Ladies 5'5 - 5'6 (around 170lbs)

Sounds ok to me. You may try changing up your exercise as well. Sometimes your body gets used to what you are doing and you need to up the intensity or change completely. I am a big fan of circuit training. You don't necessarily need to exercise longer just harder. Great job losing 52 lbs! That is quite an accomplishment.

I had to raise mine to around 1500 to get over a plateau. I think that there is more to it than just "raise and lose". For me, what I noticed was that I had lost a lot of fat and then I started to really noticeably gain muscle. As I had parts of my body become more defined, I noticed I was plateau-ing. I hit that weird spot where I did lose inches (or rather, I toned up parts of me) and I didn't lose weight. I think the "eat more/lose more" , with some people (especially women) needs to be at the sweet spot where you have built up enough muscle to keep your metabolism higher through the day.

I was at 1200 for about 4 months before I hit that spot. I lost almost 30lbs and then just got stuck. I raised it to 1500 and, yes, I DEFINITELY felt like "omg, I'm eating so much!!!!". I refocused my diet to be more protein heavy and went back to cutting drinking and sugar way back and I started losing again. I'm 5'6" and I hit that plateau at around 156. I'm down to 148 now.

If you were losing before and you just want to lose faster, I might hesitate to raise the calories too much. But if you hit a plateau, and you have been working out regularly, I would say go for it.

I've just started here (transitioning off a much stricter plan) so I might not be helpful yet.

I'm 5'5", 165.4 lbs and my daily goal is 1200. I am completely sedentary for work (desk job). I take the stairs and try to go for walks but I don't get in lots of exercise. I ride my bike to work 2-3 days a week (when weather permits) but I'm much more active on weekends with bike rides, hikes, etc,

So on weekends I will allow myself a few more calories. 1500 or so, depending on how active I am.

Once I add yoga back in a few times a week I may increase my daily calories.

I'm 5'5" and started out at around 189. I was pretty strict with 1200 calories for the first couple of months and lost the first 20 pounds pretty quickly. But that was really hard for me to sustain with increased exercise so I then upped to 1350 and started losing again. I hit a plateau at 166 and was stuck for a good 3 weeks. I had to take off from exercise because of the flu and family trouble for about 2 weeks and i was eating around 1600 calories but I did not gain any weight. Once I got back to exercising I decided to stay at about 1650 and started losing again. I am at 158 right now and started zig zagging my calories so my low day is around 1500 (my bmr) and my high day around 1900. I just started P90X so I know the scale may not move quickly but I'll be adding muscle and hopefully losing inches!

Btw I am eating 1410 calories and I am 5'6". I have a lot more to go than you though.

I'm 5'6" and 170. My goal before exercise is 1200, but I run and do Insanity workouts. I try to eat back most of my calories, but rarely actually do. It's also hard to estimate because I almost always work out at the end of the day, and so I don't want to eat huge amounts of calories for dinner. (I do drink wine most nights.) After exercise, my goal is usually between 1600-2000, but most days I eat around 1450.

Saturday is particularly challenging with calories back because Saturday is my long-run day. Between a long run and Insanity, I burned over 1000 calories last Saturday.

In mid-April I was 183.2. By the beginning of May, I was about 177. (The first week of Insanity I lost three pounds.) I've sort of stalled and lost very slowly since then, sometimes less than one pound a week, sometimes more. My ulitmate goal is 145, but even getting to 160 is starting to feel impossible. (I'm going to keep at it, but progress is killing me!)

I'm 5'6.5. At that weight I was eating 1600 a day, plus half my exercise calories.

I am 5'6 and I currently weight 168. I am eating about 1450 a day. I exercise daily (the 30 day shred) and I always eat back my exercise calories because I am hungry for them usually.

Oh and I forgot, I'm 5'6" and 159. I was eating 1410 a day and eating back exercise but haven't lost a lb in a week doing that. I workout about 30-40 min a day on the elliptical or treadmill and ZERO loss.

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I'm 5'5 and have gone from 202 to 176 since January. Average calories per day 1630. Exercise an hour a day on average.

I'm 5'6, 24 years old, 172lbs and I eat a minimum of 1600 cals (My BMR) per day up to about 2000 depending on exercise. I've been losing about a pound per week.

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How old are you? That makes a difference ( I know - I am 44.) Check out http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

if you plug them in with a 15% cut from your TDEE, eat at least your BMR.

it doesnt matter how many calories you are eating, it matters how much nutritional value you get out of those calories. so if you eat a cake and a pizza every single day and that put together is 1400 calories, then you are getting no nutrients out of that. it really depends what you are eating to determine whether you will lose weight or not. good luck (:

I'm about 5'5" 175, currently eating my TDEE of 2350 kcal/day (doing a metabolism reset from eating a vlcd for to long).
I'll do a cut of 300 cals/day in about a month...so 2050~ for loss.