1200 Calorie's per day... forever?
Hello!
Since I have started with MFP, I have lost a bit of weight. I am 5'3 and from what it looks like online, I am supposed to be eating 1600 + calories a day. From watching what I eat and controlling my portions, there is no way that I could ever go back to more than 1200 calories. I eat the right food and take tons of vitamins and am full and satisfied with the meals and periodic snacks I eat. Is this bad?? Should I shove food in my face to get the calories I should eat or am I fine staying around 1200 calories forever?
Thanks!
Shelby
Since I have started with MFP, I have lost a bit of weight. I am 5'3 and from what it looks like online, I am supposed to be eating 1600 + calories a day. From watching what I eat and controlling my portions, there is no way that I could ever go back to more than 1200 calories. I eat the right food and take tons of vitamins and am full and satisfied with the meals and periodic snacks I eat. Is this bad?? Should I shove food in my face to get the calories I should eat or am I fine staying around 1200 calories forever?
Thanks!
Shelby
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1200 is usually too low for anyone. Depends on your basal metabolic rate. But, each person is different. My goal here started at 1720 cal and I've bumped it up a couple of times because my appetite was raging from 1/2 marathon training. I've transitioned to weight training again and bumped up slightly more.
Also depends on your goals for total health and fitness.0 -
This forum is "Goal: Gaining Weight". If you want to gain weight, you aren't fine staying at 1200 calories forever. That's a very bad plan for gaining weight.0
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Hello!
Since I have started with MFP, I have lost a bit of weight. I am 5'3 and from what it looks like online, I am supposed to be eating 1600 + calories a day. From watching what I eat and controlling my portions, there is no way that I could ever go back to more than 1200 calories. I eat the right food and take tons of vitamins and am full and satisfied with the meals and periodic snacks I eat. Is this bad?? Should I shove food in my face to get the calories I should eat or am I fine staying around 1200 calories forever?
Thanks!
Shelby
Eat whatever calories you want as long as you are eating enough. But 1200 calories forever? Good luck trying to keep that up. That number is for weight loss only, not maintenance.
Oh, and FYI, you posted in the Gaining Weight forum.0 -
Get a FitBit or a pedometer to sync with MyFitnessPal . It's a great way to give you perspective on how to eat more without gaining. I was sticking with 1200 calories a day and ALWAYS falling off the wagon and going WAY OVER due to faulty estimating. Or I was always starving. Now I'm able to make better choices and moving more, which is keeping my weight on a steady decline.0
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You already know that isn't healthy.
If you can possibly eat more than 1200 (I have a very hard time believing that) up it by 50 calories every couple of days until you are at a TRUE maintenance calorie level....probably closer to 2000 calories per day depending on your activity level0 -
Hello!
Since I have started with MFP, I have lost a bit of weight. I am 5'3 and from what it looks like online, I am supposed to be eating 1600 + calories a day. From watching what I eat and controlling my portions, there is no way that I could ever go back to more than 1200 calories. I eat the right food and take tons of vitamins and am full and satisfied with the meals and periodic snacks I eat. Is this bad?? Should I shove food in my face to get the calories I should eat or am I fine staying around 1200 calories forever?
Thanks!
Shelby0 -
try and stay under 1200 on a diet of bacon and ice cream... Your elitist food choices most likely limit what you think you can eat... Nobody in the world can eat 1200 calories of lettuce.
When is the last time you ate pizza? Do you know what pizza is?0 -
I definitely wouldn't call 1600 calories a day "shoving food in my face." It's really not that much. A couple big spoons of peanut butter and you'll hit it.0
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Hello!
Since I have started with MFP, I have lost a bit of weight. I am 5'3 and from what it looks like online, I am supposed to be eating 1600 + calories a day. From watching what I eat and controlling my portions, there is no way that I could ever go back to more than 1200 calories. I eat the right food and take tons of vitamins and am full and satisfied with the meals and periodic snacks I eat. Is this bad?? Should I shove food in my face to get the calories I should eat or am I fine staying around 1200 calories forever?
