Curious: calories a day

[Deleted]

How many do you eat per day?

[eb777888]

I try to keep it at 1200-1300. It's more on the weekends and I allow myself wine.

[underwaterrhymes]

I'm short. In order to lose weight (which I'm currently trying to do), I have to keep it at 1200.

When I'm maintaining, I don't count. I just eat sensibly.

[Deleted]

I ate 1,733 calories today all heathy food. Ran/ walked 3.58 miles in 45 min did 10 min on the stairmaster. I am starving.

[Nicole]

1500

[scotty]

I have no idea.

[exploding people]

Usually between 1200-1500. I was actually way low today so I had to eat extra. This is not a common occurrence.

Mmm, cookies.

[jane6672]

No idea whatsoever.

[Bonita]

If I'm a slug and do nothing I try to keep it under 1350...

If I work my butt off with a workout, or try to be super active then I eat more ;D

[jssymom14]

1200

[vicky]

About 1300. 26 WW points.

[blackcat]

MyFitnessPal says I can eat 1,530 per day in order to lose a pound a week, so that's what I've been allowing myself. There are days I don't reach that (usually on the days I workout), but I usually do :/

[cbwm1]

I'm super ultra mega fat and MFP gives me 1390 a day in order to attain 2lb/week weight loss.

I've just started working out too, so that helps my ability to eat a bit more each day.

[hubes]

cbwm, you are not mega fat. Or super, or ultra.

MFP gives me 1200 and some.

[Deleted]

I would guess I'm at about 2000? Maybe?

[Deleted]

I average about 1250/day.

[Deleted]

Jul 17, 2012 21:12:48 GMT -5 mekiakoo said:

I have no idea. It sounds stressful to count calories.

It is!! I make myself crazy!!

[emsumm]

1,200 a day, plus whatever exercise calories I have for the day. Usually a minimum, then, of 1,700.

[blackcat]

Jul 17, 2012 21:15:17 GMT -5 daisy0721 said:

Jul 17, 2012 21:12:48 GMT -5 mekiakoo said:

I have no idea. It sounds stressful to count calories.

It is!! I make myself crazy!!

Me too... it's kind of annoying. I think about food all the time because I'm trying to be really anal about not going over my calories for the day.

[Mrs.Beagle]

Between 1200 and 1450.

[iamgrace]

I don't count calories.

[vicky]

Jul 17, 2012 21:22:35 GMT -5 @jehc said:

1450

And I want to know how in the bloody hell people find it HARD to eat their alloted calories in the run of a day?

I find it fucking hard to not eat 5000 calories a day. I am spectacularly good at eating.

It depends on the day. Some days I eat like a beast, others I barely want to eat anything. Then there is the exercise factor.

[cheesierthanchedda]

About 1400.

[nahoku]

Around 1200, more if I work out. I'm a shorty. Before I started counting cals, I'd guess it was around 3000. I'm also very good at eating. I suppose that's why I was so fat!

[emsumm]

Right? I will never have a problem eating enough calories. Never. Cheese, people! Wine! Cake!

[emsumm]

Jul 17, 2012 21:50:20 GMT -5 toledo said:

Jul 17, 2012 21:12:48 GMT -5 mekiakoo said:

I have no idea. It sounds stressful to count calories.

It's less stressful than being fat.

I eat 1230 a day, plus some portion of the calories I gain through exercising. So about 1400-1500 on a good day.

lol

[ktkl09]

1800 or so, but this is a guess. I used to count calories, but I let it take over my life and developed an ED. Now I don't.

[drrn04]

not a clue in the world.

I think if I tried to count calories I'd get even more pist about trying to lose/maintain weight.

[runforrest]

Jul 17, 2012 21:50:04 GMT -5 emsumm said:

Right? I will never have a problem eating enough calories. Never. Cheese, people! Wine! Cake!

LOL, Em.

I really have no idea. I am 5'5", weigh about 118 pounds, and run 4-6 miles a day, 6 days a week. I am guessing that I eat around 1500 a day, but it definitely fluctuates (especially if we go out on the weekend or out to dinner). I can get very obsessive about calorie intake, so I try to just eat when I am hungry and not deprive myself of anything. I figure as long as my clothes still fit, I'm good.

[emsumm]

Ah, RunF, I asked on LE how often/far you ran, I was curious. I am all proud now that I was in the mid-range of what you usually do
Do you run the whole time? Like, do you ever have to slow to walk? How fast do you run a mile?