When I eat 1200 cals I put on weight

Friday October 10
Lunch
Twix - Finger, 2 finger
Ocado - Honey Roast Ham, 2 slice(s)

Sunday October 12
Snacks
Monster - Energy Absolutely Zero Uk
Waitrose - British Breaded Ham, 3 slice

Ham on it's own? no bread, salad or accompaniments? looks very much like bad logging

rachelperry84 wrote: »

It's as accurate as I can get if haven't cooked the food myself. There are 2 cases of that in my diary anyway, so not like it's every meal. It still doesn't make sense even with that being wrong

Rachal .. go on this MFP page and calculate your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) which is the estimated number of calories you need at your present age, weight and height to pretty much lay in bed all day and do nothing. ....

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/tools/bmr-calculator

.... That would, under normal conditions, be the least amount of calories you eat in a day. That does not count the additional calories you need to be active and those active calories should be above you BMR calories. ... more or less. ....(I don't want to start a whole bunch of people charging after me for saying this )

You got to go see a doctor. Although I do also doubt the validity of some entries, like today (half a cup of potatoes? one chicken breast?), but I'm guessing you were eating out or something?

But yeah chicken 4 wraps at only 590 calories total... VERY unlikely. Ham and cheese panini at 470, unlikely too, considering bread is often 300 calories, cheese 130, then you have to add the butter... I'm also curious about what kind of sausage is only 110 calories (from Wednesday) and where I can find that magic sausage (regular sausages are closer to 190 calories).

So yeah... I doubt your entries are correct. You could be eating way more than you think, even if you seem to barely eat some other days.

Yikes....I can understand your frustration, but you have to understand that these people are giving you good advise. When we look at your diary and you have "1 mug of tea w/ skim milk)...is that a recipe that you entered? that you control the exact quantity of? while yes I understand that skim milk doesn't really carry a lot of cals with it if the person who cited that uses 1 tablespoon and you use 3...there will be a difference in the cals. Now that is very marginal difference, but what they are trying to explain is those marginal difference, or the lax approach to logging (believe me I do the same, but I have been losing with out weighing) you say that you weigh everything, but also that you are relying on prepackaged foods for their weights, unfortunately those values can be incorrect also. So in fact you are guestimating portions if your not weighing everything. people on here are not trying to judge you or hurt your feelings, they are being truthful in telling you that you are [il]likely[/i] consuming more cals then you realize. If you are a person who has very little to lose and have been given a finite amount of calories for the day, being as accurate as possible becomes more critical then someone like me who still has loads of weight to lose. I currently lose with guestimating but when I hone in on goal weight I'm sure that will change. From what I understand youtube has some great videos in reference to proper weighing of food, you may want to check some of those out too. Best Luck!!

rachelperry84 wrote: »

Woodspoon wrote: »

Friday October 10
Lunch
Twix - Finger, 2 finger
Ocado - Honey Roast Ham, 2 slice(s)

Sunday October 12
Snacks
Monster - Energy Absolutely Zero Uk
Waitrose - British Breaded Ham, 3 slice

Ham on it's own? no bread, salad or accompaniments? looks very much like bad logging

Genuine day. Love eating ham on its own, and sharing it with the dogs.

Just more for the safety of your dogs, you shouldn't feed them processed or cured pork like bacon and ham. Not only is the fat content high but it's also full of sodium. Their little bodies find it harder to process. This is widely known knowledge.

dbmata wrote: »

rachelperry84 wrote: »

If I eat 1200 cals I put on weight about 1-2kg per week.

Doubt it.

There lots of user error going on. Gain 2 pounds per week on a 1200 cal diet.

Francl27 wrote: »

You got to go see a doctor. Although I do also doubt the validity of some entries, like today (half a cup of potatoes? one chicken breast?), but I'm guessing you were eating out or something?

But yeah chicken 4 wraps at only 590 calories total... VERY unlikely. Ham and cheese panini at 470, unlikely too, considering bread is often 300 calories, cheese 130, then you have to add the butter... I'm also curious about what kind of sausage is only 110 calories (from Wednesday) and where I can find that magic sausage (regular sausages are closer to 190 calories).

So yeah... I doubt your entries are correct. You could be eating way more than you think, even if you seem to barely eat some other days.

There are loads of different types of bread and sausages on the market. 2 slices of bread usually average out at about 200 calories (mfp and the product details on packaging confirm this). The bread I eat is an Irish slimming brand which are only 60 calories a slice. Yes, a panini would be more like 250 calories unbuttered, but sliced bread is less than that.

I have frozen sausages from Aldi which are 110 calories each (as stated on the pack itself) and there are low fat, gluten free ones from Tesco which are only 45 calories each (they are thin though!).

OP, looking at your diary, your eating habits are rather erratic. Some days you overeat and other days you really undereat. Try to mantain a healthy balance of meals throughout the day and try to avoid the empty snacky stuff as much as you can. You can limit yourself to 1200 calories a day and still enjoy good, filling food. I'm on 1200 calories and it's easier than you think, once you get used to how much things weigh and you log EVRYTHING that goes into your mouth (things like spices, condiments and sauces count too!). After a while, it becomes habit and you'll find your new eating plan second nature. There's always room for treats here and there, but they should be supplements to your daily meals, not meals themselves.

Good luck

josul75 wrote: »

Francl27 wrote: »

You got to go see a doctor. Although I do also doubt the validity of some entries, like today (half a cup of potatoes? one chicken breast?), but I'm guessing you were eating out or something?

But yeah chicken 4 wraps at only 590 calories total... VERY unlikely. Ham and cheese panini at 470, unlikely too, considering bread is often 300 calories, cheese 130, then you have to add the butter... I'm also curious about what kind of sausage is only 110 calories (from Wednesday) and where I can find that magic sausage (regular sausages are closer to 190 calories).

So yeah... I doubt your entries are correct. You could be eating way more than you think, even if you seem to barely eat some other days.

There are loads of different types of bread and sausages on the market. 2 slices of bread usually average out at about 200 calories (mfp and the product details on packaging confirm this). The bread I eat is an Irish slimming brand which are only 60 calories a slice. Yes, a panini would be more like 250 calories unbuttered, but sliced bread is less than that.

I have frozen sausages from Aldi which are 110 calories each (as stated on the pack itself) and there are low fat, gluten free ones from Tesco which are only 45 calories each (they are thin though!).

OP, looking at your diary, your eating habits are rather erratic. Some days you overeat and other days you really undereat. Try to mantain a healthy balance of meals throughout the day and try to avoid the empty snacky stuff as much as you can. You can limit yourself to 1200 calories a day and still enjoy good, filling food. I'm on 1200 calories and it's easier than you think, once you get used to how much things weigh and you log EVRYTHING that goes into your mouth (things like spices, condiments and sauces count too!). After a while, it becomes habit and you'll find your new eating plan second nature. There's always room for treats here and there, but they should be supplements to your daily meals, not meals themselves.

Good luck

But she's clearly using generic entries for those things, and picking the lowest calories entries for them... not using brands, not weighing etc.

Once I individually added up what was in a ham and cheese panini I got from a restaurant and it came out close to 900 calories... I mean obviously I can make myself one for 300 calories or less at home, but then I would think she would have entered it properly.

Assuming OP is a woman, I didn't check.

If your eating just two candy bars a day here and there your going to gain weight like crazy your body is going to go into starvation mode and store all the fat your taking in. If your eating one meal and a snack your starving your body and anything you eat you will store as fat.