But I would have to add a HONEYBUN
nicolepburgess91
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So, I'm finding it incredibly difficult to meet 1200 calories a day. I eat when I'm hungry and make healthy choices. I love oven roasted vegetables for lunch. And then I typically have a lean cuisine at night. I am pretty much sedentary except the occasional days of walking around the local town. I typically cap off my days around 900 calories. I refuse to eat 1 and a half hours before I go to sleep. I know I'm supposed to be at 1200, but I can't seem to reach it. I'm just not that hungry. And get this - I've been at the same weight for almost a month!! Tips and advice appreciated.
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Add oil to your roast veg.
And a spoonful of peanut butter as dessert12 -
My guess would be that you aren't logging everything or logging by volume. If you were really eating 900 calories every day for a month, you would have lost something. Are you using a food scale and weighing everything?
ETA: I just learned the other day that packaged food must contain 99% of the quantity listed on the label. Because this is hard to do, manufacturers most times will purposely go a bit over. I've seen it especially with baked goods, where the actual product is 20% larger than what the label suggests! It can seriously add up to someone consuming a lot more calories than they think they are.10 -
You could add a honeybun. I don't know what that is, but if it's something you like and it fits in your calorie/nutrition goals, why not eat it?3
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Tried30UserNames wrote: »You could add a honeybun. I don't know what that is, but if it's something you like and it fits in your calorie/nutrition goals, why not eat it?
Haha it was an exaggeration. It's like a giant breaded thing that's coated in gooey sugar. Totally not subjecting myself to that malarkey.1 -
nicolepburgess91 wrote: »Tried30UserNames wrote: »You could add a honeybun. I don't know what that is, but if it's something you like and it fits in your calorie/nutrition goals, why not eat it?
Haha it was an exaggeration. It's like a giant breaded thing that's coated in gooey sugar. Totally not subjecting myself to that malarkey.
Why not? Under eating is unhealthy. If a honeybun fits your cals and macros then it's not doing you any harm.29 -
For the most part I try to avoid things with ingredient lists this long:
enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, water, palm oil, vegetable shortening (soybean oil and palm oil with added mono- and diglycerides), yeast, contains 2% or less of each of the following: dextrose, salt, cornstarch, soy flour, monoglycerides, corn syrup, calcium carbonate, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda), datem, soy lecithin, soybean oil, dried honey, cinnamon, calcium sulfate, agar, colored with extracts of annatto and turmeric, titanium dioxide (for color), natural and artificial flavor, enzymes, azodicarbonamide, preserved with calcium propionate, sodium propionate, and potassium sorbate3 -
nicolepburgess91 wrote: »For the most part I try to avoid things with ingredient lists this long:
enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, water, palm oil, vegetable shortening (soybean oil and palm oil with added mono- and diglycerides), yeast, contains 2% or less of each of the following: dextrose, salt, cornstarch, soy flour, monoglycerides, corn syrup, calcium carbonate, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda), datem, soy lecithin, soybean oil, dried honey, cinnamon, calcium sulfate, agar, colored with extracts of annatto and turmeric, titanium dioxide (for color), natural and artificial flavor, enzymes, azodicarbonamide, preserved with calcium propionate, sodium propionate, and potassium sorbate
Because....?27 -
How did you gain the weight you are trying to lose?20
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Why do you refuse to eat one & half hours before bed? That makes no sense.21
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MelanieCN77 wrote: »How did you gain the weight you are trying to lose?
I have always been overweight. Since I was a kid.2 -
nicolepburgess91 wrote: »
Nope38 -
TavistockToad wrote: »nicolepburgess91 wrote: »For the most part I try to avoid things with ingredient lists this long:
enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, water, palm oil, vegetable shortening (soybean oil and palm oil with added mono- and diglycerides), yeast, contains 2% or less of each of the following: dextrose, salt, cornstarch, soy flour, monoglycerides, corn syrup, calcium carbonate, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda), datem, soy lecithin, soybean oil, dried honey, cinnamon, calcium sulfate, agar, colored with extracts of annatto and turmeric, titanium dioxide (for color), natural and artificial flavor, enzymes, azodicarbonamide, preserved with calcium propionate, sodium propionate, and potassium sorbate
Because....?
Because I prefer to eat as clean as possible. I'm not 100% into clean eating. But I would like to eat as clean as I can.1 -
nicolepburgess91 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »nicolepburgess91 wrote: »For the most part I try to avoid things with ingredient lists this long:
enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, water, palm oil, vegetable shortening (soybean oil and palm oil with added mono- and diglycerides), yeast, contains 2% or less of each of the following: dextrose, salt, cornstarch, soy flour, monoglycerides, corn syrup, calcium carbonate, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda), datem, soy lecithin, soybean oil, dried honey, cinnamon, calcium sulfate, agar, colored with extracts of annatto and turmeric, titanium dioxide (for color), natural and artificial flavor, enzymes, azodicarbonamide, preserved with calcium propionate, sodium propionate, and potassium sorbate
Because....?
Because I prefer to eat as clean as possible. I'm not 100% into clean eating. But I would like to eat as clean as I can.
Have you looked at the number of ingredients in your lean cuisine?66 -
nicolepburgess91 wrote: »So, I'm finding it incredibly difficult to meet 1200 calories a day. I eat when I'm hungry and make healthy choices. I love oven roasted vegetables for lunch. And then I typically have a lean cuisine at night.... I typically cap off my days around 900 calories.... I've been at the same weight for almost a month!!
