How many calories should I eat if I'm 5'5 and 120 lbs?

Answer 1

Let your appetite be your guide as you are in the normal weight range. Just eat a healthy well-balanced diet. how much food you need (and don't need)... Calculate your resting metabolic rate(RMR)... RMR = your body weight x 10 Next calculate your daily activity burn, this would be the calories required for daily movement apart from your work out. Your RMR x 20% = your daily activity burn. Add the calories required for your exercise needs... (this will vary on the intensity of your workout, you could need more or less, but for purpose lets say 400)... The finaly equation is ... Your RMR + Daily Activity Burn + energy amount(400). This is just to get a ballpark estimate, not eveyones body will have the same daily burn so you will need to do some personal adjusting. The more your workout the more obvious it will become on how your need to adjust.

Answer 2

Here are a variety of answers from Wikianswer contributors:

• 30% of your total calories should come from fat. There are 9 calories in a gram of fat so 1300x.34 1/3 grams of fat a day. Mono-unsaturated is best and saturated or partially-hydrogenated is worst. 15% should be protein so 1300x.15 48 3/4 grams of protein a day. Complete proteins are found in meat. There are also proteins in plants but you will need to match them up right if you don't eat any meat. Rice and beans will make a complete protein. The remaining 715 calories should be carbohydrates.

• There are 4 calories in a gram of carbohydrates so that is 178 3/4 grams a day. Most (if not all) of these should be complex carbohydrates. Starches. Sugars are not very good for you, and it doesn't matter what kind they are labelled sugar, honey, molasses, lactose in milk are equally bad for you. Milk is still very good for you though, it makes up for the sugar content. The more fiber (both soluble and insoluble) eat the better as well. Choose whole grain foods. Whole wheat bread, oatmeal, fresh veggies and brown rice are all good carb choices. Cutting unseen sugars is the best way to make sure your carbs are good ones...cereals, commercial peanut butter, dairy products, fruit and ketchup are all really high in sugar so, read the labels.

• 390/9 is not 4 3/4as stated it is rather 40 3/4 because one gram of fat is 90 calories not 9.

• One gram of fat is 9 calories. One gram of protein is 4 calories, and one gram of carbs is 4 calories.

• 1300 isn't enough calories to eat anyway. To determine the correct calorie count for your individual needs, add your basal caloric needs to the calories required to support the physical activities you are involved in. Figuring your basal caloric needs is simple.Multiply your ideal body weight by 10.

Answer 3

http://www.caloriecontrol.org/calcalcs.html

Answer 4

75 million per meal enjoy :D 75 million per meal enjoy :D

Answer 5

ah dont worry about it you seem in good shape my friend....