2600 calorie

evang6k2556
evang6k2556 Posts: 5 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Anyone here eating 2600 calories.This is what MyFitnessPal gave me when I entered my information. I’m a male,32 years old & 134kgs.

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  • serpentegena
    serpentegena Posts: 43 Member
    If you're trying to eat at maintenance, and you are about 180cm tall, that figure sounds about right (based on my favorite online TDEE calculator). If you want to lose weight, then you might need to go a bit lower than that. Have you set a weight goal in the app?
  • tomcustombuilder
    tomcustombuilder Posts: 2,226 Member
    evang6k2556 wrote: »
    Anyone here eating 2600 calories.This is what MyFitnessPal gave me when I entered my information. I’m a male,32 years old & 134kgs.
    there are a lot of factors that prevent anyone from answering this accurately. A lot depends on activity both exercise related and how active of a lifestyle you have away from your exercise program, if any.

    It will also depend on the accuracy of your calorie tracking and counting. Many times say, 2,600 in reality are actually higher in reality.

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,416 Member
    My suggestion would be:

    Try it.

    The only way any of us figure this out is by running the experiment ourselves. Like tomcustombuilder says above, there are many factors which go into answering the problem you've posed and the answers ALL lie with you.

    Be honest in your setup in "Goals." Choose, "Lose 1 pound per week," like it suggests. Don't pick "sedentary" unless you truly never leave the couch. "Lightly Active" would be a great starting point for anyone (unless you have a very physical job, then choose a higher "activity" level.)

    Log exercise and eat a little more on those days, like a couple hundred extra calories per hour of exercise.

    In a month, evaluate your results based on your Goals. By then you'll have enough trending data to make adjustments if needed. 2600 sounds like a reasonable starting place.
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,222 Member
    I'm a male 6'1" and weight 84kilo's and generally eat around 2600 calories for maintenance. I'm fairly active with sports and weight training but I'm also 70. I don't think there's any doubt that someone that's almost 300lbs will lose weight on 2600 calories and probably why MFP have you at those calories. Is there a specific reason you asked?
  • claireychn074
    claireychn074 Posts: 1,608 Member
    I’m 5’3 and 55kg -give or take - and maintain on 2,200 on average but in times of high exercise load I eat c2,500. So 2,600 doesn’t sound unreasonable (I recognise I am probably an outlier) but as others have said, you will need to accurately monitor your intake and your weight to work out your own maintenance. Then you can subtract 250-500 cals per day and keep monitoring.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,254 Member
    edited June 2023
    On MFP (not my original starting point), I started at 109kg and 172.25cm at age 49. A year later I was at 76kg averaging a deficit of 695 Cal a day which I found to be at the limits of fast for me even though it averages out to just 21.35% of my average TDEE. My caloric intake averaged to 2560 Cal. By choice I was (and have remained) more than MFPs definitional level of very active. During that loss I averaged 17970 steps a day per wrist worn fitbit.

    The word averaged is stressed on purpose--averages can both hide and reveal a lot and other types of averages apply to most but not all :smiley:

    Depending on how tall, active, accurate, able to account for exercise, and how close to population averages you track 2600 could be low or high. If you're losing too fast after a week or two you should eat more. the reverse is also true. Knowing what I know now, I would be setting out for a 0.5% of body weight per week loss rate. 1% is a good maximum to aim for. Short term even higher loss rates can be tolerated. The key words are short term and tolerated neither of which sounds optimally great to me! Sustainability of effort and long term compliance are your long term win conditions! :wink:
  • evang6k2556
    evang6k2556 Posts: 5 Member
    Not much wiggle room to make errors eating 2600 calories,I never ate this little,my average is 2800-2900 cal.
  • sollyn23l2
    sollyn23l2 Posts: 1,755 Member
    evang6k2556 wrote: »
    Not much wiggle room to make errors eating 2600 calories,I never ate this little,my average is 2800-2900 cal.

    My maintenence is 1700 calories. It's about being creative for sure. 2600 would be a huge amount of food for me though!
  • evang6k2556
    evang6k2556 Posts: 5 Member
    @sollyn2312, I guess it depends on the person, everyone is different with what they need & works for them.
  • sollyn23l2
    sollyn23l2 Posts: 1,755 Member
    evang6k2556 wrote: »
    @sollyn2312, I guess it depends on the person, everyone is different with what they need & works for them.

    Definitely. Depends a lot on size and activity level. I'm only 5 ft., so I'm a half pint half drunk up.

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