Haters gonna hate. tired of the "1200 is not enough" speech
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I eat 1100-1200 (when I'm dieting) and people are always "yada yada yada STARVATION MODE!" I'm so sick of it.
Before giving your opinion learn a little about the person you are giving your opinion to. Not all of us are 6'2 and have a TDEE of 2400.
My TDEE is 1600/1700. I have a 400 calorie deficit, probably most of you have a much bigger deficit than I do.
Stop demonizing 1200 calories and learn that it ALL depends on how tall, fat, active you are. Seriously some threads sound like broken records. Read a little before saying the "you are eating too little blablabla"
I remember a woman saying she ate 800-900 and like 3 pages of people saying she was pretty much an idiot for doing that. She stated in her topic that she had surgery to lose weight and thats her maximum calories because her stomach is super small and nobody even read that, they were too preocupied to say she was not eating enough.
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
PS: First language is not english, I'm from Chile and speak spanish so any grammer mistakes I apologize.
With your size and weight, 1200 cals is a good spot for you depending on your daily activity...remember that your metabolism is more dependent on how much lean mass you have & not the foods you eat....lets just say for example, you have a lean mass of 115 pounds....1200 cals a day is enough to feed that lean mass so don't let the "metabolism police" drive you crazy0 -
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Hi there, could somebody help me out with the maths please as im utterlyh opeless at maths and Im also anxious Im doing it wrong now too. When I joined MFP I entered my age as 53 my height at 5ft4 and my weight then was 210 (this was 4 weeks ago) MFP told me to eat 1200 calories and I would lose 1.3 pounds a week
Its not for me to argue with a computer and not knowing any better thats what ive done for the last month. I assumed MFP computer knows better than me how to add up and work it all out, so I trusted what I was told , its still all there in my goals
I have lost 14lbs in 4 weeks as of yesterday. Although ive been thrilled, after reading all these posts im now horrified. At the moment im 196 pounds and think I should get down to around 135 eventually. But if im going to be patient and get the fat off long term i would be heartbroken to pile it all back on again, so could somebody look at my stats for me and tell me what I could eat calorie wise and lose a 1lb a week, I would be very grateful, I dont want to eat only 1200 if I could be eating more. Especially as I dont want to lower my metabolism . To recap Im 53, 5ft 4, currently weigh 196 lbs and I dont do any exercise except light housework and occasional walks . I do plan on doing exercise when my arthritis eases up but at the moment I genuinely am sedentary
Many thanks in advance it would mean a lot to me.
You should start a separate thread and people will be able to focus on what you are asking
Thanks for that I think I will do that
edited to add, thank you to the poster who supplied that scoobycalculator thing, ive just used it and saved it to my favourites folder it is amazing and whats more easy to use, thank you so much, it says I can eat 1500 a day so yayyy0 -
I like to refer to those people as health nazis. This site is chock-full of 'em, it's quite comical. I eat from 1200-1300 a day & that is ~A LOT~ of food when you are eating very clean. If I just so happen to eat a few extra hundred because I decide to splurge a bit then it's whatever. It won't & has yet to derail me from my progress. Hey, guys.. Just to make them stfu, let's all invest in some brazil nuts. 6 of 'em is close to 200cal. 6 nuts! That's all you'll need to make these idiots happy since a 1400-1500cal diet has been deemed less hazardous to one's health in the long-term. Pffffffffff.0
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Some people are on here for actual support, motiviation and advice. Most of us are not professionals and can only offer our own opinion or experience. Some MFP people can be very negative and I feel that all that negativity isn't helping anyone. I just want to give some people a big hug and slap the b**tches that are treating others rudely! I don't even know I should be posting anything since for some reason every time I state some people are rude and don't actually provide helpful info when it is needed they find me and post back more rude comments.... let see if it happens again. Anywho: O.P. I do have to agree with you that people do not tend to read the entire O.P.'s post or understand what is being implied or asked. People need to remember that EVERYONE is different and what works for some may not work for others. Would a lot of us like to eat 1600+ cals a day and still loose weight: YES!!!!0
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Yeah, because your time is so valuable and you have no choice but to read everything ever posted, that everyone else should spend their time reading an entire thread just in case they might have posted something that was redundant and wasted 15 seconds of your time. Because those threads are not about helping the OP, they're all about you.
So if someone is asking for advice and there's already 15 pages of posts, anyone who responds should, according to you, be required to read through all of them, including the inevitable sidetracking and debating over irrelevant nonsense, mile-long infiniquotes, etc ad nauseum, before they are allowed to have an opinion of their own?I just wanted to point out the importance of reading the whole thing before saying your opinions. That's about it. The next time you see a topic about 1200, if you really read this, you'll remember and you will give your advice to somebody else having all the important factors in mind and reading everything that the person said. That was my motivation for writing this, because I've seen it too many times
Maybe they have something valuable to contribute and don't have 6 hours to spend reading every last post in every thread but still would like to add their comments. Maybe their time is better spent adding their comments to that many more "I need help" threads. Don't you think they might be more qualified to decide how their own time is best spent, instead of having you lecturing them about how you think they should spend their time?
