Having trouble eating enough for my goal today, Help!

billsica

3545 calories today, how do you do it? I am going to have multiple peanut butter sandwiches and maybe a beer tonight. What do you eat in these situation were you just cant eat enough for your daily goal?
I look at some of the other threads, and I see things like peanut butter or an avocado. But one avocado is only 140 calories. I don't even like them that much.
What are you eating?

HeidiMightyRawr

If it's a one-off or rare occurance, I don't worry too much about being under. If I fancy a spluge on a takeaway or something then I will, but if not, it's not the end of the world.

If it was a regular occurance, I would just have to adjust to bigger portions, more frequent eating and lots of calorie dense foods (cheese, nuts, red meat, olive oil...) Even those cartons of fresh orange juice and stuff have quite a lot of calories!

tiffanyheth

I seriously just struggled with this last night! I ate cereal with milk. Sandwiches are good, too. Today I corrected that problem by eating a higher calorie breakfast and lunch. I was feeling so sluggish last night after an over 1000 calorie burn yesterday and not enough calories eaten!

Typically I do not agree with drinking your calories--but whats one beer, right!?

Junken_Diraffe

Chinese food for lunch, pizza and beer for dinner. You're welcome.

Oh, and pie.

AllTehBeers

I seriously just struggled with this last night! I ate cereal with milk. Sandwiches are good, too. Today I corrected that problem by eating a higher calorie breakfast and lunch. I was feeling so sluggish last night after an over 1000 calorie burn yesterday and not enough calories eaten!

Typically I do not agree with drinking your calories--but whats one beer, right!?

Or six.

I have to push the banana bread beer. I'm in love. Don't tell my fiancee.

billsica

Ok, Pizza, beer and pie sounds good so far. Really I could have a round day. I'm thinking of adding a big mac into the mix too.

stackhsc

wow, what did you do for exercise to get that high a caloric intake?

RosClark

How are you all managing to have so many calories to eat? Can't see how you can lose weight eating that much. How much exercise do you do? I do at least 1 exercise class ie. body attack a day if not 2 but only gain a couple of hundred extra calories for each. Am I going wrong somewhere?

stackhsc

oh, and if you like pb, take a look for the oreo peanutbutter brownies that someone posted, theyd be good for 400 or so a piece lol

girlykate143

Stop eating. That's usually what
I do because part of this is training my mind and body to stop eating when I'm not hungry. Otherwise, I have almonds (plain) or PB, or a whey protein isolate powder mixed with water.

billsica

I ran a 10k today. So it was just running today.

ApexLeader

i burned 3k calories by doing 3-4 hours of intense cardio twice last week and didn't even bother eating back the calories. i ate a regular meal and wasn't hungry after that.

stackhsc

10k is what like 1000 cal?

sa11yjane

I've just had a peanut butter on wholemeal bread sandwich for my dinner and it was very nice!!! I'd like to know how on earth you have such a high calorie allowance???!!! If it's through earning calories through exercise then, personally, I wouldn't eat them.....

ApexLeader

everyone is telling you to eat crap but you should stick with just eating good food but with high nutrient densities.

ApexLeader

10k is what like 1000 cal?

like 600-1200 depending on how large you are

billsica

My gps phone rates it at 1300 calories.

stackhsc

yeah thats what i was figuring, just 3500 seems high, thats all. I'm jealous is all, i'm around the same weight and at 1600 cals a day reduced, so a 2000 cal gap seems huge.

as for the crap part, some crap is ok, calories are calories as long as its a once in a while thing, sure eating crap all the time is bad but eating it once in a while isn't a horrible thing

PikaKnight

Let's see...eat some healthy things sure..like a salad..whatevers. Get in your protein shakes.

And then...feast.....burgers...bacon...cake....ice cream....beer...BAM!

Everything in moderation :flowerforyou: :drinker:


And don't be afraid to eat those exercise calories back if you want Wooooo :bigsmile:

WinnerVictorious

3545 calories today, how do you do it? I am going to have multiple peanut butter sandwiches and maybe a beer tonight. What do you eat in these situation were you just cant eat enough for your daily goal?
I look at some of the other threads, and I see things like peanut butter or an avocado. But one avocado is only 140 calories. I don't even like them that much.
What are you eating?

you're just being silly. you already know the answer.

http://news.foodfacts.info/2008/09/top-20-pizza-chains.html

PikaKnight

3545 calories today, how do you do it? I am going to have multiple peanut butter sandwiches and maybe a beer tonight. What do you eat in these situation were you just cant eat enough for your daily goal?
I look at some of the other threads, and I see things like peanut butter or an avocado. But one avocado is only 140 calories. I don't even like them that much.
What are you eating?

you're just being silly. you already know the answer.

http://news.foodfacts.info/2008/09/top-20-pizza-chains.html

Oooo...I so suggest CPK...they have such great food..and these creamy fruity alcoholic drinks that are very dangerous. :glasses:

neandermagnon

How are you all managing to have so many calories to eat? Can't see how you can lose weight eating that much. How much exercise do you do? I do at least 1 exercise class ie. body attack a day if not 2 but only gain a couple of hundred extra calories for each. Am I going wrong somewhere?

