I ate 600 calories today and I was full. Help.

Every night when I log my dinner and then save the days diary it tells me I have not consumed enough calories for the day
I'm not hungry so I don't eat any more
I hope you get some more replies because I'm interested as well

Laurend224 wrote: »

Eat more nutrient dense foods. Peanut butter, avocado, full fat dairy. Don't think of foods in terms of good and bad, it's all just food.

^^Good advice here. When you say you ate 600 calories are you first deducting your exercise calories? 600 actual calories consumed is a tiny amount. It is essential that you get an adequate intake every day. At a point, your body will respond negatively to your low calories.

Try adding a small salad with your sandwich or an avocado. Or adding hemp hearts to your cereal would help give you some protein as well as adding a bit more calories. If you are feeling full from just that all I can think is your body and stomach have been used to eating such small low calorie and low protein meals. Try having an egg with fruit in the morning too. A drink of whatever milky prefer- I like almond milk. Ive started to drink a protein powder drink or a protein bar to help. Good luck!

I'm sorry but your profile says you need to lose 44 pounds?

100 calorie ham sandwich? One slice of bread is approx 75-80cals 10g butter approx 70cals 1 slice ham approx 30ish (wafer thin). Not seeing how you get 100 cals?

It isn't my intention to be mean here, but what I am gonna say will come across as such.

You don't need a better eating plan, you need a therapist to help you find out why you are purposefully not eating the right amount and types of food. It sounds like you have food issues in general.

One handful of peanuts would give you a good amount of cals too. If you want to eat fries thats totally fine! Same for the chocolate

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When you eat a very small amount for an extended period of time, your body adjusts to this amount of food, and ceases to send hunger signals.

Some of us overweight people got this way because we ate so terribly unevenly or did not respond to our initial natural hunger cues that our bodies become resistant to the hunger response. That is, we rarely, if ever, feel hungry.

Me, I hate feeling hungry and rarely experience the sensation. If I only ate when I felt hungry, I would eat only every couple days.

Part of building a healthy lifestyle is retraining one's body to normal levels. Whether that be reducing what you eat, or increasing it, it's important to know a good way to increase and prepare.

I'm not making a diagnosis, but 600 calories is less than the intake of an average anorexic person, and based on that alone, and even moreso when adding activity, you'd be diagnosed as such. Perhaps not psychologically, but physically... Many people don't realize that there is more than one kind of anorexia (anorexia as a term means without appetite).

Refeeding can be difficult, but you can do it. If you know you need to eat more, you should regularly and with metered effort increase your diet 100-200 calories every 1-2 days. Don't just jump all at once, as you may feel very sick because of it. Increase daily until you are at a normalized dietary level. Recognize that if you exercise, you need to increase the amount at least modestly in order to not have a similar problem happen.

Ultimately, what can happen if you maintain these habits over a long span of time, is that your body can go into preservation mode, and eventually become problematic for things like your thyroid. It doesn't happen in a couple weeks though... and without knowing how long the 600/day habit has been going on, it's hard to say if you're at risk of such an issue.

For me, I found the easiest way to increase my food was to eat a very small snack every hour. I know, sounds insane, but it's easy to do with a stash of almonds. Eating 10-15 almonds at the top of each waking hour will easily bulk your calories without making you feel like you're going to explode, or leave much remnants in your mouth. Once you get to a normalized calorie level, you can adjust the calorie intake options to other foods and habits, but it gets you there.

lilxmissxhavic wrote: »

AdorkableMe2015 wrote: »

It isn't my intention to be mean here, but what I am gonna say will come across as such.

You don't need a better eating plan, you need a therapist to help you find out why you are purposefully not eating the right amount and types of food. It sounds like you have food issues in general.

Thats a pretty big generalisation to make from one post. Can I please reiterate I AM NOT STARVING MYSELF, I had a reasonable breakfast lunch and dinner and was full, then I was concerned because I wasn't doing it safely so A) went out of my way to get more calories and asked for advice.

I'm still eating out, I'm still eating whatever my family happens to be eating for dinner, and I'm still having snacks.

Madame_Goldbricker wrote: »

So add another slice of cheese + butter to your sandwiches? There's another 140 cals right there.

Boom! Great idea! thanks!

I said I wasn't trying to be mean but your reaction clearly says you are defensive about hearing the POSSIBILITY of an eating disorder. No, you aren't eating enough. I can find a million different ways to get my calorie count to 1200, without even trying, and by eating strictly "healthy" food. To say you "can't do it" is a way to justify your lack of desire TO do it. If you are going to up your calorie intake, that's fantastic. But you asked for people to comment, and my comment was intended to provide a possible insight into why you are only able to consume 600 calories. For me, that's somewhere between breakfast and lunch.

Just have a bigger bowl of cereal for breakfast, or better yet, have eggs and ham or something. Have some nuts for a snack, or an apple and peanut butter, or a banana. Add some chicken to your dinner.

Can't you ask your parents to buy food you like if it's them who do the shopping. I lived away when I was at university, but when I go home to visit my parents now (and I'm 37) my mum always asks me to e-mail her a shopping list so she can buy food we like to eat.

I think it's fine to have a low calorie day occasionally if you just don't feel like eating for whatever reason, just don't make a habit of it.