How many calories do you usually intake in a day?

[mvd]

Poll question: How many calories do you usually intake in a day?

I try to restrict myself to around 2,000.

[bicentennial_baby]

1. I have no idea!

Sometimes very little, sometimes a good few thousand (damn you butter & cheese!). I don't keep track. Hell, I don't own a scale. And I never will.

I rock my buddha belly just fine. :D

As long as it doesn't grow into monster gut, I'm all good. :)

[mvd]

2. I'm on a diet

Before, I was probably 2,500 at least.

[bicentennial_baby]

3. I'm sure I exceed that some days

I love whole milk dairy products. It's obscene. But, no matter what, I hold steady at 135, for over a year or so. Every damn time I weigh myself at my parents' house, 135, give or take a pound. I think I balance it out with the days that I just don't eat or something. Stress makes me lose my appetite.

The scale is in the livingroom, so I can't resist. :P

[auntAgonist]

4. I would guess between 2000 and 2500 a day

I eat all day everyday. Small amounts. I don't watch my fat intake and I eat high protein. I stay away from high carb foods.

My cholesterol level is low. The Dr said people would 'pay' me to have my numbers :)

I love butter, cheese, eggs, cream. I cannot tolerate milk though. I use 1/2 and 1/2 on breakfast cereal and that doesn't bother me.

:hi:

aA
kesha

[DarkTirade]

5. Too many.

[GreenPartyVoter]

47. I'll see your 'too many' and raise you a 'far.'

[Mojambo]

6. No idea, but almost certainly over 2500. n/t

[mwooldri]

7. It really depends on the day.

Some days I get by on a Pot Noodle (290 calories), and a half-footlong at Subway - I suppose about 1000 calories one day.

Then the next I'm probably doing 3000.

I really need to sort my diet and exercise plan out - of which both are really non existent.

Mark.

[MrSlayer]

8. No idea whatsoever.

I just eat and drink what I want when I want. I'm not fat, I'm not skinny.

[NJmaverick]

9. I picked around 2000 but that's only a rough estimate

[Sannum]

10. 1200

Not conciously on a diet...I just have lost interest in eating for various reasons.

I lost 5 lbs just by not having the desire to drink soda anymore.

[supernova]

11. Between 1200 - 1500

I'm a small person who is moderately active.

[livetohike]

12. I've been dieting since January

and am on 1,000 calories/day. Lost 30 lbs so far :-) and ten more to go.

[SallyMander]

13. Congrats!

:hi:

[livetohike]

14. Thanks SallyMander!

:hi:

[auntAgonist]

15. that is awesome!

congratulations. I bet you feel better every day.


:applause:

:hug:

aA
kesha

[livetohike]

16. Thanks aA!

:hi: It's been a trial. I couldn't believe I got that heavy in the first place. Everyone says I must have "carried it well", LOL. But yes, I feel great and that's what is important.

[mvd]

17. Good job!

I haven't had much success yet, but it is hard for me to lose weight. :hi:

[livetohike]

31. Thanks! Me too (hard)

I'm retired and post menopausal....for all the time I've been on this low cal diet I'm averaging a one pound per week loss. I power walk six days per week and do Yoga for five days. I also have two large dogs that get two walks per day, so one would think with all of that I would have lost it faster.

Don't give up mvd. You can do it!! :hi:

[mvd]

40. Thanks for the encouragement

I've been fitting in more Weight Watchers meals, and most are pretty good. I like walking the most, but perhaps the exercise bike would take pounds off faster. :hi:

[yellowdogintexas]

42. with all that activity you are converting fat to muscle ..which is denser. The key

is are your clothes getting smaller?

and how tall are you?

staying on 1000 per day will get you a fast weight loss early on but as you lose, the pounds per week will get smaller because you have less to lose. If your body thinks you are starving it, you may get backlash and begin to gain.

don't short yourself on proteins and take your vitamins.

I lost 56 with Weight Watchers, at an average of a pound per week. I had weeks with no loss at all, followed by a drop of several pounds, everyone is different

CONGRATULATIONS ON THE WEIGHT LOSS BY THE WAY.

Isn't it great to feel good?

[livetohike]

43. Thanks yellowdogintexas

:hi: I'm 5'8" and I weigh 150 right now. Congrats on your weight loss too :-). Yes, it's great to feel good!

