i want to see 1200-1400 calorie diets!

BostonStrong617

1200-1400 intake is very different from 1200-1400 net, if I didn't run and get to eat exercise calories I'd be one miserable *kitten*, I net an average of 1250 calories/a day per week but this means there are days when I am eating 2000 calories or even more, I think my diary is public, if not shoot me a FR and then you'll def be able to see it

Annie83uk

mine is 1450, my diary is open

Ang108

Feel free to check out my food diary. I eat lots of all natural food which allows me to eat greater quantities than eating lots of processed stuff. I eat nothing weird and just about everything can be bought in an average supermarket. I eat three complete meals a day, but do not snack.....
I cook everything from scratch, but do not spend more than 30 minutes a day in the kitchen.
I eat around 1200 calories taking into consideration that I am 5 feet tall and older, but I feel great( especially since I have not eaten pasta and potatoes for 50 days and bread only once a week ) and am losing weight. I am not eating a low carb diet getting my carbs from lots of vegetables and fruit to a much lesser degree....about two fruits a day.
I also do not eat my exercise calories back, because I wouldn't know what to do with more food.....

bd12310007

My diary is open! I'm usually under my goal but I have a feeling MFP is underestimating calories, and overestimating calories burned.

ApocalypticFae

Breakfast: cup of raspberries, 3/4 cup Grape Nut flakes with 1/3 cup 1% milk
Lunch: 2 spring rolls with 1 tsp. peanut sauce, 2 California rolls with 1 tsp. soy sauce
Dinner: 3 oz. of French Bread, 1 grilled orange bell pepper chopped
Snacks: 1/2 cup vanilla ice cream, 1 tbsp. chocolate syrup, 1 tbsp. crushed peanuts, 1/12 of a large apple pie, 5 chocolate-covered raisins

This is about 1350 calories. I definitely have a sweet tooth. My calorie goal is 1200 and I burned 290 calories today.

Ang108

I eat 1360 on non-workout days. Yesterday my day was -

B- Coffee, half and half, sugar, 4 hard boiled eggs and a banana (approx. 220)
L- Sliced Roast Beef and Ham, cheese, tomatoes and cucumbers (approx. 330)
S- Strawberries and Chobani yogurt (approx. 200)
D- Hibachi style chicken with zucchini and onions with Japanese white sauce (approx. 450)
D - Vodka Soda (approx. 100) and watermelon (approx. 50)

You might want to check out some of your calories. Some look like they are on the low side. No big deal, but I thought you might want to know. Your breakfast is really low. Four eggs and a banana alone are between 340-380 calories and that is not counting the half&half and the sugar.

nxd10

I've been at 1230 for a few months now. I'm older (54) didn't have a lot to lose (35 pounds gone and at goal weight), and have been on MFP for a year. I was never more than 1370 and I've been under 1300 for maybe 10 months.

It was easy to tell you the truth. You just have to watch what you're eating and exercise a little (and I mean a little). I walk maybe an hour a day, which definitely helps me hit it.

I dropped calories that weren't' important to me and ate what I wanted the rest of the time in small portions.

I drink almost nothing with calories in it except for cream in my coffee once a day and one teaspoon of sugar a day. Lots of water, tea, and black coffee. I drink alcohol once a week - usually a martini or a glass of wine.

I rarely eat bread because I use Fit and Delicious low carb tortillas (50 calories) instead.

Dropped most mayos, butter, dressing. I use balsamic vinegar

I never eat more than an oz of cheese (and I make my own cheese, so that WAS hard.

00000000000000

Typical day:

breakfast: muesli, yoghurt, fruit, espresso 250 calories
lunch: roast beef rollup with veggies on it, fruit, tea, ginger (200 calories)
dinner: whatever healthy thing my husband cooks - (usually 400 calories)
snacks: 1/4 cup ice cream, nuts, fruit, square or Ritter hazelnut chocolate bar

Exercise: 200 calories or so

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This gives me a few hundred calories to throw at whatever I feel like throwing them at if I don't exercise. If I exercise I'm usually under.

