Hi
I need some help with finding out how many calories I have to consume every day to lose weight. I started exercising around March this year - I was sick of how much weight I had gained (mostly from eating junk food.) Since then, I have gone down 1 and a half sizes and I am proud of how far I have come
. I currently exercise 7 days a week for 40-60 mins on a stationary bike, doing 30 seconds on max resistance as fast as I can then pedalling slower for a minute for the entirety of the workout. Other than that, I do sit-ups and 2kg weights each day but where I'm stuck is how many calories to consume. Up until about two months ago, I wasn't counting calories (just eating as healthy as I could, with as little processed foods as possible) but now I've started and I'm getting a lot of different recommendations on how many to have every day. I'm sixteen years old, female and around 5"9-5"10. I don't know my weight at the moment and I don't have any scales at home so I have no idea how many calories to have. I started off with dropping to 1200 per day, because I read from different websites that that was the lowest recommended amount for a woman, but I'm really confused now because I've also read that teenagers need 1800+ calories a day for growth. At the moment I'm having 1400 calories a day and I eat 6 small meals a day and I find that keeps me fuller than 3 big meals. Any help would be great, I'm really stuck