Haters gonna hate. tired of the "1200 is not enough" speech

well i am very thankful for those "1200 is not enough" threads/posts. I stopped losing at 1200 upped my cals to now 1550-1800 calories. Guess what! I am still not losing. But I am much happier and have more energy. And I am so much stronger. So I am just hoping my body needs to recover from eating so little and working out so much then the weight will start to come off again. But really I am a lot nicer when I eat more...so its a plus to anyone who has to be around me too! And well, I get to eat more!!

i went from 1200 to 1550 and didn't loose. i dropped to 1400 and now the weight is coming off. you could just need a little tweaking.

well i am very thankful for those "1200 is not enough" threads/posts. I stopped losing at 1200 upped my cals to now 1550-1800 calories. Guess what! I am still not losing. But I am much happier and have more energy. And I am so much stronger. So I am just hoping my body needs to recover from eating so little and working out so much then the weight will start to come off again. But really I am a lot nicer when I eat more...so its a plus to anyone who has to be around me too! And well, I get to eat more!!

i went from 1200 to 1550 and didn't loose. i dropped to 1400 and now the weight is coming off. you could just need a little tweaking.

i was thinking that too. I am going to try this for another month and see how it goes. I did a lot of stupid things to my body (barely eating during the week/overeating on weekends) so I am hoping my body needs time to adjust. But thank you for your suggestion, I really want to get to my goal and still be nice. How long did you stay at 1550 before you dropped to 1400? And how long were you at 1400 before you started to lose again?

I wouldn't drop your calories, have you figured out your BMR and TDEE??

If not try this: http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

Give your body about 6-8 weeks, it takes time. Good luck.

Ok so I carefully read all of your posts....

I'm glad some of you actually got was I was saying.

This was not a topic about wether eating 1200 is ok for me or for everybody, this was a topic saying that once you see 1200 calories you start automaticly saying that that is wrong and that is not enough without reading anything else. And my point was pretty much proven because a lot of you commented on how my metabolism will slow down and that my TDEE was not what I said it was, some of you were very "mean"

I would like to quote what I said at the first post.

"That's it. Please, READ the topics and learn a little about the person before saying the you are eating few calories speech because it does not always apply "

Anyways, I'm glad some of you got the point, sadly a lot of people didn't read or what I first posted and just talk about calorie intake or simply didn't care and talk about what they wanted, which was saying how 1200 is bad.

I do not advocate for a 1200 calories for everyone and I think I made my point very clear, I said that it ALL depends on height, weight, activity level, etc and that people should READ the topics before giving their opinions. If the person is 6'2 and works out 5 times a week and it is netting 500 calories a day, yeah, go ahead, advice them and tell them that they are probably not eating enough, if the person is shorter than 5 feet and in a wheelchair, that probably means 1200 is enough for them. So please read before commenting!

If you want to slow your metabolism and be stuck HAVING to eat so little. Go ahead. When the body does not get enough calories metabolism slows period. This is from caveman times when the body had no idea when the next food was coming. Of course you may be the special snowflake exception to science. If so great. Have at it enjoy your snacks. I will eat my meals at about 1700 calories having lost over 100 lbs doing so.

Ok so I carefully read all of your posts....

I'm glad some of you actually got was I was saying.

This was not a topic about wether eating 1200 is ok for me or for everybody, this was a topic saying that once you see 1200 calories you start automaticly saying that that is wrong and that is not enough without reading anything else. And my point was pretty much proven because a lot of you commented on how my metabolism will slow down and that my TDEE was not what I said it was, some of you were very "mean"

I would like to quote what I said at the first post.

"That's it. Please, READ the topics and learn a little about the person before saying the you are eating few calories speech because it does not always apply "

Anyways, I'm glad some of you got the point, sadly a lot of people didn't read or what I first posted and just talk about calorie intake or simply didn't care and talk about what they wanted, which was saying how 1200 is bad.

I do not advocate for a 1200 calories for everyone and I think I made my point very clear, I said that it ALL depends on height, weight, activity level, etc and that people should READ the topics before giving their opinions. If the person is 6'2 and works out 5 times a week and it is netting 500 calories a day, yeah, go ahead, advice them and tell them that they are probably not eating enough, if the person is shorter than 5 feet and in a wheelchair, that probably means 1200 is enough for them. So please read before commenting!

I agree completely with your post. It was even worse a year ago when I first started. There was a very large group of people who had taken on the mission of berating anyone and everyone who even mentioned eating at the 1200 level, no matter what their age, height, body composition, activity level, etc. They were actually extremely rude and aggressive about it.
Most of those people never lost their weight and many have now deactivated their accounts. Many of them realized that they couldn't eat as many calories as they thought they could, and ended up lowering them. Many got tired of spending every day in the gym, killing themself so they could eat what they wanted, and either quit, or lowered their cals and activity.

I agree completely with your post. It was even worse a year ago when I first started. There was a very large group of people who had taken on the mission of berating anyone and everyone who even mentioned eating at the 1200 level, no matter what their age, height, body composition, activity level, etc. They were actually extremely rude and aggressive about it.
Most of those people never lost their weight and many have now deactivated their accounts. Many of them realized that they couldn't eat as many calories as they thought they could, and ended up lowering them. Many got tired of spending every day in the gym, killing themself so they could eat what they wanted, and either quit, or lowered their cals and activity.

I was here a year ago and I actively participated in threads of people looking for help/advice because they were struggling at their MFP-imposed 1200 calorie limit. However, I have no idea this "very large group of people" to which you are referring. I also find it very interesting how you know so much about those people and their reasons for not reaching their goals.

So I would love to know more. Perhaps you could provide names of a few of them to refresh my memory. Maybe also provide a few stories about those who failed to reach their goals. Since their accounts are deactivated, I can't imagine you'd get in any trouble for sharing their now-deactivated names.

First of all I am new, hello to all...I am supposed to be eating at 1200 calories a day. I have seen these posts going on and on about it about eating too little and who eats more than that, who is starving themselves etc..., WHO CARES? Let people do what they want, eat a little eat over, whatever, it is boring and there should probably be a more productive discussion going on. I started this and I realized after today and actually seeing the calories, fat content, sodium etc and I could not believe what I was doing.It really opened my eyes actually looking at it, and on top of not exercising, NO WONDER I am 217 pounds at the moment and 4'8''. I realistically according to many websites and things should really be around 100 pounds. I could really use some advice on how I can help my body learn to only take in 1200 calories and be fine with it because I feel I would be hungry all the time. I really want to lose some weight and would really like to get some motiviation. I need some new buddies to help with that...anyone willing ??:)

Wow, so many of these comments are grounds for reporting. Go ahead and have a difference of opinion over whether 1200 is enough (not that you should care what someone else eats though) but saying things like "Of course you may be the special snowflake exception to science" and "Chill out lady and have some pizza. Sounds like you could use a few slices" is attacking and insulting her and -- guess what -- that's against the TOS.

Differing views on how many calories are enough for a person are not grounds for insults. You all KNOW that every body has different calorie needs so just because 1200 would send YOUR body into starvation mode does not mean it will do that for everyone. Get off your high horses.