Lori- I use TDP and it gives me the same as many other sites basically 2100 give or take......so I shoot for 1800-2100 I just cant see how people survive on 1200-1500 at or close to my weight.......on days I exercise I go to the higher amount.......on days I'm inactive I shoot for lower. I've been steadily losing most weeks 2, some have been more than that and only a couple have been 1 pound.

I was just curious where everyone was getting their figures from is all.

"I was just curious where everyone was getting their figures from is all"

My figures come from the calorie tracking site I use (myfooddiary.com) it's based on height, weight, gender, and general activity level. Mine is set to "Light Activity" because I work from home sit at the computer a lot. I think when I first started I had it sent to sedentary.

Right now it only gives me a "to lose 1.7 pounds per week" goal without exercise since it won't give me a calorie level below 1200. (I HATE non-exercise days 1200 is impossible!) I still lose about 2lbs a week though because it's impossible for me to eat back all my exercise calories and I exercise a lot. :)

To lose weight, I ate 1400-1600 calories a day and did 45 minutes of aerobic activity 5 days a week. I have maintained my weight loss for 3 years eating around 1800 calories a day (with one really nice restaurant meal a week).

Here is a chart of my weight loss (it ends right before my big plateau started at 140 lbs).

http://gloriana.myphotoalbum.com/vie...bum02&id=chart

I lost about 1-2 lbs a week. There were a couple of weeks I lost 3 lbs, there were a couple of weeks I didn't lose any weight, but it was pretty consistent.

This is very interesting to read.

I eat between 1400 and 1800 calories a day.

I get very little structured exericise

Of course - my weight came of more quickly, the more I weighed. But, at this point, I am losing 4 -6 pounds a month. I can't seem to be content with eating under 1400 calories a day.

Very interesting thread.

I track calories using Fitday PC, and aim for a deficit of 1,000 per day (should result in a loss of 2 pounds per week). Per FitDay, I burn around 3,100 calories per day if I don't do any specific exercise, so I aim to eat around 2,000 calories on non-exercise days.

I'm currently walking 5 miles for exercise (1.25 hours at a pace of 4 mph). According to Fitday, this burns around 500 calories, so I aim to eat around 2,500 calories on exercise days.

During both this and prior weight-loss efforts, my actual calorie deficit per FitDay has averaged around 700 per day and my weight loss has averaged 2 pounds per week (ignoring the the first couple of weeks of higher "water weight" losses). I believe the reason the lower calorie deficit did not result in slower weight loss is that FitDay underestimates the calories burned by someone my size when exercising . . . for example, caloriesperhour.com gives somewhat higher estimates for the same activities.

I use calore calculations from Jillian Michael's book, Winning by Losing. I flex my calories and eat anywhere between 1200-1800 a day. The goal is to vary the calorie count each day and reach a total calorie count for the week. When I walk for an hour a day....5-6 days a week...I lose 2-3 pounds each week. When I don't exercise, I maintain. So, my lesson? The exercise is key.