Really?! :huh:
Heaven forbid one should actually read the thread rather than throw their 2 cents in all willy-nilly
Gasp! the very IDEA!!! :noway:0 -
Yeah, because your time is so valuable and you have no choice but to read everything ever posted, that everyone else should spend their time reading an entire thread just in case they might have posted something that was redundant and wasted 15 seconds of your time. Because those threads are not about helping the OP, they're all about you.
So if someone is asking for advice and there's already 15 pages of posts, anyone who responds should, according to you, be required to read through all of them, including the inevitable sidetracking and debating over irrelevant nonsense, mile-long infiniquotes, etc ad nauseum, before they are allowed to have an opinion of their own?I just wanted to point out the importance of reading the whole thing before saying your opinions. That's about it. The next time you see a topic about 1200, if you really read this, you'll remember and you will give your advice to somebody else having all the important factors in mind and reading everything that the person said. That was my motivation for writing this, because I've seen it too many times
Maybe they have something valuable to contribute and don't have 6 hours to spend reading every last post in every thread but still would like to add their comments. Maybe their time is better spent adding their comments to that many more "I need help" threads. Don't you think they might be more qualified to decide how their own time is best spent, instead of having you lecturing them about how you think they should spend their time?
Really?! :huh:
Heaven forbid one should actually read the thread rather than throw their 2 cents in all willy-nilly
Gasp! the very IDEA!!! :noway:
:huh:
Super long sentence.0 -
Yeah, because your time is so valuable and you have no choice but to read everything ever posted, that everyone else should spend their time reading an entire thread just in case they might have posted something that was redundant and wasted 15 seconds of your time. Because those threads are not about helping the OP, they're all about you.
:huh:
Super long sentence.
And your point would be?0 -
Some people are on here for actual support, motiviation and advice. Most of us are not professionals and can only offer our own opinion or experience. Some MFP people can be very negative and I feel that all that negativity isn't helping anyone. I just want to give some people a big hug and slap the b**tches that are treating others rudely! I don't even know I should be posting anything since for some reason every time I state some people are rude and don't actually provide helpful info when it is needed they find me and post back more rude comments.... let see if it happens again. Anywho: O.P. I do have to agree with you that people do not tend to read the entire O.P.'s post or understand what is being implied or asked. People need to remember that EVERYONE is different and what works for some may not work for others. Would a lot of us like to eat 1600+ cals a day and still loose weight: YES!!!!
Where rude = saying something you don't want to hear.
But calling people *****es is okay?
Hmmmm.......0 -
Some people are on here for actual support, motiviation and advice. Most of us are not professionals and can only offer our own opinion or experience. Some MFP people can be very negative and I feel that all that negativity isn't helping anyone. I just want to give some people a big hug and slap the b**tches that are treating others rudely! I don't even know I should be posting anything since for some reason every time I state some people are rude and don't actually provide helpful info when it is needed they find me and post back more rude comments.... let see if it happens again. Anywho: O.P. I do have to agree with you that people do not tend to read the entire O.P.'s post or understand what is being implied or asked. People need to remember that EVERYONE is different and what works for some may not work for others. Would a lot of us like to eat 1600+ cals a day and still loose weight: YES!!!!
Where rude = saying something you don't want to hear.
But calling people *****es is okay?
Hmmmm.......
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Yeah, because your time is so valuable and you have no choice but to read everything ever posted, that everyone else should spend their time reading an entire thread just in case they might have posted something that was redundant and wasted 15 seconds of your time. Because those threads are not about helping the OP, they're all about you.
:huh:
Super long sentence.
And your point would be?
Point:
It. Was. A. Super. Long. Sentence.0 -
Yeah, because your time is so valuable and you have no choice but to read everything ever posted, that everyone else should spend their time reading an entire thread just in case they might have posted something that was redundant and wasted 15 seconds of your time. Because those threads are not about helping the OP, they're all about you.
:huh:
Super long sentence.
And your point would be?
Point:
It. Was. A. Super. Long. Sentence.
Okay. So why point it out? Not sure how it relates to the topic at hand. :huh:0 -
I like to refer to those people as health nazis. This site is chock-full of 'em, it's quite comical. I eat from 1200-1300 a day & that is ~A LOT~ of food when you are eating very clean. If I just so happen to eat a few extra hundred because I decide to splurge a bit then it's whatever. It won't & has yet to derail me from my progress. Hey, guys.. Just to make them stfu, let's all invest in some brazil nuts. 6 of 'em is close to 200cal. 6 nuts! That's all you'll need to make these idiots happy since a 1400-1500cal diet has been deemed less hazardous to one's health in the long-term. Pffffffffff.
Brazil nuts should especially appeal to "extremely clean" paleo types, as they come almost exclusively from wild trees. It has never been economically viable to cultivate them because of their complex ecological requirements. That makes them about as close to a true "hunter gatherer" commodity as most of us are ever likely to get.0 -
Your shorts have a blue band.Yeah, because your time is so valuable and you have no choice but to read everything ever posted, that everyone else should spend their time reading an entire thread just in case they might have posted something that was redundant and wasted 15 seconds of your time. Because those threads are not about helping the OP, they're all about you.
