Eating under 1000 cals a day

Could you use low fat stuff in any of your meals? You could try using high fat stuff instead. Or have a chocolate bar or something. Or perhaps look at your nutritional intake and if you are low on certain vitamins etc eat something high in those vits. If you are really not hungry after eating 1000 cals I'd be more concerned about getting enough nutrients.

What happened to dinner?

What's your height, weight and what are your goals?

Are you logging your food correctly?

less than 1000 cals/day is not enough for pretty much anyone, even a tiny baby as about 500 cals/day....!!

Is something taking your appetite away, e.g. stress, illness? This is not a good situation, because you're still undereating even if you don't feel hungry. this happened to me when i had PTSD... I had no appetite a lot of the time due to the stress, but I still got fat because I was in a cycle of undereating for a long time, then my appetite would come back when I was less stressed, then I'd end up overeating to compensate, and if you alternate under and overeating, what you overeat on will be stored as pure fat. This was happening without me realising it, I wasn't tracking or anything. It wasn't until I started tracking my nutrition that I realised that undereating was more of a problem than overeating was, and I lost the weight by making sure I ate enough on days when I felt too stressed to eat. I've been fat and lost weight a few times in the past (not any more though, my weight's stable this time with very little effort), the first time I got fat it was from plain and simple overeating and being sedentary, but the PTSD fat came from undereating, and the way I fixed it was by avoiding undereating. If I ate enough calories every day regardless of whether I was actually hungry, the rebound overeating didn't happen and the fat came off steadily and like I said, I'm maintaining my new healthy body fat percentage without difficulty (striving to improve it a little though)

My advice from that is, do not undereat, even if you're not feeling hungry. Undereating backfires sooner or later. And yes, i know how hard it can be to eat enough when you're not actually hungry, but trust me it's worth it.

The other possibility is that you're actually eating more than you think you are. If you're just guessing portion sizes your numbers could be out by as much as 50% either way. If that's the case then your less than 1000 cals/day could actually be more like 1400-1500 cals/day which is a reasonable amount for losing fat for most women (although it's too low for very active women, or for tall, large framed women).

My advice from that is to weigh all your food (weight is more accurate than volume) and be sure that you're being accurate, and then see how much you're actually eating.... if it's really is less than 1000 cals/day you need to ask yourself why you're appetite is suppressed and make yourself eat enough otherwise you're still going to get problems associated with undereating like loss of bone density, rebound overeating, etc.

Tea- a term in some parts of the UK for Dinner! I say it and my London other half thinks I'm strange

When l lived near to London, people there said tea. Was a town just about 30 miles from London. Now you mention it I can't remember if anyone used that term when I lived in London... but it's not just Wales or the North.... definitely heard it a lot down south too.

You definitely need a more substantial breakfast. If you want to feel full but lower calorie, try 55 grams of porridge, 1-2 teaspoons of agave syrup and 120 ml of unsweetened almond milk. There is the same amount of calcium in unsweetened almond milk as regular milk without the sugar. Comes out to 248 calories, 40 carbs, 7 sugars, and5 fat. It fills me up for the whole morning and just taste so yummy. You can add nuts, fresh or dried fruits too.

Regular cereals have so much sugar in them. Bite size shredded wheat is about the only one that doesn't add junk. Again, you can add what you like to up the taste.

Then have your yogurt as a snack!

I'm in the midlands and tea is commonly used here and dinner is commonly used for lunch. I'm American and sometimes I use both terms.

If you don't feed it, your body's gonna eat itself. It'll suck nutrients out of your muscles and bones, not just from your fat stores. I agree with the poster who says to look back over your diary and find out which nutrients you are not getting enough of and just add in foods with some of those. There are almost 200 calories in an ounce of walnuts if you need a quick snack to fill in your cals at the end of the day. :flowerforyou:

dude that's gonna get you skinny-fat body. when i started eating more is when i got muscle

@Nutella91 what you mean by Skinny-fat body hun? well you look amazing so I wanna know what your doing

If you have a high % calorie deficit, you are likely to lose more muscle than if you have a moderate defict.

people that lose a higher portion of muscle sometimes find themselves at their goal weight but still unhappy with their body, as they have a higher bodyfat% than they would like. Hence the term Skinny-fat.

For instance, if you start off at 30% fat, you don't want to just become a smaller version of the current you, and still have 30% fat when you get to goal.

To counteract that , the advice is usually to eat at a smaller defict, eat sufficient protein, and do strength training.

I have nothing to add about the OP's diet dilemma - just posting to say most people in Australia use the word 'tea' for the evening meal too

Try planning a side dish with your lunch and supper. With a snack !