hrhboo

Breakfast - Steelcut oats or 2 whole eggs or cottage cheese w/ fruit = 150 cals

Lunch - Turkey chili with whole grain bread and green salad = 350 cals

Dinner - 6oz grilled fish or chicken, broccoli, cous cous/quinoa = 450 cals

Snacks = around 250 cals total, usually a combination of a few of the following:
Rice cake with 0.5 tbsp peanut butter (85)
String cheese (50)
Snack bag Pirate's Booty (65)
Yogurt (60)
Chips or cookies or popcorn (100 cal packs)
Seaweed snax or kale chips (60)
Nuts/dried fruit (100)
Bowl of berries (50)
Dark chocolate (80)
Glass of wine (100)

I get a LOT of food out of my 1200 cals/day, I'm always snacking and my meals are filling and substantial. It's very easy to stick to as long as you keep the focus on nutrient dense foods with lots of protein and fiber. On exercise days I include additional snacks or a protein shake to eat back some of the cals.

babybl00310

I am set for 1450 calories daily but I tend to have a couple of days where I am slightly under and a couple where I'm slightly over. I eat my main meal of the day at noon and cook a lot of things from scratch. I eat bread, potatoes, pasta, rice, noodles etc but I weigh and measure everything. Below is yesterday's meals. Breakfast was a protein shake with oats, lunch was a jerk chicken filled tortilla with side salad and dinner was cod on a bed of kale and spring onion with toasted croutons.

Breakfast
Asda - Fresh Milk Semi-Skimmed, 250 ml 125
Holland & Barrett - Precision Engineered Whey Protein - Cookies & Cream, 23 g 86
Tesco - Scottish Porridge Oats 50g, 25 g 93

Lunch
Birds Eye (Uk) - Crispy Chicken Breast, 1 breast 215
Discovery - Garlic & Coriander Tortilla Wrap, 80 g 232
Asda - Caribbean Style Hot Jerk Sauce, 10 g 11
Onions - Raw, 2 small 59
Tesco - Curly Kale *Organic, 50 g (1/2 packet) 20
Heinz - Salad Cream Extra Light 70% Less Fat, 1 Serving (15g) 22


Dinner
Young's Chip Shop - Large Cod Fillets (120g Fillet), 1 fillet 252 Kingsmill Crusts Away Soft to the Edge - White, 2 slice 100
Sainsbury's - Curly Leaf Kale, 100 g

Raw - Spring Onion, 20 grams
Snacks
Walkers - Baked Hoops and Crosses Roast Beef Flavour, 18 g (85)

Totals 1,340

Nicole6

Mine is open. I'm set at 1400 a day and usually end up in the 1300s. It's very heavy on protein and veggies because that gives me the quantity of food I like.

vivacious_fox

Wow, thanks to everyone that have their diaries open. I was looking for a way to stay motivated.... I've plateau'd at 139.5 wanting to lose another 9.5 to get to my ulimate goal and I know that it's been my eating that's been keeping me there. You guys have given me some good ideas, and maybe I'll make my diary public, the ultimate form of accountability!

rrsuthy

My diary is open, feel free to look. I'm usually around the 1200 mark, although I went over yesterday.

Lochlyn_D

I eat turkey breast, chicken breast, rice, potatoes, all kinds of veggies, lots of fruit (i don't log a lot of that stuff though). I eat eggs, homemade low cal no sodium bread, light cream cheese, peanut butter.

CookNLift

Sorry for this being so long but I'm pasting it from an e-mail I got from a nutritionist friend.

The goal of the first week of the diet is to get your bodies into ketosis, which is when you are burning fatty acids for energy instead of burning carbs, which is what your body normally uses for energy. In order to do this, you will have to eat no more than 15 grams of carbs a day the first week of the diet. I am giving you both a range of 800-1200 calories a day for the first week, which i know is low, if you need more calories that is okay, just make sure they are only protein, and try to stay in that range as much as possible.

Week one you will be staying away from:

vegetables, salad, fruit, juice, candy, sugared breath mints/sugared gum, alcoholic beverages, biscuits, rice, pasta, cereal, macaroni, bread, desserts, french fries, and pizza. Basically if it is not a protein source you do not want to be eating it. Sugar free gum or mints is okay.

I have a lot of charts made up that I could be sending to you both since they are more organized than this, but they do have all meats on them so I figured I would just inform you about the foods you eat.

