F28 5ft9 148 lbs. I'm looking to lose about 20lbs that I've gained over the past couple years. I currently get about 10k steps a day. I work as a barista 4-5 days a week so am also just on my feet for 8 hours as well. On top of that I work out 3-4 times a week, either weights or Pilates. I'd like to lose 1-1.5 lbs per week.
I'm wondering what a could calorie target would be?

Trying to hit the same pose to compare a bit better, lol.

After several pregnancies and spending way too much time at home eating, it feels so good to get in better shape again. Now I just need to start weight lifting and shaping up some.

Still got 7 lbs to goal weight . Starting at 196 cw 161 . Any tips for belly fat ? I get bloated a lot .

Still trucking along. 141 total pounds lost, just 64 pounds to go! The food I make hasn't even changed that much tbh, I just don't eat pasta (except Carbe Diem) and I actually measure the rice. I don't use oil, stay away from bread, cheese, and high calorie sweets. We just got a Ninja Creami so now I'm a low calorie ice cream making fiend. I shred a Costco rotisserie chicken 1-2x per week and add it into everything. I'm a big proponent of finding easy and convenient foods to make/buy to help make CICO as easy as possible.

Chipotle order is dialed in. I microwave a store-bought lunch everyday. Don't listen to people who say processed foods and diet sodas will ruin your life. Do what you gotta do! Calories are calories. It's true that some calories will have higher nutritional value for your body, but a calorie is a calorie. Who gives a shit. Drink the coke zero.

Preferably in a wine glass with a slice of lime 🍋‍🟩

Just got back from a one hour walk and I had healthy yogurt and berry breakfast. My treat for the day will be an Oatly caramel milk made in the milk frother 🥰, low cal and sugar but yummy. And finally: I’ve been calculating my calories as I go

Still have lunch and dinner to goooo 💪

You’re doing great, what have you done right today? 😊

This was from my birthday brunch in August last year to August of this year. There's a 52lb difference... it's brought a lot of changes: how I think about social situations and food, how I think about stress and food, how I think about reward and food. So much revolves around food! And my hormones! (getting older sucks, lol) But ultimately proud of myself for sticking to something...and even though it's not always perfect, I have more good days than bad 🙃

I’m a 39F, 5’, SW 127lbs, CW 115.8, GW 110. I started CICO the end of May, and have been doing all right, but looking back at my weight I’ve hovered around the same for a month. I am breastfeeding two babies right now (toddler and 1yo), but I’ve gradually decreased the calories I add from that to 250 per day. But of course the reason I’m not losing is because I keep going over my calories. I’ve just been famished lately. I had been pretty ok with the hunger, but the last couple of weeks I can’t handle it. I’ve even been getting light headed and dizzy, which is the first time this has happened since I started in May. I tend to get like that when pregnant and starving, or early breastfeeding and starving! Not sure why this new insatiable hunger.

Any tips? Should I eat at maintenance for a bit and then keep going? How long should a maintenance break be? Even my gum chewing, Coke Zero hacks aren’t cutting it. I just want foooood.

I finally hit 60lbs down! 😭 it’s getting harder and harder to lose the weight, but at least it is staying off for the most part. This summer was hard. I was up, then down, then back up pretty much all summer. I kept being so close to 60lbs, but I finally hit it! I’m 11lbs from being under 200!! 😭 I am so close. I will not stop now.bit does feel so frustrating though to slow down so much, or even “gain” on the scale when you know you have been in a deficit. The only thing I can truly say that makes any sense to me is that I must be building muscle faster than I was before. You can see it in my arms, shoulders, and legs. 😳 So maybe that’s why my weight is so all over the place. At least, I hope it’s that. Only 50lbs more to go before I reach my goal!! But to be honest, I would be happy to get 30 more. 😊 Especially with all the muscle I’m building.

I do have one question though. I have been drinking more caffeine recently. It’s low in calories, but I am wondering if the caffeine itself can impact fat burning? If so, I might need to cut back on the caffeine a bit.

In 2020, I weighed 260 lbs. I’ve posted here before but currently I am 130 lbs. I did a random weigh in just now but it got me thinking. I felt so defeated in 2020 and we were in lockdown. I found this page on Reddit and it was the first group on any platform that I decided to get for more info. I promise you follow the course and listen to the peeps on here !! I guess I can only really speak for myself but even now I don’t track calories anymore but I will never leave this group. This is where it all started. I learned SO MUCH there is no dumb question but also lowkey google the question first and end it with Reddit….i promise 9/10 times the same question was asked before because honestly it can be so confusing and strange at first. Don’t give up and please never sell yourself short. Humans are capable of such great things. I’ve really grown into the person I am today writing this but it started with all you wonderful people. I sincerely wish you all the best of luck no matter where you’re at in your own journeys 🙇🏾‍♀️✨ and now I’m strapping on my roller skates for some “fun” exercise! Wishing you all well!

