I cant eat my calories!!!!

MindyLynn77

HELP!!! okay, as those of you who kinda follow a lil bit of me and my progress, youll notice I have BIG burns when I exercise...Heres my problem.. it leaves me SO many calories to eat extra that, I sometimes get sick from eating so much.. apparently my weight issue comes from the choice of food i ate, not the quantity.. anyway.. its 2pm, ive had breakfast, lunch, a snack and a protein shake.. and I still have 1558 calories to eat!!! WTF??? Should I go to GNC or something and see if theres some kind of healthy high cal shakes or something that I can drink in the afternoon or at night? cuz seriously.. unless i eat something UNHEALTHY theres NO WAY ill eat almost 1600 more calories today.. being healthy is harder than I thought, but in a totally different way.. I thought id miss the junk food, and sometimes I do, but its really not that bad..BUT, the QUANTITY of food I need to eat, since im eating GOOD FOR ME food, is seriously KILLING me!!!

melsinct

Plan better. Work out your meals the night before or early in the morning so you know ahead of time you will be short and can adjust accordingly.

When I am short on calories, I will cook in olive oil and not go as sparingly as normal, have whole wheat pasta or some other calorie dense food, etc.

Aireyma

im jealous. i wish that was my problem!!!

Jenscan

Cool back the burns when you exercise. You don't have to burn 1200 calories every day at the gym. Lighten up on the workouts!

erickirb

Where you do have a lot to lose you can get away with not eating all of your calories and you may lose 2.5 lbs/week instead of the 2, which would be okay given your stats. The more you have to lose the larger deficit you can afford, just keep in mind that the closer you get to your goal the more of your exercise calories you will have to eat.

Here are some suggestions. Reduce the amount you workout somewhat and: Get rid of all the lite, low cal foods and eat the real versions of them. switch your milk products to a higher fat% i.e. from 1% to 2%. Eat nuts, seeds, and dehydrated fruit as snacks. Have a glass of juice in place of a glass of water. Add olive oil to soups and sauces, add avocado to salads and sandwiches.

You don't have to eat more food to ingest more calories, just make different food choices.

How are you calculating calories burned? Your burn for level 1 of the 30DS seems extremely high most people only burn 8 to 13 calories per minute doing it.

Drunkadelic

Only eat till your full. You don't have to eat back every single calorie.

jamiefire7

It isn't required that you eat back your workout calories. As long as you are getting your reccomended calories (pre-workout) for the day I'd be ok with that as long as you're not hungry. Definitely don't over eat just because the program allows you thos calories...

Shweedog

Breakfast should be your biggest meal a day calorie wise. I noticed you eat between 100-250 cals for breakfast.

tmaksparkie

Yes GNC has some good gainers, my husband uses elite mass fudge brownie, it has 600cals/ 4 scoops. He likes the taste of it.

Kristhin

Just eat as much as you want and then stop. If you're under your calorie goal it is ok. Just don't overstuff yourself when you don't want the extra food. Thats teaching your body to eat like you're fat.

cspence2270

You don't have to eat thoses calories. It's not mandatory. As long as you're satisfied and your eating healthy and you're getting at least 1200 calories a day you're fine.

MindyLynn77

Breakfast should be your biggest meal a day calorie wise. I noticed you eat between 100-250 cals for breakfast.

I already seem to have to choke that down.. Its SO hard for me to eat in the mornings

robin52077

Here are some suggestions. Reduce the amount you workout somewhat and: Get rid of all the lite, low cal foods and eat the real versions of them. switch your milk products to a higher fat% i.e. from 1% to 2%. Eat nuts, seeds, and dehydrated fruit as snacks. Have a glass of juice in place of a glass of water. Add olive oil to soups and sauces, add avocado to salads and sandwiches.

You don't have to eat more food to ingest more calories, just make different food choices.

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and instead of that little 110 cal bottle of "protein shake", grab a blender, some full fat yogurt, a bunch of frozen berries, whole milk, and a couple scoops of real protein powder, mine has almost 300 cals a serving...I can make a smoothie have 600 calories and be SO delicious its like dessert...

ilsie99

switch your milk products to a higher fat% i.e. from 1% to 2%.

