How do you know how many calories to eat?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your weight x12 to start. When you stop seeing results, x11, then again x10. Never below x10.

Dear god - no. Where did you get this idea?

Picture a 5'7" woman who weighs 220 pounds. Your formula would have her consuming no less than 2,200 calories/day and starting at 2,600. If i did that I'd GAIN weight.

Not the pp, and no expert, but isn't the idea that your 5'7" woman is likely consuming a lot more than 2600 per day? As she gets smaller, so will her caloric allowance? So by the time she is 150 she is eating 1500.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your weight x12 to start. When you stop seeing results, x11, then again x10. Never below x10.

This but use your GOAL WEIGHT not your current weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your weight x12 to start. When you stop seeing results, x11, then again x10. Never below x10.

Dear god - no. Where did you get this idea?

Picture a 5'7" woman who weighs 220 pounds. Your formula would have her consuming no less than 2,200 calories/day and starting at 2,600. If i did that I'd GAIN weight.

Actually, your average 5'7" woman probably SHOULD be eating between 2,200 and 2,600 daily, if she's at all active.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your weight x12 to start. When you stop seeing results, x11, then again x10. Never below x10.

Dear god - no. Where did you get this idea?

Picture a 5'7" woman who weighs 220 pounds. Your formula would have her consuming no less than 2,200 calories/day and starting at 2,600. If i did that I'd GAIN weight.

Not the pp but I’m 135 pounds and currently eat around 17x my weight in calories to maintain my weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your weight x12 to start. When you stop seeing results, x11, then again x10. Never below x10.

Dear god - no. Where did you get this idea?

Picture a 5'7" woman who weighs 220 pounds. Your formula would have her consuming no less than 2,200 calories/day and starting at 2,600. If i did that I'd GAIN weight.

https://www.leanbodiesconsulting.com/articles/how-to-create-a-fat-loss-diet/

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, what would be your ideal weight? Approximately. If 140 pounds, eat 1,400 calories/day. 120 pounds, eat 1,200. This is to lose. This is a very, very rough estimate. Don't go below 1,200 calories even if your ideal weight is <120. Again, just a rough estimate. You mostly have to experience what results are taking in different amount of calories --- do you lose. And how do you feel.

This is not at all accurate. The only way to know for sure is to get a Resting Metabolic Rate Assessment done. This will tell you the precise number of calories you burn per day simply by existing, not counting any physical activity, as well as the percentage of carbs vs. fat your body burns on its own. It's so much more than an arbitrary number of calories - by eating too little, you can hold onto extra weight. By eating the wrong percentages of macros for how your body naturally burns, you can also hold back weight loss. You can take five people of identical height, weight, and age, and have remarkably different RMR results. Please do some research.

This.

Ok, but unless you are an athlete or have a compulsive disorder surrounding eating and calorie intake, normal people aren’t going to have easy access to get this type of assessment done.

PP here, and I am neither, and I got it done at Lifetime Fitness where I am a member. It was like $100 and it has helped me make informed choices about my health.

[Anonymous]

Lose it app is pretty good. Bar code scanning is very helpful.

[Anonymous]

Composition ID offers individual RMR tests to see your current calorie burn and DEXA scans if you want to see body fat percentage. The RMR gives you calorie guidelines for maintenance and weight loss. They have memberships but I just did the one test because I felt like I never had a good sense of my metabolism. There’s one in Bethesda. But lots of places also have those Inbody scanners now (like Orangetheory) that probably give a good estimate for an even lower price point.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:go vegan and GF. Eat whatever you want and stop counting. Exercise daily.

But what if what I want is a ham sandwich?

You stop wanting it after a couple weeks. Just create a new habit...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:go vegan and GF. Eat whatever you want and stop counting. Exercise daily.

But what if what I want is a ham sandwich?

You stop wanting it after a couple weeks. Just create a new habit...

I was a vegetarian for 5 years, I never stopped craving bacon and buffalo wings. bacon is what brought me back from the dark side