I'm not eating enough calories and not losing weight

mischle

Can anyone help? It's hard for me to eat enough and still eat healthy.

mischle

Can anyone help? It's hard for me to eat enough and still eat healthy.

juxtapotato

Can you give us an sample of what you usually eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks?

Also, how would you describe your daily physical activities? (i.e. walk to work 15 minutes everday, take the stairs whenever I can, an hour at the gym, etc.)

freckleston

hi this is the fist time ive posted but i saw this one and feel the same. i am supposed to be at least 1200 calories and am having trouble eating them without eating rubbish. for example yesterday -

Breakfast: porridge oats, skimmed milk little sugar - 215 cals
Lunch : homemade vegetable soup, 2 weightwatcher toast & thin butter - 150 cals
Dinner: Vegetable stirfry, 2 Fishfingers, Rice - 380 cals

I think that is quite a healthy balance of food which only adds up to 745 cals. i also add on the milk i have in teas and coffees but in the evening to make up my cals i ate ....

Crisps 130 cals
toast & butter 120 cals
and ... half a bottle of wine !

I am still slowly losing weight on the above but obviously the evening bit is not healthy! i especialy reach for crisps if I want to make up the cals. I think i know what to do which is eat more carbs and protein in the day rather than just veges.

I wonder if this is similar sort of problem for you?

mischle

yes, I'm eating healthy too and am a small person. I agree that you need to eat more carb and protein like add a meal of chicken or salmon as a salad or with a veggie. I bought the new green giant steamers on sale and ate the whole box (only 150 cal and three servings of veggies.

I ate a potato one day and it was good on fiber and potassium I think with the skin. I tend to err in the direction of more protein and like to have 3 carb/1 protein ratio. I also keep the fiber as high as possible, and the sat fat as low as possible.

I have a nutrition degree and I've been told that I need to eat at least my BMR (the 1200) and then up the exercise from there. I'm trying it now although not eating or exercising quite enough so I need to dial it up. Let's keep in touch with progress since we are working on the same issues.

mischle

Breakfast
Fresh Fruit- Banana - Banana, 1 medium 7"-8" 105 27 3 1 1 0 remove
Fage - Fage Tatal O % All Natural Nonfat Greek Yogurt, 3 oz 45 4 0 8 33 0 remove
Knudsen - Half and Half, 1 Tbsp 20 1 0 1 13 2 remove
Generic - Black Coffee, 8 fl oz 5 1 0 0 5 0 remove
Add Food Remember Meal 175 33 3 10 52 2
Lunch
Nabisco - Unsalted Top - Premium - Saltine Crackers, 5 crackers 90 11 0 1 95 2 remove
Add Food Remember Meal 90 11 0 1 95 2
Snacks
Eating Right - European Blend Salad Mix, 1 cups 6 1 1 0 8 0 remove
Homemade - Baked Potatoe, 1 medium potato 130 30 3 3 479 0 remove
Chicken - Chicken Breast, 1 breast 100 0 0 24 0 1 remove
Trader Joe's - Orange Muscat Champagne Vinegar, 1 tbsp. 20 4 0 0 0 0 remove
Starbucks - Non Fat Sugar Free Vanilla Latte (Venti), 20 oz 130 19 0 13 150 0 remove
Add Food Remember Meal 386 54 4 40 637 1
Dinner
Safeway - Eating Right Lite Yogurt- Strawberry, 4 z. 60 11 1 4 65 0 remove
Trader Joe's - Walnuts, 0.0625 cup 50 1 1 1 0 5 remove
Muscle Milk Light - Chocolate Milk Shake, 4.25 oz 80 5 1 10 105 3 remove
Safeway - Unsweetened Apple Sauce, 0.5 cup 50 15 2 0 15 0 remove
Generic - Cheddar Cheese, 1 oz 120 0 0 6 0 10 remove
California Oranges - Medium Orange, 1 Orange 80 21 5 1 0 0 remove
Add Food Remember Meal 440 53 10 22 185 18
Snacks
Add Food
Total: 1,091 151 17 73 969 23
Your Daily Goal: 1,788 245 14 67 2,500 59
Remaining: 697 94 -3 -6 1,531 36

I exercised about 30 minutes ice skating and a 30 minute slow walk. My goal is my BMR at about 1200 calories but it added 588 since I exercised (which I didn't get why). Help!

freckleston

yes your diet seems perfectly healthy doesnt it - I suppose its just a matter of adding in little extras like a bigger potato and a few more nuts and milk ! (not crisps and wine like me!)

I dont really do a lot of exercise so I never add it into my log. I just do 10-15 mins of 'steps' at home along with some sit-ups, leg/bum exercises so it doesnt burn much calories but it strengthens my muscles.

I might be wrong but I think you are also supposed to eat the calories you burnt through excercise ! Im sure I have read some posts on here about that.

Today wont be such a problem for me because I have only got time to eat the minced beef casserole which I made for my family and it will have more calories than my normal dinners

im sure yu will figure out a way to get those extra calories in throughout the day in a healthy way

yellow_pepper

I think you just need to be patient.

Also, for me a 30-minute walk burns 100 calories. I don't know how many calories are burned by 30 minutes of ice skating. But 588 seems like a lot for those two activities.