Who has only 1200 calories per day?

I had mine set to 1200 and found that I usually awsn't meeting it, because I was scared to go over. I eat between 1200-1400 cals now. For me, it's not hard and I'm never hungry. It's making the right food choices that allows you to eat more. If you eat tons of salad (lettuce has very few calories as well as any other vegetable), you find yourself full with minimal calories.

I had mine at 1200 before and it didn't help me lose weight. I've been on here since Oct 210 and only down 16 pounds, granted thats with taking June/July/Nov/Dec off. In those 2 months breaks I only gained a few pounds each time.Right now I have mine set at 1495 b/c that's what it says to lose a pound a week. The whole time I've been on MFP the most I have lose in a month is 6 pounds and that was last Feb when I went from Curves to Gold's. Now I'm just focused on clean eating and Jamie Eason's 12 week program.

The slower you lose weight the better chance you have to keep it off. Yes this frustrates me when everyone is at there goal weights a year later and I'm not. By this Oct I hope to be down the last at least 16 pounds.

Mine is 1200, but I'm really short. 4'11".

I do...I have 1275...and its brutal...but if this is how I can do it with feeling hungry...I am going to try...

i have a 1600 calories and i take less.. because i drink minimun 2 lts of water not incl.. my coffe milk, or tea.. and honestly i am not hungry at all.. i always under 1600 i take 1200 because water is helping me a lot..

I eat around 1000 to 1200 calories a day and exercise with P90X cardio and kenpo workouts every day. I seem to be fine if I fill up on low calorie fruits and vegetables. I think that this is at least possible for me since I used to have an eating disorder at eat around 400-500 cals a day. So this most certainly is a step up for me. I would try to slowly lower your calorie intake. Like start at 2000, then 1800, then 1600, and so on until you feel you are ready for around 1200 a day. Good luck!

I agree with a lot of the previous comments in that I think it depends how you spend your calories allowance. I think if you are sticking to a clean diet i.e no processed foods, no wheat/cheese/low fat etc you need a lot of food to fill up the 1200. For me, I have mine set to 1100, however I struggle to eat all of that on some days, but it doesn't mean I'm hungry. I have three meals a day and a snack, manage my full 5 a day and don't cook 95% of everything fresh. I am a creature of habit though, i'll stick to the same few meals in a variety of combinations so I don't get bored.

Typical day
B: two boiled eggs and a whole grapefruit
Lunch: Green Salad with cup a soup
Snack: protein shake
Dinner: Steamed fish/chicken with salad or steamed greens.

im on 1200 and im 5'8 , i checked a website, cant remember which but you type in bmi and weight and height and it tells you how many caloires you can eat a day to get to your target weight. the more weight you lose the more u drop ur intake. 1200 is plenty if you eat fuller foods or low cal.

i cant live without ..............

bachelors slim a soup tomato- 54 cals
hartleys sugar free jelly -3 cal
ready brek porridge - 114 cal
laughing cow cheese triangles- 50 cal

even eating all that is just 221 caloires!!!!! less than a choc bar

The less you weigh the less calories you can consume to lose weight or maintain your weight. I'm at 1200 calories to lose 1 lb a week.

I was on 1200 all last year. Then, this summer, I got an overwhelming hunger and started eating at +2000. Gained 10 lbs. back. Part of it was due to a long road trip (6 weeks) where my daily exercise routine flew out the window, and back pain due to sitting too much that prevented me from getting active again.

Struggling. Trying to drop my cals to at least 1600 over the short term.

mine are set at 1380 - and I am "Active" I work in a nursing home. Sometimes I am under because I don't eat a lot of meat (like we will have chicken, but i will only eat 1/2 of my chicken and more veggies, i have just never been a big meat eater) I eat a very small breakfast (usually yougurt, maybe a granola bar cuz i just am not hungry first thing in the morning) and I usually don't drink anything but water (soda and stuff really add in calories) sometimes i have a cup of coffee - not too often cuz i don't like it that much, or for a treat i will have a cream soda or something when i'm craving it - usually only water does the trick anymore.
other times i am over, depending on what i eat, but i do my execises so i'm still under the calories they give with eating back exercise calories. I dunno... i've always eaten this way, so it's not really hard for me. Just before i would eat a lot of candy during the day and I don't do that anymore. I was also drinking mt. dew a bit and I really don't even like it anymore.