3rd time lucky, anyone eating 1200 calories

I am also eating 1200 calories.

I'm new, so maybe this is crazy talk, but if you're still hungry, shouldn't you just eat like 1700 calories and try to burn 500 through exercise?

I'm vegetarian and eating 1200

I was eating 1200 the first month or so, before I learned the value of eating enough food and increasing my protein and fat. My limit is 1600 and I seem to be averaging between 1400-1500. I have lost 29 lbs in 91 days and still have about another 85 to go. My diary is open if you want to peek.

1200 was crazy making for me and I cannot recommend staying at that level. It's possible. But grueling and much to hard over the long term.

I am eating 1200 and find its plenty for me. Add me if you like.

Cindy

Hi,

Im on 1500 a day, but if your recording your exercise and burning off more than you eat its a double winner.

Knowing that a bit of effort give good results keeps me going.

Well keeps me going in a way a nearly 42 year old can lol.

Good luck and keep positive!!!

Hi there, well I've tried and failed miserably 2 times already but now I'm becoming more miserable that this time I have to succeed so I'm going to do anything in my power to do that. This is where you fab guys come in Is there anyone else eating 1200 calories? I'd really like to get some ideas of what people eat to keep them feeling full and getting them through the day. I'm planning on logging on daily so will be more than happy to help support you guys to in anyway I can. Please feel free to add me as a friend and I will do likewise. :laugh:

Congratulations for coming back again.

Check out my diary from December 2010 through June 2011. That's what I ate while losing 95 pounds in 7 months. My calorie count ranged between 800 to 1k cals/day net and I was experienced hunger pangs 5 times in the 7 month period. (I upped my calories in June 2011 because I started training for a Half marathon which I ran 10 weeks later.)

Our species get satiety from fat (an excellent source of slow burn energy) so you might want to bump your fat intake but another tactic that helps is to increase protein intake. One advantage to eating protein is that, of the three nutritional groups, protein is the most difficult to digest and we burn about 25% of the calories in protein just to digest it. Along that same line, protein takes the longest to digest so we have a "full feeling" (that's "satiety") for a longer time than if we eat carbs or fat.

A comment about your calorie level - eating 1200 calories is a good way to lose weight at a moderate pace because our body does quite well at 1200 cals and, as we have seen over many decades, at much lower calorie counts, as well. The key to my statement of fact is "our body" and I use that phrase by design because, as you are discovering, losing weight has very little to do with how many calories our body wants or needs just in the same way that gaining weight has very little to do with what our body wants or needs.

Industry stats tell us that most people go through many attempts to lose weight so, in that this is your third attempt at losing weight, what about a suggestion that you should eat more calories?

My reason for postulating that is that a diet that you can't stick to really isn't doing you much good and, when you think about it, it could be doing more harm that good because, if you don't succeed "this time", you might just forget about losing weight. Yes, it's proof that you're willing to work at it again but, if the calorie level you've been aiming for isn't working out you might be more successful but upping calories a bit. Then, as you get more comfortable with "a lifestyle change" than "a diet", you'll see that the pounds can come off and, yes, you can control your weight.

Best of luck with your weight loss.

I guess dying from internal organ failure is one way to lose weight.

i think 1200 is too low, always aim for 1500-1800, more effective and less strain on the body

1200 is too low, which is why you're not having much luck finding people. You don't need to be miserable and eat next to nothing to lose weight