1200 Calories or Less! Please Read!

~rolls eyes~ Why would MFP give calorie counts of 1200 if it didn't work? And to force yourself to eat a spoon or whatever of peanut butter just to get in those extra calories is just crazy... I listened to all the jabber of people on this site saying others are not eating enough or not eating the right food or blah blah! Just do what YOU want, only YOU know how your body reacts to the calories and types of food you are taking in. Everyone is so preachy here. =S

Thank you!!!!! I did a lot of research on this site, and others, figured and figured and refigured the numbers, I.e BMR ,TDEE , I let MFP figure my calories and for the most part, the calories were the same, give or take a few. I tried for 2 months to eat the over 1600 calories I was supposed to eat. I ate nuts, started putting 1/2 and 1/2 milk in my cereal. I was eating large bowls of ice cream late at night trying to get in to 1600 calories. I ate 3 very nutritionally sound meals a day , yogurt, apple sauce, gronola as snacks, but I COULD NOT make my calorie goal without eating/stuffing my self daily with those other high calorie/fat foods far into the night. Some people make those of us who say they can't eat a lot of calories feel terrible, like there is something wrong with us. I'be never been a big eater - I got fat dieting. I am happy for those who can eat loads of calories and are losing, I just can't and I had to get off here for a while because I thought there HAD to be something wrong with me. I had to find what works for me.

This is all just TOO FUNNY!!!!!! Let's beat this horse to death, then revive it, then beat the hell out of it again, just for fun!!!!

MYOB!!!! Unless you have MD after your name, don't worry about what anyone else is doing. See your doc, who should be monitoring whether something is working for you or not. Not some stranger on a message board. But the entertainment is priceless!

Actually, when it comes to nutrition and exercise advice, I'd prefer the person doesn't have MD in their name.

My thoughts exactly! DOCTORS ARE NOT NUTRITIONISTS!

FOR EXAMPLE: My nephew has leukemia and his DOCTORS tried to tell my sister that she should be giving him soda and candy and pizza and not to feed him fruits and vegetables..... PLEASE someone tell me how that makes ANY sense.

I call BS. No doctor said this.

Call my sister and ask her yourself.

Is your nephew terminal? If so, then I would agree with the doctor. Let him eat whatever the heck he enjoys.

Is your nephew having trouble eating, or keeping his weight up, due to chemo or other? If so, then again, eating something is most important. He needs food.

Vegetables are not always the answer. If your sister has concerns she should seek a second opinion from another qualified MD.

That's what I was wondering-when a relative of mine went through cancer/radiation treatment she lost a lot of weight in a short period of time. Her doctor's were telling her to eat anything she could keep down, to try and get her weight loss to slow down.

Yeah, cuz when one is already sick, junk food really helps. Being malnourished is obviously the way to treat severely ill people. No doubt they will feel so much better by avoiding nutrient dense foods. I totally can believe the Doctor would give advice to feed anything the kid wants. Too bad the majority of doctors, and MFP members, can't follow the logic that what we eat does affect health.

~rolls eyes~ Why would MFP give calorie counts of 1200 if it didn't work? And to force yourself to eat a spoon or whatever of peanut butter just to get in those extra calories is just crazy... I listened to all the jabber of people on this site saying others are not eating enough or not eating the right food or blah blah! Just do what YOU want, only YOU know how your body reacts to the calories and types of food you are taking in. Everyone is so preachy here. =S

Thank you!!!!! I did a lot of research on this site, and others, figured and figured and refigured the numbers, I.e BMR ,TDEE , I let MFP figure my calories and for the most part, the calories were the same, give or take a few. I tried for 2 months to eat the over 1600 calories I was supposed to eat. I ate nuts, started putting 1/2 and 1/2 milk in my cereal. I was eating large bowls of ice cream late at night trying to get in to 1600 calories. I ate 3 very nutritionally sound meals a day , yogurt, apple sauce, gronola as snacks, but I COULD NOT make my calorie goal without eating/stuffing my self daily with those other high calorie/fat foods far into the night. Some people make those of us who say they can't eat a lot of calories feel terrible, like there is something wrong with us. I'be never been a big eater - I got fat dieting. I am happy for those who can eat loads of calories and are losing, I just can't and I had to get off here for a while because I thought there HAD to be something wrong with me. I had to find what works for me.

