"You are not eating enough"

If you're referring to that statement that pops up when you close your diary for the day, understand that it is looking only at that one single day. If some days you go over, but some days you're under, the average is what counts, so don't get too worried about that comment.

Many people don't try to eat back all of their exercise calories because of common estimation errors and because they like a cushion for just in case. Try to eat the recommended basic calories and maybe half of your exercise calories. If you consistently under-eat, you find it more difficult to stick to your plan.

Open your diary.

If you are bigger then it's an interesting start to losing weight that I went through also. You start off being soo very good only to find you need to start bringing back higher cal foods just to hit target. Then as you lose weight your daily allowance decreases. The decrease is okay until you get right down and then you find yourself struggling to keep yourself out of your exercise cals.

If i rmemeber rightly I was starting off with a daily allowance of 2800 and would get to the end of the day and sit down with a chocolate bar or 2 just to find those last 250-600 cals. In the end i jyst chose not to bother and by the end of the week it was an extra pound off.

Just do it. Show it to us. . . . .the diary. . . . .the diary

It used to yell at me all the time, but now it only does that if I go under 1000 calories. I'd almost forgotten it did that when it popped back up one day.

You don't have to snack to raise your calories, just eat a little more at a meal. I'm guessing you know that, though, and don't think I actually understand the question.

Me, I go over and under all the time. I'm not EXACTLY 1200 calories hungry every day, lol.

@ddache, you seem to eat very far under your calorie goal then, I have never received any alarming message when I close my diary. It just says how much I'll weigh if I eat the same amount of calories every day over the next 5 weeks.

Is there a reason you insist on consuming less than the 1300 cals you were set up with?

Doesn't that message only appear when you eat less than 1000 calories in a day? It doesn't appear if you are set for 1300 (or 1500) and eat only 1200 for the day.

I see on Nov. 18 you only ate 825 calories so, yes, you would have seen that message because you are under 1000 calories.

I don't quite understand what you are saying, because the sign only pops up when you eat less than 1000 calories. If you eat 2000 it should not pop up and you might want to contact MFP to solve that problem.
But then again from your post, even though you don't go into details, I get the feeling that you eat much less than 2000 calories. It is difficult to figure out without any specific information.

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Out of interest: Where does it say you're not eating enough? My diary only gives me my leftover calories in green and then the prognosis for the next 5 weeks.

How many calories under your goal do you have to eat to be "yelled at"?

Currently, you have to eat less than 1000 calories. Your exercise doesn't matter.

Unless someone is on a doctor-supervised plan, I don't think there's any reason to eat that low on a regular basis, although for one day due to not being hungry (or a fast or something) it's obviously not a problem.

I think if you eat less than 1,200 calories, it "yells" at you.

I took a look at your diary, thank you for making it open. Now that everyone who wanted to has seen it, you can close it up again if you prefer to keep it private. (I'm a firm believer in protecting my privacy, LOL)

One thing I noticed is that you haven't been posting very long, just since the 17th, so of course you are unsure of what the diary is trying to tell you.

Another thing is I 've seen small meals, sometimes only 2 in a day. And they are along the lines of bread and jam. By the way, that veg stir fry ... at 2 servings ... were those 1/2-cup servings? Where they fried in stir-fry oil? What did you eat with it besides 40 grams of bread? That was the same day that you reported 62 minutes of high impact aerobics that took 535 calories from what you ate to give your net calories for the day ...
.... question on the exercise ... were you moving the entire time of 62 minutes doing the exercises or was that the total time you were in the class ... because you'll get a more accurate reading if you only count the actual time you spent moving with the aerobics at high impact, not warmups or cooldowns, or stops in between.

The same questions for the 70 minutes of aerobics on another day. Plus, you walked for 70 minutes at a constant 12.5 minutes per km ... or was it only for part of that time that you walked at that pace?

See ... this is why you don't really want to show your diary to anyone ... people , like I am doing, will pick you apart. Protect your sanity and keep your diary private.

My heart-felt suggestion to you would be to read as much as you can about nutrition ... there is a lot articles available for you on MFP and at many other sources.

By the way ... that Pasta with garlic and mushrooms sounds delicious. How much was your plate serving ... 1 cup or 2?

Keep going ... and check with your doctor if you aren't certain about if you are eating enough or not ...