600 more calories?!?!

liveagain

okay, so I've had breakfast, lunch and dinner plus a 100 cal. curves bar and I still have another 599 calories to eat today, but I'm over my sugar by 11g (most of which is from fruit so it's cool).

Any ideas of where I can get those calories with out consuming much sugar?

liveagain

okay, so I've had breakfast, lunch and dinner plus a 100 cal. curves bar and I still have another 599 calories to eat today, but I'm over my sugar by 11g (most of which is from fruit so it's cool).

Any ideas of where I can get those calories with out consuming much sugar?

wildkitty505

Protein! Grilled chicken breast, pork tenderloin, turkey, turkey burger....the less processed the better!

Poison5119

A peanut butter sandwich on whole wheat. Simple, good for you with HDL fat and protein and fiber!! nom nom nom!!

Anna_Banana

Ribeye steak, baked potatoe, slice of pizza

kerrilucko

tuna salad, cottage cheese, veggies and dip, eggs, an omelette

DjBliss05

Ribeye steak, baked potatoe, slice of pizza

Mmmm, did somebody say pizza?! :laugh:

I am sooo having a craving today! Somebody said pizza at a meeting earlier and I must have lit up or just started day dreaming, lol.

My real answer was gonna be any kind of nuts.

JohnnyP

Pardon the ignorant question :blushing: , but is there a down side to not consuming these calories. I'm in the same boat with 619 calories to consume. I don't leave work until 8pm tonight. Is there a point that it's just too late to eat that number of calories and do harm? :huh:

Again, if it's only every once in a while, what's the harm in not consuming these calories and enjoying the benefit of exercise creating a deficit?

liveagain

thanks everyone for the suggestions!!! I went with eggs...and yea, the pizza sounded sooooo good!

It's important to eat the calories. If you don't your body can go into starvation mode and halt your weight loss.

Poison5119

Pardon the ignorant question :blushing: , but is there a down side to not consuming these calories. I'm in the same boat with 619 calories to consume. I don't leave work until 8pm tonight. Is there a point that it's just too late to eat that number of calories and do harm? :huh:

Again, if it's only every once in a while, what's the harm in not consuming these calories and enjoying the benefit of exercise creating a deficit?

Every once in awhile, it's okay to not eat them. But that's a heckuva deficit. I'd have no prob killing those babies off. Just try to eat some little thing (a poached or HB egg, or a spoonful of pb), and leave the rest. Just don't do it every day.

There is no right time to eat. Your body doesn't care what time it is if you still have cals to eat.
The only thing you do by avoiding eating just prior to bedtime is weird dreams.

loreeb18

okay, so I've had breakfast, lunch and dinner plus a 100 cal. curves bar and I still have another 599 calories to eat today, but I'm over my sugar by 11g (most of which is from fruit so it's cool).

Any ideas of where I can get those calories with out consuming much sugar?

I went over my calories by about 700 today so give me your extras and I'll almost be at my daily limit.

JohnnyP

Hmmm... not sure what I think about "starvation mode". Too many conflicting studies. :grumble: I understand what your saying though.

I also ate a half sandwich of Natural PB and whole wheat bread when I got home! :bigsmile: Cut the deficit in half. :bigsmile:


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kerrilucko

Hmmm... not sure what I think about "starvation mode". Too many conflicting studies. :grumble: I understand what your saying though.

I also ate a half sandwich of Natural PB and whole wheat bread when I got home! :bigsmile: Cut the deficit in half. :bigsmile:


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What do you meant by conflicting studies about starvation mode? I think about 1/2 the people on this site have dealt with an eating disorder or some sort of starvation based dieting, and we will all tell you with a resounding YES that starvation mode will occur if you consistently consume less than your body requires to survive. Starvations mode essentially means your body learns to survive on fewer calories, grabbing onto and hoarding every calorie you eat and saving all it can for fear of another dry spell wherein you neglect to feed it. I know it sounds extreme but our bodies are designed to work this way. :flowerforyou:

arewethereyet

actually pizza is high in sugar. I worked at a pizzaria and the sauce and dough has sugar,then add in the sugar in the cheese.

My friend is diebetic and she told me her sugar levels are off the charts after 1 slice.

Just some info!:flowerforyou:

chrissyh

okay, so I've had breakfast, lunch and dinner plus a 100 cal. curves bar and I still have another 599 calories to eat today, but I'm over my sugar by 11g (most of which is from fruit so it's cool).

Any ideas of where I can get those calories with out consuming much sugar?

I went over my calories by about 700 today so give me your extras and I'll almost be at my daily limit.

That's when I turn the Wii Fit on and work out to burn those extras!

JohnnyP

What I mean is, what constitutes "starvation". To acheive weight loss you must burn more calories than you consume. Many leading fitness experts state that active people should not consume more than 1200 - 1500 calories a day. Fine. But if the USDA states the average caloric intake is 1800 - 2200, is that considered "starvation".

I think not. A starvation diet means cutting the total caloric intake to less than 50% of what the body requires. This is a reasonable definition and I hardly think what we're discussing here is "starvation". These large "deficits" are caused by exercise. Caloric deficit is what we're all trying to achieve so as to lose weight.

This leads me back to my previous statement of conflicting studies. For every "study" you show me supporting "starvation mode", I could find one that disputes it. I'm not picking a fight. I think we must acknowledge that so many "studies" in the fitness and diet industry are geared to earning profits, not providing accurate scientific data.


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Poison5119

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/3047-700-calories-a-day-and-not-losing

'nuff said.

Spin doctors can spin straw polls around election time to make them sound how they want 'em to sound, but they can't argue with the numbers in my body.

I was working out hard and not eating all my cals, and I stopped losing weight. ONce I started eating all my cals and sometimes a little bit OVER, I began losing again.

kerrilucko

What I mean is, what constitutes "starvation". To acheive weight loss you must burn more calories than you consume. Many leading fitness experts state that active people should not consume more than 1200 - 1500 calories a day. Fine. But if the USDA states the average caloric intake is 1800 - 2200, is that considered "starvation".

I think not. A starvation diet means cutting the total caloric intake to less than 50% of what the body requires. This is a reasonable definition and I hardly think what we're discussing here is "starvation". These large "deficits" are caused by exercise. Caloric deficit is what we're all trying to achieve so as to lose weight.

This leads me back to my previous statement of conflicting studies. For every "study" you show me supporting "starvation mode", I could find one that disputes it. I'm not picking a fight. I think we must acknowledge that so many "studies" in the fitness and diet industry are geared to earning profits, not providing accurate scientific data.


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While you may be right in some ways, I gotta say, a 600 cal deficit for someone who should be at 1200cals per day IS a 50% deficit. I know that you are probably not set to consume 1200 cals a day but a large number of the women on this site are. Therefore an extra 600 cal a day deficit IS a starvation diet. Everyone's body is a little different. For some, 1200 calories may be far too low, for others it's not. But to be fair, the young lady that asked the question very likely has a much lower caloric intake than you do, and thus telling her to not worry about an extra 600 calorie deficit is really not the correct thing to do. Of course 1 day won't harm you, even a week won't but over time an extreme deficit is going to have adverse effects. I just don't see how this can be argued.