Losing Weight Safely While Eating More Than 1200/1500 Calories Poll

Please post if you are:

1. Female and eating 1200 or more calories a day or male and eating 1500 or more calories a day (or eating fewer but doing so under a doctor's care)
2. Have been losing weight

I'd like to know the average number of calories you eat a day and how much weight you have lost. Thank you!

And since I'm starting this, I'll go first:

Average calories/day: 1700
Weight lost so far: 24 pounds (as of August 9)
       &nb sp;               &nb sp;     30 pounds (as of August 25)
       &nb sp;               &nb sp;     42 pounds (as of October 18)


(edited to update weight loss)

Average calories a day/1400-1500

Weight loss so far:10 pounds

Average a day: 1300

Weight loss: 10lbs

Average a day 1200-1400

Weight loss 20 lbs

I am under doctor supervision for 3 weeks now-

Avg cal=800-1000

Weight lost=8lbs in 2 weeks, I get weighed tonight to see if I have lost anymore. Wish me luck!

Well I just upped my calories to 1400-1500 so I don't know the results yet but... before I've been eating 1200-1300 and lost 8 lbs but i hit a plateau and thats why I increased my calories. I'm finding it difficult to get to 1500 but we'll see what the results are next week and i'll let u know.

Calories: 1400/day
Wt Lost: 3 lbs.

male, 54,  I have averaged 1883 cal/day for 49 days.  Have lost 26 lbs.  30 min cardio 3 days a week.  Have 27 lbs left to go

I average between 1300-1600 a day week days and 1800 on weekends.  I have been here since May and have lost 21.5 pounds!

Average calories a day: 1300-1500 (varies depending on exercise)

Weight loss so far: 12 pounds since mid-June

Female, 31 and have been eating between 1,200-1,600 calories a day (depending on my physical activity).

I do 30-45 minutes of cardio 6 days a week and 30 minutes of strength training 3 times a week.

Have lost 16 lbs since the beginning of June.

Male 47, was at 1200-1400 day for 3 months, lost 50 lbs.

Now - 1600-1800 for 2 months, lost 5 lbs.

Walk 2-4 miles at leat every other day and maintaining weight.

I started keeping track (not here, but pre-CC) back in May, and was doing about 2000 calories a day, then I lowered it to 1800, and now I'm doing between 1600-1800, depending on how much I work out any given day, and I've lost 21 lbs so far.

average cals per day- 1400

total weight lost so far- 7lbs

time period since start- 1.5 months-7-8 weeks.

average cals per day- working on upping to 2000 and over

total weight lost so far- almost 45 lbs.

time period since start- about 3.5 months

I've said it before and I'll say it again.
You need enough calories in your body to lose weight. It's metabolism. It's so very basic.

If you don't get enough calories- you will not lose weight permanently. Your body can not exist on a lowered calorie diet and it will adjust it's metabolism to suit its current needs. The problem with lowered calorie diets: Your metabolism drops to suit what you are feeding it. It adjusts itself to use each bit of energy you feed it to make your basic functions work. When you go back to a normal way of eating... or "maintenance" This is when a lot of people gain their weight back. The concept is simple- your body has been used to living on NOT ENOUGH. So now it's first job is to store all of those calories as excess fat so that you can survive the next "Starvation". Perhaps if we ate what we should be eating the transition into maintenance would be simple. 

I think it's great that a lot of people here realize the typical 1200 calories a day (Or for some, unbelievably, less) isn't going to work.
I am a small framed 5"1 and my body needs 1755 calories a day to maintain my weight. To LOSE weight, the very least would be 1404. I know most people are not as short as I am (Gentic defect maybe? I'll blame my mom) ...therfore most need more than that.

I've rambled. I'm sorry... I just get quite tired of people (No one on this post, mind you) saying they can't figure out why it's such a struggle...  And they starve. Where did all the starving people come from, anyways???  LOL

mercedesjag, that's kind of the point of this thread! It demonstrates that people DO eat AND lose weight.

And you want short? I had a best friend when I was in school who stood a proud 4'10"! We made quite a pair, me at 5'10" and she a foot shorter! :-)

Female age 60 been here since Jan.

average cal 1400 to 1500 vaires I find that helpful

weight lose 45 lbs. 

hit a plateau for the past 15 days now noticed I need more protein so will adjust that.

Can walk twice a day for 20 mn or more :D do wall push ups :D

am a happy walker now.

Janie

Avg. calories per day: used to be 1400, just yesterday switched to 1300

Weight lost so far: 22 lbs

I figured Athena... I know how you feel.

I just get carried away is all....   *Sighhh*

"I had 600 calories today, how can I cut back???"  LOL

1200 calories diet

lost 13 pounds