Trouble reaching 1300+ calories and still eating healthy.

Can't see your diary but some healthy fats like raw nuts and avocado will be calorically dense without adding significant sodium or sugars.

Your profile says that you're a 21 year old male. I'll be shocked if you aren't eating quite far under your BMR at 1300.

do you log oils that u cook with? supplements that may be fatty like cla or fish oil? sometimes we forget about those things... if you are and need a few more calories I agree with everyone else.. add a greek yogurt or some almonds or avocado to your salad.

Open your diary so we can see more of what "healthy" means to you and what you could add.

With sugar, unless you have a medical reason, don't worry about naturally occurring sugars like in fruit. Worry about added sugars and keep those to moderation.

Otherwise, with calories, avocados, nuts, nut butters, whole fat dairy, and meats would all work. Don't eat anything considered "diet" foods like "low fat" junk.

Indeed. Open the diary so we can judge you (just kidding). Really, nuts/avocado/oily fish/whole milk products (limited) are all good to push your cals up with healthy fats and proteins. If possible, run away from anything that wasn't squeezed/picked/pulled/plucked/cut/grown/raised in nature.

Are you kidding me a carrot for breakfast. All due respect but if you are here trying to lose weight you didn't get overweight by eating carrots for breakfast. I'm sure you know how to eat healthy you don't need to go to extremes to lose weight. Cereal or toast for breakfast a sandwich or salad for lunch and lean meat and veges for dinner with 2 snacks in between not hard to reach 1300 cals I do it everyday.

Eat!!

Eatin healthy =/= low calorie. It also does not require you to eat nothing but rabbit food.
You ate half a some kind of a hot dog at 50 calories. Eat the whole thing. Have two. You had 42 calories worth if chicken - eat more.

Get out of the mindset of "dieting". Eat food, just make it fit your goals. Focus on mostly whole foods - which include calorie dense foods that are also nutritious like eggs, avocados, olive oil, nuts and nut butters - and eat other stuff in moderation.

As a young male your calorie intake is too low even at 1400.

stop eating what you think is "diet" food. If you don't plan on eating this way for the rest of your life (and you can't/won't) why start down a seriously-undereating pattern now?

"all due respect" doesn't mean anything when you're judging me, which is why I was keeping my food diary private.

I don't really consider when I eat to be necessarily "meals" I just enter them on the site.

In all honesty, the food I ate on my second 'meal' wasnt long after i ate 'breakfast'.

don't come here asking for help and then getting pissed off when someone gives you the advice you need to hear. no one is judging you, but if you ask for help.. be THANKFUL that most people are asking for more information from you instead of just tossing out blanket ideas.

I agree. No one is judging you. You need to make sure you're eating in a sustainable way right now, 1300 calories is not a lot to get to.

The reality is not what you want to hear I get that. But you are in for a fall big time if you think that what your doing is healthy. If you keep going you are at sometime going to have a huge binge or you are going to continue to eat like a sparrow and your body is going to hang onto everything you are feeding it and you will not lose weight.

Guys should be no lower than 1500 cals a day according to this site. So I don't know where you even got the 1300 from. Go and plug your numbers and stats into MFP and eat the baseline calories it suggests, then whenyou exercise log them and eat them back also.

The reality is not what you want to hear I get that. But you are in for a fall big time if you think that what your doing is healthy. If you keep going you are at sometime going to have a huge binge or you are going to continue to eat like a sparrow and your body is going to hang onto everything you are feeding it and you will not lose weight.

Guys should be no lower than 1500 cals a day according to this site. So I don't know where you even got the 1300 from. Go and plug your numbers and stats into MFP and eat the baseline calories it suggests, then whenyou exercise log them and eat them back also.

before he decided to close his diary, take his ball to another park, and leave...

His goal was actually closer to 2200. He isn't using the site as designed. Maybe he's still in the "eat less to weigh less" mindset.

I thought it was impossible to get healthy and reach 2000 calories a day until I tried it. Its really easy, don't think about it and its easy really. If you know whats healthy and not then your ok. The list of foods that people will give you will go on forever. You dont need to worry about sugar unless your doctor tells you to be below a certain number. Sugars from fruits is healthy for you, unprocessed foods that has added sugar isn't. I don't cut nothing out of my foods, I just cut down the size of it. I still eat cheese pizza, only once or twice a month now. I still eat hamburgers, I just buy the leanest beef. It's really doable, there are people that eats up to 2500calories a day. Just like someone else mention, don't think about "diet food" and limiting yourself to certain foods. Eat what you want just make it healthier. You can take a fatty dish and turn it to a healthier dish. Its all in the kitchen.