How many calories does everyone eat?
kathyloveslife
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Hey I wanted to know how many calories everyone eats? I'm around 185lbs and looking to lose. Is anyone near the same weight and have advice to lose?
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I was at 174.5lbs 5'4" and eat 1200 calories per day with a sedentary lifestyle. I lost 15 pounds in the last 5 months now at 159lbs. I just suggest weighing all your food, logging everything (yes even that one small biscuit you had while making dinner) and getting some friends (online or in-person) to lose weight with you. Keep motivation is the hardest part of weight loss.3
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Thank you!! Thats helpful. Did you ever hit a plateau?I was at 174.5lbs 5'4" and eat 1200 calories per day with a sedentary lifestyle. I lost 15 pounds in the last 5 months now at 159lbs. I just suggest weighing all your food, logging everything (yes even that one small biscuit you had while making dinner) and getting some friends (online or in-person) to lose weight with you. Keep motivation is the hardest part of weight loss.
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Welcome to the community!
If you haven't already, read the stickies at the top of the getting started forum. Very informative and helpful.
Everybody is on their own journey here. Did you get your calorie allotment when you joined? That number is based on your age, height, starting weight, goal weight and the weight loss per week you chose.
Buy a food scale. Weigh everything you eat and log into the food diary.
Good luck with your journey!5 -
I'm a bit lighter than you and a lot older but my calorie goal today to maintain weight is 4,524 calories.
Which underlines @LyndaBSS post - don't worry about what other people have as their goal, my advice would be work out a sensible goal for yourself using this tool, log consistently, fully and as accurately as reasonably possible and then make adjustments after a month if you don't get the results you expect.6 -
kathyloveslife wrote: »Thank you!! Thats helpful. Did you ever hit a plateau?I was at 174.5lbs 5'4" and eat 1200 calories per day with a sedentary lifestyle. I lost 15 pounds in the last 5 months now at 159lbs. I just suggest weighing all your food, logging everything (yes even that one small biscuit you had while making dinner) and getting some friends (online or in-person) to lose weight with you. Keep motivation is the hardest part of weight loss.
I did around the beginning when I wasn't too serious about my weight loss, once I got motivation it pushed me to actually focus on it which helped me get back to losing. But everyone is different so what works for me may not work for you and vice versa.1 -
Honestly, I don't know lol I don't keep track1
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kathyloveslife wrote: »Thank you!! Thats helpful. Did you ever hit a plateau?I was at 174.5lbs 5'4" and eat 1200 calories per day with a sedentary lifestyle. I lost 15 pounds in the last 5 months now at 159lbs. I just suggest weighing all your food, logging everything (yes even that one small biscuit you had while making dinner) and getting some friends (online or in-person) to lose weight with you. Keep motivation is the hardest part of weight loss.
Fluctuations and plateaus are a normal part of the process, so don't worry about it. Give a plateau time to break, at least 3 weeks, before you make changes.1 -
cuteangelkitten wrote: »Honestly, I don't know lol I don't keep track
You don't know how many calories you eat?2 -
I can highly recommend the libra app(free). It shows normal fluctuations and trends. As well as the advice you have already been given above.1
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The amount of calories one can eat is heavily dependent on overall stats and activity level.
What are your goals?
What rate of loss did you choose?
What is your regular activity level like?
Do you exercise?
What calorie target does MFP give you?
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I'm a bit lighter than you and a lot older but my calorie goal today to maintain weight is 4,524 calories.
Which underlines @LyndaBSS post - don't worry about what other people have as their goal, my advice would be work out a sensible goal for yourself using this tool, log consistently, fully and as accurately as reasonably possible and then make adjustments after a month if you don't get the results you expect.
4,524? WOW, I assume 1524?1 -
cuteangelkitten wrote: »Honestly, I don't know lol I don't keep track
You don't know how many calories you eat?
Yep you got it! I don't keep track of it or measure anything3 -
@wmweezaI'm a bit lighter than you and a lot older but my calorie goal today to maintain weight is 4,524 calories.
Which underlines @LyndaBSS post - don't worry about what other people have as their goal, my advice would be work out a sensible goal for yourself using this tool, log consistently, fully and as accurately as reasonably possible and then make adjustments after a month if you don't get the results you expect.
4,524? WOW, I assume 1524?
No! How many blokes do you think maintain on 1524?
2,460 is my non-exercise day maintenance goal but today I did a long bike ride (102km/63miles) which had a net calorie burn of 2,064. Total needed for today 4,524.10 -
cuteangelkitten wrote: »cuteangelkitten wrote: »Honestly, I don't know lol I don't keep track
You don't know how many calories you eat?
Yep you got it! I don't keep track of it or measure anything
Just here for the banter then?8 -
Just here for the banter then? [/quote]
Yep! I am all about being healthy and love to interact on the forums and have friends here Very active on here lol 4 -
I'm 5'8" 45 years old. Started at around 230 lbs eating 1410 calories (give or take 100).
Current weight around 185, upped calories to 1689 (give or take 100), still losing.
Goal weight is around 165.2 -
I’m 5’0”, 127 lbs, 37 years, and I eat around 1500 most days.
On some days I eat more especially if I’m very active. Some days I eat less. I have been maintaining for a couple months. I’m going into slow loss mode again soon.2 -
Emmapatterson1729 wrote: »I'm 5'8" 45 years old. Started at around 230 lbs eating 1410 calories (give or take 100).
Current weight around 185, upped calories to 1689 (give or take 100), still losing.
Goal weight is around 165.
Thanks! Did if benefit you to up the calories? Do you think I could get away with losing at 1300? Or should it be higher1 -
kathyloveslife wrote: »Emmapatterson1729 wrote: »I'm 5'8" 45 years old. Started at around 230 lbs eating 1410 calories (give or take 100).
