, so you need to be eating in a way that will be sustainable for a long time.

    Thanks for the reply! Would you think 1800 cals would be good or 2000 cals?
  • lin_be
    lin_be Posts: 393 Member
    I think it’s far to aggressive. Is that what MFP set for you when you entered in your stars?

    I wouldn’t worry too much about your metabolism, I would worry though about finding a diet that’s sustainable over a long period of time. Dropping your calories too low is just a recipe for falling off the wagon and going back to bad habits.
  • JohnDaConqueror
    JohnDaConqueror Posts: 52 Member
    lin_be wrote: »
    I think it’s far to aggressive. Is that what MFP set for you when you entered in your stars?

    I wouldn’t worry too much about your metabolism, I would worry though about finding a diet that’s sustainable over a long period of time. Dropping your calories too low is just a recipe for falling off the wagon and going back to bad habits.

    Hi! Thanks for the reply! MFP has me at 2,340 cals a day. I've been trying not to get close to it because I feel as if its way to much calories for me and I won't lose weight. Now I know MFP is the total opposite and puts the user at a cal daily intake for weight loss but I'm just nervous to eat that many calories and not lose weight, or worse gain weight.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    JonathanB0360 wrote: »
    lin_be wrote: »
    I think it’s far to aggressive. Is that what MFP set for you when you entered in your stars?

    I wouldn’t worry too much about your metabolism, I would worry though about finding a diet that’s sustainable over a long period of time. Dropping your calories too low is just a recipe for falling off the wagon and going back to bad habits.

    Hi! Thanks for the reply! MFP has me at 2,340 cals a day. I've been trying not to get close to it because I feel as if its way to much calories for me and I won't lose weight. Now I know MFP is the total opposite and puts the user at a cal daily intake for weight loss but I'm just nervous to eat that many calories and not lose weight, or worse gain weight.

    Definitely not too much. I'm 44 and 5'10" and 183 Lbs at the moment. I lose about 1 Lb per week as a trending average eating 2300-2500 calories per day. The average male maintains on around 2500 calories without much or any deliberate exercise and you have more mass than the average male, so your calorie requirements are going to be much higher.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,242 Member
    edited March 2019
    Your average male, especially younger and somewhat active, probably eats in the 2500 range to maintain.

    As you lose weight you will become more active one would assume.

    Therefore a future where you eat around 2500 Calories to maintain does not seem far-fetched.

    It is never too early to start experimenting with developing your future way of eating, especially when you're looking at an eventual substantial modification of your previous patterns.

    Eat the maximum amount of calories you can while still meeting your goals.

    obviously you're one of these situations where the two pounds a week is doable. And as you get more active you may even hit higher levels of loss. But I really don't see why in the foreseeable future you should be much below 2500.

    Tbh, starting at 48 and ~280lbs 172.25cm I lost most of my weight on mfp while eating just over 2.5K on average. And maintain while eating slightly more than that, on average. I had become "active" when I joined MFP and had already worked up to 10k steps a day in deliberate walking over a period of almost a year.

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