On 1200 calories, meals and other tips?

caroldavison332

I eat a pound of g bomb vegetables daily bitter greens (collards, kale, turnip tops, watercress), beans, onions, mushrooms, berries, seeds, with a sprinkle of peanuts and sesame seeds to absord the green vitamins but no dressed. 4 ounce learn grilled meat w mayo and blue cheese, oatmeal with unsweetened peanut butter and ground flax. Lots of nuts and homemade soups. No fat free anything-they replace it with sugar. No low fat-think chemical *kitten* storm. No soda or alcohol diet or otherwise probably forever.

gonnadoityeah

caroldavison332 wrote: »

I eat a pound of g bomb vegetables daily bitter greens (collards, kale, turnip tops, watercress), beans, onions, mushrooms, berries, seeds, with a sprinkle of peanuts and sesame seeds to absord the green vitamins but no dressed. 4 ounce learn grilled meat w mayo and blue cheese, oatmeal with unsweetened peanut butter and ground flax. Lots of nuts and homemade soups. No fat free anything-they replace it with sugar. No low fat-think chemical *kitten* storm. No soda or alcohol diet or otherwise probably forever.

Agreed. I was never really a soda drinker and I done drink alcohol to begin with. And I'm making sure to make 90%of my food

PattyRain

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Based on what I saw in your log, I think your exercise burns are inflated. Because you are not losing weight, I would stop eating back 100% of them and try pulling it back to 50% and see what happens.

I've just discovered that endomondo tracks calories about the same as several other sites. I checked it against several exercise calculators. Somewhere in the sync to MFP those calories more than doubled. I'm not sure if it is a setting in endomondo or MFP or if there is a problem with the sync process itself.

Init_to_winit

Hey OP!

I'm 28, 5'7" and currently 174 (down from my sw of 211). I have an open diary and aim for 1400 cals a day though sometimes I go under, sometimes I go over, just depends on the day. I agree with others, 1200 is kind of a low target especially if you do not eat back exercise calories. Eating properly (enough of the right kinds of food) is important and vital to long term success.

I've been experimenting with all kinds of different low cal breakfasts and lunches I can eat at work as I only have a microwave to work with and have to get creative! Plus I HATE repetition so I need a variety of foods. Feel free to add me and we can motivate and share some food ideas!

Here are just a couple of my favs lately:

Breakfast
1. 1/2 a grapefruit and pb toast
2. Mini quiches (make ahead) just whip up some eggs with whatev sounds good and top with some mozz cheese (bell peppers, onion, turkey sausage for a southwest flair, or broccoli and Parmesan cheese)
3. Pineapple and cottage cheese with a side of whole wheat toast (sprinkle some cinn on the cottage cheese and pineapple for pure heaven!)

Lunches
1. Boca veggie burgers on whole wheat bun with bbq sauce and pineapple slice
2. Brown Rice, mixed veggies, scrambled egg, and soy sauce (all prepared in microwave!)
3. Make ahead your own stir fry with chicken, peppers, onion, garlic and put in tupperware containers for grab and go!

Dinners
1. Make ahead some chicken breasts in a crockpot with some chicken broth and shred, you will have so many options like: a. Roll it in some Franks Red Hot and wrap with lettuce, cheese, onion in whole wheat tortilla for buffalo chicken wrap. b. Top a flat whole wheat tortilla with bbq sauce, add chicken and cheese and bake for bbq chicken pizza.
2. Some good sides are baked sweet potato fries (the key is have your oven up high enough to get them crispy). Or if you're in a rush, buy steam in bag veggies, my go to all the time!

Sorry if I went a little overboard, hopefully some of these sound good to you or anyone else out there looking for a few ides!

rosebette

At your age and height, 1200 is too low. I'm eating around that, and I'm 56 and only 5'1.5" and around 120 lbs.

gonnadoityeah

Like I said, I'm playing around with calorie intake, I'm eating if I'm hungry and pacing myself.