[yellowdogintexas]

44. at 5'8" and 150 pounds, WW would tell you to STOP and go to maintenance

especially at your activity level.

I am 5'4" and set my goal @ 140 although I prefer to keep it around 135 which isn't all that hard, I just have to track everything I eat. So when I catch myself creeping up on 140, I go back to hard nosed tracking and point managing and pull it back down to a better neighborhood

Best wishes on your weight loss. I know I don't hurt as much as I used to

:D :D :D :toast: :toast:

[tigereye]

18. too many, I think, that's why I have to keep swimming laps!

Hey! How are ya? :pals:


actually I have no idea. I have never kept track of things like that, well, not since high school.


How are things?

[mvd]

19. A little worried today

A NEGATIVE bounce in the polls? What's wrong with people? Speaking of my diet, better not do too much nervous eating. :-)

Otherwise, not doing too badly. How are you, tigereye? :hi:

[tigereye]

21. polls mean very little at this point

it's all those McNasty ads. Obama is airing some of his own, so I think it will bounce back. There's always a nice bump after the convention.

[mvd]

22. I hope you are right

The gullibility of people never ceases to amaze me. We need a great response to that stupid ad featuring the Hillary delegate voting for McCain.

[tigereye]

23. there is no evil they won't stoop to

no real Dem and Hillary supporter is going to vote for McCain out of spite. That's a bunch of crap.

[mvd]

26. I expect a positive bounce after Hillary's speech

:hi:

[krispos42]

20. I actively avoid finding out...

:hide:

[mvd]

25. It's hard counting at first..

but then I got used to it. Counting eating out can be most difficult since there's a limited amount of nutritional info. :hi:

[krispos42]

28. Nah nah... can't hear you!

:P

[raccoon]

24. Well, it's more than I burn off, I know that. nt

[racaulk]

27. 12,000 calories a day for me, but I also spend 5 hours a day in the pool.

And I just won eight gold medals in Beijing.

[mvd]

29. I looked at his menu and could not believe it

:wow:

[racaulk]

36. Yeah, no kidding!

I cannot believe how much food that guy puts away. That's just unreal!

[MsTryska]

30. I should be taking in soemwhere between 1800 and 2000

but i think it's prolly more like 1500 - 1700.

eating is hard.

especially when you eat clean.

[sinkingfeeling]

32. In the last 36 hours I've had 2 TBSPs of peanut butter , 2 slices of cheese, 2 glasses of milk & 14

cups of coffee!!

[billyoc]

33. How many ya got?

I climb skyscrapers like King Kong all day, so I eat everything in sight. :hi:

[cwydro]

34. Pretty sure

that at this point the answer is - too many.

edit for yet another typo

[LSK]

35. too much n/t

[trof]

37. 1500 = 45 lb. weight loss in 2 years.

:-)

[flvegan]

38. That depends on the phase of my diet.

Two phases: bulking and dieting. Bulking is probably around 3000/day. Dieting is probably around 2000/day, but it's a lot more quality protein so the muscle doesn't starve. This is spread out over 5 or 6 meals a day. This is pretty much a guess, as I don't really count calories. I know what I should and shouldn't have depending on what I'm trying to do.

[Broken_Hero]

39. under 1500

sometimes I go a bit over, but most of the time I'm right around 1000

[yellowdogintexas]

41. I don't count them but I count Weight Watcher Points. So if I am trying to lose

it may be around 1500 per day and if I am maintaining up to 1800 at most.

it is all relative to height and activity too. The taller you are, the more calories you need to just maintain the current weight.

[LostInAnomie]

45. All

All calories.

[mitchum]

46. 3000-35000 and I'm 6' and 145 lbs...I burn it off by pacing

[LeftyMom]

48. I eat until I'm full.

And I have a healthy appetite and a great love of food, so probably something on the high side.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

49. about 2500.

I remember when I first went on a diet, they told me make a food journal and count everything I ate in a day. I had guestimated to the doc that I ate about 3000 calories a day. Well, it turned out that I was actually consuming about 4500 calories a day. The doctor said that many overweight people underestimate the amount of calories they are eating and many thin people overestimate the amount they eat.