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    How many calories do you NET?

    Posts: 243 Member
    edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
    Just wondering how many cals people NET on average each day and your average weight loss per week? I would like to change my calorie goal but not sure what to put it too?

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    • Posts: 1,340 Member
      I net between 1800 and 2200 and am maintaining my weight.
    • Posts: 3,138 Member
      Net around 1500; gross around 2000-2200. I'm maintaining 130 lbs at 5'4.

      I probably need more calories, but I'm trying out Primal and man, it's hard to make the calories without the carbs. I imagine I'll work into it.
    • Posts: 8,980 Member
      i aim for TDEE-500
    • Posts: 350
      Net beetween 800 and 1100. Don't eat my exercise cal back. I lose 1 to 2 pounds a week.
    • Posts: 292 Member
      NET 1200 - 1600. Lose 1 1/2 - 2lbs a week.
    • Posts: 5,138 Member
      1700 to maintain. I was netting around 1500 to lose 1/2 pound a week.

      Oh and that's a weekly average.
    • Posts: 1,879 Member
      1900 to maintain, less to lose.
    • Posts: 730 Member
      When I was losing, 1200 net = 3/4 lb. loss/week. Now that I am maintaining at 5'6.5", 120 lbs, it is 1550 net.
    • Posts: 3,237 Member
      I net between 1400 and 1600 a day (over a weekly average) and lose 1-1.5 lbs a week (although in theory I should be losing 1/2 lb). I have no idea how relevant that will be to you since that's based on my caloric needs (my height, weight, activity level, etc.) and that might be very different than yours.
    • Posts: 1,903 Member
      TDEE minus about 20%. It varies by the day and my workouts.

      about 2400 on a workout day, 1800-2000 otherwise. It's gross because I don't really pay attention to my net. I can usually project out my total burn for the day using my body bugg.
    • Posts: 987 Member
      Female 5'2 61kg.

      Net 1700-1800.....Gross 2000-2300 most days...and still losing bf%
    • Posts: 347 Member
      I'm usually around 1600. I try to stay between 1400 and 1800. I do eat back my exercise calories. I think I'm averaging about 1.5 pounds a week or thereabouts.
    • Posts: 210 Member
      Net beetween 800 and 1100. Don't eat my exercise cal back. I lose 1 to 2 pounds a week.

      Me too, only I'm eating some, maybe half my exercise cals...aaaand not losing anything at all for a few weeks now. I thought I lost 2 lbs last week, but apparently it was a false alarm because they came back w/in 4 days.

      I gross around 1400-1600 so I don't really get it...
    • Posts: 670 Member
      1200-1500 maintaining 30-40 g carbs
      5 6 f
      110 lbs
    • Posts: 3,908 Member
      i aim for TDEE-500

      Me too. We so crazy.
    • Posts: 3,624 Member
      Currently maintaining netting 2000/day. Previously, I lost 8.5 lbs in 5 weeks netting about 1600/day. I'll go back to a cut in just over a week.
    • Posts: 22
      Just wondering how many cals people NET on average each day and your average weight loss per week? I would like to change my calorie goal but not sure what to put it too?

      you need to find your basal metabolic rate or your BMR. that is the number of calories you burn in a day just being alive. you can then take that number and give yourself a 500 calorie deficit to lose 1lb a week.

      here is a link to a BMR calculator http://health.discovery.com/centers/heart/basal/basal.html

      remember that this number is before physical activity, basically if you stayed in bed all day. activity will bring your BMR up.
    • Posts: 24 Member
      I do the same. I hate the "net" idea. Frustrating !
    • Posts: 564 Member
      1500-1800. Still losing.
    • Posts: 18 Member
      1700 to 2200. Losing about one pound every a month give or take.... and lately an inch of my waist which is about to end... Just fit into size 32's
    • Posts: 499 Member
      Today, -412. Eat less; move more. I walk about 10 miles a day; run stairs when I don't have anything else to do. I'm not hungry. I don't want to eat 89375834758937534899 calories in a day. Half my calories today came from butter and fry sauce.
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