1,200 Calories no matter what?

TavistockToad

Which has more protein: broccoli or steak? The answer may surprise you. It's broccoli.

what??

AnabolicKyle

Which has more protein: broccoli or steak? The answer may surprise you. It's broccoli.

El-Oh-El

No.

calorie per calorie broccoli wins

edit depending on the cut of meat and if you subtract the dietary fiber

edit 2

Used caloriecount.com

Broccoli
fat 3g
carbs 46g
fiber 23g
protein 26
total Cals 315 Cals if u count fiber
223 Cals if u dont count any fiber
250 Cals given by label


Sirlone
fat 14.9g
protein 26.9g
total Cals 250 Cals by label
241 Cals if u add it up manually

Aviva92

I am guessing you have your weight loss set to 2 lb a week. I would recommend a less aggressive goal. Think of it as a lifestyle change, not a diet, and if you lose weight more slowly, you are more likely to keep it off . Plus, it means you get to eat more, including the occasional treat.

Why do you guess this? I didn't see him mention his fiance's starting weight at all in this thread. For a starting weight that isn't too close to the goal weight, even setting your weight loss goal at 0.6 pounds a week will still give you 1200 calories for a woman.

fbmandy55

I am guessing you have your weight loss set to 2 lb a week. I would recommend a less aggressive goal. Think of it as a lifestyle change, not a diet, and if you lose weight more slowly, you are more likely to keep it off . Plus, it means you get to eat more, including the occasional treat.

Why do you guess this? I didn't see him mention his fiance's starting weight at all in this thread. For a starting weight that isn't too close to the goal weight, even setting your weight loss goal at 0.6 pounds a week will still give you 1200 calories for a woman.

1200 is really low for anyone. That is a commonly known flaw of MFP is that the calories is gives most people is not sufficient. I am a perfect example of someone who ate 1200 calories as recommend by MFP, ate back my calories, swore it was working because I dropped 50 lbs really quickly. Then I stalled, started gaining back slowly and am starting all over using the calorie goal obtained using the TDEE/BMR method.

There are women who are 5 feet tall, within 5 lbs of a healthy weight and still eat 1500-2000 calories or more and lose successfully. Frankly, MFP's settings are setting many people up for a crash diet failure.

Leamac83

This is a good point, why does MFP set it at 1200?

Im not going into the whole starvation mode thing BUT my friend is a shortie, very petit but with a great figure. I know most days she eats way less than 1200 but shes not starving. Quite the opposite, shes helathy happy and never gets sick (ive had a cold since December, its ridiculous) her body doenst need any more, its used to what she gives it i suppose. On the days she works out she probably eats more than 1200.

Kyrosh

Which has more protein: broccoli or steak? The answer may surprise you. It's broccoli.

El-Oh-El

No.

Yes

cindiva65

- The reason I run her account for her is because I do the grocery shopping, the cooking, and the meal prep. Her job requires her to be away for sometimes 12 hours a day. So rather than having her eat fast food (and because I have much more free time than she does), I said I would be willing to make homecooked meals for her to take to work.
Within that, because I was the one planning every day, it made sense for me to run her MFP account in tandem with mine. Also, she's really not one for having to stress and deal with calorie-counting (even as easy as MFP makes it), so we struck a deal. I control what she eats, and she breaks me on the stairmaster each day :P

What an awesome way to support each other. Good luck on your journey together!

Aviva92

I am guessing you have your weight loss set to 2 lb a week. I would recommend a less aggressive goal. Think of it as a lifestyle change, not a diet, and if you lose weight more slowly, you are more likely to keep it off . Plus, it means you get to eat more, including the occasional treat.

Why do you guess this? I didn't see him mention his fiance's starting weight at all in this thread. For a starting weight that isn't too close to the goal weight, even setting your weight loss goal at 0.6 pounds a week will still give you 1200 calories for a woman.

1200 is really low for anyone. That is a commonly known flaw of MFP is that the calories is gives most people is not sufficient. I am a perfect example of someone who ate 1200 calories as recommend by MFP, ate back my calories, swore it was working because I dropped 50 lbs really quickly. Then I stalled, started gaining back slowly and am starting all over using the calorie goal obtained using the TDEE/BMR method.

There are women who are 5 feet tall, within 5 lbs of a healthy weight and still eat 1500-2000 calories or more and lose successfully. Frankly, MFP's settings are setting many people up for a crash diet failure.

It seems to have worked fine for me. If I wind up gaining it back then maybe I'll admit that it's flawed. Until then, I'm going with it being fine. I lost 25 pounds with that method. I never stalled. I only really had 25 pounds to lose. It took me 9 months to lose the weight, so I wouldn't really consider that a crash diet in the first place.

wahmx3

I think MFP already factors in a safe deficit, with your BMR + calorie needs for basic activities of living (whether you're sedentary, lightly active, moderately active, whatever you filled out when figuring your calorie needs), then gives you a calorie goal enough below that to give you a loss of about half a pound a week, which is safe, in fact quite conservative. If you eat back the calories you burn through exercise, you are still taking in "net" calories at the set level. For example, 1500 calories, you exercise 500 worth. If you didn't eat that back you'd have 1000 net calories, too low. Eat it back and you have 1500. That's the way I understand their math. You can change your calorie allowances via the "settings" button if you think you need more than they're giving you.

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ladyraven68

Which has more protein: broccoli or steak? The answer may surprise you. It's broccoli.

El-Oh-El

No.

calorie per calorie broccoli wins

edit depending on the cut of meat and if you subtract the dietary fiber

edit 2

Used caloriecount.com

Broccoli
fat 3g
carbs 46g
fiber 23g
protein 26
total Cals 315 Cals if u count fiber
223 Cals if u dont count any fiber
250 Cals given by label


Sirlone
fat 14.9g
protein 26.9g
total Cals 250 Cals by label
241 Cals if u add it up manually

For what sort of volume?

amy1612

Which has more protein: broccoli or steak? The answer may surprise you. It's broccoli.

For realsies?

Leamac83

To get the same protien from the Broccoli you would have to eat more than 600g. Thats almost 4 large heads of broccoli. Screw that, youd end up looking like you were pregenant with all that fermenting going on. I will take my chances with the steak!

Aviva92

I can't wait to maintain my weightloss and prove everyone wrong who claims that a 1200 calorie diet will result in failure. First they claim I will plateau and I didn't. Now they claim I will gain it all back. I won't. Although, I'm sure nobody will admit to being wrong on here anyway. bleh

ladyraven68

I can't wait to maintain my weightloss and prove everyone wrong who claims that a 1200 calorie diet will result in failure. First they claim I will plateau and I didn't. Now they claim I will gain it all back. I won't. Although, I'm sure nobody will admit to being wrong on here anyway. bleh

Thank you for your positive helpful post.


Oh, hang on .....

megsmom2

1200 is the default minimum on MFP...it won't tell you to go lower. It probably should be telling you to go a lot higher, but when you input your numbers, you told it you wanted to lose 2 lbs a week...right? 1200 is low, probably safely low for most people, but low. If you're exercizing and only aiming at 1200 cals, you really should be eating back a good portion of those burned calories. I don't know about the "dreaded starvation mode" stuff....but it can impact your metabolic rate, and make it harder to lose at all. One solution is to just slow down your weight loss goals....to a pound a week or even less. Your calorie allotment will go up, and you can make more sensible decisions about whether or not to eat back burned calories. Good luck...you CAN do this.