Food, help please?

cheekymonkeyface

MFP says i can have 1200 calories a day! Wow i thought, but when i filled in the diary bit it was kind of scary how quickly 1200 calories can be gotten through.....

What i want to know are three things:

1. What kind of things is everyone (particularly people in the UK) eating to keep within their allowance?

2. When i input my exercise, should i be eating the calories? And if i'm not exercising that day but need more calories should i get my bum to the gym and earn some spends???

Any and all help greatfully accepted xxx

birdlover97111

1. I'm in the U.S. but I eat lots of fresh veggies...Fewer calories...
2. Yes...
3. Yes...


Good luck on your journey..!!.. :flowerforyou:

sfalk1977

I live in Surrey, UK. I also have 1200 calories a day but do 300-700 calories per day in exercise. I personally eat most of my exercise calories but there are many different views on this. If you want, I'll request you as a friend and then you will have access to my food diary. Request put in now.

Sarah

mermx

Hi,

scrambled egg for breakfast,

100gms baked beans, 75 gms mushrooms 20gms grated cheese.

weight watchers sheperds pie with cauliflower and sprouts.

All this comes to about 500 cals...so You have 700 cals to add plus your exercise cals

Eat your exercise cals...no need to go to the gym if you can not afford it....I do3 x 30 min walks a day

good luck x

cheekymonkeyface

Thanks all, all friend requests greatfully accepted, i just need to find the bit where i accept them now lol....

Rozzymoo

Hi - I've just started using MFP and recording my food diary.

Typically I have porridge made with water for breakfast - to make it taste great I add cinnamon, nutmeg, sultanas and a teaspoon of manuka honey.

Lunch is either brown rice and salad or Ryvita crispbreads and philadelphia extra light, fruit (apple/grapes/cherry tomatoes) and fat free yogurt.

Dinner is either brown rice and vegetables, vegetable omlette or baked potato, cottage cheese and salad.

I don't particularly like meat so I find this quite easy - I really do miss cheese though!

This keeps me within my 1200 calorie allowance.

Hope this is useful.

samhradh

Hi there
i too am trying to stick to 1200 cal, i'll FR you and you can look at my diary,
this morning i had a breakfast all of which came from Tesco,. sausage bacon pudding tomato, just not as much as i would have eaten in the past, and all of the products where in the database.
because I'm only starting out i try not to eat exercise cals but i know at some stage i will have to.
P.S. we are the same age
SW 200 lb
CW 194 lb
GW 150
UGW 145