1200 calories per day

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If we assume that your calorie tracking is accurate and you're not underestimating, then you have to ask yourself if you're getting enough protein, fat, vitamins, fiber, minerals, etc. and aren't deficient in anything. And remember that hunger isn't always a good indicator that you're getting enough to eat. Hunger signals can be knocked out of whack by too many things. You have to watch for things like healthy skin and nails, mood, energy levels, gym performance, etc.

It's ridiculously easy to add 100-200 calories to your diet with just a handful of food. I'll just include this list compiled in another thread.

- Add butter
- Have ice cream on a waffle cone for dessert
- Include peanut butter, ice cream, pasta, beans, oil to cook, butter to cook
- Put olive oil on everything you already eat
- Fruit, nuts, yogurt, ice cream, juice
- Make sure you are accurately measuring because you may already be getting enough
- Peanut butter, nuts, protein bars
- Peanut butter, milk
- Olive oil, coconut oil, avocado, full fat diary, cheese, ice cream, Greek yogurt, sour cream, nuts and nut butter, seeds, protein shakes and smoothies, fruit juices, dark chocolate, less lean choices of meat, full calorie sauces and dressings, etc.
- Ice cream, peanut butter, olive oil, butter, alcohol.........
- Chicken with the skin, Steak, Cheese, Whole eggs (including deviled eggs, egg salad), Full fat dairy (including cottage cheese, yogurt), Fruit, Peanut butter or other nut butters, Nuts, Avocado,Dried fruit (raisins, apricots, apples), Dark chocolate, Salmon, Add Chia seeds to salads or yogurt, Olive oil, Smoothies, Granola/sports nutrition bars, Whole grains or whole grain products (like brown rice, Quinoa, oatmeal) ,Beans and legumes
- Eat higher energy foods with less volume, like peanut butter
- Add two Tablespoons of butter to your food, eat almonds instead of eating more chicken
- eat the same amount of food but make different food choices. No diet or lite versions, opt for the full fat/sugar. So 6% yogurt instead of fat free, 2% milk instead of skim, full fat salad dressing, etc.
- Add 1/2 an avocado mixed with lemon juice and salt on top of a chicken breast or steak. Add a tbl of butter to your cup of veggies (or on top of your steak). Eat an oz (21-22) almonds with a piece of fruit or veggies for a snack. It's not a lot of food.
- 1 tablespoon of olive oil gives you 120 calories. Drizzle it on your veggies and roast them in the oven or mix it with some herbs and vinegar for a salad dressing. 2 tablespoons of peanut butter = 190 calories. If you're already eating fruit or toast anywhere in your diet, smear some peanut butter on! 1 ounce of cheese will give you 115-ish calories. Again, I don't know what you're eating already, but add it to eggs, a sandwich, oven roasted veggies, or a salad.
- EAT MORE CALORIE DENSE FOODS AT VOLUMES THAT SATIATE YOU. They did not say more food, they said choose foods with more calories.
- if say I tried to eat 500 calories worth of broccoli I'd probably feel stuffed and a little sick. That isn't an indication that I can't eat more than 500 calories though, that is an indication I should probably lay off the broccoli a bit. stop eating so much broccoli and have a cookie
- you can eat 800 calories of chocolate chip cookies and still be hungry for more.
- eating an avocado or some nuts for a snack
- at 800 calories of mcdonalds too and still be hungry a few hours later
- Instead of brown rice have pasta or instead of chicken breast have steak. Or, if you like those foods you are eating then yeah drizzle on a little olive oil or add a sauce. Have chicken with a thick tomato sauce on it.
- delicious healthy fats. 2 T of almond butter=200 calories. 1/2 c coconut milk=170 calories, both full of healthy filling fats, and go very well with fruit. full bone-in skin-on chicken thighs instead of sad dry chicken breasts.
- eat some of the same foods you ate before you started restricting calories. Are you drinking too much water?
- A little olive oil will really up those calories, too. Nuts are good.

Hi I am counting my calories and need some advise. I am under eatting, not on purpose or anything, but I am geniounly full. I tend to drink a lot of water. By the time I am hungrey again it is generally time for my snack ( 75 calorie protein shake). I know I should be having a 100 calories shake but I only found high caloric shakes so have half a serving to stay at 100 cals. I am averaging 1000-1100 calories a day. Am I doing more harm than good?

I don't know what you mean about the shakes. But I think it's very common to be very motivated and very in tune to your satiety signals early in a diet. It goes away. I would ignore it for now. If you're consistently eating under 1200 three weeks from now or losing more than 2 lbs/week on average, I'd consider trying to get more food in.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!!!!!!!! Nooooooooooo more!!!!!!

Am I doing more harm than good?

Yes.

Hi I am counting my calories and need some advise. I am under eatting, not on purpose or anything, but I am geniounly full. I tend to drink a lot of water. By the time I am hungrey again it is generally time for my snack ( 75 calorie protein shake). I know I should be having a 100 calories shake but I only found high caloric shakes so have half a serving to stay at 100 cals. I am averaging 1000-1100 calories a day. Am I doing more harm than good?

I think you are doing yourself a disservice eating such low calories, and I think you are doing more harm then good.

Take a peek at my diary because I used to do more harm then good by restricting calories under the guise that I wasn't hungry (the real reason I said I wasn't hungry was because I thought I would gain weight on more than just a few hundred calories), but then I started listening to other people who had successfully lost weight. None of them said to eat low calories, they said portion control, weigh food, count calories, eat at a sensible deficit, and move more. And I did.

Don't be mean, people. You were new once.

Yes... yes we were. But, at least in my opinion, I spent a lot of time reading stickies and threads before I ever posted a thing. Which everyone should do no matter the forum or website you are on. It's only good internet manners.

Just... eat food. And I don't believe that it's possible for any human being to be full on 1200 calories. I don't care how sincere or insistent a person is, I will never believe that it's possible and will always assume that the person who believes that they are full on 1200 calories or less is self-deceived or lying. It just seems common sense to me to it is not possible unless you are a sedentary 75 pound person.