Eating 1200 calories a day?

Are we on here to argue or help? I'm trying to read advice for the poor girl and all I keep seeing are constant battles between everyone else. MFP should be a positive environment, if someone says something you don't like, simply ignore it. I just don't understand some people, how old are we?

It's quite simple.

We're not talking about a favorite football team or ice cream flavor. We're talking about a human life. Some people don't want to hear the truth and some of the comments here, clearly show that.

The truth isn't always going to be positive. Some people have to be tore down in order to be built up.

Is it normal to have to try to eat 1200 calories a day?
I only eat when I'm hungry and I find that generally I eat about 500-800 calories a day and sometimes if I eat a lot of unhealthy stuff I'll get up to about 1000 but unless I stuff my face I can't reach 1200?
Also I worry that if I eat too much I'll become fat, like today I feel fat and sick and ugh I hate it.

I'd probably be described as having disordered eating and the thought of not being on MFP scares me because then I wouldn't know what I'm eating and if I've had too much fat or sugar (which often happens even at 700-ish cals a day because of sugary tea )

But I don't know what to do because I can't work out due to an injury when I was younger and the thought of eating 1200cals scares me, just because I'd have to eat a hell of a lot to get there and food=fat to me.

Really I just need help because I'm worried about starvation mode but I don't see the point of eating more food than I'm even hungry for?

Unless you're tiny (as in very short) you should always eat at LEAST 1200 calories per day, otherwise your body can go into starvation mode and start storing everything you eat. I used to eat around 800 per day and then found I was stuck. Since eating 1200-1400 per day I'm losing... Good luck!

Are we on here to argue or help? I'm trying to read advice for the poor girl and all I keep seeing are constant battles between everyone else. MFP should be a positive environment, if someone says something you don't like, simply ignore it. I just don't understand some people, how old are we?

It's quite simple.

We're not talking about a favorite football team or ice cream flavor. We're talking about a human life. Some people don't want to hear the truth and some of the comments here, clearly show that.

The truth isn't always going to be positive. Some people have to be tore down in order to be built up.

Lets all pretend I said that. It was awesome and precisely my motivation.

Are we on here to argue or help? I'm trying to read advice for the poor girl and all I keep seeing are constant battles between everyone else. MFP should be a positive environment, if someone says something you don't like, simply ignore it. I just don't understand some people, how old are we?

I'm sorry, is this directed at the OP or are you engaging in an argument with everyone else? :

In all seriousness, though, it does bother me that the OP and her issues got lost along the way among bacon burger girl saying that you an totally gain weight on a small amount of food and wall of text guy who does not like to be referred to as short guy focusing on how his family is all short and stuff.

I really think that OP has some stuff she needs support in seeing and addressing and both the other people I mentioned, who I agree that I have argued with, I think said things in here that keep the OP from seeing the stuff she needs to work on.

For real, I'm actually quite worried about the OP and would love for the other folks to start their own threads in which we can discuss the size of the bacon burger hence calorie deficit/suplus and/or the shape and size of family members.

Haha I wasn't directing it at anyone in particular, I think I even posted that same statement again...
I'm just saying I feel alot of people are here to criticize one another than actually help. And yes I completely agree with the baconator needing another thread!

My uncles are overweight due to overeating, and lack of excersise in the case of 2 of them. the 3rd works out like crazy but doesn't restrict calories, and still has santa belly. I'll invite you for christmas so you can interview us. My mom isn't overweight, nor is my sister or most of my female cousins, and they ALL eat like BIRDS. But they look healthy, all 6 cousins and most of my aunts.

And I was trying to help the op understand why she is full when only eating 1000 calories. When we log, a lot of times its easy for us to underestimate calories, or overestimate them if we are wanting to lean one way or another.

