What to eat when you're under your calorie goal?

BigDnSW

As a professional counselor...this may sound like an oxymoron..but "healthy nuts".

imhungry2012

My favorite high calorie snack is triscuits (120 cals for 6) and smuckers natural peanut butter (200 cals for 2 tablespoons). That's 320 good cals right there and let's face it...I rarely only have 6 triscuits

Almonds are also great as someone else mentioend - I need some flavor so I opt for the dark chocolate dry roasted (150 cals for an ounce).

An avocado sliced up with a dash of sea salt and some pepper - delicious and 250 cals. Yum.

XXXMinnieXXX

Google calorie dense foods. Nuts, olive oil, cheese, hummus...

da_bears10089

you need to NET at least 1200. So if you are burning 600 at the gym, you need to eat at least a total of 1800 to stay within a healthy range. If i know i'm going to be having a day where i'm going to burn more than usual, i try to plan for it throughout the day and take in some peanut butter, almonds, protein shakes. Add avocado to a salad or sandwich.

houlenberg

I'm having this problem, too. When I need to get more calories in, I eat almonds, or an apple with some PB2, protein bar, olives with some feta, etc. They're all healthy, good protein/fat sources and they're filling, too.

KBrownieee

I gained it just by eating whatever I wanted to basically. But since I've started losing it, I'm eating way more than I used to, just much lower-calorie foods.

jonnythan

Beer or wine helps too

kellycapo

I am new and have the exact same trouble every day. I know need to do some food adjusting. I do eat pretty healthy and count everything I eat. Burn an easy 600-800 calories at the gym everyday so that kills me hitting my calorie goal of 1200 calories pretty much every day. I lost 7 lbs in the first 2 weeks I started. Then gained 3 lbs back and have no clue how or why. very defeating and frustrating. So I am seeing nuts, peanut butter etc. I feel like I need to cut out carbs. Seems to get close to carb goal with Special K every morning. Rambling now but frustrated I worked so hard the last 2 weeks and got psyched I lost the 7 lb loss then gained 3 back. What am I doing wrong? I am really ready and committed to this. Just feel a bit lost in the quest.

KBrownieee

I am new and have the exact same trouble every day. I know need to do some food adjusting. I do eat pretty healthy and count everything I eat. Burn an easy 600-800 calories at the gym everyday so that kills me hitting my calorie goal of 1200 calories pretty much every day. I lost 7 lbs in the first 2 weeks I started. Then gained 3 lbs back and have no clue how or why. very defeating and frustrating. So I am seeing nuts, peanut butter etc. I feel like I need to cut out carbs. Seems to get close to carb goal with Special K every morning. Rambling now but frustrated I worked so hard the last 2 weeks and got psyched I lost the 7 lb loss then gained 3 back. What am I doing wrong? I am really ready and committed to this. Just feel a bit lost in the quest.

Almost the EXACT same thing happened to me, I lost 7 pounds in my first two weeks and then I just randomly gained 4 of them back one day. I have no idea what's happening but I'm trying my hardest to adjust my diet in this third week to something that will start working for me again.

petitegreek

I'm having the same problem as you are. I exercise 4-5 days a week, and when I do, I burn at least 600 calories. Sometimes my net calories only end up being 400-500 for the day. After reading these posts, I need to get out of this mindset and be okay with seeing a negative calorie amount (showing that I have gone over for the day). I usually freak out if I have over 1,200 calories...

sally_jeffswife

cheese and salami is good with a Protein Shake