Eating my allowed Calorie Intake

MichMich1982

Hey, I'm allowed 1200 calories daily...even without exercise I often will have 200cals leftover. So when exercise, I'll have 500 cals left. I eat till I'm satisfied so it's not like I'm starving..but I somehow cannot eat the 1200. Any ideas how I could? I'll snack (healthily) and eat a good dinner...Help!

Elle_Jamaicangirl81

nuts! i love almonds

erickirb

As a minimum you should eat 1200 plus eat back what you burned from exercise. so if you burn 300, you should be eating 1500 (1200+3200).
You don't have to eat more to ingest more calories just make different food choices such as:
Add nuts, seeds, and/or dehydrated fruit as a snack
Use nut and seed butters on crackers or fruit
switch to full fat or higher fat % MF products (switch from 0% yogurt to 3.5%)
don't eat diet or lite foods, eat the full fat "real" versions
have a glass of juice in place of a glass of water
add olive oil to soups or salads (a tsp or 2 each time)
Add Avocado to salads and sandwiches
etc

superflyrbi

Nuts are a good way to up your calories. Plenty of good fat and protein; walnuts have a nice dose of Omega 3's in them.

Ahluvly

Ya kidding me, I could polish off 1200 no bother! I think you need to pad out your meals with more calories if that's the case! Nuts are a good source of nutrition in moderation. Go with the basics, get about 10 glasses of water in, at least 5 x fruit/veg and your necessary grams in protein and then take it from there! Remember, little and often and...eat back those exercise cals!

Good luck with everything!

CARNAT22

a dollop of peanut butter will set you back 100 cals (make sure it is the nice stuff though - yum!)

getfitdiva

I agree you need more calories to fuel your workouts such as nuts (almonds/pistachios are great!), avocado/guacamole, natural peanut butter, protein shakes.

MichMich1982

Thanks so much...I can tell the number one suggestion is NUTS! Lol. I'll try to eat more of the "real stuff" rather than trying the diet stuff. I will admit I've gone so long without eating the real stuff cause of the strict diets my parents been on for years that I just followed suit. I'll check back and let you all know how I did. Thanks

Davie_ege

I have a similiar problem, I can go days and days eating too low calories, I don't feel like I'm eating to little. I eat till I'm satisfied, now I'm worried that my body will go into starvation mode and start storing fat. Today, I ate the right amount of calories, but should I be worried and be more careful about eating enough calories. I don't want to over do it and eat too many. Any advice?