You could drink whole milk if you wanted to.

jaimejean478

Definitely eat a bigger breakfast.... and don't stress unless your food calories go below 1500 or so (since you are working out heavily). Yesterday my net calories were only 425 but I still ate over 1500, so I didn't worry about trying to shove another 1000 down my face. And I'd say definitely don't make a habit of low low net cal's a couple times a week is probably okay, but not regularly.

MindyLynn77

Here are some suggestions. Reduce the amount you workout somewhat and: Get rid of all the lite, low cal foods and eat the real versions of them. switch your milk products to a higher fat% i.e. from 1% to 2%. Eat nuts, seeds, and dehydrated fruit as snacks. Have a glass of juice in place of a glass of water. Add olive oil to soups and sauces, add avocado to salads and sandwiches.

You don't have to eat more food to ingest more calories, just make different food choices.

How are you calculating calories burned? Your burn for level 1 of the 30DS seems extremely high most people only burn 8 to 13 calories per minute doing it.

I wear my HRM.. it varies everytime i do it depending on how hard I push myself.. Today, being stressed, I pushed harder than usual... but I always burn high, I always use my HRM..Its a Timex with a chest strap, my sister uses the same one and hers seems accurate as well.... I drink whole milk cuz I dont like the other stuff, and trying to watch my sugar is why ive stayed away from juices lol.. It seems like every week i have a new dilemma to face.. I just want to be healthy!!!!! grrrrrrr lol... This would be me FRUSTRATED

jaimejean478

switch your milk products to a higher fat% i.e. from 1% to 2%.

You could drink whole milk if you wanted to.

OMG - I just LOL'd so majorly at this - at work! HIGH FIVE to you! HA!!!

erickirb

It isn't required that you eat back your workout calories. As long as you are getting your reccomended calories (pre-workout) for the day I'd be ok with that as long as you're not hungry. Definitely don't over eat just because the program allows you thos calories...

Actually that is incorrect. if MFP gives you 1300 and you burn 800, it is not okay to only eat the 1300, that would be like eating 500 (1300-800) calories on days you don't exercise. You should eat back most of your exercise calories, and the less you have to lose the more important this becomes, or you risk burning a high % of muscles instead of Body fat.

mommyJto3

you need to eat more in the morning. give up the light and fit yogurt for greek yougrt - and add an english muffin with some peanut butter. snack on veggies and hummus, nuts, etc to up your cals.

MindyLynn77

AND i only exercise no more than 30 minutes a day.. so its not like im hitting the gym and goin bananas lol.. its 1 video in my living room!

erickirb

You don't have to eat thoses calories. It's not mandatory. As long as you're satisfied and your eating healthy and you're getting at least 1200 calories a day you're fine.

Actually that is incorrect. if MFP gives you 1300 and you burn 800, it is not okay to only eat the 1300, that would be like eating 500 (1300-800) calories on days you don't exercise. You should eat back most of your exercise calories, and the less you have to lose the more important this becomes, or you risk burning a high % of muscles instead of Body fat.

mommyJto3

AND i only exercise no more than 30 minutes a day.. so its not like im hitting the gym and goin bananas lol.. its 1 video in my living room!

i see you are doing Hip Hop Abs - did it come with a nutrition plan? try to follow the guide it came with as far as what to eat.

RCKT82

I have the same problem. I've ran a deficit for so long and am so used to eating low cal foods, I have a hard time bringing my totals back up. I usually try to throw in some PB or olive oil to bring my cals back up. I also eat as soon as I wake and eat right before I head to bed. That way I use every bit of my time squeezing in cals. Part of it for me is Body Image too... I'm afraid to bring my intake back up. I'm slowly adding a couple hundred cals to my goals periodically.

UpEarly

I typically eat 1800-2100 calories a day, but I still almost always fall 350-800 calories short of my calorie goal. I'm not going to force myself to eat more when I'm simply not hungry.

I'm losing weight consistently and I feel good. I figure it's best to not mess with something that seems to be working perfectly.

ilsie99

switch your milk products to a higher fat% i.e. from 1% to 2%.

You could drink whole milk if you wanted to.

OMG - I just LOL'd so majorly at this - at work! HIGH FIVE to you! HA!!!

Glad someone got it

In all seriousness, as to the OP's dilemma, two words: coconut oil.

