I always aim for 1200. Sometimes it's less, sometimes it's more (If I happen to be hungry that day, I'll aim for 1400); often times I'm usually right there.

I exercise 5-6 days a week, usually for 45min to an hour. Sometimes on Sundays I'll go for a bike ride with my brother even though I've been to the gym that day. It's a leisurely bike ride though :)

I feel that 1200 is enough for me and I sometimes have to force myself to eat that much. It's amazing how much less you eat when you eliminate eating from boredom!

Ain't that the truth! All of my super high calorie days are because I was bored.

amen!!!!

I'm at 1700 calories/day right now. I'm exercising a lot and lifting 3x/week so this keeps me going through all of that. I also want to be building muscle, so I know I need to eat (and eat good quality food). I wouldn't say that I'm "eating back" exercise calories, but I do want to keep that calorie deficit under control to a certain extent.

I'm eating about 1200 calories a day (at least this week) I went up to 1500 last week, but noticed I stopped losing weight, dropped back down to 1200 and bam! 2 lbs fell off! But, I'm not really excersising regularly right now either. I may walk 30 mins a night. But like others have said, just see what works better for your body. Good Luck!!

I aim for about 1800ish cals a day and every 5th day I have a splurge meal which usually puts me around 2400 or so. I am not very consistent in my workouts but try to get them in when I can. Sometimes i will eat back some of the cals burned.

400 cals for 30 mins exercise is pretty high. I wear a heart rate monitor when I work out and last week did a Zumba and tone class that was 60 mins and my AVG HR was about 80% and I burned 466 cals. I agree with maybe eating back about 100-200 cals of your workout to be on the safe side.

1350. Most days I don't go over 1200 though. I have trouble keeping my calories below like 20000 when i'm pmsing so I allow myself to eat less when i'm not.

I was just curious at what speed you are losing?

I aim for an average of 1,500 cals a day. If I exercise I figure the machine overestimates the amount of calories I burned, for example if my elliptical says I burned 400 calories I assume it's more like 250. I do eat back about half of that number (the lower number) b/c when I exercise I am STARVING for the rest of the day. So on an exercise day my cals will be more like 1,600 or 1,700.

1200-1500 depending on activity level.

I try and do between 1400-1800 :)

On average about 1.5 lbs a week but last week I lost 3 lbs after a few weeks of a plateau.

I definitely 'eat back' some of my cals if I burn 600+. Like, every weekend, I go for a long run. A 5-7 mile run according to a heart rate monitor, burns 1100-1600, which I translate as 900-1300 just to allow for margin of error. I do eat some of those cals back, because if I eat really low cal that day, I am tired for days. I feel like your body when you do really intense exercise for an hour or more, you need a few hundred calories to help your body repair and refuel. I am tired for days if I don't eat a little bit back. I'm not talking eating all of it back, but maybe a few hundred cals. On my normal days, I only burn 500 or less so I don't eat anything back. I've lost 54 pounds since March

In general I stick to 1200 solid. It's enough food for me on most days. If I'm really hungry one day I'll go more like 1300. I spend most of my life in my room studying or sitting in class, so I don't really need a lot of calories to keep up with my lifestyle.