Dieting tips

mattgrenier9
mattgrenier9 Posts: 49 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Okay I am a 19 year old male, I am 5'10 and weight roughly 175 lbs. I set my weight loss at 1 lbs a week and noticed that I am supposed to eat a little over 2000 calories a day too reach this goal. How am I supposed to do this? I end up eating way less than 2000 calories on everyday but my cheat day. I also noticed that I am supposed to eat like 2000 mg of sodium which I don't want to do because I don't want to retain water weight. Do I have to eat this much sodium? Any advice will be appreciated

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  • rockmama72
    rockmama72 Posts: 815 Member
    No, you don't have to eat all the sodium. That's just the upper limit. You probably won't retain water at that amount.

    I find it REALLY easy to eat 2000 calories. :) Are you weighing/measuring your food?
  • mattgrenier9
    mattgrenier9 Posts: 49 Member
    No, you don't have to eat all the sodium. That's just the upper limit. You probably won't retain water at that amount.

    I find it REALLY easy to eat 2000 calories. :) Are you weighing/measuring your food?
    I have not been weighing it because I need to purchase a better food scale, but I do measurements as in if it is two table spoons I actually measure it out. Part of my issue is that I put myself on such a high deficit before I was on this site that I am just not as hungry as I used to be
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    I eat to 2000 cals a day, no problem!

    Avocados, nuts & seeds, nut butters, olive oil, coconut oil, cheese, full fat dairy, whole eggs, throw some butter on toast or veggies, bananas, etc - calorie dense foods that get you closer to goal without having to eat huge portions.
  • Dugleik
    Dugleik Posts: 125
    Slowly add 100 calories or so a week until you reach 2000 calories. There are a lot of easy tricks to adding calories to your diet without covering it in lard.

    - Use a little oil. I personally love Argan oil, 5 ml is 40 calories. That is a teaspoon.
    - A few squares of dark chocolate a day keeps the doctor away.
    - Nuts and seeds. I add chia and hemp seeds to my breakfast.
    - Peanut butter, the 99% peanut kind.
    - Cheese. Not to be overdone, but sprinkle some Parmesan on your dinner to add some calories and delicious flavor.
  • smiletime82
    smiletime82 Posts: 29
    I am having trouble eating enough too, and I am only supposed to eat 1200 calories. I never thought that would be a problem, but when I write everything down, I am below, and I measure EVERYTHING. I have had to eat protein bars to even get close some days. I think my problem is I tend to be a night eater and not so much an early eater. I have to try to eat more for breakfast and lunch so that I don't have such a huge amount left after dinner. I don't want to eat a bunch at night, because then I end up with acid reflux all night long. Good Luck!

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