enough calories?

LisaK · Feb 11, 2005

Hey guys. I'm trying to lose some body weight and tone up a bit. I weight train about 3 days a week and do cardio for 30-45 mins about 4-5X a week. I think on average, I take in about 1700-2000 calories a day. Just some advice, is that too low? too high?

aevans410 · Feb 11, 2005

Lisa, whats your height, weight, and age?

spockafina · Feb 11, 2005

For losing body weight, I think that ought to be fine. If you want to build muscle, however, you should eat more than that.

abear · Feb 11, 2005

as mentioned in that link, it depends on many things. your best bet is to guage your bodyweight and bodyfat % every week or two weeks and see how you're doing.

LisaK · Feb 11, 2005

I'm actually wanting to do both....but I think losing body weight is more important for now. Right now, I'm about 5'8, about 225, 26 years old.

aevans410 · Feb 11, 2005

Your maintenance level is 2700 calories, 1700-2000 seems to be about the right number for 2 lbs of fat loss a week. Keep it up

LisaK · Feb 11, 2005

Thanks! Can I ask where you came up with that maintenance level number?

aevans410 · Feb 11, 2005

Sure you can ask

I used a calorie intake calculator off the web. There are a few different ones, but they all seem to be within 100 calories or so of each other.

I used this one
. Do a google search for "calorie intake calculator" play around with them and see how close each one is.