Very low calories
TMK0214
Posts: 70 Member
Hey everybody.
So my calorie goal on here is about 2300. But after I get done logging all of my food at the end of the day I'm always between 700-900 calories. I'm trying to eat very healthy, I eat chicken, asparagus, broccoli I also add butter, olive oil etc. and I'm super full after my meals, yet I can't make it past 900 calories what am I doing wrong?!
So my calorie goal on here is about 2300. But after I get done logging all of my food at the end of the day I'm always between 700-900 calories. I'm trying to eat very healthy, I eat chicken, asparagus, broccoli I also add butter, olive oil etc. and I'm super full after my meals, yet I can't make it past 900 calories what am I doing wrong?!
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Eat more. I know it sounds simple, but you're not the first person to come on here saying this.
Chances are you're eating more than you think and your logging is inaccurate also.
Here is a list of calorie dense food items to add to your diet:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10142490/a-list-of-calorie-dense-foods16 -
My guess is that you are actually eating more than you think you are. Do you use a food scale?24
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Did you pick the correct entries from the database?2
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Do you own a food scale?1
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Why are you even dieting? Just eat normal food.3
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If you are stuffed full on only 700 calories I'd double check your logging.13
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Just eat.
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As others have said, first double check your logging. Weigh everything, log correctly (by picking accurate entries and not just the lowest calorie one), and reassess. If you're still under your calorie goal, add more food. My personal favorite is cheese, but the link @GottaBurnEmAll posted above has lots of good options.1
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My guess is that you are actually eating more than you think you are. Do you use a food scale?
This. it's not very hard to go over 700 calories if you're eating chicken breast and adding oils and butter. The oils alone for a tablespoon is 100-120 calories, and only 100g of raw chicken breast has 147 calories.
Also, there is no need to cut out foods for weight loss.
Can you open your diary, please?4 -
Hi OP.
A few questions:
When you log, are you logging all of your oil, butter, sauces, etc, as well as your chicken and vegetables?
Do you weigh your solid ingredients on a food scale, eyeball portions, or do you use measuring cups?
For packaged foods (like butter, for instance) do you verify your labels against the MFP database entries? The MFP database is user maintained, so there are lots of incorrect entries. This also includes the barcode scanning and the green checkmarked "verified" entries. Always double check everything!
If you answered yes to all of these and are using a food scale, you may want to consider adding a few higher calorie items back into your diet to ensure that you are reaching your calorie goal. There should be a list of higher calorie food options that I'm sure someone will post shortly.
Or barring that, have a bowl of ice cream.
ETA: Never mind. Just noticed GottaBurnEmAll already posted the link.3 -
Make sure you're logging accurately, as others have said.
Then start eating more carbs and calorie dense foods. If all you eat is lean meat and veg with a little fat, of course you will fill up too quickly. You've gone to an extreme. Add in some potatoes, some rice, some bread. Have a cookie every now and then. Your body needs energy, so give it energy.5 -
I find it very hard to believe you are super full after eating just 700-900 calories each day, betting your tracking is off.8
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dragon_girl26 wrote: »Hi OP.
A few questions:
When you log, are you logging all of your oil, butter, sauces, etc, as well as your chicken and vegetables?
Do you weigh your solid ingredients on a food scale, eyeball portions, or do you use measuring cups?
For packaged foods (like butter, for instance) do you verify your labels against the MFP database entries? The MFP database is user maintained, so there are lots of incorrect entries. This also includes the barcode scanning and the green checkmarked "verified" entries. Always double check everything!
If you answered yes to all of these and are using a food scale, you may want to consider adding a few higher calorie items back into your diet to ensure that you are reaching your calorie goal. There should be a list of higher calorie food options that I'm sure someone will post shortly.
Or barring that, have a bowl of ice cream.
ETA: Never mind. Just noticed GottaBurnEmAll already posted the link.
Yes I log all of my oils, butters etc. and check the food label on my food and compare it to the one on here. I basically eat chicken and broccoli every day. So I guess I'll just have to try and eat more chicken
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TanishaKielas wrote: »
Can you open your diary? Perhaps we can find something in your logging that's causing you an issue.3 -
My guess is that you are actually eating more than you think you are. Do you use a food scale?
