How many calories do people my weight maintain on?

dfh13101549 · February 2020

Hello, i was wondering if anyone knew how many calories i should eat to maintain my weight, i dont trust online calculators. I am looking for someone similar bmi/weight/height and what you eat to maintain and if u excercize! I weigh 105 pounds and i am 5’4. I take 10,000 steps a day but thats normally the only excercize i do, which for me only burns 250 or so calories.

AnnPT77 · February 2020

There's quite a discussion of figuring out maintenance calories in this thread:

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10638211/how-to-find-your-maintenance-calorie-level/p1

Like I said on your other thread:

AnnPT77 wrote: »

Sources of accurate maintenance calorie estimates, in order of likeliest probability of being close to correct for you:

1. Your own weight loss results from carefully logging intake and activity over a long-ish (multi-month) period of time.
2. A good quality activity tracker from a well-respected company.
3. An online TDEE or NEAT calculator that relies on research-based formulas, and ideally has more rather than fewer different activity level settings.
4. Other people's experience.

The last one is very, very unreliable. Only #1 IMO has really good odds of being sound, but 2 & 3 are better than 4. The trackers/calculators are based on research, and population averages. The very nature of statistics suggests that it's more likely you're close to average, than close to some other randomly selected person, even one of the same size.

And I say that as someone for whom #2 & #3 produce pretty terrible underestimates of calorie needs, let alone #4. For me #1 has worked just swell for almost 5 years now.

nowine4me · February 2020

Your own data will be more more helpful than a comparison to others.

PAV8888 · February 2020

Please do yourself a favour and THINK trying to suppress all emotions for a minute or two!

Let's pretend that the calculators are downright WRONG to suggest that it would take about 1850 Calories a day for you to MAINTAIN your current weight given your activity level

Downright WRONG. You only need (I think you said) 1500 or else bad things happen.

But you're brave. You are willing to try 1850 even though you know differently!

OH MY KITTENS. You shouldn't have listened. We were all wrong and you were right and you are now gaining weight! In fact, after a sufficient length of time your weight trend application confirms your worst case scenario! You're gaining at the full rate of 350 Cal a day!

{By the way, this is NOT how an overage works. During an overage your NEAT will increase slightly, you will become more active, and things such as nails and hair that may have slowed their growth during weight loss (as well as some less necessary organ repairs that have been continuing but at a slightly slower pace than normal) will all ramp up blunting the effect of the overage. Even your basal average temperature may increase. And, again, in terms of weight gain, we're looking at trends. Not water weight. Based on how you write out your weight as a range I suspect you're not yet using a weight trend app or website.}

But let's pretend. You're gaining at the worse case scenario of 350 Cal a day!

And 30 days from now you will *STILL* be underweight!

Albeit by 2lbs instead of your current 5lbs.

Do you not think that you will notice this? I mean it's not like it will sneak up on you and stop you from being able to adjust!

Now keep that thinking cap on for just one more second please.

If your mind is not allowing you to do this, do you have an actual problem that needs outside assistance to resolve?

MikePTY · February 2020

Someone at your BMI should be looking to gain weight, not maintain. A BMI of 18 is underweight.

How many calories do people my weight maintain on?

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