The bigger you are the more calories you need, i.e. higher BMR and also you'll burn more calories doing the same amount of exercise. I've known quite a few big guys who steadily lose weight eating around 3000 cals/day, because they're big, active and do a lot of exercise. Women usually burn less than men due to being smaller and having less lean body mass, and the smaller you are, the lower your BMR is going to be, and the less you'll burn doing the same kind of exercise.

Jannalicious

Wondering if its really necessary to eat back the calories...if so maybe that's why I struggle to loose sometimes...I would think its best to go with a calorie deficit...is that wrong?

billsica

Wondering if its really necessary to eat back the calories...if so maybe that's why I struggle to loose sometimes...I would think its best to go with a calorie deficit...is that wrong?

Huh? eating back your calories still is a deficit. I'll still be at one with my 3500 calories or pizza

supermodelchic

Why are your calories so high , are you in training for something? My husband weighs 240 and he maybe eats 2300 a day..

wmoomoo

Is this a motivation post for running 10k? Cause I really want to sit with some ice-cream in front of my fire place to watch some Super Bowl.

stackhsc

Wondering if its really necessary to eat back the calories...if so maybe that's why I struggle to loose sometimes...I would think its best to go with a calorie deficit...is that wrong?

i actually stalled out not eating back my exercise calories. felt weird to do it but as soon as i started eating them back i started losing again, maybe a ffluke, maybe not

neandermagnon

Wondering if its really necessary to eat back the calories...if so maybe that's why I struggle to loose sometimes...I would think its best to go with a calorie deficit...is that wrong?

the calorie goal for MFP is already calculated with a deficit. If you don't eat back the exercise calories you'll end up undereating. If you do, you will still have a deficit, because your calorie goal before exercise already had one. Some suggest eating back 80% of the exercise calories as they tend to overestimate calorie burn for many people.

If you're following the calorie recommendations and not losing, the first thing to look at is whether you're tracking your calories accurately. Weighing foods is the most accurate way because a gram is a gram. Volume measurements like cups are easy to accidentally overfill and it's possible for the calories to be out by 20% either way.... well if you're eating 20% more calories from cup measurements than you think, there goes your deficit. Guessing how many grams/cups you're eating is even less accurate.

There's a different method to the standard MFP method though, which is explained in the "in place of a road map" thread, that way you calculate how many calories your body burns each day including all your exercise, then you eat 20% less than this. I use this method because it's more simple and it's easier to adjust the calories based on your real world results. With this method you don't eat back exercise calories, because they're already included in your calculations.

PikaKnight

Why are your calories so high , are you in training for something? My husband weighs 240 and he maybe eats 2300 a day..

If you read the thread ,you'll see that he ran a 10K. I'm sure that OP is very active and doesn't want to have such a large deficit.

WinnerVictorious

Wondering if its really necessary to eat back the calories...if so maybe that's why I struggle to loose sometimes...I would think its best to go with a calorie deficit...is that wrong?

i actually stalled out not eating back my exercise calories. felt weird to do it but as soon as i started eating them back i started losing again, maybe a fluke, maybe not

the reasoning behind eating back your calories is that it's easier to lose and maintain the loss if you lose at a slower rate. at least that's how MFP justifies limiting the rate to no more than 2 lbs per week.

but i believe there's a lot of information on here in the EMTLW group and elsewhere to explains the hormonal changes that can occur if you try to under eat for too long, and which ends up stalling the weight loss process. so there seems to be some science behind it as well. i haven't done a complete survey of the site looking for that information, but from what i've stumbled across, a bunch of folks feel strongly that there really is a mechanism at work in your body the hurts your progress if you continually refuse to eat back your exercise calories.

just though i'd throw that out there for anyone new...

Jannalicious

@mutahammis...this would be why on days I am running about 500 or more calories I stall on my loss...yet when I go out to eat a tend to over do it (in my opinion) I see a weight reduction..not so much as shocking the body, but feeding it what it's needing?...I swear this is the hardest thing I have done!