calorie numbers

somejaykid
somejaykid Posts: 52 Member
edited November 21 in Health and Weight Loss
hey guys new here in the discussions board, got a quick question my myfitnesspal calorie number is at 1500 at the end of the day i still have some 300-400 or so calorie left. when i clicked on "complete this entry" it's giving me "you are not likely not eating enough" the thing is by the end of the day i'm pretty much full and not hungry. is this a concern and should i try eating snacks to complete my 1500 calorie a day?

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  • rdix333
    rdix333 Posts: 111 Member
    See above
  • gamerbabe14
    gamerbabe14 Posts: 876 Member
    Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
    One day is no worry - every day eating under is an issue.

    This!
  • somejaykid
    somejaykid Posts: 52 Member
    Thanks for the reply guys will try to get all the 1500 a day
  • shadowknos
    shadowknos Posts: 1 Member
    it keeps telling me the same thing. it doesn't make sense to simply eat when you are not hungry and longer.
  • kami3006
    kami3006 Posts: 4,979 Member
    shadowknos wrote: »
    it keeps telling me the same thing. it doesn't make sense to simply eat when you are not hungry and longer.

    You don't have to complete for it to save your day. It's saved as soon as you log.
  • amtyrell
    amtyrell Posts: 1,447 Member
    If as a man you are regularly eating under 1500 you are not getting enough fuel for your body. Things like weakness,muscle loss,hair loss can and do happen as a result.
  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,839 Member
    The system won't close the day if you have logged less than 1200 for a woman and 1500 for a man.
  • MegaMooseEsq
    MegaMooseEsq Posts: 3,118 Member
    I strongly suspect that a lot of people who are logging very low calories and genuinely aren't hungry are probably either undercounting the calories they eat, or overcounting the calories they exercise. If you haven't already, I would read through the stickies and make sure your logging is as accurate as possible: are you weighing your portions or eyeballing? Do you count cooking oils and butter? If you pick a user created entry instead of going of nutrition labels, do you consistently pick the lowest calorie entry? If you have a big meal or night out, do you try and track that too? Are you really pushing as long and as hard as your exercise entries suggest? And look at the scale over time, too. Are you losing weight at a rate consistent with whatever deficit your numbers would suggest? I think it's easy to get into the mindset that you need to "win" at logging, but you are only hampering your efforts if you're not as honest as possible.
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