Worried and frustrated

What about quinoa? It is full of protein, easy to make, you can add veggies, and flavour/sauces if you like (try steaming it with fresh rosemary...YUM!) and a cup is a load of calories, but very filling! You dont want to eat too little, or weight loss will stall to nothing...not good!

Of course a handful of nuts is full of calories (the good kind) and I bet if you google vegan, you will come up with great options!!:flowerforyou:

Everyone says the sugar setting is way to low on this site. I've never bothered to turn that setting on because I don't eat sugar, except in fruit.

But you should definitely eat your remaining 300 calories.

Can you eat peanut butter? I don't really know what a lacto vegetarian is so sorry if that's a dumb question. If you can eat peanut butter. Smash up a banana and peanut butter and there's 300 hundred calories. Better yet, throw it in the freezer for an hour and you'll have banana peanut butter ice cream. Food is fuel and you need at least 1200cal of fuel a day.

I hope others with more experience with the sugar setting chime in also. Good luck reaching your goal and welcome to MFP.

so since your net calories are 900 I assume you aren't eating your exercise calories. looking at your photo , you don't seem to be obese, course I don't know your numbers, but again you don't seem to be, so I would ask what your goal deficit is and what your maintenance calories are?

"Calories Burned
From Normal Daily Activity 1,990 calories/day
Net Calories Consumed*
Your Daily Goal 1,200 calories/ day
Daily Calorie Deficit 790 calories"
These are the information. I am 175.8lbs and 5'6.
On BMI calculator, it says 28.7 which is in the range of over.

I just ate sunflowerseeds, yogrut and almonds and now I have net calores around 130.

so that's a pretty big deficit for someone at a BMI of 28, right on the edge of to much (IMHO), now, you lower that to 900 calories net, and now you're talking about a 1090 calorie deficit, that's to big IMHO, much to big.

I don't say this to hinder your progress, I say this with a practiced eye, lots of experience, and an eye towards long term success. If you were a client of mine, I would say lower the deficit to 500, eat your exercise calories, and wait 6 weeks to see how you're doing. If, in 6 weeks, you see little or no progress, then start tweaking by small amounts.
The reason why I say to do it this way is because the bigger a deficit you start with, the more modifications you'll need to do later on, and the more difficult it will be to adjust to a maintenance cycle when you reach your goal. changing from a 700 calorie deficit to maintenance is far more difficult than stepping down over the course of several months from a 500 cal deficit to a 300 cal deficit then gradually to maintenance.
Remember, I come at MFP from a permanent change in lifestyle perspective, if you want to change how you think about food, and your whole nutritional profile, this is the easiest way to do it.
This is all just opinion of course, take my advice if you want. I hope this helps.

best luck to you.

-Banks

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good luck. I'm rooting for ya.

I am also a vegetarian...eggs/dairy veggie...I keep almonds on hand at all times. I will put almonds and raisins together for a snack...I need to eat stuff like that to meet my cal. goals all the time.