All the 1200-1300 calorie friends out there...

kalinalauritzen3
kalinalauritzen3 Posts: 5 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Do any of you have trouble eating the full amount every day? Some days 1250 is perfect for me and then other days I have completed my diary at 1000, 1100, sometimes in the 900 range. Not on purpose, but because I just cannot eat any more food! I am so full!

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  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    If you are trying to lose weight the presumably you consider yourself overweight. If you got to be overweight that means at some point you had no problem consuming more than 1200 calories daily, likely much more.

    Just find the middle ground between your old unhealthy ways and your new unhealthy ways (900 calories a day is unhealthy no matter what "good" foods you are eating). That middle ground is where the answer to your predicament and good health lies.

    Moderation, not extremes.
  • kalinalauritzen3
    kalinalauritzen3 Posts: 5 Member
    Thank you :) I was pushing 250 at one point and and 178 right now but that took years of diet yo-yoing. I still eat some "junk" but overall pretty healthy. I'm thinking maybe a homemade smoothie or something to up the calories.
  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    900 is fine if it's not daily. Your body runs on a continuum, not a midnight meter. That's why IF is fine, or eating once a day or whatever your scheduling preference.

    I eat more according to my appetite. It might be 900, it might be 1800. It makes a lot more sense than forcing in food on 'less hungry' days and feeling deprived on 'hungry days', just because MFP totals things on a 24 hour clock.

    We could eat more when we weren't dieting because we ate mindlessly, usually. It's very normal to get full faster when you eat more filling foods and also pay more attention. Logging forces you to pay attention.

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