Nothing at all wrong with you. I'm the same, I felt sort of bullied into eating more and not that I gained but was not losing for almost a month. I went back to eating all 1200 everyday and some of my exercise or all of my exercise calories. I also give myself treats on the weekends. Opinions are fine, everyone has them, just as everyone has to figure out what works best for THEM.

thank you!
unfortunately these people won't all listen to you
its so frustrating!
i just end up deleting them if they are on my friends list, i can't motivate and support someone who doesnt eat.
my favorite are the people who say they physically can't eat more, makes me LOL

I do a high fat diet, I have up to ten carbs a day. I am satiated and I cannot eat anymore. If you tried the same diet you would get it. Stop making assumptions about someone just because you think you know everything. There are hundreds of lifestyles and it is entirely up to those people on what they eat.

10g carbs per day? :indifferent:

Yeah, I don't know whether to laugh or cry (I'm leaning towards "cry"). I'm ketogenic and I eat a fat based diet too. And I don't act like vegetables are the be all and end all of everything, but doesn't one want to eat a few veggies with the meat and fat? There is just NO need to starve oneself on a high fat diet. But of course skinny is more important than healthy for many of us. :noway:

I never said I didn't, I do, you can have **** loads of food like brocolli. I don't avoid anything apart from carbs, moron.

Actually, no. One cup of broccoli has 6 grams of carbs. So, you are avoiding vegetables for the most part. I agree that 20 grams of carbs is doable, and maybe even 10 occasionally, but 900 calories is ridiculous and unnecessary. But I'm coming from a health stand point, not an "eat as little as possible" standpoint.

You don't help your argument by calling people "morons", especially people who agree with a ketogenic lifestyle. Careful with that pointing finger because there are four more pointing back at you.

I have been doing around 1200 a day for almost a year, but I guess it doesn't work in the long run and I will eventually fail. Hmmm, I feel pretty darn good though. Oh well.

AND you have done amazing with it! Keep it up. =]

~rolls eyes~ Why would MFP give calorie counts of 1200 if it didn't work? And to force yourself to eat a spoon or whatever of peanut butter just to get in those extra calories is just crazy... I listened to all the jabber of people on this site saying others are not eating enough or not eating the right food or blah blah! Just do what YOU want, only YOU know how your body reacts to the calories and types of food you are taking in. Everyone is so preachy here. =S

Thank you!!!!! I did a lot of research on this site, and others, figured and figured and refigured the numbers, I.e BMR ,TDEE , I let MFP figure my calories and for the most part, the calories were the same, give or take a few. I tried for 2 months to eat the over 1600 calories I was supposed to eat. I ate nuts, started putting 1/2 and 1/2 milk in my cereal. I was eating large bowls of ice cream late at night trying to get in to 1600 calories. I ate 3 very nutritionally sound meals a day , yogurt, apple sauce, gronola as snacks, but I COULD NOT make my calorie goal without eating/stuffing my self daily with those other high calorie/fat foods far into the night. Some people make those of us who say they can't eat a lot of calories feel terrible, like there is something wrong with us. I'be never been a big eater - I got fat dieting. I am happy for those who can eat loads of calories and are losing, I just can't and I had to get off here for a while because I thought there HAD to be something wrong with me. I had to find what works for me.

MAYBE BECAUSE YOU SAID YOU WERE STUFFING YOUR FACE WITH ICE CREAM. did i miss my point? PEOPLE NEED TO EAT CLEAN, not eat **** tons of junk with a billion calories.


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I'm in maintenance and I eat a mostly whole foods, plant based diet which is pretty 'clean'. However, I lost my extra weight eating SAD (the standard American diet) and counting calories. Didn't start changing my diet to 'clean' until AFTER I had transitioned into maintenance. Weight loss is about calories. Period.