Week One you will be choosing from the following:


Eggs - 75 calories per 1 whole egg (can be eaten any way)

Egg Whites- If you buy the carton on the store, they are 30 calories per 1/4 cup, so if you eat 3/4 cups for breakfast, that would be 90 calories) If you eat them hard boiled by removing the yolks, they are 35 calories for 2

Cottage Cheese - Fat Free - 1/4 cup = 35 calories, Low Fat - 1/4 cup = 55 calories. I recommend buying the 2% fat Snack size cottage cheese containers, they are 4oz and are 90 calories each, this way its quick and you dont have to measure it) It is a quick snack (One serving per day)

Greek Yogurt - Chobani, 0% fat, plain. You want to stay away from any of the fruit, honey, or vanilla flavors. Some people do not mind plain yogurt, I however find it gross lol, so to make it taste good, I add 2 packets of splenda or truvia, and about 1 tablespoon of cinnamon. It is pretty good this way, and if you look at the back of the individual 6oz containers, you will see it is 100 calories. (one serving per day)

You will see I put one serving per day for the cottage cheese and the greek yogurt, this is because both of these items offer a small amount of carbs per serving, but by having just one per day of each you will still be able to get into ketosis, as they are really the only foods you will be eating week one that have carbs.

Low Fat String Cheese - You want to choose one that is either 50 or 60 calories, and has 1g of carb or less.

Other than these foods, your only other options for week one are fish. You can have canned tuna or any canned fish, and then aside from that all fish is fine. All white fish and shellfish count as 35 calories per ounce, and salmon counts as 55 calories per ounce.

so basically you will most likely be having fish for lunch and dinner and then one of the breakfast options I gave you for breakfast. If you eat veggie burgers, you can substitute those in for dinner, but you have to fit this into your carbohydrate count. Again you have 15 grams of carbs a day for week one, so on days you want to have veggie burgers for dinner, maybe you can substitute one of the dairy sources so you have more carbs to spare.

To figure out the carbs for the veggie burgers, look at the total carb count on the back, and subtract the dietary fiber. This will give you the net carbs which count towards your carb count for the day.

For example, if a veggie burger has 7 grams of carbs, but 5 grams of dietary fiber. Then it counts for 2 grams of your daily carb count

Aside from this, you can have EAS Advantage Carb Control shakes. They sell them in most grocery stores by the protein bars and other protein shakes, or in the diabetes section of the store. The chocolate fudge one is really good and counts for 110 calories and 2 grams of net carbs.

For condiments, anything that is carb/calorie free or low calorie

Mustard, hot sauce without added sugar, salt, pepper, all seasonings without added sugar, lemon or lime juice, fat free broth, red or white wine vinegar, and Hellmans Low fat mayo is okay but only 1 tablespoon per day.

You each want to be getting as close to 128 ounces (1 gallon) of water a day as possible. It does not have to be water but does have to be carb and calorie free. You can use water, seltzer, flavored seltzer, unsweetened iced tea, diet snapple, powerade zero, crystal light beverages.

Coffee is okay but use splenda or stevia as a sweetner and if you like to add milk, I would use Almond Breeze Vanilla UNSWEETEND almond milk.

stealthq

Look at my diary if you like. I'm usually around 1450 on avg, but have been as low as 1300 and as high as 1600.

RivenV

My diary is open. Please feel free to peruse it. You'll notice I don't always eat exactly 1200 or 1400. Mostly I just make sure I fit in that range somewhere. I also eat back most of the calories I burn during cardio or weight-training.
If you're interested in talking a little more in-depth about it, please feel free to add me and we'll chat some more about it. Maybe we can swap ideas!

Edit: In reading over the previous posts in the threat, I'd like to point out that I'm relatively short (5'3"ish) and I have a "small frame." I do have an active lifestyle, but I never feel like I'm cheating myself on the way I eat--either by not eating enough or by not eating delicious foods. I'm of the opinion that every meal should be a delight because there's more to food than simple nutrition.

Peni_Davidson

My diary is open, feel free to take a look.

joekleinert

My diary is always open. 1200-1400 calories for going on 4 months. I eat a lot of protein.

Trilby16

Another 25 YO man who doesn't think anyone can survive on so little....

LAW_714

Reading through my own diary, boy am I Southern!


