If you have this problem, too, add me!

NayNeeNoo
NayNeeNoo Posts: 25 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I posted several weeks ago about having problems meeting even the 1200 calorie minimum (before and after exercise) and have been trying to get myself up above it (as in 1300+). I did well on my three week visit to family because I stuffed my face with things I couldn't get at home (cake, doughnuts, snocones, Blue Bell ice cream). LOL, so not a healthy way to get over 1200! Now I'm home and my first day back yesterday I didn't get above 1200 again. Ugh. Anyway, if you have problems meeting 1200 calories and WANT to, too, add me and we can encourage each other. Please don't add me if you're TRYING to eat 1200 or under. I'm trying to eat more and would like to buddy up with people in a similar situation.

Edit: Oh, and it'd be helpful if you have your food diary viewable so we can share meal ideas to help get us over!

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  • djwife03
    djwife03 Posts: 333 Member
    i'm not at 1200 a day, i am at 1560, and after exercise, I am always at too big of a deficit! I can't get to 1560! So, if you want I will add you!
  • NayNeeNoo
    NayNeeNoo Posts: 25 Member
    Whatever your minimum is. :) My biggest problem is I forget to eat. I get wrapped up in what I'm doing with the kids or around the house and before I know it, BAM it's bedtime and I've hardly eaten anything!
  • Greenrun99
    Greenrun99 Posts: 2,065 Member
    Whatever your minimum is. :) My biggest problem is I forget to eat. I get wrapped up in what I'm doing with the kids or around the house and before I know it, BAM it's bedtime and I've hardly eaten anything!

    Set an alarm on your phone or in your house.. when it goes off you eat, then reset it.
  • 220Dani
    220Dani Posts: 198 Member
    Whatever your minimum is. :) My biggest problem is I forget to eat. I get wrapped up in what I'm doing with the kids or around the house and before I know it, BAM it's bedtime and I've hardly eaten anything!

    This. I have two little kids so I sometimes end up skipping breakfast dealing with all their problems. Lunch and dinner are good - I can make those - but skip breakfast once and bam, day is shot calories wise. And then you try to eat a snack but noooo, they have to come and eat mom's snack because it looks so much better than theirs. Pfft, kids. I miss when they were little and napped all the time.
  • NayNeeNoo
    NayNeeNoo Posts: 25 Member
    Bump for the morning.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,428 MFP Moderator
    It's very easy to add calories.

    Step 1 - grab peanut butter jar
    Step 2 - grab spoon
    Step 3 - go to town on that bish!!!!
    Step 4 - repeat as necessary


    ** Steps 1/2 can be reverse based on kitchen lay out.


    Other options you can replace a snack with, nuts, cheese, protein bars, high calorie protein shakes, drinking chocolate milk cooking foods in EVOO, eating ice cream or other foods you would classified as not as healthy and all of this without adding quantity. Keep in mind, it's better to get some type of calorie as compared to none. If you can do it, it's a mental thing, not a quantity thing.
  • lin7604
    lin7604 Posts: 2,951 Member
    haha :) i agree with above. easy to add higher cal items in that are very healthy.....
  • NayNeeNoo
    NayNeeNoo Posts: 25 Member
    I just bought some whey protein powder the other day and have had some the past two days at breakfast. This morning the chocolate peanut butter one I made added up to over 300 calories, so it's a start!

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