teens: how many calories do you eat?

it's really a matter of curiosity, and trying to figure out whether what I've read is true.

so gimme your height, weight, and the number of calories you eat a day.. and the number you burn through exercise if you want.

¡gracias!

5´11 , 165 pounds,  when dieting 1500 cal, normaly 3100 cal, calories i burn at the gym 1300-1500 not sure.

you burn 1300 at the gym? whoa! what do you do?

14 y/o, 5'5, 107(ish) pounds. I'm aiming for 1600 right now, but I'm working my way up to 2000

5'4 189lbs 18 years old... I eat around 1500 cals a day..

16, 5'1 and I eat 1500

Age 14.
Height 5'8
Weight 180
I eat 1500-2000
I burn around 210 calories, daily walk.

Whoa... many of you are eating below 1800 calories, which is the recommended minimum for the average teen.

This is your peak time for building lean mass - after age 20 it is not so easy to build it. You want to eat enough calories and stay active to encourage peak bone-building and muscle-building. It'll never be any easier to do this. The more bone and muscle you have as an adult, the easier it is to maintain your weight. Not to mention you look better (fit looks good at any age) and it's of course healthier.

By "enough" calories I mean that you don't really want a deficit at all. You want to eat just enough - or even just a little more, so that the extra can be used to build bones and muscle. And you need to get active in weight-bearing exercises so that your body understands what it is supposed to do with the couple hundred extra calories.

Also your brains are undergoing amazing growth right now - growing more now than when you were an infant. So at this very critical time you would not want to starve your brain, which incidentally can't run on stored body fat. It prefers glucose, i.e., from the foods you eat. If you don't have enough circulating in your system, your brain gets grumpy and starts breaking down your muscles, because it can use that for fuel.

Oh, and please wear your sunscreen, and don't drink and drive. This has been a message from your mother. Thank you! :-)

5'6" 18 years old, 111 pounds (trying to gain).

I eat 2,100 calories a day, and I gain very slowly, at most 2 pounds a week.

I eat around 1600 but I'm not rigid about it, I don't log calories, I just work it out in my head and estimate. I know I can eat up and over 2000 calories without gaining but I don't like to eat that much.

i eat from 3,000 to 5,000. i am very,very active in sports(football,basketball,baseball,track,tou rnament paintball, training)  O and i am 6'2" 150

I'm female, 5'2 and 109 pounds, and I eat 1500-2000. I'm very very active though

I'm 155ish (bouncing between 151 and 156, depending on what time of day) and my goal is 130.  I eat around 1700-2000 calories a day, and work out quite a bit, probably between 500-700 calories off.

I eat 1900-2000 cals while burning 2800 on a regular day at work. On a normal day off I burn about 2300 cals and eat 2300 cals(lol I know, but it really doesnt matter if you only have one day off per week...). I'm 6'0 tall and 191 pounds heavy.

I a m losing arround 1 lbs per week, it's not that much but it adds up.

I just hope I never have to go under 1900 cals a day, cause I don't have a clue on how to get that low without getting hungry ^^

I'm going to up my calories to AT LEAST 1500 a day (I haven't been counting lately and I know that with the amount I've been exercising, I've been under 1200--losing too fast).  I burn 1800 a day without doing anything and probably burn 1-500 calories through exercise each day depending on what I do.

(5'5, 17 and now OFFICIALLY under 140lbs.)

Quite frankly, I just don't think most of you are eating enough.

5'4, 160, usually about 1500-1600

Quite frankly, I just don't think most of you are eating enough.

Agreed.

15 years old, 6'2", about 185~190 pounds (I fluctuate :P) and on average I'd get about 1800 calories, but sometimes I get more like 2300.

I second what jenmcc said and would like to add that you need to build your bones up with lots of calcium at this time. Osteoporosis is called "a pediatric disease" by doctors, meaning that what you do before you turn 20 has much more to do with whether you will develop the disease than what you do when you're old. You are building peak bone mass and if you don't eat enough calcium and vitamin D - or if you don't eat enough calories, i.e. minimum 1800, more if you're active - your peak mass will be lower than average, so you will deteriorate faster as a senior.  And though it's hard to believe when you are young, breaking a hip often KILLS older women - they never recover from it. Or if they do, they could go from walking around and being totally independent, to being in a nursing home. You really don't want to break a hip easily.

This is a message from your auntie. :)

I'm 5'7", 19, 130 lbs, and I eat between 1900 and 2300 cals/day. Weight workout 6 days a week, HIIT 3 days a week, and power yoga 3-4 days a week.

 

And I agree that a lot of y'all aren't eating enough...