This. Use a scale, weigh everything, try to choose verified entries in the database when logging. Log everything, don't cheat.. you're eating more than you think. If not, then you would not have been overweight in the first place getting full on such a low amount of calories. Even olive oil is 120 calories per tablespoon. Eating too many low calorie vegetables isn't 'eating healthy' it's simply not eating enough fats, carbs, protein. Try and pay attention to your macros it'll help. If I'm wrong then you may have a medical issue you might want to discuss with your doctor.2 -
It's quite unlikely that your calorie intake is so low if you're even adding high-calorie seasonings such as olive oil and butter. 1 table spoon of olive oil has around 90-110 kcals depending on how many grams of oil you can fit in the volume of your table spoon (around 10-13g though), and 15g of butter have around 115 kcals. So each of them will make up for 10% of a 1000-kcal diet. Maybe you could try to open your diary so that everyone can give ideas on how to increase your calorie intake?0
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How on earth did you gain weight if you can't eat more than 700-900 calories? If your calorie counts are correct, you need to figure out something cause eating 700-900 calories of "healthy" food isn't as health as a balanced diet with the right amount of calories.20
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How on earth did you gain weight if you can't eat more than 700-900 calories? If your calorie counts are correct, you need to figure out something cause eating 700-900 calories of "healthy" food isn't as health as a balanced diet with the right amount of calories.
My guess is that the weight gain is more food in her GI tract, water weight due to more carbs since says she has to "watch carbs", etc.
OP, what are your weight and height?6 -
TanishaKielas wrote: »dragon_girl26 wrote: »Hi OP.
A few questions:
When you log, are you logging all of your oil, butter, sauces, etc, as well as your chicken and vegetables?
Do you weigh your solid ingredients on a food scale, eyeball portions, or do you use measuring cups?
For packaged foods (like butter, for instance) do you verify your labels against the MFP database entries? The MFP database is user maintained, so there are lots of incorrect entries. This also includes the barcode scanning and the green checkmarked "verified" entries. Always double check everything!
If you answered yes to all of these and are using a food scale, you may want to consider adding a few higher calorie items back into your diet to ensure that you are reaching your calorie goal. There should be a list of higher calorie food options that I'm sure someone will post shortly.
Or barring that, have a bowl of ice cream.
ETA: Never mind. Just noticed GottaBurnEmAll already posted the link.
Yes I log all of my oils, butters etc. and check the food label on my food and compare it to the one on here. I basically eat chicken and broccoli every day. So I guess I'll just have to try and eat more chicken
Just chicken and broccoli isn't really a "very healthy" diet as you said you were seeking. Variety is helpful. Here's a good link to learn more about nutrition: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/
Also, of course, such low calories is not healthy. You are going to be missing micros and some necessary macros (possibly the healthy fats you need too).
With such a limited diet my guess is, if the tracking isn't off (opening the diary might help) that you are bored with what you are eating and that's why you aren't feeling hungry. That's not sustainable.
It sounds to me that seeing a doctor and asking to see a registered dietitian would be a good idea if you truly think you are stuffed and can't eat more on such low calories and have such a limited (and inaccurate) idea of what a good diet is.4 -
It's difficult for me to believe that you can't eat more than 900 calories. Just try harder lol. It doesn't make sense that you could go from over eating, to severely under-eating and your body is never hungry at all? Also, there is a big difference between 900 and 2300 calories. Are you active? If not, that seems like a lot of calories for a woman who's trying to lose (granted, it depends on your size now)
Find out how much you should be eating, and log it at the beginning of the day or the night before (healthy carbs, peanuts, oil, protein, etc etc). Then you'll have no excuses as to why you can only eat 700-900 calories. I think it should be fairly easy to think of meals that are 400,500, or 600 calories.3 -
TanishaKielas wrote: »dragon_girl26 wrote: »Hi OP.
A few questions:
When you log, are you logging all of your oil, butter, sauces, etc, as well as your chicken and vegetables?
Do you weigh your solid ingredients on a food scale, eyeball portions, or do you use measuring cups?
For packaged foods (like butter, for instance) do you verify your labels against the MFP database entries? The MFP database is user maintained, so there are lots of incorrect entries. This also includes the barcode scanning and the green checkmarked "verified" entries. Always double check everything!
If you answered yes to all of these and are using a food scale, you may want to consider adding a few higher calorie items back into your diet to ensure that you are reaching your calorie goal. There should be a list of higher calorie food options that I'm sure someone will post shortly.
Or barring that, have a bowl of ice cream.
ETA: Never mind. Just noticed GottaBurnEmAll already posted the link.
