Advice for increasing calories w/o increasing carbs?

EveMother
EveMother Posts: 20
in Health and Weight Loss
I'm keeping my carbs low and I'm feeling MUCH better for it but I'm worried I'm putting my body in starvation mode because I'm not getting enough calories. I usually range between 1100-1400 calories per day. I'm also rarely hungry, which intensifies the problem.

I also haven't been exercising because I just got over a nasty flu that got lodged in my chest and made breathing difficult. Now that I'm looking to start that up again, I'm especially concerned.

Any suggestions or advice?

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  • MonicaLee92
    MonicaLee92 Posts: 222
    You can eat a lot of salads that have 400-500 calories with barley any carbs, cheese has calories but almost no carbs, eggs and meats are higher in calories but very low in carbs as well.
  • laylaness
    laylaness Posts: 262 Member
    Protein. Peanut butter, avocado, cheese, nuts.
  • EveMother
    EveMother Posts: 20
    I do a lot of salads, meats, cheeses, and eggs...ugh! I'm doomed lol

    I guess I need to work on that hunger thing...
  • Chief_Rocka
    Chief_Rocka Posts: 4,710 Member
    more of what you're already eating
  • RellaBelle
    RellaBelle Posts: 70 Member
    Thank you for posting this because I was wondering the exact same thing. I switched up my settings and my cals were upped to 1800 and I was having a hard time figuring out how to up it all but everything still be good. Special me, it didnt even dawn on me to put more stuff in my salad.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    I'm worried I'm putting my body in starvation mode because I'm not getting enough calories
    That's a lot of mythology so I would forget about that. http://www.drmcdougall.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=17541

    But in general if you need more calories on low carb then eat more fats and oils - assuming your protein is already up where it should be.
  • LilLolo22
    LilLolo22 Posts: 229 Member
    more of what you're already eating


    ^^^This!

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