Probably Been Asked 1 Million times...

BarbieAS

I went back a week or two. First and foremost, either you have a good chunk of days where you aren't completing your logging OR you're only eating 500 calories or less. Either of these are going to set you up for major failure. Plan to fix that for greater success.

On the days where it looks like you actually ate a full day of food and logged it all, calorie-wise...you're probably mostly ok. Make sure you get to at least your sans-exercise calorie goal. Hard to say for sure without knowing your stats and TDEE.

I'm going to suggest more protein, though. Some days you only have like 20-30g. Rule of thumb that most people put out there is at least 0.8g of protein per day per pound of lean body mass. Again, I don't know your stats, but I'm going to guess that you probably want to shoot for 70-80g or more - figure out your body fat percentage and go from there.

It is my understanding the the 5:2 diet calls for eating 500 calories or less 2 days per week, she may be on that diet.

While, yes, this is true, and I'm very familiar with 5:2, I assumed she wasn't doing 5:2 because (a) I think she would have said so in the first place, and (b) her general knowledge level and attitude didn't seem to suggest it. I didn't feel the need to over-complicate things by even mentioning it. Besides, if she was doing 5:2, she should be eating approximately TDEE on the other 5 days, which she clearly was not doing, so it would still be incorrect.