Yes I log all of my oils, butters etc. and check the food label on my food and compare it to the one on here. I basically eat chicken and broccoli every day. So I guess I'll just have to try and eat more chicken
There are a lot of foods out there that are low carb and calorie dense that aren't just chicken & broccoli. A diet composed predominantly of just two foods is going to miss out on a variety of nutrients. Have you taken a look at the list linked above? Do any of those foods appeal to you?
I've gotta be honest, it feels like something else is going on here. You seem very hesitant to actually take any of the advice being given.4 -
Start eating carbs.1
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TanishaKielas wrote: »Hey everybody.
So my calorie goal on here is about 2300. But after I get done logging all of my food at the end of the day I'm always between 700-900 calories. I'm trying to eat very healthy, I eat chicken, asparagus, broccoli I also add butter, olive oil etc. and I'm super full after my meals, yet I can't make it past 900 calories what am I doing wrong?!
The bolded part is often the problem when people complain that they are eating too few calories. Healthy, is not a food or ingredient but a diet (in the true sense of the word - what you eat). So healthy will be balanced, including P/F/C and at an appropriate level for your activity.
If you struggle hitting your cals with chicken, asparagus, broccoli I also add butter, olive oil etc add in some of the stuff you used to eat before you started "dieting".8 -
TanishaKielas wrote: »Hey everybody.
So my calorie goal on here is about 2300. But after I get done logging all of my food at the end of the day I'm always between 700-900 calories. I'm trying to eat very healthy, I eat chicken, asparagus, broccoli I also add butter, olive oil etc. and I'm super full after my meals, yet I can't make it past 900 calories what am I doing wrong?!
Just eat more. Try adding in a protein shake, maybe a little bit more portion wise per meal. A granola bar. Little things here and there will get you to that goal and help you gain.1 -
nosebag1212 wrote: »I find it very hard to believe you are super full after eating just 700-900 calories each day, betting your tracking is off.
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StealthHealth wrote: »TanishaKielas wrote: »Hey everybody.
So my calorie goal on here is about 2300. But after I get done logging all of my food at the end of the day I'm always between 700-900 calories. I'm trying to eat very healthy, I eat chicken, asparagus, broccoli I also add butter, olive oil etc. and I'm super full after my meals, yet I can't make it past 900 calories what am I doing wrong?!
The bolded part is often the problem when people complain that they are eating too few calories. Healthy, is not a food or ingredient but a diet (in the true sense of the word - what you eat). So healthy will be balanced, including P/F/C and at an appropriate level for your activity.
I love this post/sentence... I would tweak it just slightly to say: "Healhty is not a food, or ingredient, but an overall diet (in the true sense of the word - what you eat). So a healthy diet will be balanced, including P/F/C, does not need to exclude any particular foods, and is at an appropriate calorie level for your activity and goals".
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TanishaKielas wrote: »
What do you mean when you say "when I eat normal I gain weight". What does "normal" mean to you?3 -
TanishaKielas wrote: »dragon_girl26 wrote: »Hi OP.
A few questions:
When you log, are you logging all of your oil, butter, sauces, etc, as well as your chicken and vegetables?
Do you weigh your solid ingredients on a food scale, eyeball portions, or do you use measuring cups?
For packaged foods (like butter, for instance) do you verify your labels against the MFP database entries? The MFP database is user maintained, so there are lots of incorrect entries. This also includes the barcode scanning and the green checkmarked "verified" entries. Always double check everything!
If you answered yes to all of these and are using a food scale, you may want to consider adding a few higher calorie items back into your diet to ensure that you are reaching your calorie goal. There should be a list of higher calorie food options that I'm sure someone will post shortly.
Or barring that, have a bowl of ice cream.
ETA: Never mind. Just noticed GottaBurnEmAll already posted the link.
Yes I log all of my oils, butters etc. and check the food label on my food and compare it to the one on here. I basically eat chicken and broccoli every day. So I guess I'll just have to try and eat more chicken
Step 1 - I would stop following the bro-science that was established by many body builders for comp prep.
Step 2 - Eat the some food and follow the strategies found in: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10326769/are-you-a-hard-gainer-please-read/p1
Step3 - Weight loss will fluctuation depending on a ton of factors. Increasing foods will increase waste. Increased in carbs will increase glycogen. They are no fat. So get to normal levels and start tracking you weight from there.5
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