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njmomof2girls
njmomof2girls Posts: 4
in Health and Weight Loss
I've been eating less than 1200 calories a day and haven't lost weight. I'm stuck. Ugh!!

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  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    You are not supposed to eat less than 1200 calories - if 1200 is your goal, you should eat that much, and eat back exercise cals if you workout. MFP is set up so that even without exercise, your daily goal has you at a deficit so you'll conceivably lose weight eating that much.

    But many of us have found that 1200 is well below our BMR, and not enough to keep us fueled. Eat too little and you end up giving your body a reason to store fat rather than burn it.

    Have a look at this topic and run your numbers through the tools linked there- great info: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12

    I eat 1800+ calories a day based on the info there, and have done so for well over six months. I have dropped another pants size and am losing fat and inches.

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