Is this healthy?

Tank you everyone for all the tips! I'll be sure to try them out, especially all your suggestions for protein! And I'll try to keep myself at 1200 a day Thank you everyone, I really appreciate all the help! And tank you maizerage66 especially for all your tips and clarifying about oatmeal and eating less to make up for a bad day, super helpful!

It's 1200 NET calories a day (assuming you set things up properly and didn't keep telling MFP whatever it took to get the lowest possible calorie goal). You stated earlier that you overate yet your diary doesn't show that for any day in the past week. There are some days slightly under goal and one day of only 715 logged calories.

Let's go back to the start point and evaluate if 1200 cals is even the right number for you to begin with.

Height?
Current weight?
Goal weight?
Target loss per week?

The day of 715 is the day after I overate a lot. I must have forgot to update the day before because I was 600 calories over my 1200 goal, which I was really upset about. I figured if I overate that much then if I under ate that much by the next day it would balance itself out. The day I posted this topic asking about it, I went back and ate more since everyone was telling me I should. So I think I was only about 200 cals under but by then I was too full to eat anything else. I inputted everything accurately on MFP and that's what it told me, so I went with it. Honestly at that point, when I first signed up, I was hoping it would say I could have 1500, I wouldn't purposely try to have less cals to eat.
My current weight 185 (wow that's hard to post publicly :P)
Goal weight ultimately 130ish depending on how I look, but if I'm at 140 because I have lots of muscle then I won't go lower. I want to do it more based on clothing size and just how I look and feel.Hoping to be around a size 4, I'm a size 12 now.
My target loss a week is 2 lbs, I think that is the most one should lose a week and still be considered healthy right?
oh and height 5'5''

Two pounds per week is too aggressive for the amount you have to lose. MFP bases your daily intake goal on your weekly loss target. Two pounds per week versus one pound per week is a 500 calorie per day difference. That means 1200 is too low to start with.

Fix your numbers, get things set where they should be for a healthy loss rate (at most 1.5 for the next few pounds ... 1 pound per week most likely the right choice even now), then eat to hit your net calorie goals.

Why is 2lbs a week too aggressive? I thought generally it was okay for anyone to lose this amount a week.I finding it generally pretty easy to stay within my calorie limit now, I'll make sure too keep it at 1200 now and not go under! I tend to eat a lot of really low cal foods so it allows me to feel full without all the extra calories, but I suppose I could eat more nuts and things like that too keep my cals up on days when I eat like four cups of salad XD My doctor said he's fine with me eating 1200 as long as I keep my exercise up and eat my calories back that I work off. Is that okay? Thanks for the tips on strength training! What I've been doing exercise wise (well trying to) is running Tuesday, Thursdays, Saturdays and weight lifting Monday and Wednesday. Plus just generally a lot more walking around. My gym has closed down so I may have to start going to my friends to work out.

Do you even read your own answers? You stated earlier that you heard 1 lb per week was safe, now you claim 2 is "okay for anyone" ... you claim you find it easy to stay in your calorie limit when just last night you claimed you were way over on Wednesday (although your diary doesn't show that). You have days that are far below your caloric need (i.e. Tuesday's 715 total intake) ... but now you claim your doctor says it's ok for you to eat so little.

Two pounds per week is for those with large amounts to lose ... normally in the triple digit range. 50 lbs to lose (or less since you have no real clue what your goal is ... weight, bf%, lean mass % .. more all over the place posting from you) usually falls in the closer to 1 lb per week goal with the last few pounds in the .5 per week.


Do whatever you want. Be as healthy or unhealthy as you want. Your ability to answer your own questions in this thread and recognize that what you're doing is unhealthy indicates that you know the difference yet choose the unhealthy path. Frankly, the fact you want into a police academy where you could be in position to make life or death decisions for other people scares the hell out of me when your demonstrated decision making here shows a willingness to take the unwise course of action.

Why is 2lbs a week too aggressive? I thought generally it was okay for anyone to lose this amount a week.I finding it generally pretty easy to stay within my calorie limit now, I'll make sure too keep it at 1200 now and not go under! I tend to eat a lot of really low cal foods so it allows me to feel full without all the extra calories, but I suppose I could eat more nuts and things like that too keep my cals up on days when I eat like four cups of salad XD My doctor said he's fine with me eating 1200 as long as I keep my exercise up and eat my calories back that I work off. Is that okay? Thanks for the tips on strength training! What I've been doing exercise wise (well trying to) is running Tuesday, Thursdays, Saturdays and weight lifting Monday and Wednesday. Plus just generally a lot more walking around. My gym has closed down so I may have to start going to my friends to work out.

