I am so stupid I cried this morning please help!!!!

Well my daughter tells me I am not eating enough as MFP tells me to have 1200 calories I am nearly always under by quite a few it is hard and I am starving lol. I do not eat veg so another problem I was losing weight but even after more exercise this week I actually put on a tiny bit. I was so upset I cried please help but no nasty comments please x:happy:

You need to eat more, you should never feel starving. Make sure you are weighing yourself accurately, as your weight can fluctuate throughout the day. Weight yourself naked, as soon as you wake up in the morning, with the scale on the same spot on the floor to avoid seeing high fluctuations.
Perhaps you weighed yourself when you were retaining water, or had food in your digestive tract, or the floor had a different density where you placed the scale; a lot of variables will influence the number you see on that scale.

Try not to be depressed! Weights tend to fluctuate for one reason or another, I know there are times where I can weigh myself one day and be down, and weight myself the next day and have gained half a pound or more, even though I changed nothing about my routine. I know I shouldn't weigh myself every day for that reason, and it's an obsessive habit I have but the way I see it (and maybe you can to) is that as long as your weight is lower at the end of the week, then you're still doing good!

Also I can offer a small tip: if you're not already, make sure you weigh yourself at the same time every day. I always weigh myself when I first wake up, before I've eaten anything.

EDIT: Nevermind, someone already gave you that tip!

Well my daughter tells me I am not eating enough as MFP tells me to have 1200 calories I am nearly always under by quite a few it is hard and I am starving

Listen to your daughter!
Listen to MFP!
Listen to your body!

They are all telling you the same thing. You need to eat more! 1,200 should be seen as a minimum you should eat every day. Try to be around that number, not over by a lot. You should not be trying to be "always under by quite a few." If you're eating that way, you're going to be starving, miserable, and possibly have other negative effects (lowered metabolism, hair loss, nail discoloration, etc.).

The weight on the scale is going to vary by a lot. It may go up or down by a bunch. Over time, it will continue to vary... but the highs will be lower than the highs from before, the lows will be lower than the lows from before, and you'll see your clothes fitting differently.

Eat 1,200-1,500 calories a day... never less than 1,200... try to stay under 1,500. Be consistent. Do that every day. Do it for a month. After a month, you'll see that the scale is bouncing up and down... but it will be bouncing around a lower number than it was before.

Aside from that, relax. This isn't going to happen overnight. And, it's not going to be a perfectly smooth slide down the weights either.

You shouldn't be that hungry if you are eating 1200 and eating back your exercise calories (as you should be).

Eat the 1200, and eat back 50 to 75% of the exercise you log into MFP.

Buy a food scale - you might actually be short changing yourself on some foods, or eating more than you think of others. A common reason for not losing weight is people are eating more than they think they are.

Get more protein. The MFP goal should be treated as a minimum. I aim for over 100 grams per day, and find that it fills me up quite well. A good rule of thumb is 1 gram per lb of lean body mass. If you don't know your % body fat, you'll have to guestimate what your lean mass is. But generally 100 g of protein per day for a woman is a safe amount.

Don't call yourself stupid, you're not stupid.

If you feel hungry all the time, then you're not eating enough. And that's probably what's making you feel tearful. The weight you gained isn't fat, you're not eating anywhere near enough to gain any fat, it'll be water weight, and it'll be gone in a day or two, so don't stress about it. It's normal for your weight to go up and down over time by a few lbs so really and truly it's nothing to worry about. Look for the trend over time, i.e. week in week out is your weight slowly going downwards or not.

you could try eating 100-200 calories more each day, see if you feel less hungry on that. MFP can sometimes underestimate how many calories people need. It tells me I'll maintain my weight on about 1500 calories/day... reality is I lose weight on 1800 calories/day and 1500 calories is too little for me even to lose weight... my maintenance calories are more like 2100 calories/day. So don't be afraid to try eating a little more, the MFP number is an estimate based on averages, it could well be too little for you. Try it for a week and see how it goes. Sometimes it takes trial and error to find the ideal number of calories... but it's worth it in the long term to get it right. the ideal number is the highest number of calories where you're still steadily losing weight, so you can enjoy your food and not feel hungry or deprived.

You don't need to eat veggies if you don't want to.... do you eat fruit? You can get all your fibre, vitamins and minerals from fruit rather than veggies if you prefer. If you don't like any fruits or veggies, then that's more of a problem.

No need to cry.. plenty are here to help. No one should cry over weight loss.

Just because no one's mentioned this yet and I feel it's important to emphasize. Water is good! Water does help you with weight loss and general health. Just because people are saying it's water weight does not in any way mean that you should drink less water. Drink more of it! Drinking more water will help you retain less water, as strange as it sounds. Water helps your liver use fat for energy. If you aren't drinking enough water, your kidneys are being overworked and then make your liver do extra work. In simplest terms, if your liver is busy doing the extra work for your kidneys, it can't focus on burning fat for energy. Your body then holds onto that. Drinking more water will also make you thirstier (funny, huh?), so it'll get you into a pattern of increased hydration. This is all good!

Weight can fluctuate for all sorts of reasons. Hormones, salt intake, water intake, carb intake. But that's the thing. Weight does not always equal fat. You can gain a pound over night but that sure as heck doesn't mean you gained a pound of fat.

But you should be eating more calories. Listen to your daughter, she's right! When the body doesn't have enough calories, it starts producing stress hormones which can cause stalling of weight loss even if you're eating at a deficit.

Slow and steady wins the race. Keep at it and stay strong.

Your weight will fluctuate everyday. I used to get very upset too, one day it would be dropping and the next it would be higher. Don't be upset by this. Go by how your feeling and how your clothes are fitting.

You need to stay positive. When I get depressed, I eat more. Just keep at it and time will be your friend. I became obsessed with the scale too. I was weighing myself twice a day which really made me crazy. Like everyone else said, our weight will fluctuate. Good luck and I hope the encouragement is helping.

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oh please don't be depress... you probably drank too much water and that's why you put on a bit.

Drinking water actually reduces bloating as it flushes out salts and toxins.

Don't despair! I actually found that it's easy to fear eating too many calories, but in reality you need to eat enough to avoid those blood sugar dips that cause bingeing or unhealthy eating.

Have you calculated your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) and TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure)? There are lots of calculators online if you google for them. Basically, once you know that number, you can better decide how much calories are in your best interest for weight loss.