Breakfast: 1 slice bacon, 2 scrambled eggs, coffee w/ half and half, strawberries
Lunch: 4oz baked salmon, leftover cauliflower gratin (baked cauliflower+grape tomatoes+sour cream+cheddar), unsweet tea
Snack: 1 babybel cheese
Dinner: thin cut pork chop, 1cp steamed Swiss Chard w/pan sauteed sweet potato+chilli powder+sour cream, and blackberries+plain greek yogurt, water


Total: 1,330 calories


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Breakfast: 2.5oz conecuh sausage, coffee w/ organic half and half
Lunch: smoked pork rib(s), 1 1/2 cup steamed collards, unsweet tea
Snack: 2 babybel cheeses
Dinner: Grilled zucchini+yellow squash+onions, grilled flounder w/ lemon, 1/2cp strawberries w/greek yogurt + frozen kefir, water

Total: 1,320 calories

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Breakfast: 1 slice bacon, 2 scrambled eggs, coffee w/ organic half and half
Lunch: Tuna salad (albacore tuna, 1/4 small apple, celery, wickles [pickle relish+hot peppers], 1tbs sour cream+1/2 tbs mayo), leftover grilled zucchini+yellow squash+onions, unsweet tea
Snack: Cozy Shack No Sugar Added Tapioca Pudding
Dinner: baked sweet potato w/ chilli powder+ butter+ sour cream, 1 1/4cup steamed collards, center cut thin pork chop, water

Total: 1,290 calories


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Breakfast: 1 slice bacon, 2 scrambled eggs, coffee w/ organic half and half
Lunch: Leftover tuna salad+boiled egg, strawberries+blueberries, unsweet tea
Snack: almonds+blueberries
Dinner: Homemade chicken curry (chicken thigh+snow peas+yellow squash+grape tomatoes+pineapple chunks+seasonings), and frozen kefir(yogurt) w/ blackberries
2nd Snack: Almonds

Total: 1,325 calories

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Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs, blackberries, coffee w/ organic half and half
Lunch: Leftover homemade chicken curry
Snack: babybel cheese
Dinner: haven't decided yet...

Confuzzled4ever

I end up there a lot.. my goal is higher.. unless i went out to eat.. then Ieat more. But diary is open.

lacquer_head

I have mine set for 1500. I usually have calories left over. I average about 1300, by the end of the week.

Seej

Just curious to what you eat on 1200-1400 calories? not here to bag on anyone but would like to see a 1200-1400calorie diary.

When I'm trying to keep my calorie count low, here are some go-to foods

-egg white omelet with green onion
-salad with tomato, a little avocado, a touch of oil, and vinegar
-chicken and vegetable soup
-berry smoothie with almond milk and coconut water
-roasted autumn squash, sweet potato, or brussel sprouts
-raw almonds
-raw vegetables (esp broccoli, carrots, and snap peas)
-Greek yogurt

Siege_Tank

My diary is open. I'm employing 16-14 hour fasts every now and then, so that's why some days are low.

Graelwyn75

Be very careful of trying to make any suggestions or trying to be helpful, lest some big person like the above Mr Tank send you a nasty message, accusing you of being this and that, and totally missing the point of your intentions. Guess he was too gutless to post in in public, lest my friends tell him how totally wrong he is about my personality and intentions.

meeper123

Be very careful of trying to make any suggestions or trying to be helpful, lest some big person like the above Mr Tank send you a nasty message, accusing you of being this and that, and totally missing the point of your intentions. Guess he was too gutless to post in in public, lest my friends tell him how totally wrong he is about my personality and intentions.

I see nothing wrong with what you said he sounds like he is the one with issues lol

Crochetluvr

My diary is public. Feel free to browse.

tavenne323

I have mine set to about 1500 calories, but am often under that...(not including exercise calories). I've just made a few changes to help lower calorie intake. For example, I love pasta, but not I use shirataki noodles (a tofu noodle) and they are only 20 calories a serving. I also don't drink a lot of my calories. I do a breakfast shake (220 cals) and occasionally coconut water. Otherwise, just plain old tap water. I also try to season more with spices and herbs instead of oils and butters.

I believe my diary is open too. You are welcome to look and/or add me.

bevmcarthur

My diary is open have a look at mine I eat anywhere from 1200 to 1500

goodtimezzzz

yeah its equivalent to a 2000 to 2300 calorie diet for a guy..its actually alot of food...if u do it clean???? no problem:)