I'M 5'8", 185. I eat ~1700 per day, and do about an hour of exercise per day. On weekends when I hike or do more walking, I'll eat a few hundred extra.
Posted this a month ago. Wasn't losing weight... Joined WW and now I eat about 1300-1400 per day and am losing.
Age: 24
Height: 5'4
Calories: Target range 1200-1500/day, most days 1400-1500, only "on plan" during weekdays (therefore maintaining/yoyo-ing)
Exercise: Cardio and/or body strength exercises every day
Right now, I am dieting lightly because we are undergoing infertility treatment. I average 2000 calories a day and lose about half a pound to a pound a week. I do one hour of moderate cardio a day and light weights every other day. I have been doing some pretty extreme cycling: 1600 Mon-Thurs, and then Friday-Sat-Sun can be 2400-3000-2000 and I average 2000, which is really pretty sweet after a year of no indulgences.
I maintain on about 2300 calories a day with an hour of exercise.
I lose 1-2 lbs a week on 1600-1800 calories a day.
I'm eating around 1500 calories a day. Most days I'm slightly under at around 1400-1450, but a couple of days a week I wind up a couple dozen calories over. (One of the lessons I'm trying to learn is how not to sweat it when I'm marginally over.)
I do some form of exercise almost every day. Light-exercise days are a half-hour walk, my bare minimum of activity. More active days involve lifting and half an hour on the "hamster wheel" either in addition to or instead of the walking.
I'm losing just under two pounds a week on average (this is day 65 of being on my plan and I've lost a bit over 16 pounds).
I have been maintaining for a few months now on 1,800 calories a day + an extra 500 for breastfeeding. I am 26, and get moderate or more exercise, nothing set in stone but just running after my son
This thread is kind of eye opening. I have just started, seriously this time, I'm serious, but I had previously used Livestrong's calorie counter which tells me I should be in the 1250 area. I don't want to start low and have to stay low, plus I'm trying to swim as often as possible, so should I go higher?
Age 31, 182lb, 5'
Edit: Actually, I end up at the 1250 after the exercise deficit, so I guess I am at about 1500. Does that mean days I work out I should go up to that much?
Age 47
Weight 164
5'6"
I eat 1600-1800 calories per day and have lost 71 lbs. in 6 months.
I exercise for an hour every day. Intense cardio and weight lifting.