Cannot eat past 1,000cals

I just took a quick peek into your food diary and noticed that you're eating really small meals... like just a single banana for lunch.

I guess my first question is - do you feel hungry? If you do, then you should eat. If you don't, then I would suggest building up your calories slowly... add meat, fish and other proteins into your meal, as well as cheese, yogurt and other dairy products. If you're not allergic to nuts, throw those in for a snack.

Second question is why you're eating so little to begin with... I know it's easy to forget meals when working, and just ignoring it, telling yourself you'll eat later. I've been there before. For a few years, I only had coffee for breakfast, and then dinner. It was not good. And it wasn't that I didn't like food. In fact, I loved food. But everything just seemed to get in the way.

Less than 1200 calories is like starvation mode, and I know this from personal experience. It's not good for your health.I really noticed a problem, as I got older, because I'm experiencing hair loss much earlier than most people. I was also more tired than I should be for someone in their late 20's and early 30's.

But I know it's hard to eat so much more right away, so my suggestion is to build up to it. But you'll need to start adding just more calorie packed and higher protein foods. Try to maintain set meal times. That will really help you get the calories you need to keep going. I started doing that recently again, and have found that it really has helped. My incessant headaches have gone away too.

If you don't have time to cook, go buy some Lean Cuisine when it's on sale (to save some money). I almost always have some of those at home. And when I buy them, I always check the "best before" date. If there's at least a year or two on them, then it's good-to-go. It's great backup for those days/weeks where cooking is a nuisance. I've found Lean Cuisine to be the better tasting frozen dinner so far.

Good luck! And feel free to pop me a message if you ever need some encouragement. I've done the college/career building/back-breaking not eating type of thing. It takes time to make change.

It is important to be eating enough which is at LEAST 1200 calories (though in my opinion that is still too low). If you are finding that you're not very hungry, try eating more healthy calorie dense foods like avocados, nuts, nut butters, eggs with yolk, cheese, etc.

Eat some potato chips?

Ok, you are eating bananas, rice and Cheerios. Please! Eat a balanced diet, not diet as in weight loss, as in nutrition. You are young. You might think this is the way to go for a quick loss but, it will affect your health! You skin, you hair, your muscle. Add some protein,, maybe a veg or two.

stop drinking so much water and eat some food. maybe u are getting to full on water? 1000 caleries is way to few unless u are 100 pounds and 1200 is wway to few unless u are 120 pounds

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What make you say that?

anything under 1200 no matter how much you weigh is not enough!

How did you gain weight? I'm so jealous, though, I can't seem to eat under 3000! 3800 today

Eat small meals 3 meals and 3 snack throughout the day

A banana is not lunch. You're choosing low cal foods, that's your problem. Have toast, peanut butter etc. if you seriously can't eat past 100 calories then go to a doctor.

Try to slowly add healthy food into your meals. A single banana is not a meal, but add a piece of whole wheat toast and a little peanut butter and it is. Or try smoothies. You're able to put a lot of different healthy things into a single glass. Eating very little will make you lose weight, but your body may pay the price in the long run. When your body isn't getting the right about of nutrients it will start to steal it from where it can. IE calcium, your body can steal it from your bones. And I'm not sure of your nationality, but you look asian. 1/2 Japanese here. Bone health is very important as someone of asian descent and as a woman. Try adding slices of fruit to your cereal. Lean meat and fish.

I agree with the small meals and snacks. Or I've been advised by a lot of military people I know who are health nuts 5 small meals. Eating just once your body tries to hold on to as much as possible because it doesn't know when more is coming in. Balanced meals

It's great you are drinking a lot of water.
You have to think like this about food. You CANNOT drive a car without fuel. It can only go so far on fumes and it gives out. You might even break something because you pushed the car too far. The same goes for your body. I used to have a hate-love relationship with my food. Then, I found that some foods worked well and others were awful. Listen to your body. This is the only body you get. Treat it well, you'll feel better and live longer. Treat it like crap, get unwanted results. Hope you do well in whatever decision you make.

I don't believe that's true. If you look at all the research on the IF diet, you will see many people believe that low calories, skipping meals, etc is a recipe for disaster. Modern day wants you to eat 5-6 meals a day with increased protein even though it's proven that too much protein is not necessarily a good thing for your liver and kidneys. I too have a hard time taking in enough calories if I try to eat "right" and limit simple carbs, sugar, and fats. If you look at my diary you make think I also have an issue with food and need to see a psychiatrist. That's not the case. I have a medical condition which prevents me from taking in a lot of food at one time. So therefore I would have to take in high calorie foods or snack constantly to achieve an adequate amt of calories a day. My goal is to teach myself not to take in all these high calorie foods and to only eat when hungry and not when everyone else is eating. Many of us could seem to have some issue with food or else we would not plan social life around food all the time. So ask questions, give advice but try not to accuse if you're not sure what's actually going on.

But with IF you do eat a healthy number of calories, it just limits the window for eating them. Even if you do 5:2, you're supposed to net your goal for the week, you just have two very low days and five higher ones.

What the OP is doing is under-eating all the time.

Also dietary fat is fine.

Your meals look more like snacks.

I eat triple what you're eating on a daily basis.

More protein. More good fats.

That'll bump up the cals with no problem.

You HAVE to be hungry.

Don't do this to yourself.

this has troll thread or eating disorder written all over it...

Yes, some of what she says is indicative of EDs, but your comment is slightly less than useless. Maybe suggest some helpful ideas for her?

I think what makes this even MORE difficult to justify is that you seem to exercise a lot, as well. And, from your pictures it doesn't look like you can have that much to lose- definitely concerning that you are doing more damage to yourself than good, and although in other posts you've talked about how much you've lost already it seems like you're lack of food consumption/exercise/etc is lining you up for an eating disorder.

Listen to what everyone has to say and really attempt to add higher calorie foods, protein, and balanced meals into your diet ASAP and check in with a doctor....you're young, don't let whatever is fueling this get out of control.