Eating if not hungry

24clouds

Stupid question but Ive come to realise mfp community have best advice

Say Ive eaten 600 calories in day and come dinner time I got 600 left but am not hungry should I still eat dinner?

I figured I should so I not hungry tomorrow but I ate a whole avocado as I thought good idea as not a lot of quantity but max calories. I ate some chicken stew too
Literally felt like I ate for sake of it which I guess I did!

cathipa

Yes you should still eat until you reach the goal MFP has set for you.

malibu927

Yes. One day under isn't an issue, but you should regularly be hitting 1200 calories so as not to lose more muscle mass or deprive your body of nutrition.

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endlessfall16

No. Those are the golden time that lets you effectively create deficit.

In reverse, there will be time that you feel hungry even when you eat "enough" your "allowance". It will be a struggle. Would you want to struggle?

pinuplove

In the scenario you've described, yes eat. No way have you satisfied your body nutritionally for the day with 600 calories. Now if I've eaten 1400 calories and am entitled to 1600, I'm not going to chow down a chocolate bar just because I can. Unless I want to...

Who am I kidding, I'd absolutely eat the chocolate! But only if it's high quality and delicious chocolate.

24clouds

I should mention this is rare lol! I did eat because logic told me I had not eaten enough in day to be healthy

24clouds

Oh and yes the question was defiantly about a big deficit not being under goal by 200 cals. Thanks for opinions

TimothyFish

If you aren't doing much for the rest of the day then I would say that you might as well skip dinner, since you aren't hungry. However, if you are planning on working out after dinner then eat anyway, because you need the energy.