1200 calorie diet and not losing

1) Eat mostly to get the nutrition your body needs, and less for enjoyment. Establish a healthful diet and find pleasure in other things.

Food can be fabulous - why not enjoy food? A perfectly ripe peach, the most tender and flavorful roast chicken, even a piece of your favorite chocolate cake! I still enjoy my favorite foods, and look forward to them.

2) Three meals a day: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. That's it. No snacks, and no "in between" meals.

:noway: I eat three meals a day, often a pre or post-workout snack, and various snacks throughout the day and I still have great results. No need to restrict to three basic meals and no snackage.

3) Give up sugar. No sugar in coffee, soda, or on cereal. Give up fruit juice -- it's mainly just another form of sugar. Water is the only liquid you need.

I still eat sugar - while I have cut out soda, I still enjoy a daily iced coffee with sugar (and half & half!), a piece of dark chocolate here and there, sometimes a cookie (hey, there's a snack!) - and am still losing the fat.

I suppose there are some who have to take an "all or nothing" approach, but it's not a hard and fast rule that these things need to be cut out of everyone's foods permanently. Make life changes - overall healthy habits and good eating, but there's still room to enjoy food and enjoy life, with birthdays, holidays, vacations, etc, and the goodies can fit into your daily goals! :bigsmile:

He got you too, huh?

Bob is *apparently* the ultimate troll. Just to let you know. He copypastas this everywhere, lol. :flowerforyou:

Do this and you *will* lose weight:

1) Eat mostly to get the nutrition your body needs, and less for enjoyment. Establish a healthful diet and find pleasure in other things.

2) Three meals a day: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. That's it. No snacks, and no "in between" meals.

3) Give up sugar. No sugar in coffee, soda, or on cereal. Give up fruit juice -- it's mainly just another form of sugar. Water is the only liquid you need.

4) In the beginning, establish a very regulated moderate calorie diet. Don't follow any sort of fad. Just pick a selection of foods that add up to a normal balanced diet -- whole grains, veggies, fruit, dairy, a little meat, etc. But start out by having exactly the same three meals each day -- the same foods and the same amounts. Weigh the portions on a scale. Consider frozen dinners. Healthy Choice, Lean Cuisine, Kashi, Smart Ones, and probably other brands have several that are low in calories and saturated fat, 25% daily value or less of sodium, and high in fiber.

5) Weigh yourself every day on a 0.2 lb. accuracy scale. Your weight should go down over every two or three days. If it doesn't, eliminate items from your diet or reduce the size of portions until your weight does go down. (If you don't have a 0.2 lb. accuracy scale, I'd recommend the EatSmart Precision Plus Digital Scale, which is sold on Amazon.) Don't obsess over the scale — let it be your friend and point the way to a weight losing diet.

6) When you have achieved a weight losing diet, then you can start making adjustments to add variety, but make sure that you keep losing weight.

7) Maintain your exercise program.

I've been on a 1200 cal diet too but eating poorly (but under cals), stuck at same weight for almost 2 weeks now!

I tried doing some intense workouts to push things along but of course that made the scale go up since my muscles retained water.

Now I am going to try what I did to get from 158-155, which is a single 6-apple day with a steak for dinner. That should flush the body out. Remember to still drink all your water and take vitamin/mineral supplement for that day. I guarantee you'll lose a little, even if its just the apples wiping down your insides. Then of course resume your diet the following day but do not overindulge in carbs or sugars or your body will only burn that and not your fat.