NEW TO MY FITNESS PAL, 1500Cl need freinds please!

jacquiarmi
jacquiarmi Posts: 3
edited November 10 in Food and Nutrition
Hi Everyone,

I am new to MFP and am looking to make friends with people in the same boat as me trying hard to loose some weight in a healthy way. I would love to see people who were eating 1500 cals per day so that it can help motivate me and help to give me ideas for dinners and breakfast as I feel like sometimes I struggle.

I am a lady of 5ft 11inc and have given myself 1500 cals per day. I would love to loose about 18lbs currenlty I weight 210lbs which isnt too overweight for my height but I would love to feel healthy and better about myself and I feel getting support from others would help me a great deal.

Thanks so much for reading this and taking the time to help me.

Love

Jacqui
:smile:

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  • tmfpartyof4
    tmfpartyof4 Posts: 124 Member
    welcome! feel free to add me. I am also 5' 11" but I need to lose a bit more.

    Im about to do the 1500 cals approx a week, to see if that helps. So we can do this together.
  • workerbee2011
    workerbee2011 Posts: 47 Member
    Hi Jacqui,
    I'm at 1400 a day, so almost the same - feel free to add me :smile:
  • R_is_for_Rachel
    R_is_for_Rachel Posts: 381 Member
    i'm on 1590 aday- 5ft 7"and weigh 210lbs at present
    i'm friendly and chatty :)
  • linguist98
    linguist98 Posts: 83
    im doing 1200... im glad to trade motivation...anyone on here can feel free to add me as well..!!!!!!
  • smcesko
    smcesko Posts: 126 Member
    You can add me. I am finding the having friends helps!! I am 5'8 and at 221 wanting to be a 160 my calorie intake is 1400. Welcome to MFP!!
  • SaintOnEarth
    SaintOnEarth Posts: 160
    Welcome to MFP :D.. I wish you the best of luck with your goals.. I am always open to making new friends, so feel free to add me! :)
  • saritabandita
    saritabandita Posts: 67 Member
    I'm on the tall side of short. I eat about 1200 cal per day. Different than you, but it's good to have support here. Feel free to add me. :smile:
  • Soapstone
    Soapstone Posts: 134 Member
    Feel free to add me!

    I started out trying 1200 calories a day with exercise, raised it to 1600, then I read an interesting blog post somewhere on the Internet from a woman who set her calorie intake at the weight she wanted to be, and it worked for her. I am 5'7, and want to be 145. My maintenance calories for that weight are 1463, so that's what I recently set my calories to. I am currently 181, so I have a ways to go, but am progressing rapidly!

    One thing I learned very quickly, is that if I exercise strenuously (My goal is 60 minutes of cardio 6 days a week, plus a few days of strength training), that it's very important for me to eat back some or all of the calories I burn. For example: if I burn 700 calories on the elliptical, and I only eat 1463, I've burned off all but 763 and NEED to eat more. You'll see a lot of conflicting information on this site- some people swear by eating back exercise calories, some find it anathema to what they are doing. I listened to the former after the day I almost fainted in the gym! Find what works for you, work hard but go easy on yourself and love yourself through the process :)

    Welcome to MFP!!
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