Thanks!
Shelby
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Just in case you're not a troll...
You don't have to eat more to increase your calories. Just eat differently. Bangers & mash and lasagne are both about the same amount of food so both as filling as each other, but one is usually a few hundred calories more than the other. When I went on a diet, I didn't eat any less than before, I just ate differently. Drinks can add tonnes of calories, a glass of orange juice alone is 200 cals, and that won't fill you up any more than water.
Don't eat more, eat differently.0 -
My guess is you are eating way too low in fats and fat is important for your hormones so eat more avocado, whole eggs, full fat dairy, nut butters, nuts and seeds healthy oils like extra virgin olive oil and coconut oil.0
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Er....noooo. You'd just lose weight up until the point that 1200 calories eventually becomes your TDEE. For someone like me, at nearly 5'7", I'd have to be like...50 pounds or something.0
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My BMR is lower than 1200 calories a day. My work is very sedentary, and that's why I exercise almost every day. If you're small, and sedentary, yes, you might have a TDEE of around 1200 calories. But you probably don't have to be sedentary.0
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I feel your pain! I'm 5'1 (small, I know) and I eat around the same amount- plus the fact that I burn off most of it working out too! I have a super slow metabolism as well, I always have. But, eating 1,200 calories a day, I'm perfectly satisfied and full. I'm not trying to really lose or gain any weight, I just want to be healthy and fit, you know? I'm comfortable where I am and it sounds like you are too. I'm no doctor, so I don't know your specific calorie needs or if you're under-eating. But DON'T stuff your face, that just always ends bad! Binging isn't the answer! I get what you're saying though, even though its not much, I'm also full on this amount of food. I wish you the best of luck in finding the perfect diet!!!0
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I hope you are aware that a lower total energy expenditure comes with an increased risk of fat gain as you age. So why would you want to intentionally sustain a deficit chronically until your TEE adapts which would require you to eat significantly less to maintain weight? You may not even be consuming 1200 calories at the present, either, considering most people underestimate caloric intake which implies an underestimation of their actual TDEE as well.0
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Just in case you're not a troll...
You don't have to eat more to increase your calories. Just eat differently. Bangers & mash and lasagne are both about the same amount of food so both as filling as each other, but one is usually a few hundred calories more than the other. When I went on a diet, I didn't eat any less than before, I just ate differently. Drinks can add tonnes of calories, a glass of orange juice alone is 200 cals, and that won't fill you up any more than water.
Don't eat more, eat differently.
Excuse my ignorance... but what exactly are "Bangers and mash???"0 -
British dish, mashed potatoes and sausage...sounds way better the way they say it :-)0
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Just in case you're not a troll...
You don't have to eat more to increase your calories. Just eat differently. Bangers & mash and lasagne are both about the same amount of food so both as filling as each other, but one is usually a few hundred calories more than the other. When I went on a diet, I didn't eat any less than before, I just ate differently. Drinks can add tonnes of calories, a glass of orange juice alone is 200 cals, and that won't fill you up any more than water.
Don't eat more, eat differently.
Excuse my ignorance... but what exactly are "Bangers and mash???"0 -
Just in case you're not a troll...
You don't have to eat more to increase your calories. Just eat differently. Bangers & mash and lasagne are both about the same amount of food so both as filling as each other, but one is usually a few hundred calories more than the other. When I went on a diet, I didn't eat any less than before, I just ate differently. Drinks can add tonnes of calories, a glass of orange juice alone is 200 cals, and that won't fill you up any more than water.
Don't eat more, eat differently.
Excuse my ignorance... but what exactly are "Bangers and mash???"
The best post was the day somebody posted a topic called something like 'starting a diet and no more *kitten*!' and *kitten* of course means cigarettes, but some of the non-brits were up in arms before '*kitten*' got defined lol0
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