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Always full and struggle getting to 1200 calories

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  • amberrenee813
    amberrenee813 Posts: 395 Member
    A lot of items in your diary lack weights. For example Saturday's grilled chicken tenderloins. Go by grams or ouces of how much (ensure you specify raw weight or cooked weight). Even the generic chicken salad is from the database. It's more accurate if you log the amount of chicken consumed the leaves you've eaten; someone else could have added dressing or the chicken skin or without. When I bought a scale and tracked weights by grams, I was quite surprised. Log the good, the bad and the ugly :)

    I will def start using the recipe builder. I'll have to play with it and figure out how. I typically would pick the least caloric bc w/ the chicken salad for instance, I use boneless skinless chicken and add very little mayo.
  • amberrenee813
    amberrenee813 Posts: 395 Member
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    I haven't posted this before and I want to base it off my diary.
  • amberrenee813
    amberrenee813 Posts: 395 Member
    Alternatively, if you start to gradually add in exercise you will soon see your appetite improve. Eating too little can be counterproductive because at some point your body will start to rebel.

    For my job, I am on my feet 8 plus hours a day. I know that's not busting it at a gym. But I do plan on doing work-out DVD's.
  • Hungry_Annie
    Hungry_Annie Posts: 807 Member
    Struggle??

    I struggle to stay under my calories and I eat between 1700-2000 calories. :laugh:

    ^^This! I don't know how you guys do it!

    Ditto.
  • Twinkie2530
    Twinkie2530 Posts: 47 Member
    Eat a protein bar as a snack after supper.. or sometime during the day maybe?
    I eat a lot of fish.. so I can understand struggling to get to your goal.. but I will eat like 3 pieces of fish for supper.. That's only 100 calories per fish!

    So protein bars can be a life savor!

    BTW.. water with cereal!? YUUUUCK lol :)
  • Ninayork
    Ninayork Posts: 2
    I have the same struggle...im never hungry which is why I have trouble losing weight
  • GiveMeCoffee
    GiveMeCoffee Posts: 3,556 Member
    My dinner tonight will be at least 1200 calories, it's not difficult the hard part is eating under 1700-1900 calories.

    On your diary yesterday that you say you had no problems eating because it was a holiday you logged under 1200 calories and only ate half of a reese's peanut butter egg.. eat the whole thing.

    But since your measurements look like they are off due to using measuring cups and not a scale you are eating more than you think, so I would suggest getting more accurate with your logging, avoid using other people's recipe entries, stay away from generic listings in the database, use the scale and accurately measure your portions.

    Also stop thinking of food as good or bad, it's FOOD some more nutritious than others, some more delicious than others, but it's food.
  • GiveMeCoffee
    GiveMeCoffee Posts: 3,556 Member
    Had to come back, you eat cereal with water? Why? that sounds just miserable
  • gerla_k
    gerla_k Posts: 495 Member
    No offense but how did you get overweight then?
    I'm curious too. I'm so sick of seeing people who say "OMG, i can't eat 1200- but then they are def. overweight " . If you can't eat 1200 a day how did you end up this big ??? Give me a break !
  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    I have the same struggle...im never hungry which is why I have trouble losing weight

    How did you become over weight? :huh:
  • amberrenee813
    amberrenee813 Posts: 395 Member
    My dinner tonight will be at least 1200 calories, it's not difficult the hard part is eating under 1700-1900 calories.

    On your diary yesterday that you say you had no problems eating because it was a holiday you logged under 1200 calories and only ate half of a reese's peanut butter egg.. eat the whole thing.

    But since your measurements look like they are off due to using measuring cups and not a scale you are eating more than you think, so I would suggest getting more accurate with your logging, avoid using other people's recipe entries, stay away from generic listings in the database, use the scale and accurately measure your portions.

    Also stop thinking of food as good or bad, it's FOOD some more nutritious than others, some more delicious than others, but it's food.

    If an item has a serving size (for instance Cheerios is 1 c) should I use a scale rather than a cup?
  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    Had to come back, you eat cereal with water? Why? that sounds just miserable

    Agree!! :sick:
  • amberrenee813
    amberrenee813 Posts: 395 Member
    Eat a protein bar as a snack after supper.. or sometime during the day maybe?
    I eat a lot of fish.. so I can understand struggling to get to your goal.. but I will eat like 3 pieces of fish for supper.. That's only 100 calories per fish!

    So protein bars can be a life savor!

