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pbcrazy New Member
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Hi, I'm an eighteen year old girl, I'm 5'3" and weigh about 80 lbs. I'm havng trouble accuratly figuring my calories here's what I ate a couple days ago. Breakfast: Kroger Greek Yogurt Snack: Banana Shake (Banana and 1 cup Soymilk) Lunch: Yogurt Parfait (1/2 cup Yogurt, 2T Jam, and 3T Granola)and a Homemade Applesauce Banana Muffin Dinner: Half an Egg Salad Sandwich on Homemade Bread and 5 Pretzels Snack: 1/4 cup Trail Mix, 2T Almond Butter w/ 2t Honey, and Coffee w/ Chocolate Protein Powder Normally I would eat a little more than this, but I would greatly apreciate any quesses as to how many calories this was. Also how many calories should I be eating? Thanks! Last edited on 3 Oct 2013 01:43 am by pbcrazy |
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Nir Senior Administrator 
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weigh about 80 lbs The first thing I am trying to figure out is whether these are the right figures. 5'3" and 80lb gives a BMI of 14.2. That is quite underweight. This begs the question of what your objectives were - for example are you aspiring to gain 25lb and reach the lowest weight where you would not be underweight (say 105lb)? If you were 105lb you would require about 1500 calories to maintain. (More if you exercised as well.) There are websites where you input individual foods and it totals up your calories - for example myfitnesspal I won't pretend that calorie counting isn't laborious, you do have to look up individual foods to find the one that is most similar to what you are eating. For example, 1/4 cup trail mix http://www.myfitnesspal.com/nutrition-facts-calories/homemade-trail-mix different people have put different things in their home-made trail mix so here are all the different values that they got when they computed for 1/4 cup: 135, 182, 177, 136, 163, 197, 145, 150, 100 you might want to take one of these values or run with it - or perhaps work out your own from the ingredients you put in it. Or perhaps yours is from a packet so consult the information on the packaging. |
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