How many calories are you eating?

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  • kathym59
    kathym59 Posts: 51
    Is this thread for people wanting to starve themselves or something? o_o
    I eat around 1500.
    Oh and I'm 5'6 ?
    Same here, netting around 1500
  • sjschewlakow
    sjschewlakow Posts: 120 Member
    I am set to lose 1/2 lb a week (only 10 more lbs to go) and it has me at 1690. Just started yesterday though with higher cals. Kind of scary! :D I was set to 1440. I am 5'6 (lost an inch somewhere :D)
  • Blaineyyy
    Blaineyyy Posts: 151 Member
    Did eating <1,000 calories a day suddenly become a good thing?

    And I try to get 1,200-1,300.

    1,400-1,500 on days I workout.
  • DixiedoesMFP
    DixiedoesMFP Posts: 935 Member
    5'4" , 1800 - 2000 calories a day
  • swilliams121262
    swilliams121262 Posts: 1
    I'm 5'6" female - my dr. advised me to eat 1200 per day to lose 8 pounds - so far it is working - very easy to do!
  • jlmoses91
    jlmoses91 Posts: 87 Member
    I'm 5'9 and eat about 1400 unless I exercise a lot that day, then depending on how many calories ive burned i would eat more.
  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
    I'm 5'8 an only eating 1,000 and I have to push to do that.

    I always wonder how people have to push/force themselves to eat more than 1200 cals. How did you gain weight in the first place? Most likely over-eating...
  • Blaineyyy
    Blaineyyy Posts: 151 Member
    500 aday. Lunch and dinner. It's actually big portions just completely unprocessed, only healthy food. I eat either grilled chicken, steak or fish, one large veggie and one fruit for each meal. Lost 15 pounds in four weeks!

    Good luck keeping that up. 1,000 sounded bad enough but then I saw this... Please encourage yourself to eat more - preferably 1,200 minimum, but any more than 500 is a start. Even if it's just more of the same stuff, considering none of it looks bad.
  • raystark
    raystark Posts: 403 Member
    Im 6'3, eat around 2500 to lose weight and 3000 to maintain

    Ditto to height, deficit calories and maintenance calories.
  • jkrim941
    jkrim941 Posts: 226 Member
    1333/day + exercise. 5'8"

    Since I started eating more calories than the MFP recommended amounts, the losses have been steady.
  • HopeytheHopester
    HopeytheHopester Posts: 122 Member
    I'm 5'5 and I eat about 1500 calories a day even though MFP only tells me to eat 1200 (says sheepishly);(
  • Blaineyyy
    Blaineyyy Posts: 151 Member
    I'm 5'5 and I eat about 1500 calories a day even though MFP only tells me to eat 1200 (says sheepishly);(

    That's nothing to be sheepish about, as long as it's not junk. 1,200 is the MINIMUM amount of calories, therefore 1,500 is a healthy intake. :)
  • MissLucyDee
    MissLucyDee Posts: 66 Member
    I'm 5'2, I used to eat 1200 with or without exercise but now I'm doing insanity I absolutely cannot do that - it makes me ravenous. I eat about 1500.
  • jedibunny
    jedibunny Posts: 321
    Oookay.. hopefully, we have some people trying to educate others here because the initial part of this thread was scary. I didn't read most of the pages, but 800? 1000? cals?

    I'm 5'6.5" (I say 5'6" for height/weight ratio purposes) and my BMR is 1371, TDEE is between 1800-2000, so I tend to eat somewhere around 1600-1800. I currently weigh 150 with a GW of 126.

    http://www.fat2fitradio.com
  • sarahharmintx
    sarahharmintx Posts: 868 Member
    Goal: 1320
    Actual: 1300-1500
    Height: 5'5"
  • emilynyman00
    emilynyman00 Posts: 25 Member
    Thats too little. i eat about 1,500. and im 6 feet but i hardly excirsise or anything
  • iheartmarshall
    iheartmarshall Posts: 39 Member
    I'm 5'8 and my starting weight is 236. My goal (this round, anyway) is to lose 55 lbs to reach 180. Based on that and all the other stuff, my daily calorie goal is 1,570. I try my hardest to stay within that and usually eat around 1,400 - 1,600. Depending what I eat, sometimes I feel hungry throughout the day but I try to pick filling foods that are also healthy (like hard-boiled eggs) so I'm not starving. I also try to exercise for 30 minutes each day, even if it's just riding my stationary bike... any bit helps! So far, it's worked out well and I lost two pounds my first week.
  • FITnFIRM4LIFE
    FITnFIRM4LIFE Posts: 818 Member
    5'3
    47
    Maintained 1 yr
    115-117 weight
    cals 1600 -2000+

    It saddens me to read some people want to be 76 pounds or eat 500 cals a day. Very Sad!
  • SPNLuver83
    SPNLuver83 Posts: 2,050 Member
    1500 plus workout cals
  • RainaWalks
    RainaWalks Posts: 72
    i'm 6'1 i eat 1600-1800 cals a day....can't live on less...i just have to move my butt away from the computer...put my running shoes and move around really fast five days a week...
  • Preacher224
    Preacher224 Posts: 44 Member
    I agree. Eating under 1200 cals a day is counter productive for an adult I don't care how little you are. The body needs at least that much do perform its background tasks without any exercise included. It will cause it to go into starvation mode and release lots of cortisol to store fat for the future survival of itself. We were designed this way. I personally eat 2000 cals right now but when I reach my weight loss goals I will bump that up to 2500 to 3000 a day depending on my workouts for that particular day.
  • love4fitnesslove4food_wechange
    love4fitnesslove4food_wechange Posts: 6,897 Member
    I'm 5'2, and my base is 1470 (my approximate BMR). I eat exercise calories, so that puts me at anywhere from 1800 to 2100-ish depending on my exercise for the day. I've been walk/jogging in the mornings in addition to doing a boot camp DVD lately, so I have been burning off between 650 and 800 a day, so I've had a lot of peanut butter this week. :love:

    Ditto your numbers except I'm only 4'11
  • c0untingsheep
    c0untingsheep Posts: 159 Member
    I've started zig-zagging my calories, so it ranges between 1300 and 1800. I sometimes go up to 2200, but that's maybe once a month. I'm 5'5'' by the way.
  • RealWomenLovePitbulls
    RealWomenLovePitbulls Posts: 729 Member
    5'3" - 1200 or less
  • aproc
    aproc Posts: 1,033 Member
    I eat between 2000-2200. Trying to back off from the 2500 I was bulking on. My net is typically 2000. Right now I'm just focusing on either maintaining or a REALLY slow loss. :laugh: I'm 5'8 and 133 pounds. Thinking once summer is over the bulk will be back on.
  • Spanaval
    Spanaval Posts: 1,200 Member
    500 aday. Lunch and dinner. It's actually big portions just completely unprocessed, only healthy food. I eat either grilled chicken, steak or fish, one large veggie and one fruit for each meal. Lost 15 pounds in four weeks!

    It wasn't that long ago that there was someone here asking why her hair was falling out in clumps. Turns out, she had achieved a huge weight loss in a short amount of time, by essentially starving herself. Something like 600 cals/day. What you're doing is unhealthy and unsustainable in the long run.

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