Please help (confused)

blissbirthingservices

I first started this calorie diet at 1,200.
I finally fell into a pattern with the diet and started feeling great. I started doing hard cardio 60 mins at night and running anywhere from 2km-4 a day.
I finally told my doctor about it (due to trying to conceive. I wanted to make it wouldn't hinder anything. He told me that anything below 1,200 is considered starving yourself.

Truthfully because I'm new at the diet I've been doing less then 1,200 a day not by purpose. I'm still trying to space my calories out. However I feel eating 1300-1500 is to much for me as I tried it tonight. I feel overly full today, disgusting, very bloated.

I don't know what to do...

Damien_K

Break it up into smaller meals throughout the day or eat more calorie dense food such as nuts

PaytraB

Set your weight loss goal on MFP to 1lb/week. MFP will give you your daily calorie requirement *without exercise*. Eat that much a day to lose 1 lb/week.
When you exercise, you need to fuel that workout by "eating back" those calories. However, many find that the posted calorie burns are rather high, so the common method is to eat back 50-75% of the exercise calories.

For example, if your daily calorie goal is 1500 and you go for a run and burn 300 calories, you should eat 1500+150= 1650 calories on that day (150 = 1/2 of the calories from your run). On days that you do not exercise, you would eat 1500 calories.

This will ensure that you lose 1 lb/week (on an average) in a healthy, sustainable way.

Look on this as being a life-style change; not a diet. Diets can fail; life-style changes work for life.

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blissbirthingservices

Noel_57 wrote: »

I am more clonfused than you are. Why would you even need to diet if you feel "overly full" when you eat anything above 1300 calories?

I'm pretty sure I'm not suppose to feel like a stuffed potato!

B4Rachael

A good calculator to help you figure out your calorie goal sailrabbit.com/bmr/

RelevantGains

Noel_57 wrote: »

I am more clonfused than you are. Why would you even need to diet if you feel "overly full" when you eat anything above 1300 calories?

I've never understood this, either, when people say that. They didn't get to their current wait by being stuffed at 1200 calories. So if they did it to gain the weight, why is it now all of the sudden difficult to get the required calories needed?

Nikion901

It might be what you ate instead of how much you ate that is making you feel uncomfortable.

nutmegoreo

RelevantGains wrote: »

Noel_57 wrote: »

I am more clonfused than you are. Why would you even need to diet if you feel "overly full" when you eat anything above 1300 calories?

I've never understood this, either, when people say that. They didn't get to their current wait by being stuffed at 1200 calories. So if they did it to gain the weight, why is it now all of the sudden difficult to get the required calories needed?

After a few weeks on lower calorie your stomach does get used to taking in less food. I've been through it several times. The stomach starts feeling full with less volume in it (it's not a shrinking of the stomach that is mentioned, but a change in hunger and satiety signals, in my experience anyway). That's why consuming calorie dense foods such as nuts and avocados can help with increasing calories without that over full feeling.

nutmegoreo

OP, are you weighing the food that you are eating? How much weight are you losing each week? How long have you been doing this? How much do you have to lose? If your picture is recent, it doesn't seem like you have a whole lot to lose, so 1lb/week could be more appropriate. However, if you are eyeballing portion sizes, or using measuring cups, both are notoriously inaccurate and it is quite possible you are eating more than the 1200 without realizing it. Which is why I am asking how much you are losing per week.

RelevantGains

nutmegoreo wrote: »

RelevantGains wrote: »

Noel_57 wrote: »

I am more clonfused than you are. Why would you even need to diet if you feel "overly full" when you eat anything above 1300 calories?

I've never understood this, either, when people say that. They didn't get to their current wait by being stuffed at 1200 calories. So if they did it to gain the weight, why is it now all of the sudden difficult to get the required calories needed?

After a few weeks on lower calorie your stomach does get used to taking in less food. I've been through it several times. The stomach starts feeling full with less volume in it (it's not a shrinking of the stomach that is mentioned, but a change in hunger and satiety signals, in my experience anyway). That's why consuming calorie dense foods such as nuts and avocados can help with increasing calories without that over full feeling.

That seems logical. I can really see it going either way. When you diet, your appetite goes up due to leptin changes, as well as other hormone wackiness. This is just a natural survival mechanism. You're starving your body, not supplying enough energy for it to perform, so it's literally eating itself to survive (hopefully eating the fat ), so your body telling you it's hungry would make sense.

On the other side of the coin, if you were used to eating 5000 calories a day, and suddenly drop to 2000 calories a day, there will eventually be some metabolic adaptation, NEAT will drop, etc, and your body will just be able to sustain itself on less calories.

Anyways... the point is sort of moot, anyways, because I was assuming the OP was just starting, which would confuse me about not being able to get the calories. If that was an incorrect assumption and she has been doing this for a while, then the above would certainly apply.

nutmegoreo

RelevantGains wrote: »

nutmegoreo wrote: »

RelevantGains wrote: »

Noel_57 wrote: »

I am more clonfused than you are. Why would you even need to diet if you feel "overly full" when you eat anything above 1300 calories?

I've never understood this, either, when people say that. They didn't get to their current wait by being stuffed at 1200 calories. So if they did it to gain the weight, why is it now all of the sudden difficult to get the required calories needed?

After a few weeks on lower calorie your stomach does get used to taking in less food. I've been through it several times. The stomach starts feeling full with less volume in it (it's not a shrinking of the stomach that is mentioned, but a change in hunger and satiety signals, in my experience anyway). That's why consuming calorie dense foods such as nuts and avocados can help with increasing calories without that over full feeling.

That seems logical. I can really see it going either way. When you diet, your appetite goes up due to leptin changes, as well as other hormone wackiness. This is just a natural survival mechanism. You're starving your body, not supplying enough energy for it to perform, so it's literally eating itself to survive (hopefully eating the fat ), so your body telling you it's hungry would make sense.

On the other side of the coin, if you were used to eating 5000 calories a day, and suddenly drop to 2000 calories a day, there will eventually be some metabolic adaptation, NEAT will drop, etc, and your body will just be able to sustain itself on less calories.

Anyways... the point is sort of moot, anyways, because I was assuming the OP was just starting, which would confuse me about not being able to get the calories. If that was an incorrect assumption and she has been doing this for a while, then the above would certainly apply.

In some cases 1200 is certainly not starving. It depends on several factors, including age, activity level, weight, and height. I'm in my 40s and 5'2", but when actively trying to lose, I can work out and still lose on 1600. If I were less active (studying all day) I would need to go lower, but would expect some adaptation to happen. When I'm lifting though... holy hunger!