Do You Force Yourself to Eat if Under Calories

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  • fitOsaurus_Rex_we_changed
    fitOsaurus_Rex_we_changed Posts: 132
    I like the eat when your hungry thinking. It is what I usually follow, but when I'm consistently low I wondered if I should do something about it. I gained weight eating just to eat, even though I wasn't hungry. So I'd rather trust my body and roll with it. If I feel full, energized and my workouts aren't suffering then I must be doing something right. And when I'm not, my body will let me know.

    i'd say listen to your body. if you're hungry eat, if you're not then dont. if you can get through your workouts without feeling dizzy or weak then you're eating enough IMO
  • FitMrsR
    FitMrsR Posts: 226 Member
    Let me preface this by saying I didn't read all of the responses so if this has already been mentioned, I'm sorry but exercise suppresses my appetite. And the more exercise I do, the less hungry I feel. I would eat something to at least get you above 1200 calories. I know we all have busy days and forget to eat but if you are finding that you're regularly under your goal, plan your days ahead and eat small meals often. It could also be your body is trying to adjust to your new exercise and calorie level and isn't sending the same signals you'd get when you were hungry before. I can't trust my body to tell me when I'm hungry because I'm never hungry. I'd end up eating 500 calories for the day and feel fine so I know I can't trust what my body tells me. I need more than that being active and growing a baby :)


    I just noticed how many typos there were and it had been too long since I posted so it wouldn't let me edit it.
  • cals83
    cals83 Posts: 131
    I don't worry about it from day to day as long as it balances out in the long run.
  • sstan03
    sstan03 Posts: 102
    from personal experience....so your body is different. If i was too low on my calorie intake, I would not lose weight. I was eating well below my 2000 calorie suggested intake and i could not figure it out. I talked to a nurse and she suggested that i make sure i eat more so i am closer to the calorie goal. Once i up'd my calories (even if it meant a spoonful or two of peanutbutter), I started to loose weight again. I hope this helps....
  • Ohnoes
    Ohnoes Posts: 98 Member
    idk i get confused about this sometimes, too. usually i try to eat what MFP tells me to, and i am losing weight (yay) but sometimes, for example yesterday, i burn more than i can eat. went on an almost two hour hike yesterday, a good portion of it uphill, and ended up with about a thousand extra calories after dinner after eating all day. there is no way i was going to eat 1000 calories when i was already full. so i had a bowl of cereal before bed, and a cookie, and went to bed with all those extra calories uneaten. it just felt wrong to force myself, and my stomach is not that big!
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    I used to, but not lately.

    ETA:

    [Just saw the stomach rupture comment. NO, I've never eating that forcefully. what I meant is that I used to try to get up to the cals I wanted to reach-- like eat back all my exercise cals, and sometimes it took effort. Not in the way of force feeding, just working extra cals into snacks in the form of oils, nuts, peanut butter, cream cheese, mayo, avocado, high cal stuff that can easily be added in. I would never however try to force myself to eat things.

    I think this is an especially hard issue for people who are afraid to eat fat. I can easily add 1-200 cals with any of the above foods. Imagine though trying to eat that much cals worth of broccoli or carrots or anything else if you're already full? Difficult. If not impossible.]

    ETA2:

    [ aaaaaaaaaaand now I saw the peanut butter comment. Let me clarify. If I were short on cals it would be easy to have a half a bagel with some peanut butter on it and not have to FORCE anything or eat spoonsful of peanut butter. One spoonful, yum. Many? Kind of impossible....too. ]

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