Can't seem to get enough calories
defscarlett
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I just can't seem to eat an appropriate amount of calories per day. I always sit around the 800 mark. I eat full meals and snack throughout the day and I'm not hungry after I eat them. They are all just lower calorie, healthy meals/snacks , but I know that I should be eating more per day. Any tips on how to healthily increase my caloric intake. This app is telling me I need 1,200 calories a day. I'm 5'10 female, 200 lbs and I have a desk job so my only workouts are at home for 5x week for 45 min.
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Penut butter
Glass of milk
Protien shake
Beans and rice0 -
Cut out the "lower calorie" part of the snacks.0
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What were you eating before you started tracking your food?
"Healthy" food is great, but at so few calories, you're probably lacking in both fuel and nutrition. I can't see your diary, so it's hard to make specific suggestions, but here are some general calorie-dense foods to add to your diet or eat more of: cheese, nuts/seeds, nut butters, avocado, butter, and olive oil.
And if you've been eating low sugar/low fat versions of foods, switch to eating the regular stuff.0 -
This is best answered if you open up your diary, but aside from that my best suggestion would be measuring out a serving of raw nuts, eating them all at once may fill you up but if you just have them at your desk to snack on through the day it should be a great way to up your calories (and energy!)0
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Open your diary and people can see what you ARE eating to give suggestions on how to add to it.
Eat more calorie dense foods - full fat dairy, peanut butter, nuts, cut out any "diet" foods0 -
At your height and weight, you should be eating more than 1200.
Ditch any low-fat or diet foods. Eat more nuts, nut butters, avocados, bananas, eggs, cheese, use some butter, olive oil or coconut oil - calorie dense foods that add good cals in small portions.0 -
Wow. Im 5'10 at 1800. Thats crazy low and I exercise 5 days a week and sedentary the rest of the time.0
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I caught myself doing that b4 too. Look at the nutritional tab and see if anything is listed in red. You may be low on fats and need to add some avacado and nuts (good fats) into your diet. They are very satisfying foods and a few weeks from now you won't feel as if you. have been deprived even if u don't feel that way now. Keeps skin and hair healthy and shiny too! Good luck!0
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Are you positive, without a doubt, that you're only eating 800?0
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How long has this been going on? I've noticed that when I first eating healthily or logging food after a break, my calories or points are very low for a couple of days - I'm so excited to eat healthily that I eat tons of fruits and vegetables (which are pretty low in calories and fill you up fast, especially juicy fruits and leafy greens) and not much else. Of course, that's not sustainable - you need protein and fat, and probably a lot more than 1200 calories a day even if you want to lose weight.
Try eating a hearty breakfast with protein and healthy fats as well as carbs. This will give you energy for the day and spread your eating out a bit more (relative to a tiny breakfast, salad lunch, and bigger dinner). See what happens if you eat 400 calories at breakfast (or 200 at breakfast and 200 as a midmorning snack).0 -
What are you eating now0
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There must be some real miscalculation of intake going on here. Use a food scale, log EVERYTHING..and be brutally honest about it.0
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i'm going based on the diary thing on here and what calories they have listed and/or scanning in bar codes. Which in my experience the one's I've checked have been accurate. I don't eat any of the low fat/diat stuff. If I'm going to eat something, I'm going to eat something lol.
I started using this app about a year ago and then fell out of practice with it, while still watching what I was eating... I remember having this issue previously as well. I haven't been logging anything for several months so opening up my diary won't do much good, but here's what I ate today.
For breakfast today I had blueberry pancakes (2) w/ syrup and coffee for 222 calories
For lunch I had a can of Chunky Sirloin soup for 160 calories
for dinner I had roasted red potatoes w/pea pods and red peppers and polish sausage for 260 calories
apple & orange (146) and a string cheese (80)
should i not be listening to MFP's "goal" of 1200 calories for me?0 -
If you are eating full meals and snacks throughout the day, my guess is that you are eating more than 800 calories. However, your diary is not open, so this cannot be confirmed.I just can't seem to eat an appropriate amount of calories per day. I always sit around the 800 mark. I eat full meals and snack throughout the day and I'm not hungry after I eat them. They are all just lower calorie, healthy meals/snacks , but I know that I should be eating more per day. Any tips on how to healthily increase my caloric intake. This app is telling me I need 1,200 calories a day. I'm 5'10 female, 200 lbs and I have a desk job so my only workouts are at home for 5x week for 45 min.
If you are 5 ft 10 and 200 pounds, I'm confused as to how MFP came up with 1200 calories, even if you want to lose 2 pounds a week. Are you sure your input numbers are correct?0 -
i'm going based on the diary thing on here and what calories they have listed. Which in my experience the one's I've checked have been accurate. I don't eat any of the low fat/diat stuff. If I'm going to eat something, I'm going to eat something lol.
I started using this app about a year ago and then fell out of practice with it, while still watching what I was eating... I remember having this issue previously as well. I haven't been logging anything for several months so opening up my diary won't do much good, but here's what I ate today.
For breakfast today I had blueberry pancakes (2) w/ syrup and coffee for 222 calories
For lunch I had a can of Chunky Sirloin soup for 160 calories
for dinner I had roasted red potatoes w/pea pods and red peppers and polish sausage for 260 calories
apple & orange (146) and a string cheese (80)
should i not be listening to MFP's "goal" of 1200 calories for me?
you should be eating more than 1200 cals!!
your portions are either small, or you are underestimating cals....and it's likely you need more protein and fat. you may not feel hungry, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't eat. often hunger cues can be off0 -
i'm going based on the diary thing on here and what calories they have listed and/or scanning in bar codes. Which in my experience the one's I've checked have been accurate. I don't eat any of the low fat/diat stuff. If I'm going to eat something, I'm going to eat something lol.
