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)

Female, 23, 5'8" starting weight 170

Avg Calories: 1300-1400

Weight lost since April: 16 lbs.

Female 22
Average calories/day: 1150-1200
Weight lost so far: 31 pounds

Male, 20

I don't keep track so well, something I need to improve, but I eat anywhere between 2000 and 2500 calories a day, and I've lost just about 5 pounds.

Weight 220

Calorie intake:  1800-2000
Calorie usage:  2700 (light activity)

Weight lost since April:  17 lbs.
Weight lost since started CC on May 12th:  10 lbs

Forgot to add I'm female and 36 years old and 6'1"

Hey, no fair being taller than I am!!

* goes to find a pair of high heels *

:-D

I am a 50 yr old woman and started 3/28/06.  I try to stay around 1600 to 1800 per day.  I have gone lower like 1200 - 1400 and then notice a stand still.  Someone told me to increase calorie intake and you start to loose again.  So on occasion I go a little higher.  I have lost 44.5 lbs so far.  I am more active now.  Not running a marathon or anything but I do move more.  I don't think there is any right answer.  You have to listen to your body.  You could have an intollerance to certain foods like dairy or meats.  Things that just trigger your body to stop metabolizing.  See how does it respond at the different calorie levels and exercise levels.  Lets face it - Its a life change so it doesn't really matter how long as long as it comes off.  Just stay positive and keep going.

*Goes in, reads thread walks back out again*

WOW!  what inspiration!

49 (but not for long), female, 5'2"

average cal: 1300 - have dropped 4.8 lbs in one month...

Female

Average cal: 1600

Weight lost 5.5 pounds since June 20th. S-L-O-W

Female, 35 years old, 5'5"

Average calories per day: 1,200 - 1,400

Exercise: 1 - 2 times per week, 1 hour cardio/weight, just for fun!

Weight loss since March 17: 36 pounds and counting

* teeters in on 4" heels *

Thank you, all!

* falls over *

*helps athena up* I'd consider losing the hells :) They're... not you :)

That's "heels", hk. Not hells. Tsk.

Female, 20 years old, 5'9'', 132.4 lbs.

1500 calories a day, plus a cheat once a week (1900-2000 calories that day). Lost 17 pounds. Tried the 1200-1300 calories for a month, and I was always hungry.

I work out 6 days a week.

Hmm... Well, it's a typo, but tell me I'm wrong :) Go on :)
Heels == Hells

Female - averaging 1250 -1350 calories per day

Exercise 30 minutes nearly every day, otherwise sedentary.

Lost 6 pounds since mid June....

* looks for 3" heels *
* can't find any in her size *

Feb-May: 1500 calorie diet, almost no exercise (except walking that 1,5 miles to the  bus station and back every day), lost 4lbs in that time.

May-now: 1200, but I often end up somewhere between 1100 and 1300 cals.
I've lost 9lbs since may, and I increased my exercise (more toning than cardio) to 3 to 6 times a week.
I should add though that I've never been "big", and i guess the more you are overweight the faster and the more you lose at first, right? I started off with 136lbs at 5'5". Now I'm 123lbs and 4lbs away from my target weight. However they just don't seem to come off, I've seen no big changes on my scale for 4 weeks now >.<

I am a male, eat 2000 calories on non-exercise days. I eat more on exercise days.

I have lost 30 pounds in the last six months, so a 5 pound average. The last few months have slowed down since I have been strength training.

I am under a doctors care for a variety of health related issues and see him regularly.

I am eating between 1100 and 1200 calories.

Weight lost since March 27: 28 lbs.

I recently ended a 6 week plateau by eating over 1400 calories for one week and then returning to 1100-1200.

I am now making sure that 1 to 2 days a week I eat over 1400 calories.