1200 calorie diet buddies wanted!

Hey Megan, im Naomi. Im also on a 1200 calorie diet! I want to loose just over a stone before Christmas so I would love for us to help and support each other to reach our goals! Feel free to add me, looking forward to hearing from you! We can do this x

Hey, I am on 1200 calls to. Today I had 2 apples for breakfast, homemade ham sandwich with white bread (oops) and low far spread for lunch and pork and veg casserole with brown rice for dinner plus lots of peppermint tea. Came in at less than 1000 calls and no hunger. I would normally have more but mega busy day at work. Plenty of white meat, veg and switch rice and pasta to brown is what I do x

Feel free to add me I have been doing well with 1200 calories a day. You ha e to eat healthy food though, if you are packing in tons of veggies and protein it's not hard to stay at 1200 calories a day

So true, kerndog87 Cidalia1173' it sounds like you are totally aware of what you need to do to once you hit your goal weight.

I was thinking back at some of the things that happened when I first started eating correctly to lose weight by creating a deficit.

People asked if I was on a "diet".
I don't like the word "diet"; it sounds dreadful, like you are ordered to walk the plank!

I never used the word. I told myself and others, only if they asked, that I was eating properly and setting up a healthy eating plan to lose weight and later maintain my goal weight.

I felt like most people were at the very least "skeptical" and who could blame them! Food is everywhere we look, anytime we want it. I think I read yesterday that 67% or more Americans are either overweight or obese, could be more!

I was able to do it and it was a terrific feeling. It is not hard to do if you are eating great food throughout the day.

It is a mindset. I think the people who have learned to eat correctly know this. I admire them; they don't use food for comfort, they don't live to eat their next meal or snack. They eat to live.

That's what we have to do and we can!

Susan

I dropped a pound and went to deduct it to from my goal weight but I had already subtracted it

1200 calories a day here. Feel free to add me as a friend!

I'm not perfect on my diet every day, usually at the most I go up to 1400-1500 calories though. Gotta stick to strict diets, I don't give myself a lot of choice in what I eat. Food is fuel, not pleasure!

edptanner wrote: »

Are y'all having better success if you stick to 1200 calories no mater how much you exercise? In the past I have been exercising just so I could eat more, but I am not seeing much progress with the scale going down. In order to lose 2 pounds a week I should only eat 800-900 calories, which is completely not desirable. In fact MFP won't even close the log for the day at that level. So I have had to settle for 1 pound a week and 1200 calories. I'm looking for ways to make better progress. My maintenance amount is 1400 - 1500 so if I go over 1200 even by a little, I thwart my chances. I'm having a hard time with such a tight margin.

I only estimate about half of the calories that I probably burn on the non-cardio exercises I've been doing (Beast Body and T25) and I've seen steady progress at about 3 pounds a month of loss for 5 months. I'm 7# from my goal weight and I'm still losing pretty steadily. If I don't know how to figure the calories for an exercise I put in 98 calories. I eat all of that back. I also eat all my cardio but if I run 24 min at 5.2 mph I put in 200 (a third less than my treadmill gives me but very close to my Polar HRM).

raqueldoolittle wrote: »

I would really like to be a part of this group, I can't seem to stay within 1200 beyond one day - I need ideas. I am trying not to "eat" the calories I earn, but I find its hard not needing more food on days I workout - please add me

Drink lots of water... SUPER important. also Peppermint tea will help settle the stomach. You just have to get use to the smaller portions and types of foods you have to eat to stay under it. It's all in the head.

I did 1200 for 6 months and lost 28 pounds. I'm petite, however, and ate back about half of my exercise calories. My maintenance is only 1410, so I still have to make mostly good decisions (80/20...ish).

Feel free to add.

1200 dieter here! Anyone feel free to add as it's day 8 today and it's a little lonely