Do you even read your own answers? You stated earlier that you heard 1 lb per week was safe, now you claim 2 is "okay for anyone" ... you claim you find it easy to stay in your calorie limit when just last night you claimed you were way over on Wednesday (although your diary doesn't show that). You have days that are far below your caloric need (i.e. Tuesday's 715 total intake) ... but now you claim your doctor says it's ok for you to eat so little.

Two pounds per week is for those with large amounts to lose ... normally in the triple digit range. 50 lbs to lose (or less since you have no real clue what your goal is ... weight, bf%, lean mass % .. more all over the place posting from you) usually falls in the closer to 1 lb per week goal with the last few pounds in the .5 per week.


Do whatever you want. Be as healthy or unhealthy as you want. Your ability to answer your own questions in this thread and recognize that what you're doing is unhealthy indicates that you know the difference yet choose the unhealthy path. Frankly, the fact you want into a police academy where you could be in position to make life or death decisions for other people scares the hell out of me when your demonstrated decision making here shows a willingness to take the unwise course of action.

I said i heard that losing 2lbs a week is okay for anyone. And I wouldn't say going over my calorie intake for 1 day means that I have trouble staying under my calorie goal. The one day where I only had 715 cals was to make up for the day before which I've already said, just as I've already said I forgot to log everything I had the day before. My doctor did say it was okay for me to eat 1200. So instead of being a prick why not read everything that I'm actually saying. This is supposed to be a supportive community. And I said that I wanted to get down to 130 but if I was heavier due to muscle I wouldn't keep trying to get lower, which I think is a healthy goal. Just because I don't have it set in my mind that I want to have such and such body fat % or be exactly xxx weight doesn't mean I'm an idiot. And honestly I think that is a healthy way to look at things. I'm not making some outrageous unreasonable goal for myself. And as for choosing the "unhealthy path" I ate severely under my calorie goal once, and I've already explained at least three times now, why. At least I'm actually asking for help with this stuff. I'm trying to be better. So sorry for eating way under my calorie goal for one day, and so sorry for asking for help and motivation. There is no reason to be a jerk about it and insult me or my ambitions and aspirations. You don't know me so you have no right to say whether or not I would make a good cop. Everyone else who has posted on this has replied with helpful advice in a nice way. If you're oh so disgusted with who I am or what I'm doing then don't read this topic.

Thank you to everyone else for your help.

I'm not going to apologize for failing to candy coat things for you. If you cannot handle honest feedback, don't put your life in public. The only day you ate substantially over your goal was three weeks ago ... I just looked back further ... not the day you cited earlier as an excuse for your 715 calorie intake day. Two pounds per week is a 1000 calorie deficit per day built in ... a deficit you routinely exceed by several hundred ... with a couple of 600+ additional calorie deficit days over the past few weeks. Few days have exercise logged ... although you claim an extensive workout program (5 days a week claimed ... not 5 days a week logged resulting in an even more skewed diary).

Let's look at what others said about your posts in this thread ....
"Your instinct is correct. What you are doing is very unhealthy."
"Yes,this IS severely unhealthy"
"You absolutely will not be able to lose weight until you begin eating more. You're drifting into Anorexia territory."
"My guess is that you already know what this will do so I'll save my breath."
" ... then you're giving your body half of what it burns...and less than what it needs for your organs to function properly. Does that sound safe to you?"
"Please consider seeking counseling if you've been doing this 'diet' for a long period of time."
"My guess is that you already know what this will do so I'll save my breath. " "QFT" - both replying to question in the topic title
"You obviously haven't done your homework...read this and apply it and it will work! No quick fixes...sorry!"
" Don't do this to yourself because you will end up in a deep spiraling hole of self hatred and in the end all you'll have is an eating disorder. Stop now and realize that eating 1200+ calories is healthy."
"If you have to ask.. it probably isn't. You already know the answer."



Keep doing unhealthy things .. keep trying to rationalize ... keep shifting your story and not paying attention to even what you post ... your body suffers, not mine.