Food Goals

AEMW8
AEMW8 Posts: 94 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I'm always under my calorie goal, so I always get a message saying that I'm eating too few calories and that it'll cause my body to go into starvation mode. Something along those lines. What can I eat to increase my caloric intake without having everything else hit the roof? I'm also needing some foods that'll decrease my cholesterol and protein, since my doctor informed me that both were high.

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  • AEMW8
    AEMW8 Posts: 94 Member
    Why so dead out there?
  • AJ_G
    AJ_G Posts: 4,158 Member
    What do you mean by anything else hit the roof?
  • grimendale
    grimendale Posts: 2,153 Member
    Your doctor said your protein was too high? That doesn't make much sense, unless you are eating way more protein than I suspect you are. As a rule, going over on protein and healthy fat is fine so long as you are under your calorie totals. Your diary is closed, so I can't see what you are already eating to suggest new options or comment on your macro settings. They might need adjusting if you are having problems.
  • ashleyisgreat
    ashleyisgreat Posts: 586 Member
    What's your calorie goal every day? And what are your protein, fat, and carb goals? My go-to snacks might not work for you if your goals are significantly different than mine, but I like eating snacks like nuts and berries to up my daily intake.
  • AJ_G
    AJ_G Posts: 4,158 Member
    If you are worried about cholesterol, understand that dietary cholesterol has very little affect on your blood cholesterol levels. Almost all dietary cholesterol is excreted by the body. Best way to lower cholesterol is to decrease carbohydrate intake, and increase fat intake to reverse the affects of insulin resistance. Also, unless you have kidney failure, there is no reasonable amount of protein that is going to be bad for you, unless you are consuming upwards of 300 grams a day, which I highly doubt...
  • smwooley
    smwooley Posts: 133 Member
    Increase your calorie goal. No one should be eating under 1200 unless they're under strict orders from the doctor after surgery. And even then, I have my doubts. I agree with a previous poster. It's pretty impossible to have too much protein. The cholesterol will go down as your weight goes down, most likely. Work on eating healthy and the rest works itself out. Again....make sure you eat enough!
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/975025-in-place-of-a-road-map-short-n-sweet
  • ashleyisgreat
    ashleyisgreat Posts: 586 Member
    Increase your calorie goal. No one should be eating under 1200 unless they're under strict orders from the doctor after surgery. And even then, I have my doubts. I agree with a previous poster. It's pretty impossible to have too much protein. The cholesterol will go down as your weight goes down, most likely. Work on eating healthy and the rest works itself out. Again....make sure you eat enough!
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/975025-in-place-of-a-road-map-short-n-sweet

    Agreed. That post is a great place to start. Helped me figure things out pretty quickly and I realized right away that I needed to be eating way more than MFP suggested (even when it was set at 1 lb per week!). Check it out, OP.
  • PippiNe
    PippiNe Posts: 283 Member
    Try eating a bowl of cheerios for breakfast every day. Doctor recommended this for a friend of mine whose cholesterol was too high. Said that plus exercise and an otherwise healthy diet should help to decrease her cholesterol. As for calorie rich snacks that are good for you, you could try yogurt (not the "light" versions), pistachios, raisins or other dried fruit.
  • AEMW8
    AEMW8 Posts: 94 Member
    Thanks for the response and I apologize for my tardiness. Working overnight, you sleep throughout the day when everyone else is awake. I can't really say too much about it. I know I go back in to get my blood retested on those things next Friday and I start seeing my trainer and nutritionist Monday.

    It seems like my sodium and sugar are the first to hit the roof, where everything else is below by MFP standards.
  • grimendale
    grimendale Posts: 2,153 Member
    Unless you're diabetic, don't worry about sugar. The MFP recommendation is based on added sugar, not natural sugar, so it is very easy to blow up that number while eating healthy. Most of us (myself included) don't bother to track it for this reason. Be careful with nutritionists. They don't have any formal licensing process, so you get a lot of them who have no idea what they are doing (and some who do). Dieticians are certified and licensed formally and require medical training that nutritionists need not have. Yours might be good, but it would be worthwhile to check the credentials.
  • AEMW8
    AEMW8 Posts: 94 Member
    Unless you're diabetic, don't worry about sugar. The MFP recommendation is based on added sugar, not natural sugar, so it is very easy to blow up that number while eating healthy. Most of us (myself included) don't bother to track it for this reason. Be careful with nutritionists. They don't have any formal licensing process, so you get a lot of them who have no idea what they are doing (and some who do). Dieticians are certified and licensed formally and require medical training that nutritionists need not have. Yours might be good, but it would be worthwhile to check the credentials.

    It may be a dietitian then, not a nutritionist. I can't be 100% positive though. As far as I know, I don't have diabetes, but it is in my family's history. One of the reasons I do try to keep track of my sugar.

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