HELP! I can't manage to eat over 1100 calories!

^This.

Some ice cream goes a long way!

Eat more caloric dense foods. Literally, you can eat anything you want, just fit it into your calorie goal (AKA, moderation).

But ice cream makes me happy and so ice cream it is!! I recommend Talenti Salted Caramel. Just in case you were looking for recommendations. :drinker: :flowerforyou:

If you're having trouble with being over-satiated, then adding more of the same foods won't help.

If your current diet is too low in calories, then you need more calorie density.

Within the types of things you listed, your options include:
* Nuts, seeds, avocado, etc
* Steaks & chops (but not ground meats)
* Starches & sugars during or following hard exercise

Processed foods like ice cream, cookies, or protein bars are fine if you're glycogen depleted, like after endurance exercise.

Other times, they are absorbed too quickly, and excess is stored as fatty acids in LDL, which ends up being stored as body fat.

Once it's stored as fat, it takes a lot more effort to convert back into glucose or pyruvate for fuel.

Realistically, you could eat one gummy bear every 10 minutes while awake but not dining, but that's not practical.

Are you eating an healthy carbs? You need these to for energy and to help burn fat.

Nonsense.

Maybe a week ago I was feeling exactly the same way as you. In fact my tummy was starting to sort of hurt when I ate dinner.

A few days ago I went to a friends house for dinner, which included home made fried donuts and a chocolate dipping sauce, which I of course ate and really enjoyed.

Now I'm ravenous all the time and am craving high sugar/fatty foods. Totally BIZARRE. Maybe I have a naughty food addiction that is easily triggered...

Anyway, I'm hoping the not very hungry feeling comes back now so I will find it easier to stick within my calorie limit! If I find it hard to eat my cals again, I'm just going to drizzle olive oil over dinner or have a spoonful of peanut butter now and again.

I trust another MFPer will come through with the starvation mode doesn't exist speech, so I'll leave that for them. That being said, you should be eating your BMR (which could even be higher than 1400).

Calorie dense foods are your friend for making calorie goals easier to meet. I have weeks where I struggle to eat my BMR (which is around 1600 NET, so usually 1900-2100 calories a day) but for the most part, I'm more focused on hitting my protein goal than anything. Nuts, avocados, greek yogurt, peanut butter and toast, higher calorie fruits like bananas, etc would all be good options for you.

Or, indulge and have something you wouldn't class as healthy: I have chocolate, a cookie, brownie, ice cream, pizza, SOMETHING just about every day and just make sure it fits my macros. That's pretty well the only way I can happily eat at a deficit continually rather than "falling off the bandwagon" as many feel they do on a pretty regular basis.

+1

You could always try some ice cream--I would. 1100 calories is fairly close to 1400, so not getting all the way to 1400 every day is probably okay. As long as you feel good, have energy, and are reasonably close to you intake goal, you will probably loose weight healthfully in a sustainable manner. You should also eat more if you are exercising. I would eat something you really like if you can resist over-eating. I have a total ban on sweets and other empty calories because I fear I will not be able to control myself. I think this is reasonably sustainable because I have found others more healthy foods that are almost as satisfying--this seems to work because I live alone and am not particularly social except with people at work and school so there is not much temptation. Just be aware of the symptoms of chronic under-eating. I have bad GI tract disorders and often experience nausea and vomiting that makes me not want to eat. I sometimes dip under 800 calories a day--and for someone that is tall, weighs 300 lbs, and exercises a lot, leaves me with negative net calories. When I do this for several days, I sometimes experience feeling cold, numbness of feet and hands, tingling skin, and the inability to sleep.

I trust another MFPer will come through with the starvation mode doesn't exist speech, so I'll leave that for them. That being said, you should be eating your BMR (which could even be higher than 1400).

Calorie dense foods are your friend for making calorie goals easier to meet. I have weeks where I struggle to eat my BMR (which is around 1600 NET, so usually 1900-2100 calories a day) but for the most part, I'm more focused on hitting my protein goal than anything. Nuts, avocados, greek yogurt, peanut butter and toast, higher calorie fruits like bananas, etc would all be good options for you.

Or, indulge and have something you wouldn't class as healthy: I have chocolate, a cookie, brownie, ice cream, pizza, SOMETHING just about every day and just make sure it fits my macros. That's pretty well the only way I can happily eat at a deficit continually rather than "falling off the bandwagon" as many feel they do on a pretty regular basis.

Well like I said, that is why I was asking for help, I was trying to avoid that very situation.

So if I had a brownie with some almonds and peanut butter (on top, yum), would that be considered a good indulgence to hep my calorie goal?
But yes, I think I'm going to add even more avocado to my diet and maybe another handful of almonds. I will have a banana too...I usually avoid them since they are high in sugar, but then again...it's fruit, the health benefits outweigh any sugar negatives I feel.

That sounds delicious to me too haha.

There are no "bad" foods per-say. Some foods are high calorie, high fat, high sugar etc but they all have merit in some way. If it fits your macros, eat it. We need a certain amount of fat to function so if you have no medical reason to eat a low anything (fat, sugar etc) diet, there's really no reason to.

Those who eat really restrictive diets don't create the healthy relationship with food that you need to maintain weight loss. Just about every birthday you go to will have cake -- why avoid it for the rest of your life when you could just build a healthy relationship with it that makes it possible to have a little cake? (Assuming it's a kind you like and in a reasonable portion, that is haha)

Cheese, then your problem goes away