How many calories should I be eating?

[AmericanZero]

Hey, this is my first time posting on these boards, and I was just wondering how many calories should I be eating per day to loose weight. I'm 6'4" and weigh 172. I used to weigh 198 in december, but I started running and lifting a lot. I've been eating about 700 calories a day, but is that healthy? Could someone give me an average meal plan for 1 day? Sorry if I sound like a newb, I just recently started to get serious about bodybuilding and want to make sure I'm doing evreything right.

[stahlhart]

Hey, this is my first time posting on these boards, and I was just wondering how many calories should I be eating per day to loose weight. I'm 6'4" and weigh 172. I used to weigh 198 in december, but I started running and lifting a lot. I've been eating about 700 calories a day, but is that healthy? Could someone give me an average meal plan for 1 day? Sorry if I sound like a newb, I just recently started to get serious about bodybuilding and want to make sure I'm doing evreything right.

Could you explain why you feel the need to lose weight at 6'4" and 172 lbs.?

You are seven inches taller than me, and I weigh about three pounds more than you, and I'm 10% BF max...

C.K.

[3lixer.]

you've been eating 700 calories a day? Thats horrible for your body. Go to the bb.com site and search for a resting calories burned calculator and find out how many calories your burn while resting. then add the calories you burn with exercise/cardio/daily walking etc. then when you get that total subtract 500 calories and eat that many.

btw stahlheart is right 6'4" 172 doesn't seem like you need to lose weight. You probably look like olive oyl already. I'm 6'0" and have a lbm weight of 183. Sounds to me like you need to up your calories by 3000 per day and start going hard at the gym to add some weight (if being muscular is your goal).

[AmericanZero]

Oops I feel stupid now, I meant 272 not 172. Haha sorry my bad.

[3lixer.]

Resting Metabolic Rate Calculator

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/calrmr.htm

(I go by the last calculation b/c it factors in bf% and seems to be a more precise indicator imo)

[stahlhart]

Oops I feel stupid now, I meant 272 not 172. Haha sorry my bad.

So you started your diet at 198, and you got to 272 on 700 calories a day?

Now I'm really confused... or are your numbers 298 down to 272, instead of 198 down to 172? Please clarify.

C.K.

[AmericanZero]

Ya sorry. I meant I started at 298 and ended up at 272 by eating 700 calories a day in December

[tehKiNG2005]

you ate 700cals a day all of december and u only lost 20 lbs?

[stahlhart]

Ya sorry. I meant I started at 298 and ended up at 272 by eating 700 calories a day in December

Okay; now we're getting somewhere.

700 calories per day is WAY TOO LOW!!!

You should be eating at least 3-4 times that many. You're going to plateau short of your goals by shutting your metabolism down.

Calling skelooth, nithos...

C.K.

[AmericanZero]

you ate 700cals a day all of december and u only lost 20 lbs?

Ya it's not that much I know. I kinda went off an on my diet and kinda screwed myself over. But as I said, I really wanna start getting serious about the loosing weight thing, so I'm starting over.

[tehKiNG2005]

Don't you check your private messages?

[ssj4deadpool]

wtf how much do you want to lose? you are 6'4 at 172 thats already disguistingly skinny. And 700 calories? are you trying to be anorexic?

[alextimman]

wtf how much do you want to lose? you are 6'4 at 172 thats already disguistingly skinny. And 700 calories? are you trying to be anorexic?

Ya sorry. I meant I started at 298 and ended up at 272 by eating 700 calories a day in December