Is it possible to eat only 1500 calories a day?

[Anonymous]

If you are a 5'7" woman who needs to lose weight? Will I be starving? I work out every day and take around 18,000 steps per day. I cannot seem to lose weight and realize I just need to stop eating so much. Not sure what is realistic though.

[Anonymous]

Of course. If you do lean protein and veggies it’s not hard at all.

[Anonymous]

1500 is very appropriate for your height. You’ll probably lose slowly even at that level. Whether you’ll be hungry is very individual dependent, but I would guess that you will be!

[Anonymous]

OP - hmm okay thanks. I looked online and it said appropriate for my height was 2000 calories but I thought that was too much. Should I do closer to 1000-1200 if I want to lose significant weight? I would like to lose 20ish pounds.

[Anonymous]

I live daily off 1100-1200. 1500 is a spluge day. I'm extremely fit.

[Anonymous]

Most women around my height (5’3”) are recommended 1200-1300 a day so that sounds about right.

[Anonymous]

My maintenance amount is barely 1000 calories. Middle-aged, 5'4", 115lbs.

I am convinced that the supposed adult average of 2000 calories is wrong. Sure, some people need that, but lots of us need much less, particularly the fine-boned and/or petite among us. Society tells us that we shouldn't eat so little, and excoriates us for being pro-ana, when actually, we do need to eat that little for our own health.

[Anonymous]

im 5 7 130 and am 1500-1600 to maintain

[Anonymous]

OP - I think I need to eat what my sister does. She probably only gets about 1300 calories a day. She runs around 5-10 miles a day and on weekends does 16-20 miles a day. She is extremely thin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are a 5'7" woman who needs to lose weight? Will I be starving? I work out every day and take around 18,000 steps per day. I cannot seem to lose weight and realize I just need to stop eating so much. Not sure what is realistic though.

I did it for years, 1500 will keep you hungry at least half of the time, counting calories in everything and exercising to make up for overages. You will see thin people eating and drinking so much more. It's a pretty miserable way to exist. But I did it for years to keep fitting into my clothes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:im 5 7 130 and am 1500-1600 to maintain

im not hungry, but yeah I do count calories
I dont exercise much 2-3x week 30 min of lifting and 3-4 days a week walk 3 miles

[Anonymous]

If you drink a water all day, and eat vegetables, proteins, whole-food fats and saute (not deep fry) oil, and avoid whole servings of plain carbs (bread, noodle, rice), you can eat as much as you want and not gain weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:im 5 7 130 and am 1500-1600 to maintain

im not hungry, but yeah I do count calories
I dont exercise much 2-3x week 30 min of lifting and 3-4 days a week walk 3 miles

OP - I run 3 miles a day 5 times a week. I walk 3-4 miles 7 days a week. I will try and add in weight lifting for 30 minutes twice a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP - I think I need to eat what my sister does. She probably only gets about 1300 calories a day. She runs around 5-10 miles a day and on weekends does 16-20 miles a day. She is extremely thin.

Why would you want to be extremely thin?

Are you trying to break your hip?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP - I think I need to eat what my sister does. She probably only gets about 1300 calories a day. She runs around 5-10 miles a day and on weekends does 16-20 miles a day. She is extremely thin.

Why would you want to be extremely thin?

Are you trying to break your hip?

OP - when I say extremely thin I mean she is 5'7" and is about 128 pounds. Exactly where I would like to be. But instead I am 5'7" and weigh 148 pounds.