Do I really have to eat only 1200? :/

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  • potatocar
    potatocar Posts: 250 Member
    1200 isn't so little. If you eat two slices of pizza which can be up to 500 calories, I'm sure you won't be full. But personally, I can cook myself a 400 calorie lunch that'll fill me up til dinner for sure.
  • murdledoe
    murdledoe Posts: 98 Member
    I allow so many calories per meal. Breakfast is my least favorite meal so I only allow around 300 calories. I make sure I have more calories left for dinner since this is our biggest meal and I always make sure I work out enough to enjoy a good snack or two. You can still enjoy all the foods you like. You just need to adjust the other meals for the day. It helps to eliminate empty calories, like drinks with sugar. I eliminated butter from my toast (200 calories), creamer from my coffee and sweet tea. Made a world of difference on what I could eat.
  • Nickolas919
    Nickolas919 Posts: 52
    It can be done,I have been at 800-1000 for the last 6 months, it was lower than that the previous 6 months, but I went down 40pounds before I started going back up, due to building muscle so now I'm slowly going up to 1100. The real trick to having such a low cal count is that every cal is a good one, lots of proteins, some fiber & Carbs, no fat, no sugar
  • Geronimo2013
    Geronimo2013 Posts: 1
    Actually it is the wrong suggestion. 1200 is not a good thing. You are putting your body in starvation mode and this is dangerous.

    May I suggest a formula to calculate weight and calories: take your current weight and multiply by 12. The total you get is what you now eat to maintain the weight you are. So simply take off from that number but don't go below 1500 calories. You should see good results very quickly.
    That's what I do
    Geronimo2013:flowerforyou:
  • susannamarie
    susannamarie Posts: 2,148 Member
    Exercise more - get more calories - nom nom nom!

    It's really hard for me to even eat more than 250 under maintenance on a non-exercise day but surprisingly easy on an exercise day.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    MFP says to lose 7.4 pounds in a month I have to eat 1200 calories only, unless I exercise. :/
    Seriously? That's starvation and it's not even 10 pounds loss -_-

    One pound loss a week is like 1450 -_- that's still super low.

    I'll never lose weight... I love food so much ... I probably eat 1700-2000 calories a day!!!

    How did you guys lose weight? :/

    Go slower...1 Lb per week. It is much more manageable. Also, exercise...you eat back exercise calories with MFP. MFP is a NEAT method calculator. I'm tired of explaining what that is to people so just google it.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    It can be done,I have been at 800-1000 for the last 6 months, it was lower than that the previous 6 months, but I went down 40pounds before I started going back up, due to building muscle so now I'm slowly going up to 1100. The real trick to having such a low cal count is that every cal is a good one, lots of proteins, some fiber & Carbs, no fat, no sugar

    Actually, fat is an essential nutrient and what you're doing is extremely unhealthy.
  • susannamarie
    susannamarie Posts: 2,148 Member
    It can be done,I have been at 800-1000 for the last 6 months, it was lower than that the previous 6 months, but I went down 40pounds before I started going back up, due to building muscle so now I'm slowly going up to 1100. The real trick to having such a low cal count is that every cal is a good one, lots of proteins, some fiber & Carbs, no fat, no sugar

    Actually, fat is an essential nutrient and what you're doing is extremely unhealthy.

    He's also not doing what he says he's doing -- what he actually has is high carbs, moderate fat, low protein.

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