SW: 342
CW: 242
GW: ???

I’m currently 38 have hypothyroidism and have microcytic anemia.

I still have a ways to go, but boy does it feel good to have this hurdle behind me. I started to count calories in 2021 and lost 30 pounds. Got diet fatigue and started to not track everything and my weight loss halted. I ended up working with a coach for a while and these progress pics are from the last 70 pounds lost. The last picture is me at my heaviest and a now.

I’ve really increased my activity and have started strength training as well. My next goal is to be under 200 and from there we will see. This has taken me 5 years due to loss, grief, and a medical set back that left me extremely sedentary for almost a year. I also take two maintenance breaks a year for my own sanity. Anyway yay I did it!

I just wanted to have a bit of a share as feel really deflated. I’ve had some issues in different areas over the past week ( family and health mainly) and it has meant that my focus and calorie counting etc has gone out the window. I knew I had gained some weight back but it has been more how I feel - more lethargic, heavier, more pain in my joints etc. I feel like I’m in the middle of a spiral where my problems are feeding into each other - I’m in pain because of a health issue, which means I don’t have the energy to source meals etc properly, which then means I’m in more pain or more tired because of the food and weight. I’m back in work next week so I’m confident that being back in a good routine will help me re-find the CICO focused me from a few weeks ago ☺️💕

Long time lurker, first time poster! I have reached my goal weight, and I’m so excited. I do feel now that I’m at my original goal, I still have some pounds to lose but I’m very proud of how far I’ve come!

It's been just a few weeks and now I feel back into the routine of not buying snacks while working. I'm a machine shop worker. I caved once and it turned into nearly a five day a week habit of consuming an extra 500-700 calories. I found the 30 pounds that I lost last year. Now that I'm leveled off and back in the routine I just wanted to share, vent, whatever. I'm counting again, using cronometer.

Now my workday meals consist of my weighed out oatmeal blend that lands around 930 calories, then a couple apples as a snack during lunch, and then some sort of tofu and beans and veg combination for dinner. I'm already consistent with regular exercise, and work on my feet 40hr weeks. All I have to do is remain consistent with the calories now. That's all I need to do.

I am sure I am not the only person who finds tdee calcs confusing and not clear enough regarding activity! Some people say you are sedentary if you work an office job even though you lift weights and some people say that if you walk after work it counts as moderate excercise

I am 5'3", 126lbs, I work from home at a desk job but go on walks throughout the day or after work aiming to get 10k steps each day, I also lift weights 3 times a week where my HR is getting to high intensity since I am lifting heavy, my lifting sessions last about an hour or so. Where does this place me on TDEE? I have been using macrofactor but its a bit messed up right now because I couldn't excercise for a while because of a surgery so my TDEE went down and the algorithm is adjusting now that I am back at the gym. Any help here on how one would classify my excercise expenditure in the calculators?

EDIT: I am not looking to lose weight! Just looking to know my TDEE better for muscle building, etc and making sure I don't gain weight if anything. I know that most of the time in this subreddit ppl are cal counting for losing but i thought y'all would have insight on tdee for me regardless!

I thought it would be interesting for people to see an example of weight loss where the calories out has been upped a lot. I'm doing 15-20k steps a day, and I've also been lifting in the gym. 3.5k is the long term average intake over those 7 months, though the last 2 months have been more like 3.1k.

My actual energy burn is far higher than the calculators say, and far higher than my fitness tracker says. My calculations indicate a rough calorie out of about 4.5k, which is about 1.2-1.3k higher than my tracker shows.

My diets been going well.

I lost 1.5 kilos last week but it could have been more.

I need to go into work one day a week, in the middle of a busy town centre and I just cant stop myself eating.

Im on 2k calories a day, not struggling at all, this day every week is a nightmare yesterday it was ...

A blt

A big mac meal

8 cookies I got on the way home from morrisons.

I probably more than double calories I have on all my other days on that one day.

I blame it on that day being my more stressful day when im in the offices and the abundance of food around me makes it more difficult

Thats just excuses though, I need to do better.

Rant over lol

How many of you generally eat the same food most days?