eating my calories

you need at least 1200 calories a day, no matter who you are...what's your diet like?

Today I ate 2 lean tacos with lettuce and tomato, dinner I had grilled chicken on 2 pieces of bread with veggie.. 100 calorie snack bar and i have added manderian oranges as a snack for later.. i even logged the bite of ham I took and the olive oil spray i cant come up with any more calories without adding a dr pepper or something... i cant eat another thing..

Hi Mandi!

Where's your breakfast??? Thats important. 1 cup of oatmeal and a granola bar will give you close to 200 calories easily! I know because I am going through having to increase my calorie with my increase in exercise. I didn't believe either but trust me, your body will burn better with food in it. Think of it like a car, it needs fuel to work, it burns fuel (hence the more you drive the lower the gas gets), so ur body is like the car it needs to food to work, the more food you have to burn the more your car will go also at the same time the fat/calories aka the gas is decreasing.

Hope that makes sense. You also wanna try protein shakes too. Good luck!

Tameka

instead of eating big meals, have a nice good sized breakfast, no to much then 3 hours later have a little snack, 3 more hours have lunch, another 3 hours have a nother snack and then have dinner 3-4 hours later, eat 4-6 meals a day, and not big ones. you should break up the meals, because if you just have 3 big meals, 1)you might eat till your full 2) your body might burn what calories it needs and store the rest as fat, so by eating more meals but smaller, your body is constanly burning the food off and isnt storing anything because it need the energy.