Any 5'6 ladies eating 1500cal per day?

I'm 5'6 and am at @ 1600/day doing Insanity (and about to bump it up to 1800-2000 kcal/day for month 2 of the program). I'm almost at maintaining, but when I first started MFP, I was trying to lose @ 8 lbs and went NOWHERE eating only 1200kcal/day. I had to bump it up to lose. I know everyone's different, but that's what worked for me! :flowerforyou:

I normally never eat less than 1500! My plan is scheduled at .5 lb/week loss and that puts me at 1460 cals. I normally exercise 60-65 min a day and burn 300-500 calories.

I eat between 1500-1900 calories a day. I'm really trying to focus on toning and gaining muscle so my diet is full of protein (im a healthy weight right now, so i dont watch how much i lose, i judge the way my clothes fit) im 5"6 too.

Thanks for this post. I'm 5'6" eating 1200 and not dropping anything. I do an hour of cardio each morning with P90X at lunch and throw in an hour of yoga and a bike ride or two a week. I haven't lost anything, but I haven't gained either.

I'm a bit shorter but my goal is 1500cal per day. I find it ok to stick with if I don't exercise but I'm also doing C25K and various home DVDs to add 300-400 cals a day 5/6 days a week. I do go under my calories on heavy exercise days but always always make sure I net 1200

I'm 5'5 and eat 1300 - 1500 cal a day. I like to do P90x when I'm feeling energetic and take long walks when I'm not feeling so energetic with 2 days off a week. I am hoping to lose 1lb a week.

I'm 5ft 5 (and a half), I was on 1200 and was hungry, grouchy and losing slow. Now on 1500 and doing C25K, Zumba, wii fit and walking at least 30mins every day and am losing around 2.5lbs a week although I would be happy with 0.5lbs loss a week I have around 60lbs +/- to lose and am much happier on the 1500 than the 1200 I was on

I'm 5'2" and I eat 1520 calories normally. It is so important to eat enough!!! You must fuel the body so that it can properly metabolize and break down the fat! When you exercise more you've got to eat more!! Properly fuel the body!!!

I'm 5'7 and eating that a day. Only just amended it to 1500 today as I have been looking on that Fat2Fit Radio website and calculated my BMR and TDEE. IT said I should be eating like 1700 cals once I hit my target weight and was to maintain that but since I have got 6 lbs more to lose in 5 weeks then I am trying to eat less than that

I am pretty lazy when it comes to exercise. I suffer bad knees so it really hurts at times, but I feel life is so hectic what with working full time and looking after my 21 month old son, afterwards I just wanna spend quality time with hubby rather than spend time exercising....

My problem is grazing all day at work through boredom....I have lost 11lb so far, seems its been creeping back on since Easter!!
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I was eating 1400 a day and lost weight pretty quickly, I was doing DDR and just crunches, squats, lunges, ect. But now I upped it to 1880 because I'm doing Insanity now, I've lost .3 of a pound starting from Monday, so I think it's working good.

I'm 5'6". Right now MFP has me set to net 1330 calories, thinking about upping it to 1500. These success stories are making me motivated to make the switch!

There is a group Eat More To Weigh Less, check it out!
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/3817-eat-more-to-weigh-less

5'6", 136 lbs.
I eat 1500 plus exercise calories back. Diary open.

I'm 5'5 1/2, too! I just joined, so I can't really speak to weight loss yet (the scale is moving, but I'm holding off on updating until I feel sure we're not talking water weight). I eat 1200-1500 per day, roughly, sometimes a bit more or less. I'm mostly listening to my body at this point, taking note of when I feel hungry and grumpy or overfed and sluggish, and tweaking to find the happy medium. My exercise routine is a bit wobbly these days because of end-of-semester work, but in my normal life I try to hit the gym twice a week for 45 minutes (30 cardio, 15 abs and stretching) and supplement with yoga and swing dance classes.

Reading through all of these, I agree that each body is different.

I'm 5 ft. 6.5 in. and I stuck with MFPs goals for me to lose 1 lb. a week, which was around 1250 calories per week. I've been with MFP for about 9 weeks and have consistently lost a little under 1 .lb per week...and right now, I'm starting to increase my calorie intake (which scares me to death) slowly as I am very close to my GW and know I need to be up at maintenance mode.

I'm never really hungry. Breakfast and Dinner are my larger meals. I do tend to eat/snack every 2 hours though. I try to do 30 min. of cardio every other day, and a little strength training the other days.

I think it's more of a "to each their own" sort of deal. Once you find that good calorie amount for your body combined with the exercise that you do, I'm sure pounds will just start to melt off

I have mine set to 1550. I run 4-5 times a week, varying between short and long runs (1.5 to 4 miles). My strength training is usually completed during PT and is things like pushups and i do that a few times a week. Depending on how hard a workout i had determines how much of my calories i eat back. So during the week i net between 1550 and 1800 per day. At first i was losing 2lbs a week and now i am doing 1 per week. I've lost 20 since discovering mfp, 40 since having my second child 8 months ago. I don't know how many inches but my shirts are down from xl to medium and my pants are down from 16 to 10, which are already getting loose again.