Current weight around 185, upped calories to 1689 (give or take 100), still losing.
Goal weight is around 165.
Thanks! Did if benefit you to up the calories? Do you think I could get away with losing at 1300? Or should it be higher
You have not provided enough information for anyone to make this determination. See my questions above.8 -
I am 5'4, 159lbs, goal weight 130lbs. Currently breastfeeding and losing at a rate of between 0.5-1lbs a week eating between 2000-2500kcals on Mon-exercise days and about 2800kcals on exercise days (I don't burn a lot. Haha). I'm cleaning and running after a toddler all day on my non-exercise days.
When I wasn't breastfeeding and working a sedentary job (only running after the toddler in the evenings and weekends) I maintained the same rate of loss at about 1550kcals on non-exercise days.
So completely up to your stats, activity levels and circumstances. No one size fits all! 😊3 -
I don’t count calories. It’s possible to lose without counting. Are you just starting? How’s it going for you?
It drove me up the wall.1 -
cuteangelkitten wrote: »cuteangelkitten wrote: »Honestly, I don't know lol I don't keep track
You don't know how many calories you eat?
Yep you got it! I don't keep track of it or measure anything
@cuteangelkitten what are you doing to lose weight?0 -
I'm lightly active looking to lose 2lbs per week.
I walk 30 mins each day and MFP gave me 1,220WinoGelato wrote: »kathyloveslife wrote: »Emmapatterson1729 wrote: »I'm 5'8" 45 years old. Started at around 230 lbs eating 1410 calories (give or take 100).
Current weight around 185, upped calories to 1689 (give or take 100), still losing.
Goal weight is around 165.
Thanks! Did if benefit you to up the calories? Do you think I could get away with losing at 1300? Or should it be higher
You have not provided enough information for anyone to make this determination. See my questions above.
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kathyloveslife wrote: »I'm lightly active looking to lose 2lbs per week.
I walk 30 mins each day and MFP gave me 1,220WinoGelato wrote: »kathyloveslife wrote: »Emmapatterson1729 wrote: »I'm 5'8" 45 years old. Started at around 230 lbs eating 1410 calories (give or take 100).
Current weight around 185, upped calories to 1689 (give or take 100), still losing.
Goal weight is around 165.
Thanks! Did if benefit you to up the calories? Do you think I could get away with losing at 1300? Or should it be higher
You have not provided enough information for anyone to make this determination. See my questions above.
How tall are you? It's hard to say exactly where 185 falls in terms of weight for you without knowing your height, but 2 pounds a week could be too aggressive. You are better off with 1.5 pounds a week (possibly even 1 pound depending on height) which would give you an extra 250 calories (500 if you did 1 pound). It's better to do this a bit slower and sustainably at a calorie level you will feel more comfortable eating.6 -
kathyloveslife wrote: »Emmapatterson1729 wrote: »I'm 5'8" 45 years old. Started at around 230 lbs eating 1410 calories (give or take 100).
Current weight around 185, upped calories to 1689 (give or take 100), still losing.
Goal weight is around 165.
Thanks! Did if benefit you to up the calories? Do you think I could get away with losing at 1300? Or should it be higher
I would never go that low, unless I was pretty much immobile. Just my personal preference. I think of weightloss in terms of long term. I know if I cut too low, I wouldn't be able to keep it up long term.
I was dropping too fast at 1410, so I upped. Now I'm losing at a more normal rate. .5-1lb a week.
Good luck, starting too low also doesn't leave wiggle room. If I hit a longer plateau and want to drop 50-100 calories for a couple of weeks, I couldn't do that if I started at 1300... I personally would feel like I was starving at 1200-1250. I try to start at as high of calories as I can get away with and still lose. But I'm also a foodie, I love my foods.5 -
5'5 and generally eat around 1200 most days 0
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kathyloveslife wrote: »I'm lightly active looking to lose 2lbs per week.
I walk 30 mins each day and MFP gave me 1,220WinoGelato wrote: »kathyloveslife wrote: »Emmapatterson1729 wrote: »I'm 5'8" 45 years old. Started at around 230 lbs eating 1410 calories (give or take 100).
Current weight around 185, upped calories to 1689 (give or take 100), still losing.
Goal weight is around 165.
Thanks! Did if benefit you to up the calories? Do you think I could get away with losing at 1300? Or should it be higher
You have not provided enough information for anyone to make this determination. See my questions above.
2 lbs per week is generally only recommended for those with 75 or more pounds to lose.
You may be better off changing your goal to 1 or 1.5 lb/week which will give you extra calories to work with and also give you room to reduce if needed.6 -
kathyloveslife wrote: »Emmapatterson1729 wrote: »I'm 5'8" 45 years old. Started at around 230 lbs eating 1410 calories (give or take 100).
Current weight around 185, upped calories to 1689 (give or take 100), still losing.
Goal weight is around 165.
Thanks! Did if benefit you to up the calories? Do you think I could get away with losing at 1300? Or should it be higher
This is the problem with asking what everyone else is doing.
No two people lose weight the same way.
I would gain extra calories by lowering your rate of loss as mentioned above.5 -
I am 5’4”, 29, female, lightly active, and current weight is 130 lbs. I maintain on an average of 2200 calories a day.7
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@cuteangelkitten what are you doing to lose weight? [/quote]
I am not working to lose weight, I am working on self acceptance and a healthy relationship with food and myself I focus on a whole food diet focusing on grains, veg, fruit, nuts, legumes, with eggs, and dairy. I allow myself cookies and cake when I want it, working on not feeling bad about it and enjoying life
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