I started using this app about a year ago and then fell out of practice with it, while still watching what I was eating... I remember having this issue previously as well. I haven't been logging anything for several months so opening up my diary won't do much good, but here's what I ate today.
For breakfast today I had blueberry pancakes (2) w/ syrup and coffee for 222 calories
For lunch I had a can of Chunky Sirloin soup for 160 calories
for dinner I had roasted red potatoes w/pea pods and red peppers and polish sausage for 260 calories
apple & orange (146) and a string cheese (80)
should i not be listening to MFP's "goal" of 1200 calories for me?
Where are you getting your calorie totals? Your meals seem they would be more..are u logging all of the servings correctly? Usually a can of soup has multiple servings..0 -
I'm sedentary due to injury, shorter and heavier and my intake is 1300cals.
I find it effortless to get to 1300 sometimes am under by 100 or so. i am losing weight every week!
800 day after day will make you screaming hungry.
Weigh everything that you eat.
If you find it hard to 800 how did you get moderately overweight?0 -
i'm going based on the diary thing on here and what calories they have listed and/or scanning in bar codes. Which in my experience the one's I've checked have been accurate. I don't eat any of the low fat/diat stuff. If I'm going to eat something, I'm going to eat something lol.
I started using this app about a year ago and then fell out of practice with it, while still watching what I was eating... I remember having this issue previously as well. I haven't been logging anything for several months so opening up my diary won't do much good, but here's what I ate today.
For breakfast today I had blueberry pancakes (2) w/ syrup and coffee for 222 calories
For lunch I had a can of Chunky Sirloin soup for 160 calories
for dinner I had roasted red potatoes w/pea pods and red peppers and polish sausage for 260 calories
apple & orange (146) and a string cheese (80)
should i not be listening to MFP's "goal" of 1200 calories for me?
I think you must be logging incorrectly somehow. I would love to have 2 blueberry pancakes WITH syrup for 222 calories! Are you cooking your food from scratch, measuring/weighing all of the ingredients, and logging them all independently? Or are you eating a pre-packaged food and scanning it into the system?
Potatoes are great to have in any diet, but I wouldn't consider them low-calorie. Red potatoes and polish sausage for only 260 calories seems really low. Did you cook any of your food in anything like butter or oil?0 -
I believe mpf had me at 1480 without exercise calories. Mind u I started here at a little less weight than you so your calories should be higher. Could someone copy the macro calculator here so she can calculate her calories elsewhere? On tablet hard to figure out howw
to copy and paste. Also my current calories of 1800
counter in my exercise as mod active, exercising 3 - 5 days a week. So I do not pay attention to calories burned or eat them back.
definitely too low for your height and weight.
My ticker represents weight lose journey since the end of august 2013. I didnt star here until 3 weeks ago. Justvwanted to clarify as it makes it seems I was at that weight ehen I started mfp.0 -
Please set your diary to public. Something is wrong with the way you're logging the meals.0
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I don't understand how there is this exact topic posted repetitively. How do so many people struggle with this? High cal, low density food! Any food! Your body needs it. Don't starve the poor thing.0
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I just went ahead for sh*ts and giggles logged the food you ate today.
I just used common and the most used data entries I could find. This doesn't account for whether you ate more than the recommended serving size. It also assumes you didn't use creamer or sweetener in your coffee. Or whether you drank anything besides water today.
The syrup I used was one serving by the way. Also, the can of soup you had was 2 servings. Just something to be mindful of.
Edit- I cannot for the life of me resize this image on my iPad. *sigh* here's the link
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Eat all the icecream! :drinker:0
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Ditch the low-cal, lite & fat-free versions and buy the real stuff. They taste way better anyways...0
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...not to mention, they tend to have less additives than the fake stuff.0
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...not to mention, they tend to have less additives than the fake stuff.
I don't think that's the problem. :noway:0 -
For breakfast today I had blueberry pancakes (2) w/ syrup and coffee for 222 calories
For lunch I had a can of Chunky Sirloin soup for 160 calories
for dinner I had roasted red potatoes w/pea pods and red peppers and polish sausage for 260 calories
apple & orange (146) and a string cheese (80)
You are way too low on protein. You should be eating 0.37 grams of protein per pound of body weight at a minimum. This is the recommended daily allowance by the Institute of Medicine and is set up to ensure that you have the energy you need to keep building muscles and providing the necessary amino acids for living. This is not to say that you cannot eat more protein, just that you shouldn't be going below this amount. In your case you should be eating at least 74 grams of protein per day and you are not getting anywhere near that amount.
As for your actual calorie counts, like another poster has already stated, your calorie counts may be off depending upon the portion size.0 -
ahh the importance of accurate loggingOP-
I just went ahead for sh*ts and giggles logged the food you ate today.
I just used common and the most used data entries I could find. This doesn't account for whether you ate more than the recommended serving size. It also assumes you didn't use creamer or sweetener in your coffee. Or whether you drank anything besides water today.
The syrup I used was one serving by the way. Also, the can of soup you had was 2 servings. Just something to be mindful of.
Edit- I cannot for the life of me resize this image on my iPad. *sigh* here's the link
http://i42.tinypic.com/34ysh1j.jpg0 -
Eat all the icecream! :drinker:
^^^This! And throw it in a protein shake! Lol.0 -
Nuts, they're high on calories.0
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