I don’t think I’m eating enough - but I feel like I am.

GrayWolf016

MyFitnessPal has my daily calorie goal as around 1450 ish. Even when I am constantly full and feel nauseous, I don’t often make it to 1200. If I eat to the point where I’m satisfied, I only eat around 750 a day which I’ve been told is way too low. Some days I’ll have a junky snack before I go to bed so that I’ll have enough calories to complete my diary so it’ll give me a projection weight. How do I eat enough without stuffing myself? Please - any advice helps!

Nony_Mouse

How are you tracking your food? Are you weighing everything, or just estimating portion sizes? Have you gone super extreme and cut out anything you don't deem 'healthy'? Eating large volumes of low cal veggies, etc? If you make your diary public, more experienced members can take a look and see where you may be going wrong. Nine times out of 10, it's logging errors and people are actually eating more than they think.

amusedmonkey

Are you trying to lose weight? If so, you definitely know how to eat enough. If you cut out some foods or changed your diet drastically, just re-introduce some of those foods until you are happy with your calories. Also, how is your weight loss doing? If you're not losing too fast, make sure you are logging accurately. Sometimes what looks like 800 calories can actually be 1400 if your logging is off.

Danp

I'm assuming your using the app because you're currently overweight and you want to lose weight?

If so, then you didn't get overweight eating 750cal a day or struggling to eat 1200 cals.

Depending on how overweight you have become and how long it took you to get that overweight you've been consistently eating hundreds if not thousands of calories above your maintenance every day.

Why do you think it is that you've been able to consume two or three thousand (or perhaps more) calories a day no problem, yet all of a sudden you're full and struggling to eat a quarter or less food?

There's not a lot to go on in your post but if I had to guess the problem could be one or both of the following:
1. Inaccurate logging. You're either consciously or accidentally under-reporting what you eat. There's 1200 calories worth of food in your log but there's 2 or 3 times that many calories worth of food in your belly
2. You're forcing yourself to eat foods you don't like (because you've decided they're 'good') and depriving yourself of food you love (because you've labelled them 'bad'). Under eating is easy when you have no appetite for the food you're eating.

Katmary71

Before I upped my protein I'd have a spoonful or two of peanut butter to reach enough calories. It's ok to be under here and there but you should really try to nourish your body properly.

RGv2

Before we go much further, it may be helpful to open your diary.

Also some stats: M/F - ht - wt - age

Panini911

GrayWolf016 wrote: »

MyFitnessPal has my daily calorie goal as around 1450 ish. Even when I am constantly full and feel nauseous, !

is this new? the full and nauseous?
have you changed your eating habits? how? How long ago?
or maybe added exercise?
Assuming your goal is weight loss, how long ago have you started tracking/trying and how much have you lost in that time?

kshama2001

GrayWolf016 wrote: »

MyFitnessPal has my daily calorie goal as around 1450 ish. Even when I am constantly full and feel nauseous, I don’t often make it to 1200. If I eat to the point where I’m satisfied, I only eat around 750 a day which I’ve been told is way too low. Some days I’ll have a junky snack before I go to bed so that I’ll have enough calories to complete my diary so it’ll give me a projection weight. How do I eat enough without stuffing myself? Please - any advice helps!

If you've been doing this for a month and the weight is not melting off you, then you are likely eating more than you think, which is common in the beginning.

There are logging errors that people commonly make that we might be able to spot if you change your Diary Sharing settings to Public: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings

Also see the post above mine re: fiber.

DKLI

The only time I would feel “full and nauseous” is if I ate 1200 calories worth of dense food, all at once. I’ve never thought of 1200 calories spread over 24 hours as giving me enough to “stuff” myself. You may be underestimating what you’re eating. Another thought is it’s psychological in that when you have a normal amount of food in your stomach and you’re no longer hungry, you’re worried you’re eating too much and it makes you feel queasy. You don’t have to always feel hungry or have a growling stomach when cutting calories, you can feel normally full and it’s ok.

peggy_polenta

are you eating low carb? if so, being in ketosis can really kill your appetite and make it diff ult to eat or want to be around food. you can try to add fats to your meals...butter your veg and meat, oil, full fat dressings, etc. that should help bump up your calorie intake.

LyndaBSS

What kind of foods are you eating?

poisonesse

You haven't given us enough data to be able to help you. Waiting for your answers to all the above questions, then we can offer suggestions.