:huh:
Super long sentence.
And your point would be?
Point:
It. Was. A. Super. Long. Sentence. 0 -
Because reasons!Okay. So why point it out? Not sure how it relates to the topic at hand. :huh:
Pointing out the obvious is no bigger waste of time than this thread. Which I am willingly participating in...0 -
Your shorts have a blue band.Yeah, because your time is so valuable and you have no choice but to read everything ever posted, that everyone else should spend their time reading an entire thread just in case they might have posted something that was redundant and wasted 15 seconds of your time. Because those threads are not about helping the OP, they're all about you.
:huh:
Super long sentence.
And your point would be?
Point:
It. Was. A. Super. Long. Sentence.
They do! Thank you for noticing! :blushing:0 -
Because reasons!Okay. So why point it out? Not sure how it relates to the topic at hand. :huh:
Pointing out the obvious is no bigger waste of time than this thread. Which I am willingly participating in...
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Yeah, because your time is so valuable and you have no choice but to read everything ever posted, that everyone else should spend their time reading an entire thread just in case they might have posted something that was redundant and wasted 15 seconds of your time. Because those threads are not about helping the OP, they're all about you.
So if someone is asking for advice and there's already 15 pages of posts, anyone who responds should, according to you, be required to read through all of them, including the inevitable sidetracking and debating over irrelevant nonsense, mile-long infiniquotes, etc ad nauseum, before they are allowed to have an opinion of their own?I just wanted to point out the importance of reading the whole thing before saying your opinions. That's about it. The next time you see a topic about 1200, if you really read this, you'll remember and you will give your advice to somebody else having all the important factors in mind and reading everything that the person said. That was my motivation for writing this, because I've seen it too many times
Maybe they have something valuable to contribute and don't have 6 hours to spend reading every last post in every thread but still would like to add their comments. Maybe their time is better spent adding their comments to that many more "I need help" threads. Don't you think they might be more qualified to decide how their own time is best spent, instead of having you lecturing them about how you think they should spend their time?
Really?! :huh:
Heaven forbid one should actually read the thread rather than throw their 2 cents in all willy-nilly
Gasp! the very IDEA!!! :noway:
lolwut? :noway: :laugh: :drinker:0 -
Edited because I realized I don't really care why someone whose weight has always been dead on would be here and purposefully make themselves underweight to prove some weird point, nor why the lack of weight issues becomes a focus point on most posts....carry on...
I won't lose, I always weigh the same when I get my micros in. 0 -
Myfitnesspal recommended I eat 1200/day - so those people are just dumb. Any maybe jealous that youre going to reach your goal faster.0
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Myfitnesspal recommended I eat 1200/day - so those people are just dumb. Any maybe jealous that youre going to reach your goal faster.
I'm hard pressed to believe this, considering half the people who (when someone posts something like "OMG, eating 1200 and not losing, what do") suggest that people trying eating a little more are already at, or beyond, their goal weights.
Remember, not everyone here is losing weight. It's kind of silly for you to assume otherwise.0 -
Myfitnesspal recommended I eat 1200/day - so those people are just dumb. Any maybe jealous that youre going to reach your goal faster.
LOL I love the newbs on here with <10 lbs lost telling us all we're stupid and jealous. Seriously, you guys are a great source of kicks for the rest of us.0 -
Myfitnesspal recommended I eat 1200/day - so those people are just dumb. Any maybe jealous that youre going to reach your goal faster.
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Oh and by the way, injuries can keep you flat out in bed ,
I have lost muscle but not weight even though I've been eating 2000 plus daily. Some members here have a hard time gaining
If Alan Aragon can't put weight on me i'm certain you can't. Sorry for dropping names, sometimes it's needed0 -
Hi there, just wanted to say that I've been eating 1200 calories for 3 weeks now and also exercising regularly. I haven't lost a pounds for....just sayin'......not hatin'0
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Myfitnesspal recommended I eat 1200/day - so those people are just dumb. Any maybe jealous that youre going to reach your goal faster.
LOL I love the newbs on here with <10 lbs lost telling us all we're stupid and jealous. Seriously, you guys are a great source of kicks for the rest of us.
Not all newbies are like that!0 -
Myfitnesspal recommended I eat 1200/day - so those people are just dumb. Any maybe jealous that youre going to reach your goal faster.
LOL I love the newbs on here with <10 lbs lost telling us all we're stupid and jealous. Seriously, you guys are a great source of kicks for the rest of us.
Not all newbies are like that!
Oh I know. I'm referring to the rude ones like the ones who posted the comment I quoted not all newbs.0 -
Hi there, just wanted to say that I've been eating 1200 calories for 3 weeks now and also exercising regularly. I haven't lost a pounds for....just sayin'......not hatin' 0
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Myfitnesspal recommended I eat 1200/day - so those people are just dumb. Any maybe jealous that youre going to reach your goal faster.
LOL I love the newbs on here with <10 lbs lost telling us all we're stupid and jealous. Seriously, you guys are a great source of kicks for the rest of us.
Shhhh. It's more fun if they think people take them seriously.0
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