What does your 1200 calorie diet look like?

YasminTE

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YasminTE

gebeziseva wrote: »

krhorton22 wrote: »

Try cutting out most of your carbs. You'll find that you can consume more food, while also seeing a difference in your weight loss. Also try eating mostly veggies, and cut back on sugars. Hope this helps

What might you think veggies are made of then? Protein or fat?

I'll be honest I thought veggies were fibre! Protein?

TeaBea

YasminTE wrote: »

SarahPeters3 wrote: »

Use the mfp app to track EVERYTHING you eat even if it's a little snack and use the nutrition part to see your macro nutrients if you are eating 1200 calories but it's mostly carbs you still aren't going to see good results aim for around 40 percent carbs 40 percent protein and 20 percent fat to see the best results, hope that made sense! Eating 100 calories of pizza is much different than 100 calories of chicken breast your body processes it and uses it in very different ways so yes it matters

Thankyou SarahPeters3 I'll give it a go, the macro nutrients section will be interesting. I'm a sucker for carbs! Thankyou for filling me in on the way your body processes and uses foods in different ways it didn't even occur to me!

Yes to bolded......no to just about everything else. You will see people here losing weight while eating high carb, and others while eating high fat....and everything in between.

There is no "one" macro for everyone. Calories in vs. calories out. If you eat too many calories (carbs, protein, whatever) .....you gain weight. Initially focus on foods that keep you full. If you want to tweak macro settings: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/819055/setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets/p1

Here are some tips on logging. There are plenty of incorrect entries on here to stay away from.

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1234699/logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide/p1

Weight loss won't be 1 or 2 pounds a week for everybody. As you get closer to goal, weight loss will be slow.

1200 is pretty aggressive for most women. Senior & very petite ladies may need to go this low.

ReaderGirl3

skyeashlee wrote: »

Hello Yasmin, technically speaking if you stick within 1200 calls you are bound to lose something, HOWEVER....if you drink the right amount of water, eat 1-2 pieces of fruit and mass amounts of veg and protein, you're going to see results allllllot quicker.... i lost 30KG and found at times id be stuck and not losing anything, it was somethings simple as not enough water - or veges especially !!

A typical day for me within 1200 calls is as follows:

BREAKKY:
- Coffee with uncle toby quick oats (with water), tsp honey, my own mix of seeds (linseed, flax, almond meal etc) ..OR...yoghurt with my own homemade granola (pumpkin seeds, almonds, walnuts, flax seed, rolled oats and buckwheat, YUM!!)
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MORNING SNACK :
- Boiled Egg sometimes another coffee, piece of fruit
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LUNCH: varies a lot... chicken and veges.. a salad... cruskits with tuna, cottage cheese and tomato , soup w/ bread (on weekends i skip the breakky above and make a big breakky with cape seed bread, avocado, poached egg, spinach , asparagus and mushies)

AFTERNOON SNACK:
- Vege juice, a carrot, celery, a piece of fruit
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DINNER:
- 4 x rice paper rolls, a salad, meat and veg or salad - very basic

You'd be surprised how much more you can fit in a day with healthy foods, you get to eat more whilst lose weight..much more effective , satisfying and rewarding !!!!!
Hope this helps :O)

Nope. You just need to stay within your calorie parameters, in order to lose weight. How much fruit or water you're consuming has nothing to do with it. Water and certain fruit can help with constipation though, so that could be why you saw er, movement on the scale after bumping them up

Citycat2015

I eat 1200 and am losing to plan with little exercise but also about 60 pounds overweight. A typical day would be:

-Coffee and oatmeal
-Tuna and salad with rye crispbread
-Chicken and lots of Veges with a small amount of beans, quinoa, rice or potato.
-snack is whatever I want it to be as long as it doesn't add up to more than 200 cals.

Alarae21

Being a shorter lady, I don't have many calories to play with. I'm sure I underestimate my dinner calories (it's harder to portion out when cooking two portions together- i.e stir fry) so I do leave a buffer so to speak. This is a typical weekday, weekends vary.

Breakfast - Protein shake - 200 kcal
Lunch - Salad with turkey slices, plum tomatoes - 200 kcal
Dinner - Stir fry/salmon with veg/baked chicken and veg etc - 550 kcal
Snack - whatever! 100 kcal

So on paper I look like I'm eating 1000ish kcal a day but I know it will be more due to underestimating dinner. I don't drink anything other than water or the odd zero calorie fizzy drink.

Weekends are normally slightly higher around 1400 so it averages out.