All of you people who think that there is only one way to Jesus seriously need to stop being so closed minded. I wish I had logged before I started cutting, to see how I got to 210 pounds, but it wasn't by eating all day, it was by overeating at the 2 or 3 meals I did eat. And I didn't overeat by much, I weighed 170 after a tonsillectomy in 2010, the lowest I had been since high school, I couldn't eat anything solid for weeks because of the pain, even with liquid vicodin. It took me two years to get to 210 lbs. I've always looked heftier or husky as my mom calls it.

So all of you, stop peacocking and realize that some of us just eat less. Maintenance for me is probably 1600 to 1800 calories.

My uncles are overweight due to overeating, and lack of excersise in the case of 2 of them. the 3rd works out like crazy but doesn't restrict calories, and still has santa belly. I'll invite you for christmas so you can interview us. My mom isn't overweight, nor is my sister or most of my female cousins, and they ALL eat like BIRDS. But they look healthy, all 6 cousins and most of my aunts.

And I was trying to help the op understand why she is full when only eating 1000 calories. When we log, a lot of times its easy for us to underestimate calories, or overestimate them if we are wanting to lean one way or another.

All of you people who think that there is only one way to Jesus seriously need to stop being so closed minded. I wish I had logged before I started cutting, to see how I got to 210 pounds, but it wasn't by eating all day, it was by overeating at the 2 or 3 meals I did eat. And I didn't overeat by much, I weighed 170 after a tonsillectomy in 2010, the lowest I had been since high school, I couldn't eat anything solid for weeks because of the pain, even with liquid vicodin. It took me two years to get to 210 lbs. I've always looked heftier or husky as my mom calls it.

So all of you, stop peacocking and realize that some of us just eat less. Maintenance for me is probably 1600 to 1800 calories.

please start your own thread. OP has gotten lost in the fascinating discussion of your family members.

Are we on here to argue or help? I'm trying to read advice for the poor girl and all I keep seeing are constant battles between everyone else. MFP should be a positive environment, if someone says something you don't like, simply ignore it. I just don't understand some people, how old are we?

The point is, she got some bad advice which if she took that as validation, could very well be harmful to her health, even life threatening. Hence the battle. Understand now?

I understand that. So personally message her if you believe she got wrong information, or send her a direct source of where you are getting information, so she herself can see what is valid and what is not. But a bunch of people on a forum trying to attack one another doesn't prove anything 'valid'

Are we on here to argue or help? I'm trying to read advice for the poor girl and all I keep seeing are constant battles between everyone else. MFP should be a positive environment, if someone says something you don't like, simply ignore it. I just don't understand some people, how old are we?

The point is, she got some bad advice which if she took that as validation, could very well be harmful to her health, even life threatening. Hence the battle. Understand now?

I understand that. So personally message her if you believe she got wrong information, or send her a direct source of where you are getting information, so she herself can see what is valid and what is not. But a bunch of people on a forum trying to attack one another doesn't prove anything 'valid'

And allow everyone else who reads the wrong information to believe it as well? That would be misguided.

Are we on here to argue or help? I'm trying to read advice for the poor girl and all I keep seeing are constant battles between everyone else. MFP should be a positive environment, if someone says something you don't like, simply ignore it. I just don't understand some people, how old are we?

The point is, she got some bad advice which if she took that as validation, could very well be harmful to her health, even life threatening. Hence the battle. Understand now?

I understand that. So personally message her if you believe she got wrong information, or send her a direct source of where you are getting information, so she herself can see what is valid and what is not. But a bunch of people on a forum trying to attack one another doesn't prove anything 'valid'

And allow everyone else who reads the wrong information to believe it as well? That would be misguided.

This entire forum is beyond misguided...

I understand that. So personally message her if you believe she got wrong information, or send her a direct source of where you are getting information, so she herself can see what is valid and what is not. But a bunch of people on a forum trying to attack one another doesn't prove anything 'valid'

Which is awesome for the OP but leaves the misinformation out there for the lurkers.

God forbid we actually use our own mind to separate fact from fiction, or real world experience with different situations over supposition and assumptions.

You obviously don't believe in the adage that "I may disagree with what I say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it"