    BTW.. water with cereal!? YUUUUCK lol :)

    haha i don't mind the water. i guess i never really thought of eating more than the serving size on chicken bc I didn't wanna go way over in protein.
  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    My dinner tonight will be at least 1200 calories, it's not difficult the hard part is eating under 1700-1900 calories.

    On your diary yesterday that you say you had no problems eating because it was a holiday you logged under 1200 calories and only ate half of a reese's peanut butter egg.. eat the whole thing.

    But since your measurements look like they are off due to using measuring cups and not a scale you are eating more than you think, so I would suggest getting more accurate with your logging, avoid using other people's recipe entries, stay away from generic listings in the database, use the scale and accurately measure your portions.

    Also stop thinking of food as good or bad, it's FOOD some more nutritious than others, some more delicious than others, but it's food.

    If an item has a serving size (for instance Cheerios is 1 c) should I use a scale rather than a cup?

    You should weigh EVERYTHING!!!...except liquids, use measuring cups!!!
  • GiveMeCoffee
    GiveMeCoffee Posts: 3,556 Member
    My dinner tonight will be at least 1200 calories, it's not difficult the hard part is eating under 1700-1900 calories.

    On your diary yesterday that you say you had no problems eating because it was a holiday you logged under 1200 calories and only ate half of a reese's peanut butter egg.. eat the whole thing.

    But since your measurements look like they are off due to using measuring cups and not a scale you are eating more than you think, so I would suggest getting more accurate with your logging, avoid using other people's recipe entries, stay away from generic listings in the database, use the scale and accurately measure your portions.

    Also stop thinking of food as good or bad, it's FOOD some more nutritious than others, some more delicious than others, but it's food.

    If an item has a serving size (for instance Cheerios is 1 c) should I use a scale rather than a cup?

    Yes use the scale to weigh out a proper portion 28 grams
  • GiveMeCoffee
    GiveMeCoffee Posts: 3,556 Member
    Eat a protein bar as a snack after supper.. or sometime during the day maybe?
    I eat a lot of fish.. so I can understand struggling to get to your goal.. but I will eat like 3 pieces of fish for supper.. That's only 100 calories per fish!

    So protein bars can be a life savor!

    BTW.. water with cereal!? YUUUUCK lol :)

    haha i don't mind the water. i guess i never really thought of eating more than the serving size on chicken bc I didn't wanna go way over in protein.

    You say you don't mind the water, but why not just eat something you enjoy. One of the biggest things I learned this time losing weight was eat things I like. I don't have to eat nasty cauliflower or something I don't enjoy just because people say it's good for you.

    Plan your day include and only eat food you really like. Weigh it, log it, and move on
  • rebalee8
    rebalee8 Posts: 161 Member
    My dinner tonight will be at least 1200 calories, it's not difficult the hard part is eating under 1700-1900 calories.

    On your diary yesterday that you say you had no problems eating because it was a holiday you logged under 1200 calories and only ate half of a reese's peanut butter egg.. eat the whole thing.

    But since your measurements look like they are off due to using measuring cups and not a scale you are eating more than you think, so I would suggest getting more accurate with your logging, avoid using other people's recipe entries, stay away from generic listings in the database, use the scale and accurately measure your portions.

    Also stop thinking of food as good or bad, it's FOOD some more nutritious than others, some more delicious than others, but it's food.

    If an item has a serving size (for instance Cheerios is 1 c) should I use a scale rather than a cup?

    They also have a grams measurement - for Cheerios 28 grams - use that.
  • orchidee1987
    orchidee1987 Posts: 97 Member
    Regarding the amount you have to lose, aren't you afraid of loose skin, eating so litlte as you (claim ?!) to ?
  • amberrenee813
    amberrenee813 Posts: 395 Member
    Regarding the amount you have to lose, aren't you afraid of loose skin, eating so litlte as you (claim ?!) to ?

    I do plan on working out and never knew that eating too little caused loose skin. Learned something new
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    Eat a protein bar as a snack after supper.. or sometime during the day maybe?
    I eat a lot of fish.. so I can understand struggling to get to your goal.. but I will eat like 3 pieces of fish for supper.. That's only 100 calories per fish!

    So protein bars can be a life savor!

    BTW.. water with cereal!? YUUUUCK lol :)

    haha i don't mind the water. i guess i never really thought of eating more than the serving size on chicken bc I didn't wanna go way over in protein.

    Keep in mind that if you're using MFP's default numbers, their protein goal is actually set very low. I would consider a minimum to hit rather than a maximum to stay under. You want to get plenty of protein in your diet to help retain and repair your lean muscle mass.

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