For the love of god women EAT!!!

I think a lot of the issue is people trying to drastically overhaul their diets and eliminate everything "bad" in one fell swoop. So they're left eating super low calorie "healthy" foods only. Then we get treated to complaints about how they don't feel well and they're not losing weight and they can't stop ~BINGING~ and they don't know why.

Though I don't think only eating "healthy" foods is a bad thing, you just have to find healthy foods that have higher calorie contents, and they do exist! I never understood this problem at all.

I am a woman and I have just started on here with 1200 cal but today have upped it to 1500 a day!! I love food and I don't want to lose weight by not eating anything, I want to lose weight by eating the right things and doing exercise! That way I can have a treat if I want one without feeling guilty

When they switch to all of the low calorie foods, they tend to stuff themselves with vegetables and lean means. Naturally, they feel very full, but aren't getting very many calories. The problem seems to be that they eat waaaay too many vegetables and don't balance it out with healthy foods that actually have calories in them. I understand the full feeling and how when they eat that way it's hard to reach 1200 calories, but they ignore the fact that it's easy to change their diet around a bit and easily consume 1200 calories.

I ate 1200 a day (ish) for 5 weeks, because MFP told me to. Then I came on the forums and saw lots of posts about calculating my TDEE/BMR and i've worked out I should actually be eating around 1400, without counting exercise. There's a lot of information out there...a lot of it confusing, misleading or just plain wrong.

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I love food. I have a hard time staying under 2000 calories a day if I'm not careful. I tried the 1200 calorie thing for a couple days and found myself in the fridge at 11 pm eating everything that rhymed with cheese.

My daily goal for the past month has been 1300..I burn over 500 calories 6 days a week and eat back my cals so that my daily net is in the 1050-1150 range. That is what it displays under net..I really eat 1500-1600 without counting the burn. I hope that makes sense..this stuff is confusing to me at times..is what i am doing too low? I dont starve myself..I am always satisfied..lots of protein..good carbs..water..low fat.. (i have high cholesterol)

Today I upped my daily goal to 1400..I'm hoping that's a good thing. Weight loss has been steady before this week so I'm thinking if I eat a tad bit more it will benefit me..down 43 lbs now.

Forgoodness sake, if I hear one more person say they cannot eat above 1200 cals I may scream.

My GF is the same. Logging with a different sight and claims she "cannot" get above 1200 calories... well you didn't have that problem before!!!

Just eat. Why is it so hard? Genuine question. I have no problems getting to 1600 calories in oneday, nay I could do it in one sitting if I let myself.

grumble grumble grumble... and Happy face

i dont go above 1200 =D *covers ears and waits for the scream* before i didnt have a problem no because i ate crap .. burgers chips ect now all my food if not most of it is vegan .. veg fruits beans lentils ect and they dont have as many calories and fill me up alot faster x

Do you work out?

unless physio counts then no ... i did go for a walk today with my son threw the forest very slow walk as hes only 2 lol but i logged it and will eat extra today saying that if im hungry i do go over my calories but im usually not my hubby whos 9 stone eats all the time we logged it one day and it came to 4000 cals hes been eating vegan ect and says he cant eat as much now as hes soo full

I ate 1200 a day (ish) for 5 weeks, because MFP told me to. Then I came on the forums and saw lots of posts about calculating my TDEE/BMR and i've worked out I should actually be eating around 1400, without counting exercise. There's a lot of information out there...a lot of it confusing, misleading or just plain wrong.

Burt boiled it all down to make it as simple and accessible as possible for new folks...

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/952996-level-obstacles-lose-weight-target-fat-easy

I have occasional days like that. Not often, though. It's usually related to, as thecakelocker said, trying to eliminate less healthy choices along with a change in schedule. For example, on Friday I worked out after work instead of in the morning and just wasn't hungry for dinner when I got home. I ended up eating 1100 that day, with a net of something like 800. But that was the first time that's happened in quite a while.

I have really low days like this occasionally too, but that's different than just all the time being "unable" to eat 1200 (and most of them aren't eating back their workout calories either). You are not the person that we're hating on here.

Right?!

Forgoodness sake, if I hear one more person say they cannot eat above 1200 cals I may scream.

My GF is the same. Logging with a different sight and claims she "cannot" get above 1200 calories... well you didn't have that problem before!!!

Just eat. Why is it so hard? Genuine question. I have no problems getting to 1600 calories in oneday, nay I could do it in one sitting if I let myself.

grumble grumble grumble... and Happy face

Its a physiological thing. When you eat at 1200, your body dials back your metabolism and burns muscle (that pesky tissue that requires so many calories to maintain) in order to survive at 1200. So the appetite gets dialed back too. If you eat at 1200 long enough, you honestly won't get hungry for more than that. If you try to eat more, say have breakfast of 600 calories, your body thinks you've gotten half your calories for the day so you won't get hungry again until dinner.

Goes to show why you have to follow your mind out of that mess, not your body.