food ideas please?? keep going over in sugar and protein

I asked a Human Nutritional Specialist who told me it is okay to go over on sugar if I am eating simple sugars from natural sugars like fruits. It was explained to me that these simple sugars are easily recognized and processed by the body. I haven't had any trouble losing weight thanks to MyFitnessPal.

My minimum has to be 1200 calories, but through the message boards, many don't seem to be concerned to go over on protein. I don't have a problem with this because I limit myself to very small meat intakes, 4 oz. of lean beef, 3 oz. of pork, 2 oz. of chicken and 1.4 oz of fish per day targets. (But fish I tend to go over, 1.4 oz of fish isn't satisfying enough no matter how you spread it.) I got those numbers from My Plate produced by the USDA.

800-900 calories seems low to me, my sister wants to lose 2 pounds a week and is only 5'3" and they still had her targeting 1000 calories until she found out she was pregnant and bumped it up to 1200. I always get a warning if I try to stop logging too few calories. If you are at a deficiency, try buying and bagging some almonds or cashews. Both have their health benefits and I have used dark chocolate almonds. Good luck on reaching your goals!

You don't need to worry about tracking sugar unless you're diabetic.

MFP has a very low protein goal so please exceed it.

And eat more.
A lot more, at least 1200 cals plus your exercise calories - that's the way MFP was designed to be used.

Read this and up your cals.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/937712-in-place-of-a-road-map-ver-3-0?hl=place+of+a+road+map

(sorry it's off the search function)

You should be okay if you go over on your protein, it doesn't negatively affect you in any way. Simple sugars are easily processed too. As for the caloric intake, 1200 is the absolute minimum you should intake. Despite what some people think, anything less than that can and likely will stall your metabolism causing you to GAIN weight when you eat. It happened to me. I was taking in 400-600 cal a day and it really caught up with me. That diet rule about don't eat if you're not hungry is a lie. You need to fuel your body the same way you fuel your car, it can't run on nothing. In fact it won't run on nothing. I ended screwing up my thyroid because I wasn't eating enough, plus gaining 50lbs in a year. Its really worth it to eat! Just make good choices!

Nice, I get to use two of my original copypastas for this question.

Sugar is just a carb. As long as you're eating enough fats and protein, your carbs/sugar aren't important unless you have a medical issue that requires carbs/sugar to be monitored. As long as you're under your calorie goal, you'll lose weight. Some people find that sugar (even from fruit) causes them to have more sugar/carb cravings. If this isn't the case for you there's no need to limit sugar.

MFP sets protein too low. To set your macros, check out this link: 

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/911011-calculating-calorie-macronutrient-needs?page=1#posts-13821336

Also, it's hard to have too much protein. 

"It has been observed that the human liver cannot safely metabolise much more than 285-365 g of protein per day (for an 80 kg person), and human kidneys are similarly limited in their capability to remove urea (a byproduct of protein catabolism) from the bloodstream. Exceeding that amount results in excess levels of amino acids, ammonia (hyperammonemia), and/or urea in the bloodstream, with potentially fatal consequences,[1] especially if the person switches to a high-protein diet without giving time for the levels of his or her hepatic enzymes to upregulate. Since protein only contains 4 kcal/gram, and a typical adult human requires in excess of 1900 kcal to maintain the energy balance, it is possible to exceed the safe intake of protein if one is subjected to a high-protein diet with little or no fat or carbohydrates. However, given the lack of scientific data on the effects of high-protein diets, and the observed ability of the liver to compensate over a few days for a shift in protein intake, the US Food and Nutrition Board does not set a Tolerable Upper Limit nor upper Acceptable Macronutrient Distribution Range for protein.[2] Furthermore, medical sources such as UpToDate[3] do not include listings on this topic." 

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_starvation