Are you very lean and trying to hit an ultimate goal weight? If so, it's possible something wacky could be going on to explain the stall. If not, either you have a medical issue or else there's an issue with the logging.
If you really think there couldn't possibly be anything wrong with the logging, take your log to the doctor and explain what you have here.
If not, you probably are eating close to maintenance. We could check out the diary for ideas/suggestions if you opened it.1 -
Eating a well rounded diet that fulfills your nutritional needs and is maintainable long term is much more important than eating clean.
As said above, eating below your calorie level consistently is worse for your overall health than a pastry or bun.
Personally I love our locally made honey buns.
Cheers, h.14 -
Tried30UserNames wrote: »You could add a honeybun.
Like a cinnamon roll, I think, but less cinnamon-y.2 -
nicolepburgess91 wrote: »
That's just not true.13 -
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nicolepburgess91 wrote: »
That's just not true.
Well it's what I've always heard. It may be incorrect. But, I was under the impression it was true for a long time.0 -
nicolepburgess91 wrote: »nicolepburgess91 wrote: »
That's just not true.
Well it's what I've always heard. It may be incorrect. But, I was under the impression it was true for a long time.
i eat literally right before bed everynight (a small bowl of cereal) - I'm sleeping better and lost 10lbs21 -
nicolepburgess91 wrote: »nicolepburgess91 wrote: »
That's just not true.
Well it's what I've always heard. It may be incorrect. But, I was under the impression it was true for a long time.
It's not, it's one of a long list of diet myths.
Could you open your diary so we can see if there are potential logging errors? Are you cooking that veg with oil?
That said, I find it hard to believe roasted veg and a Lean Cuisine is leaving you completely full for an entire month. And your lack of losses when your deficit may be way too high is unlikely, even for those of us that lose in stalls and whooshes.
And finally, if your logging is correct, your losses are about to show up on the scale, then yes, eat the flipping honeybun because eating so called "clean" isn't doing you any favours.16 -
nicolepburgess91 wrote: »
Nope.6 -
If you've been the same weight for a month, I'm 99.9% certain your calorie intake isn't 900 per day.35
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I eat over 500 calories 1 1/2 hours before bed due to working nights and haven't experienced any weight gain. I understand wanting to avoid the trans fat in a honey bun, but perhaps there is another calorie dense treat you like? A larabar is about 200 calories and is a 'clean' food. Or, you could make your own peanut butter energy bites (oats, pb, honey) and pop one or two to top off those calories.4
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I think I would add some breakfast, especially if you don't want to eat before bed. You need at least 300 more calories per day. If you only eat veggies and a lean cuisine each day, you could benefit from some fruit, maybe some more protein, even more carbs if you feeling lacking on energy. Take a look at your macros for what you are truly lacking and go from there.
I love banana with a spoon of peanut butter when I need a few more calories.1 -
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10142490/a-list-of-calorie-dense-foods/p1
^This is part of the stickied "must reads" at the top of the Food and Nutrition board. There are some ideas there to increase your calories. You might check out those stickied posts. There's a lot of good stuff there.9 -
No.nicolepburgess91 wrote: »
Eat the dang honeybun. Avoiding it to close your diary at 900 calories is much more unhealthy than eating it.
Before adding more calories, are you using a food scale to weigh everythIng even prepackaged food?
Agreed with those saying that you're not maintaining on 900 cals. No one over the age of 2, or in a coma over the age of 70 maintains on 900.
Clean eating is a croc, too. I was my unhealthiest and heaviest when I ate clean.12 -
How is your food weighing going? Are you weighing and logging all the things, including oils you may or may not put on your roasted vegetables? Now, I could be wrong, but as someone who claims to eat "clean" but enjoys a lean cuisine (and there's nothin' wrong with a little lean cuisine, but I don't think even the looser definitions of "clean" eating would accept that), that we're not hearing about all the things that you're eating. Like one of those "Secret Eaters" episodes (love that show).
But really, I looked up honeybun 'cause I wasn't quite sure what it was, and straight up found out that Rick Ross likes to put cheese on his honeybuns. WHAT. Not sure if I should be repulsed or if I need to head to the 7/11 right now.15 -
nicolepburgess91 wrote: »So, I'm finding it incredibly difficult to meet 1200 calories a day. I eat when I'm hungry and make healthy choices. I love oven roasted vegetables for lunch. And then I typically have a lean cuisine at night. I am pretty much sedentary except the occasional days of walking around the local town. I typically cap off my days around 900 calories. I refuse to eat 1 and a half hours before I go to sleep. I know I'm supposed to be at 1200, but I can't seem to reach it. I'm just not that hungry. And get this - I've been at the same weight for almost a month!! Tips and advice appreciated.
You are taking in more than 1200 calories if you are not losing weight for a month when you think you are consuming 900 calories daily. Check your accuracy on your logging. Open your diary if you want advice.nicolepburgess91 wrote: »
Not true. But there are a lot of hours in the day you could be eating besides that hour before bed. That isn't really an excuse to undereat the rest of your day.
You could just choose more calorie dense foods and meet your calorie goal easily with smaller amounts of food without resorting to a low nutrition food items. Get some fat in your diet. Eat some meat or beans. Have a potato, banana or avocado. Eat some nuts or seeds. Eat some rice or pasta. Drink some juice or milk.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10142490/a-list-of-calorie-dense-foods/p1
Check your logging first though. Log everything. Use a food scale. Check that the entries you use are correct.
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