I can't eat enough calories!

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  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
    I basically cut bread and a lot of starchy food out of my diet a couple weeks ago because I had a real hard time with moderation.
    Either you are NEVER EVER going to eat these foods again, for the rest of your entire life, or you will have to learn how to eat them in moderation., or you will go back to eating them in excess. Those are the only things that can happen, so choose one.

    And yes, learning moderation can be difficult, but it isn't going to be any less difficult to learn next week or next year.
  • askeates
    askeates Posts: 1,490 Member
    To get a better idea of exactly how many calories you are eating, you should take the time to weigh everything, and if it enters your mouth you should log it! You would be surprised to see just how many calories you are getting with the veggies you are not logging! They still won't add up to a ton of calories, but some veggies have more calories than others.
  • parkscs
    parkscs Posts: 1,639 Member
    I basically cut bread and a lot of starchy food out of my diet a couple weeks ago because I had a real hard time with moderation.
    Either you are NEVER EVER going to eat these foods again, for the rest of your entire life, or you will have to learn how to eat them in moderation., or you will go back to eating them in excess. Those are the only things that can happen, so choose one.

    And yes, learning moderation can be difficult, but it isn't going to be any less difficult to learn next week or next year.

    I'd disagree with some of that. While you do need to learn to eat in a controlled manner, nothing says you have to eat all foods on a cut. If I only have 2000 calories to play with every day, I'm not going to eat a piece of cheesecake, but if I have 3500 calories to play with, I very well might. While you don't have to eliminate foods to lose weight, there's nothing that says you can't do so if that helps you achieve a caloric deficit. So might it be less difficult next week or next year? It very well might, if you're not cutting next week/next year, but instead looking to eat at maintenance or at a surplus.

    As for the OP struggling to eat 800 calories, I'm skeptical that 800 calories is really 800 calories. Track everything and track it accurately and you might be surprised how quickly you can get to 800 calories. All I've had so far today is a salad and a small handful of nuts and yet I'm over 1000 calories.
  • Siigh_duck
    Siigh_duck Posts: 161 Member
    sorry, it should be open now. A lot of the vegetables I don't bother logging because I eat them raw.

    I can eat about 200 cals in vegetables daily XD
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    I basically cut bread and a lot of starchy food out of my diet a couple weeks ago because I had a real hard time with moderation.
    Either you are NEVER EVER going to eat these foods again, for the rest of your entire life, or you will have to learn how to eat them in moderation., or you will go back to eating them in excess. Those are the only things that can happen, so choose one.

    And yes, learning moderation can be difficult, but it isn't going to be any less difficult to learn next week or next year.

    I'd disagree with some of that. While you do need to learn to eat in a controlled manner, nothing says you have to eat all foods on a cut. If I only have 2000 calories to play with every day, I'm not going to eat a piece of cheesecake, but if I have 3500 calories to play with, I very well might. While you don't have to eliminate foods to lose weight, there's nothing that says you can't do so if that helps you achieve a caloric deficit. So might it be less difficult next week or next year? It very well might, if you're not cutting next week/next year, but instead looking to eat at maintenance or at a surplus.

    As for the OP struggling to eat 800 calories, I'm skeptical that 800 calories is really 800 calories. Track everything and track it accurately and you might be surprised how quickly you can get to 800 calories. All I've had so far today is a salad and a small handful of nuts and yet I'm over 1000 calories.

    While I definitely believe in IIFYM, this guy makes a good point. It is much harder to fit some things in when your calorie count for the day is so low. I cut out certain foods because on 2K a day to lose, I had to pick my battles. Now I have a TDEE of around 3500 so I can eat whatever and make it fit, but is definitely hard to do in the beginning.
  • 4daluvof_candice
    4daluvof_candice Posts: 483 Member
    Sorry, OP but you're not logging everything you eat honestly and I beleive that you are well over 800cal/day as you claim. therefore, Im confused at your post and what help you actually need.

    sorry I had to say (type) it, if noone else would..:ohwell:
  • SamanthaD1218
    SamanthaD1218 Posts: 303 Member
    Sorry, OP but you're not logging everything you eat honestly and I beleive that you are well over 800cal/day as you claim. therefore, Im confused at your post and what help you actually need.

    sorry I had to say (type) it, if noone else would..:ohwell:

    Amen!
  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
    I basically cut bread and a lot of starchy food out of my diet a couple weeks ago because I had a real hard time with moderation.
    Either you are NEVER EVER going to eat these foods again, for the rest of your entire life, or you will have to learn how to eat them in moderation., or you will go back to eating them in excess. Those are the only things that can happen, so choose one.

    And yes, learning moderation can be difficult, but it isn't going to be any less difficult to learn next week or next year.

    I'd disagree with some of that. While you do need to learn to eat in a controlled manner, nothing says you have to eat all foods on a cut. If I only have 2000 calories to play with every day, I'm not going to eat a piece of cheesecake, but if I have 3500 calories to play with, I very well might. While you don't have to eliminate foods to lose weight, there's nothing that says you can't do so if that helps you achieve a caloric deficit. So might it be less difficult next week or next year? It very well might, if you're not cutting next week/next year, but instead looking to eat at maintenance or at a surplus.

    As for the OP struggling to eat 800 calories, I'm skeptical that 800 calories is really 800 calories. Track everything and track it accurately and you might be surprised how quickly you can get to 800 calories. All I've had so far today is a salad and a small handful of nuts and yet I'm over 1000 calories.

    While I definitely believe in IIFYM, this guy makes a good point. It is much harder to fit some things in when your calorie count for the day is so low. I cut out certain foods because on 2K a day to lose, I had to pick my battles. Now I have a TDEE of around 3500 so I can eat whatever and make it fit, but is definitely hard to do in the beginning.
    Except the problem is not that those foods are too calorie dense to fit into her goals.
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    I basically cut bread and a lot of starchy food out of my diet a couple weeks ago because I had a real hard time with moderation.
    Either you are NEVER EVER going to eat these foods again, for the rest of your entire life, or you will have to learn how to eat them in moderation., or you will go back to eating them in excess. Those are the only things that can happen, so choose one.

    And yes, learning moderation can be difficult, but it isn't going to be any less difficult to learn next week or next year.

    I'd disagree with some of that. While you do need to learn to eat in a controlled manner, nothing says you have to eat all foods on a cut. If I only have 2000 calories to play with every day, I'm not going to eat a piece of cheesecake, but if I have 3500 calories to play with, I very well might. While you don't have to eliminate foods to lose weight, there's nothing that says you can't do so if that helps you achieve a caloric deficit. So might it be less difficult next week or next year? It very well might, if you're not cutting next week/next year, but instead looking to eat at maintenance or at a surplus.

    As for the OP struggling to eat 800 calories, I'm skeptical that 800 calories is really 800 calories. Track everything and track it accurately and you might be surprised how quickly you can get to 800 calories. All I've had so far today is a salad and a small handful of nuts and yet I'm over 1000 calories.

    While I definitely believe in IIFYM, this guy makes a good point. It is much harder to fit some things in when your calorie count for the day is so low. I cut out certain foods because on 2K a day to lose, I had to pick my battles. Now I have a TDEE of around 3500 so I can eat whatever and make it fit, but is definitely hard to do in the beginning.
    Except the problem is not that those foods are too calorie dense to fit into her goals.

    No, but she said she has a hard time with those in moderation. Maybe it is easier to cut them out for now? Doesn't mean she will cut them out forever. If I really believed that she was eating only 800 cals per day (that doesn't seem to be the case), then obviously, add some of that back in, but I understand having a hard time eating something in moderation.

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