Anyone with a daily goal of around 1230 cal, pls help...

HI

What I try to do is eat foods that are filling and will not have me snacking all day due to hunger pangs.

Take breakfast.... I will have a toasted English muffin, hard boiled egg or some fruits, english muffin, left over meat from the night before. I try to keep all my meals under 300 calories.

I pretty much stay in my range and I record everyhing and I do not cheat
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In stead of 2 slices of whole wheat when I make a sandwich, I eat one slice. :happy: I totally stay away from any kind of sweets. Not even candy. I drink 1/2 my weight in oz of water. So since I am 190 pounds now I drink about 12 glasses of water a day. I lost 5 pounds my first week and now I have changed my calories to 1.700 a day and that equals out to about 2 pounds a week. 1.200 calories was not enough for me to eat in a day. I have not had any soda since I started my program. You have no idea how badly I was one too!!!! I used to be a Pepsi addict. :-) I also eat a lot of fruit through out the day. That is my sweet filler. Plus they are very low in everything. I also consume an Activa a day. Usally mid day. At dinner I just take it easy with my servings. I eat more vegetables then meat. I do not have any bread. I drink a glass of water before each meal and it helps you feel fuller. Wow your page is telling that you lost 53 pounds!!!! WOW. Good for you. I do eat 3 meals a day and I snack like I said on fruit.
Hope this helps.

-I eat a lot of the same things I ate before MFP I just watch the portions and only eat the really bad stuff if I'm really, really craving it (I love old fashioned doughnuts!). I think it's better to make small changes to your diet than to completely change it right off the bat. That way it's easier to make it a habit instead of just giving up and going back.

-I don't have a standard number of meals. I eat when I'm hungry.

-Average cal meal is usually around 200-300, sometimes dinners get a little more epic 500-800, so I workout more or eat a little less the rest of the day.

-I drink water. Sometimes I have coffee or tea and I go light on the sugar ( I won't do fake sugar, yuck!). Every once in a while I'll have my favorite Cherry Coke, but I don't keep it in the house so that I'm tempted all the time.

-I'm a singer, so I have always been pretty good about water. At least 8 glasses every day.

-I stay under my calorie goal, but I eat back my exercise calories. I try to leave about 300-200 left every day, so I don't eat all of my exercise calories.

-I try to walk at least an hour every day at a pretty fast pace. It burns a lot of cals without much risk of injury and it's easy.

-I usually burn about 600 cal a day, it started out close to 1000 though, doing the same exercise.

-I have lost 36lbs in 7 months.


My advise is to take it slow. If you have a lot to lose, going slower will help your skin keep up with your weight loss instead of flopping so much Don't let yourself feel deprived. If you want chocolate ice cream, eat chocolate ice cream! Just work it off with oversize or fit it into your calorie budget. Also, if the 1230 cal limit is driving you crazy then change it. I lost a lot more weight in the beginning with 1200 cal limit, but after a while I started going a bit crazy and was getting depressed because I felt like I was hungry all the time. If I had kept going like that I probably would have just quit. So I changed my cal limit to 1400, I think, and I just tried to leave more cals at the end of the day. I played around with it a bit, and now I keep it at 1300 but I probably only eat 1200 of that ( with bonus exercise cals figured in). Just remember that it takes time, especially if you want to be able to stay at your goal weight and not end up right where you started all over again. Do what gets you results and doesn't make you crazy.

> What do you eat generally? Lots of protein. Eggs, chicken...
> How many meals do you take? 5. 3 main and 2 small
> What is average cal per meal for you? around 250-300. Depending on what im eating. if I know im going to have a big dinner, i'll eat smaller meals throughout the day to compensate
> What are the beverages that you usually have in a day? Water, water and more water. If I feel I need something sweet i'll have a cup of tea or a glass of phoenix branded juice. It's organic so no bad stuff in it.
> How many glasses of water do you drink in a day? I try to drink at least 5
> Do you stay within your goal cal, or above it? I usually stay within my calorie goal. If I go over I make sure I cancel myself out to atleast 0 remaingin for the day with my exercise at the end of the day.
> What exercise do you do? Walking on the tredmill and cycling. I also do a series of weight machines and floor exercises for my abdominals
> How many hours do you workout in a day? Around 1
> How many days do you workout in a week? Around 5. But if I go to the gym on the weekend it would be around 6
> On an average how many cals do you burn in a day? 200
> Has your answers to the above questions helped you lose weight? Yes
> If yes then, how many kg/lbs and in what time frame? The first time I was on the weight loss wagon it took my body about a month of exercising and good eating before I started loosing weight. But after that I was loosing at least 500 grams a week. It took me about 2 months to shift the annoying 4-5 kgs that wouldnt move