~rolls eyes~ Why would MFP give calorie counts of 1200 if it didn't work? And to force yourself to eat a spoon or whatever of peanut butter just to get in those extra calories is just crazy... I listened to all the jabber of people on this site saying others are not eating enough or not eating the right food or blah blah! Just do what YOU want, only YOU know how your body reacts to the calories and types of food you are taking in. Everyone is so preachy here. =S

Thank you!!!!! I did a lot of research on this site, and others, figured and figured and refigured the numbers, I.e BMR ,TDEE , I let MFP figure my calories and for the most part, the calories were the same, give or take a few. I tried for 2 months to eat the over 1600 calories I was supposed to eat. I ate nuts, started putting 1/2 and 1/2 milk in my cereal. I was eating large bowls of ice cream late at night trying to get in to 1600 calories. I ate 3 very nutritionally sound meals a day , yogurt, apple sauce, gronola as snacks, but I COULD NOT make my calorie goal without eating/stuffing my self daily with those other high calorie/fat foods far into the night. Some people make those of us who say they can't eat a lot of calories feel terrible, like there is something wrong with us. I'be never been a big eater - I got fat dieting. I am happy for those who can eat loads of calories and are losing, I just can't and I had to get off here for a while because I thought there HAD to be something wrong with me. I had to find what works for me.

MAYBE BECAUSE YOU SAID YOU WERE STUFFING YOUR FACE WITH ICE CREAM. did i miss my point? PEOPLE NEED TO EAT CLEAN, not eat **** tons of junk with a billion calories.


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whoa. You need to chill. Maybe a latte would help? Vokda?

It took me changing to 1200 calories to finally start losing weight and end my love affair with food. My doctor gave me the green light to continue with it as long as I continue to feel good and it doesn't affect my energy levels. Please don't tell me how this will ruin me for life. I want to get to a lower weight before I start the muscle building. I know I won't eat a 1200 calorie diet for the rest of my life. There are even days I do feel hungrier than others and I (gasp) go a little over. This is all about learning and making progress that works for me. I don't go to bed hungry and I don't feel like I am going to pass out from starvation. I have however, learned that sometimes I will feel hungry and that doesn't mean I need to eat something every time. I have lived the past 20 years eating way too much because I was "hungry". At this point in my mission to lose weight and get healthy, eating 1200 calories is working for me. I am learning to recognize the true feeling of hunger, not the bored, emotional, because it's there, it tastes so good or just a little more kind of hunger (I really wasn't hungry)

If you don't believe in 1200 then don't do it. Don't discourage people to stop doing what works for them.

Why not maintain the muscle now which is much easier, than have to go through all of the work to try to build muscle later. As a female you're behind the 8 ball even more when it comes to trying to gain muscle mass. After your "noob gains", it takes painstaking hours in the gym, eating more than you burn (which means gaining fat as well), then cutting to get rid of the gained fat and lifting to maintain the gained muscle. Why not just do the cut now. That's what step you'd be on.

Maintain the muscle mass now, throw away the scale, mark progress with the tape measure, and be happier in the end...IMHO.

This is all just TOO FUNNY!!!!!! Let's beat this horse to death, then revive it, then beat the hell out of it again, just for fun!!!!

MYOB!!!! Unless you have MD after your name, don't worry about what anyone else is doing. See your doc, who should be monitoring whether something is working for you or not. Not some stranger on a message board. But the entertainment is priceless!

Actually, when it comes to nutrition and exercise advice, I'd prefer the person doesn't have MD in their name.

My thoughts exactly! DOCTORS ARE NOT NUTRITIONISTS!

FOR EXAMPLE: My nephew has leukemia and his DOCTORS tried to tell my sister that she should be giving him soda and candy and pizza and not to feed him fruits and vegetables..... PLEASE someone tell me how that makes ANY sense.

I call BS. No doctor said this.

Call my sister and ask her yourself.

Is your nephew terminal? If so, then I would agree with the doctor. Let him eat whatever the heck he enjoys.

Is your nephew having trouble eating, or keeping his weight up, due to chemo or other? If so, then again, eating something is most important. He needs food.

Vegetables are not always the answer. If your sister has concerns she should seek a second opinion from another qualified MD.

