Is anybody else eating 1200 calories per day?

I also have a calorie allowance of 1200 per day. For the first couple of weeks, I found myself growing hungry at night, the time I used to snack. I drank a ton of water and made healthy snack choices when water just wouldn't cut it (ie veggie sticks, oatmeal, etc) I seem to be handling it a little better now, but maybe you need to re-evaluate, you may need more calories in a day. Hang in there, it does get easier.........:flowerforyou:

Are you exercising? If so, you should be eating a large portion of your exercise calories.

i just workout and then have calories added to my allowance. another trick i use is, i don't stay up anymore. i go straight to bed when i start feeling hungry.

I tried eating at least half my exercise calories and it made me feel sick so now I stick with 1200 (except for this week and next, Im doing 1000 , per doctor, to help jump start my metablism

Try to increase your protein. ( shrimp and chicken are pretty low), It helps you feel like you are eating something substancial. Good luck and keep going!

I eat 1200 calories a day but I also work out as often as I can so I eat my extra workout calories at night and I usually end up not eating all the excess bc I am so full. LOL

I was eating 1200 up intill last week , then it updated and added another 90 cals. for a total now of 1290 cals a day. There's some days when I find it very hard to get everything in ! When your eating to meet you goals and everthing is a healthy food you should be feeling very satified. But if your eating to satify cravings your foods my be to high in calories. Veggies are very low calorie but very filling. Good luck to you on this journey !

I usually eat about 1100 a day and I rarely ever feel hungry.

I'm on 1200 calories and can often manage on that, but it's the fat allowance I try to keep on top of.

MFP has my recommendation set to 1200 calories and it works great for me. When I add in exercise, I put in heavy workouts and burn around 800 extra a day. I don't eat all of my exercise calories though, since that number is based on the readouts from the gym machines which tend to overestimate. I do try to add in 300 additional calries on gym days, though.

As for your hunger being an issue, cut down on the fruit which is high in sugar and try snacking on raw veggies, protein, low sodium V8 juice, and whole wheat crackers instead. They are more filling and won't spike your blood sugar the way fruit does. That was one I had to learn the hard way as I am a fruit grazer of the first magnatude.

My veggies of choice are baby carrots, raw sugar snap peas and sliced raw zuchinni.

1200 for me. I had to get used to feeling hungry.

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I have been on 1200 since I started in at the end of Dec 2009. I am within 1 pound of my goal weight and have plateaued. But I found that I would plateau for a week or two, sometimes even longer, then I would drop 2 or three pounds in days. I don't eat my exercise calories, and seldom eat all of the 1200 calories allowed. When I exercise at night I feel a lot better and don't get the hungries before going to bed. I save a low calorie snack for evening, like a sugar free fudgsicle, sugar free pudding, or something like that. I have also stopped having a "big" meal each day; and found that if I cut what I was eating, before mfp,in half I could eat about anything I wanted and not blow the day and not have cravings either.

I was at 1300 calories a day, but my weight loss has slowed down, so I am now going down to 1200. I was always satisfied on 1300, but I don't see a big issue with cutting out 100 calories.

Hey guys,

I thought i'd throw this question out here because this is the calorie allowance that MFP recommended to me BUT I am finding that I am growing increasingly hungry towards the latter part of the day.

I just wondered whether anyone else is eating this amount of calories and if so,what level of success did you find?

Thank you!!!

At 1200 calories MFP is designed for you to eat back your exercise calories, so technically you should be eating more than that.