Daily Caloric Intake?

[Amylou 206]

I log everything I put into my mouth with MyFitnessPal. Every. Single. Thing.

Curious as to what everyone's daily caloric intake number is?

[Spiceyfrog 269]

I am just over three months post and average between 500-600 calories per day.

[Daisee68 2,493]

I asked my NUT this just yesterday. I am 3 months out and she said to average around 600 calories unless I had done HEAVY exercise that day (not just walking) and then I could add 100-200 calories. She said long term maintenance is between 1000-1200 calories. That sounds a little low to me, but I will worry about that when I get there.

[WL WARRIOR 692]

A daily calorie intake of 1000-1200 is quite low in the maintenance phase. I've been maintaining goal weight since June at around 1800 calories a day. I would continue to lose with anything lower than that.

However, if your daily calorie intake is consistently around 600 throughout your weight loss phase, then it does make sense that you would maintain around 1000-1200. I purposely increased my calories slowly during the last few months of weight loss (600 calories a day to 900) to shake up my metabolism. You don't want your body to get use to such a low calorie diet.

[Daisee68 2,493]

Thanks @wlwarrior. I thought I had read you say this earlier. I think it's too low too

[esskay77 785]

I don't know. I was told to not worry about calories but too count grams of Protein (and eventually fats and carbs).

So, I have no idea how many calories I take in. Counting calories drives me insane so I'm happy with counting grams of protein., So much easier.