That's what I was wondering-when a relative of mine went through cancer/radiation treatment she lost a lot of weight in a short period of time. Her doctor's were telling her to eat anything she could keep down, to try and get her weight loss to slow down.

Yeah, cuz when one is already sick, junk food really helps. Being malnourished is obviously the way to treat severely ill people. No doubt they will feel so much better by avoiding nutrient dense foods. I totally can believe the Doctor would give advice to feed anything the kid wants. Too bad the majority of doctors, and MFP members, can't follow the logic that what we eat does affect health.

Sometimes, you have to let people eat what they can have an appetite for.

I'm really sick of people on this site telling others that they don't believe what their saying. Do you really believe that all these people are coming on here to lie and make you look like a fool?

How old are you?

I only get results at 1200 kcal/day. Happy with my results, too!

There are a lot of people in this thread who just need to chill the **** out and mind their own ****ing business.

Everyone is different. Some people can get by (and do perfectly fine!) eating 1200 calories a day. Hell, I did it for a year and lost 65 pounds. Now mind you, I was starving half the time -- but that's just how I am, and I've learned that. But I didn't feel horribly sick during the year that I ate 1200 a day, and I didn't die, so hey, there's that. I wouldn't go back to eating that little now, not if you paid me, but that's not my point.

Here's the point, for me (and it's my attitude towards pretty much everything in life): if it doesn't have anything to do with me and doesn't affect *my* life, then it's none of my ****ing business. The way someone else eats, or dresses, or raises their kids? None of my business whatsoever. I'm not a dietitian, and I'm not a doctor, and I'm not about to jump all over someone about what or how much they eat (unless they're being an insufferable *kitten* about it; I have a rather low tolerance for bull****.)

If eating 1200 calories is working for you, then fill your boots. If you need to eat more -- why, again, fill your boots. Just don't come up in here being all holier-than-thou about eating low-carb or high-protein or "clean" (whatever the **** THAT's supposed to mean), because how YOU eat has no bearing on how someone else chooses to eat.

I think there are a hell of a lot of people in here who need to check themselves, and keep their perceived "expertise" to themselves.

This is all just TOO FUNNY!!!!!! Let's beat this horse to death, then revive it, then beat the hell out of it again, just for fun!!!!

MYOB!!!! Unless you have MD after your name, don't worry about what anyone else is doing. See your doc, who should be monitoring whether something is working for you or not. Not some stranger on a message board. But the entertainment is priceless!

Actually, when it comes to nutrition and exercise advice, I'd prefer the person doesn't have MD in their name.

My thoughts exactly! DOCTORS ARE NOT NUTRITIONISTS!

FOR EXAMPLE: My nephew has leukemia and his DOCTORS tried to tell my sister that she should be giving him soda and candy and pizza and not to feed him fruits and vegetables..... PLEASE someone tell me how that makes ANY sense.

I call BS. No doctor said this.

Call my sister and ask her yourself.

Is your nephew terminal? If so, then I would agree with the doctor. Let him eat whatever the heck he enjoys.

Is your nephew having trouble eating, or keeping his weight up, due to chemo or other? If so, then again, eating something is most important. He needs food.

Vegetables are not always the answer. If your sister has concerns she should seek a second opinion from another qualified MD.

Having worked in oncology in the past I can attest to the fact that sometimes gaining/maintaining one's weight while on chemo is more important than the food consumed. Chemo can cause drastic weight loss and the best way to counteract it is a high calorie diet; however, if a person struggles to eat then their diet needs to be altered accordingly.

There was a time when the nutritionist at the hospital told a patient to make frozen butter balls rolled in brown sugar. It was was for the person to eat due to having mouth sores, gave them a simplistic option whilst struggling with nausea caused by the chemo, gave them the calories they desperately needed, and did so in the most appetizing way possible for the patient.

Just sayin'

Me too Started at magical number because my M.D. suggested it as a starting place for a woman needing to lose 10 to 15 pounds. It gave my body the jump start needed and now I am really happy at the 1,300 mark I started in the third month. I eat just about everything, but in a smaller amount now than what I used to do and it works. Finding out what a "normal" portion is!!???