New here! Hi! I just dropped mine to 1200 from 1375. I've been working out to eat more, and now I feel like I'm able to challenge myself with the 1200, since I've got more discipline when it comes to what's in my fridge and pantry. I eat a lot of spinach and sweet potatoes right now, and I love the ideas you girls shared in here. I definitely need to switch things up in my diet.

I'm not hungry at all. I eat until I am satisfied and then stop. Today I am at 928cals and 555 net. I'm going to snack if needed.

I'm 5'3 and have a petite frame so I don't think it's terrible for me.

Also, I think eating a clean diet helps to fill you up - and I'm not going to eat junk just to get my calories up.

I'm not an expert or anything, but everything I've ever read, heard, or experienced has told me that it isn't healthy to eat that little. Obviously you can do what you want, and if you feel fine then that's fine. Just something to think about. At 5'3", even if you only weighed 80 lbs, your BMR would be over 1100 calories.

You definitely don't need to eat junk to hit 1200 calories. 1200 is really not a lot of food. It concerns me to see so many girls in here eating so very little.

Well that'd still be a deficit of 300 a day, which might not get you a pound a week but it's still reasonable. Like I said, everyone is free to do what they want.

Well that'd still be a deficit of 300 a day, which might not get you a pound a week but it's still reasonable. Like I said, everyone is free to do what they want.

300/day if I weigh everything perfectly and any restaurant meals are made exactly according to recipe and I don't sit more than usual, etc etc etc. It's a very slim margin of error and even a slight miscalculation could eliminate the deficit. And I was not interested in dieting for a year to lose 20 pounds.

A 6'2" man shouldn't be eating 1200/day, obviously, but for someone my size it's damn close to maintenance and certainly too much to lose on without exercise. I've been aiming for 1200/day (with slightly more flexible weekends) since I started maintaining and I haven't lost any more weight.

Agree with listening to your body.

There are days that I end up with very low net .. or even around 1,000 total and I do not feel hungry at all.. Like I would feel super super full if I stuff myself to get 1200..

There are also days that I feel hungry all the time.. so I would go over ..

Works fine so far

I'm 5'6, 18 years old and I'm on 1350 calories a day. My TDEE is 2014 or so, because I excercise a LOT. I used to be on 1200shape a day but it wasn't really effective, and then changed to this. I know there's not much difference, and I never go ovet, not even on 1200 but it is not so terrible when my net is on 900, because my expected intake makes up for it on the other days.

New here! Hi! I just dropped mine to 1200 from 1375. I've been working out to eat more, and now I feel like I'm able to challenge myself with the 1200, since I've got more discipline when it comes to what's in my fridge and pantry. I eat a lot of spinach and sweet potatoes right now, and I love the ideas you girls shared in here. I definitely need to switch things up in my diet.

with you on the sweet potatoes and spinach though i eat a ton of different types of greens, there are also a ton of different varieties of sweet potatoes, also really loving winter squashes in this season. i tend to not eat much fruit in fall winter and more squash potato and then switch some of that to fruit in the warmer seasons. i do better on carbs but some days i'll eat more protein and fats i find alternating days works well for this. in general i eat a ton of vegetables (land and sea if you guys eat meat try some of the less standard cuts, they have a ton of nutritional benefits for usually a fraction of the kcal, also if you like potato try mountain yam - really healthy and super low kcal compared to potato. konjac and agar are also great to keep tummies satisfied... i'm not on 1200 anymore since i'm done losing, but still eat the same types of things just more nuts and more in general to net about 1300-1600 to maintain around 100,

I am doing the 1200 calories a day as well. I live in Santa Barbara so luckily there's hardly any fast food to choose from BUT theres tons of bars and drinking and bar food. I work in a restaurant that has healthy stuff but also some really bad stuff too.

The trick is to get enough protein at meals to fill you up.

Hi guys... im trying to stick on a 1200 diet aswell. any friends would be great so we can help and work together.

I eat a lot of food for 1200 calories, mostly clean unprocessed foods.
I need to keep my protein at 70 grams a day , due to sore kidneys.
But I uses to eat about 150 grams of protein a day.
My tip is to keep your sugar and sodium low.
Sodium causes sugar retention and sugar makes you fat.
Exercise a variety small amount every day.
Add me if you want to check out my food diary.