Females: How many calories are you eating daily?

Went from 1700 to 1600 to 1500 to 1400 to 1300 with no success. Now I'm usually at 1900 calories five days a week and two days around 1500. I burn around 500 with exercise, five or six days a week. Finally went down 2 lbs and we'll see how it goes at this level. Might end up having to eat more as my work day that is sedentary will now be active.
I don't like to eat less than 1400.

I'm allowed 1680, I have a hard time eating that much most of the time. I don't go under 1350 and I eat my exercise calories if I am hungry.

Hi all! I am 5'5", 31 yo, and weigh 160 lbs. (Down from 172 so far, woo-hoo)! And I'm so confused. So, my daily calorie goal is set at 1310 and I usually eat (intake) about that much, but when I workout I burn between 400-500 and that takes my net down to 800-900. I don't eat back my exercise cals because I feel like it's counter-productive. Am I going about this diet all wrong? My weight has been dropping a steady 2-3 lbs per week. I don't feel that that hungry, tired, or deprived. I do want to do this healthily and so that the weight loss lasts. Any suggestions or advice? Thanks ladies! Good luck to you all too!

I am 53, totally post menopausal with a sedentary job and am eating between 800 and 1000 a day following the lighter life lite programme. Don't tell me that this is too little, I do not lose weight easily on anything more and I have only about half a stone to lose before I am in the healthy weight range having lost 2 and 1/2 stone over the previous couple of years and then hit a massive long plateau.

I don't have a calorie goal. I eat 100 carbs, 60 fats and 125 proteins a day. The calories actually vary a bit. I weigh now 170. When I started at 200 through last month I had a calorie goal of 1600.

~1500 cals. It used to be at around 1300 but I was constantly starving, so I decided to do a 600 cal deficit instead, and it's been working out pretty well!

1800 approx - whether I exercise or not.

I don't eat all my exercise calories because I eat about 100 calories above my so called "maintenance" anyway, so on the days I exercise this creates a very small deficit.

My activity levels are set to "Active" so exercise is accounted for anyway.

I'm experimenting with maintenence now so 2100 net.. and I eat all my exercise calories.
Somedays I eat 3000+ calories with all the exercise I do... not sure about lbs but I've definately been losing inches... It's GREAT. :flowerforyou:

i 'm 5'3'', 39, 169.5lbs and I eat 1400-1500 per day and dont eat back many exercise cals - only in an emergency lol! I have been trying to figure this out since beginning of november and this is what now works for me. 1200 just wasn't enough. I have taken a lot of advice from this forum about eating at least your BMR and mine is 1400 so that works for me!

Hi all! I am 5'5", 31 yo, and weigh 160 lbs. (Down from 172 so far, woo-hoo)! And I'm so confused. So, my daily calorie goal is set at 1310 and I usually eat (intake) about that much, but when I workout I burn between 400-500 and that takes my net down to 800-900. I don't eat back my exercise cals because I feel like it's counter-productive. Am I going about this diet all wrong? My weight has been dropping a steady 2-3 lbs per week. I don't feel that that hungry, tired, or deprived. I do want to do this healthily and so that the weight loss lasts. Any suggestions or advice? Thanks ladies! Good luck to you all too!

If you're losing 2 - 3 lbs per week then it sounds like 1310 is working for you.