Skip to content
  • Register
    • We are pleased to announce that as of March 4, 2025, an updated Rich Text Editor has been introduced in the MyFitnessPal Community. To learn more about the changes, please click here. We look forward to sharing this new feature with you!

    Weight Train at 1200 Calories

    Posts: 37 Member
    edited February 6 in Health and Weight Loss
    Is it ok to eat just 1200 calories per day, and strength train for muscle tone 5x week.
    I just want tone, not looking to get big! I have been losing massive weight 2 1/2 lbs per week.
    Sometimes I eat under 1200 calories. I have a hard time eating. Like I said I just want tone.
    I eat healthy, and know how to eat. I eat 90% clean and organic, I mostly cook at home.
    I have stopped exercising for a month now, but I am dropping lbs by eating right, and less.
    some insight would be good. Last time I did weights I swelled up ad gained weight, and was hungry
    all the time. My friend tell me that I still look toned without flexing.

    Welcome!

    It looks like you're new here. Sign in or register to get started.
    Sign In
    Register
    «1

    Replies

    • Posts: 1,120 Member
      Last time I did weights I swelled up ad gained weight, and was hungry all the time.

      You have made a full recovery.
    • Posts: 37 Member
      That's real helpful??????????????????????????????????????????????
    • Posts: 565 Member
      i weight train 7x a week and do cardio every day and i eat only like 1400 calories.

      so you're certainly fine at 1200.
    • Posts: 37 Member
      Thank you. And don't eat back calories or should I? Right now I weigh about 98 lbs. Don't wanna get bigger in weight.
    • Posts: 2,848 Member
      What kind of weight program do you do?
    • Posts: 14,025 Member
      I remember you. :laugh:
    • Posts: 869 Member
      i don't eat back any calories, i make sure i get 1200-1400 and regardless of how active i am, i don't eat anymore, unless i'm hungry then i would obviously, but usually i'm not

      How in the world are you able to only eat 12-1400 calories a day??? That's what I eat as a girl who's darn close to being a midget!
    • Posts: 317 Member
      .......
    • Posts: 27,732 Member
      In my opinion, no.

      http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1080242-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants
    • Posts: 39,744 Member
      NO.
    • Posts: 152
      show previous quotes

      How in the world are you able to only eat 12-1400 calories a day??? That's what I eat as a girl who's darn close to being a midget!

      wondering the same thing.
    • Posts: 16,947 Member
      i weight train 7x a week and do cardio every day and i eat only like 1400 calories.

      so you're certainly fine at 1200.

      lol

      NO.
    • Posts: 81 Member
      98lbs!!!

      I think you need to eat some more, but however even if your toning up your weight is going to go up since Muscle is more then fat....


      Good luck
    • Posts: 4,741 Member
      quick question. Do you have legs? Then maybe you are ok.

      Otherwise, no. Eat more.
    • Posts: 34,415 Member
      i weight train 7x a week and do cardio every day and i eat only like 1400 calories.

      so you're certainly fine at 1200.

      Sorry, OP, I really don't have any advice for you.

      I'm just here to try to understand why a physically active 29 year old man would intentionally eat 1200-1400 calories.
    • Posts: 770 Member
      I think it is a bad idea.
    • Posts: 1,535 Member
      OP how tall are you?
    • Posts: 3,536 Member
      show previous quotes

      Sorry, OP, I really don't have any advice for you.

      I'm just here to try to understand why a physically active 29 year old man would intentionally eat 1200-1400 calories.

      In for the answer to this question too.... OP I am going to have to say I got nothing because I personally prefer to fuel my body for the demands of weight training and cardio but Best of Luck...
    • Posts: 5,537 Member
      i weight train 7x a week and do cardio every day and i eat only like 1400 calories.

      so you're certainly fine at 1200.

      kimleaving_zps6ca82ff0.gif
    • Posts: 1,535 Member
      Strength training is good. It will make your bones stronger as you age. Advice for you is to find a trainer who can start you out correct in weight use, or read New Rules of Lifting for Women. :flowerforyou:
    • Posts: 770 Member
      show previous quotes

      kimleaving_zps6ca82ff0.gif

      Me too

      tumblr_lgqmy3EKhR1qgcvg9o1_500_zps5cdb98db.gif
    • Posts: 565 Member
      show previous quotes

      In for the answer to this question too.... OP I am going to have to say I got nothing because I personally prefer to fuel my body for the demands of weight training and cardio but Best of Luck...

