Not eating enough calories!!

Peanut butter

Looking at your diary you either have days where you haven't logged anything (or have logged, say, one cup of coffee) or days where you've hit or gone over your goal. I'm not seeing any 900 calorie days.

But if you are struggling to eat enough then you could add more condiments and sauces and stuff, eat more calorie-dense foods, or have bigger portions (or some combination of all 3). You gained the weight by eating too many calories, so just put back in some of the foods you used to eat.

I'm dealing with my sweet dog who's struggling with cancer right now, so I'm not eating my calories either. Peanut butter is a good way to get a few extra calories if you're short at the end of the night. I had an apple with peanut butter for dinner last night for an additional 357 calories.

How much are you losing per week?

Good advice isn't "slamming."

You need to stop fooling yourself. I'm sorry you feel like you are being slammed but no one here is going to blow smoke up your rear and tell you that you are one of those special people (that don't exist) who gets fat on air. People here actually want you to succeed and that means telling you the truth, even when the truth might hurt a little. You are not, no way no how, only eating 900 calories. Since you are not ready to hear and face the truth, you are not ready to lose weight.

The truth is. You are not being honest. You are not weighing and logging ALL of your food. Therefore you have no idea exactly how much you really are eating.

Now you can stomp your feet and complain and whine and decide that everyone here is mean and you can quit. Or you can listen to the advice of people who are having success and make changes and do the things people suggest and lose the weight.

Your choice.

I was just talking yesterday with a good friend about how we're conditioned to not offend people, so when someone is honest with us about the bonehead things we do, we take offense at it because we're used to "everyone gets a trophy!" kinds of treatment.

MFP is full of good, honest advice (and some bro-science and quasi-science you have to wade through) from people who've been where you've been. Try to listen with an open mind. 99.99% of anyone answering your questions is honestly here to help, though some people might approach the answers in a tough love/no nonsense kind of way.

The only way you became overweight is by consuming more calories than were needed. If you were 100 lbs overweight (and good job with your loss so far!) that means you know how to eat more than 900 calories per day. From the few things we've already learned about you, we can make fairly broad guesses as to your style when it comes to how you envision food and diets work. It sounds like you think to lose weight you have to eat all "healthy" "diet" "clean" food. You don't. You can eat exactly the same foods you ate to get 100 lbs overweight. You would just need to eat less of them.

Let's say it took you 5 years to gain 100 lbs. And let's say it takes 2800 calories per day to maintain your highest weight you were at. Science says you consumed about 3000 calories per day for 5 years. And now you're telling us you having a hard time eating more than 900 calories? This is why some people are telling you they don't believe you. You clearly know how to eat 3000 calories per day. We're not bashing you. I weighed 240 lbs. I lied to myself about food, too.

Give people's advice a chance before taking immediate offense at it, ok?

SergeantSausage wrote: »

"I eat low calorie + "I don't like eating snacks" + "I can't eat enough calories" = "I am of heavy weight"

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Does. Not. Compute.

Someone is in denial somewhere, right?

Right? lol

What did you do while you were gaining weight to be of "heavy weight" then?

Why would you make your meals smaller if you are having trouble making your calories?

Still wondering if you weigh/measure all your food.