UpEarly

You could drink whole milk if you wanted to.

BEST POST EVER! I love Napoleon.

chadam1015

You will be fine not eating back your exercise calories. Just dont let your net calories fall under 1200. Eat up to that and be done.

annacataldo

plan better. eat high calorie HEALTHY FOODS. Nuts, natural peanut butter, lean meats, cheeses, raisins, rice, potatoes, avacodo, prunes, beans, banana, etc are all natural foods that are high calorie and healthy!!

If you know youll be doing a high calorie burn; eat nuts as your snacks, eat peanut butter on apples or pb on celery (or in sandwichs).

combine some items if youll have alot of calories left; banana and peanut butter for dessert, beans and rice, rice and raisins for sweet rice, cheese-rice-avacodo-beans-meat can make a burrito... for things like salad that r very low calorie, add cheese, nuts, meat to bring up calorie content.

Also, when i started i bought everything low calorie; the lowest calorie wheat bread i could find, and the lowest calorie salad dressing i could find; the lowest calorie cereals and all sorts of items---but i was always over on sodium and couldnt figure it out...and was always under calorie... so eventually i figured out if I switched my bread to high fiber bread it was double the calories but better for me, and the low calorie salad dressing r double the sodium as a full calorie one--i could use less sodium and more calories, and cereal i switched to kashi go lean crunch cuz it was 200calories a cup nearly, and its like granolda almost so i could add it to yogurts too to increase calories of yogurt and not just my cereal--and even though it was more calories, it was better for me with less sugar and more fiber etc, then alot of cereals. And yea theres 90calorie granola bars, but is a 200calorie one better for you? The larabar's are 200+ calories each, but then look at the ingredients--the cashew one is simply dates & cashews--thats it--no added sodium, weird things u cant pronounce, etc.. the apple pie ones r apples, cinnamon, dates, walnuts, and a couple other things that i actually know what they are....

MindyLynn77

plan better. eat high calorie HEALTHY FOODS. Nuts, natural peanut butter, lean meats, cheeses, raisins, rice, potatoes, avacodo, prunes, beans, banana, etc are all natural foods that are high calorie and healthy!!

If you know youll be doing a high calorie burn; eat nuts as your snacks, eat peanut butter on apples or pb on celery (or in sandwichs).

combine some items if youll have alot of calories left; banana and peanut butter for dessert, beans and rice, rice and raisins for sweet rice, cheese-rice-avacodo-beans-meat can make a burrito... for things like salad that r very low calorie, add cheese, nuts, meat to bring up calorie content.

Also, when i started i bought everything low calorie; the lowest calorie wheat bread i could find, and the lowest calorie salad dressing i could find; the lowest calorie cereals and all sorts of items---but i was always over on sodium and couldnt figure it out...and was always under calorie... so eventually i figured out if I switched my bread to high fiber bread it was double the calories but better for me, and the low calorie salad dressing r double the sodium as a full calorie one--i could use less sodium and more calories, and cereal i switched to kashi go lean crunch cuz it was 200calories a cup nearly, and its like granolda almost so i could add it to yogurts too to increase calories of yogurt and not just my cereal--and even though it was more calories, it was better for me with less sugar and more fiber etc, then alot of cereals. And yea theres 90calorie granola bars, but is a 200calorie one better for you? The larabar's are 200+ calories each, but then look at the ingredients--the cashew one is simply dates & cashews--thats it--no added sodium, weird things u cant pronounce, etc.. the apple pie ones r apples, cinnamon, dates, walnuts, and a couple other things that i actually know what they are....

Im going to print this one! lol.. I doooooooo that.. lowest cal EVERYTHING!!!

RCKT82

It probably doesn't help either when people comment on food logs without reading it and say "Great Job"! Eating the minimum is just as important as not over eating... a 1500-2000 calorie deficit isn't a good thing!

MindyLynn77

It probably doesn't help either when people comment on food logs without reading it and say "Great Job"! Eating the minimum is just as important as not over eating... a 1500-2000 calorie deficit isn't a good thing!

LOL.. I know right.. one day i had almost 1000 calories left, and somebody said "awesome job".. I was like.. wtf? na uhhhhh!!! lol