      i don't see how it's hard to understand, i remembered to track everything i ate today and i hit 1375:

      breakfast: oatmeal 130 calories
      Snack: banana: 100 calories
      Lunch: Panera salad (usually i eat soup for lunch which is only 300 calories) but this was 470
      After i lifted, i had a protein shake: 260 calories
      Dinner: i had grilled pork and put it in a large salad with other vegetables: 410 calories

      i don't drink any calories, aside from protein shake, and i take a gnc multivitamin that's 50 calories, so 1425 i guess and i'm plenty full, and i worked out alot today.
    • Posts: 34,415 Member
      show previous quotes

      i don't see how it's hard to understand, i remembered to track everything i ate today and i hit 1375:

      breakfast: oatmeal 130 calories
      Snack: banana: 100 calories
      Lunch: Panera salad (usually i eat soup for lunch which is only 300 calories) but this was 470
      After i lifted, i had a protein shake: 260 calories
      Dinner: i had grilled pork and put it in a large salad with other vegetables: 410 calories

      i don't drink any calories, aside from protein shake, and i take a gnc multivitamin that's 50 calories, so 1425 i guess and i'm plenty full, and i worked out alot today.

      I guess I'm just dumbfounded how you maintain (an apparently lean) 190 pounds being active on so few calories...

      ...or perhaps you're still losing and not maintaining?
    • Posts: 770 Member
      show previous quotes

      i don't see how it's hard to understand, i remembered to track everything i ate today and i hit 1375:

      breakfast: oatmeal 130 calories
      Snack: banana: 100 calories
      Lunch: Panera salad (usually i eat soup for lunch which is only 300 calories) but this was 470
      After i lifted, i had a protein shake: 260 calories
      Dinner: i had grilled pork and put it in a large salad with other vegetables: 410 calories

      i don't drink any calories, aside from protein shake, and i take a gnc multivitamin that's 50 calories, so 1425 i guess and i'm plenty full, and i worked out alot today.

      How much do you lift?
    • Posts: 16,913 Member
      show previous quotes

      i don't see how it's hard to understand, i remembered to track everything i ate today and i hit 1375:

      breakfast: oatmeal 130 calories
      Snack: banana: 100 calories
      Lunch: Panera salad (usually i eat soup for lunch which is only 300 calories) but this was 470
      After i lifted, i had a protein shake: 260 calories
      Dinner: i had grilled pork and put it in a large salad with other vegetables: 410 calories

      i don't drink any calories, aside from protein shake, and i take a gnc multivitamin that's 50 calories, so 1425 i guess and i'm plenty full, and i worked out alot today.

      I think the question was 'why' not 'how'.
    • Posts: 565 Member
      i'd be maintaining (i hurt my foot and was semi-idle for about a month w\out doing cardio and i maintained at 197) while still lifting.

      Now my foot is all healthy and i've been really active this past few weeks, so i'd still be maintaining like this if i hadn't been so aggressive recently w\my cardio. I've lost like 92 pounds so far and i'm trying to get to 180, and i'm 192 right now.
    • Posts: 565 Member
      to the person asking me "how much i lift" so idk how to quantify that, but.


      My max bench is 300.
      Dumbbell curls, max 1 rep w\good form i curl 70lbs in each hand
      pull ups: i can do 12 strict form. (w\weight on i can do a chinup w\me weighing 275)

      I don't do heavy squats, i do alot of plyometrics instead and box jumps kind of stuff. But I do do other leg stuff so it's not like i skip it by any means.

      and i run a quick mile a few times a day around a 6:40 pace currenlty for my cardio (today i'm a bit of a loser and did it 4 times).
    • Posts: 5,537 Member
      to the person asking me "how much i lift" so idk how to quantify that, but.


      My max bench is 300.
      Dumbbell curls, max 1 rep w\good form i curl 70lbs in each hand
      pull ups: i can do 12 strict form. (w\weight on i can do a chinup w\me weighing 275)

      I don't do heavy squats, i do alot of plyometrics instead and box jumps kind of stuff. But I do do other leg stuff so it's not like i skip it by any means.

      and i run a quick mile a few times a day around a 6:40 pace currenlty for my cardio (today i'm a bit of a loser and did it 4 times).

      Deadlifts?
    • Posts: 1,111 Member
      No, 1200 calories is not enough. 1200-1400 for a man is definitely not enough. I don't even know how you can properly recover from your workouts if that is all you are eating. Oy, this is why I have been staying away from the forums.
    • Posts: 565 Member
      show previous quotes

      Deadlifts?

      405 is my max deadliftt, i havn't tried a pr in a few months on that. i'm kind of a wimp about deadlifts and don't do them as often as i should.
    This discussion has been closed.

    Welcome!

    It looks like you're new here. Sign in or register to get started.
    Sign In
    Register

    Quick Links

    Categories