Too full to meet minimum calorie requirements...

I just asked myself the same thing. I am sooo fully but I need to hit 1200.

I usually do smoothies too.. depending on how many calories I need, I may add peanut butter to it.

I'm in that boat tonight.. I was just at my calories for the day, then I went and burned 400 cals, and had to make it up.

I don't lose weight unless I try to eat back my exercise calories, so it's defiantly necessary for me.

Peanut butter or almonds/other nuts, as someone else suggested, are calorie dense foods but still not "junk". Or if you want a little sweet and don't mind the extra sugars, put some nutella in your smoothie or on a slice of toast.

I have heard that if you really aren't hungry, there is no need to eat. It's not so much how much you eat, but what you eat that is important...i.e....protein is better than simple carbs, even if they are the same calorie content.

It won't hurt to occasionally have your net calories under 1200, just don't make a habit of it. Otherwise your weight loss will slow down. I'm having that problem today...burned 1600 calories exercising. Can't possibly eat all that.

I agree with tappytaptap.
If you're full, don't eat. It's not like the food you ate today was the energy used for that exercise anyway. It takes time to break down the food you ate into calories, you know? You're really more likely burning the calories from yesterday or a few days ago anyhow. It's the whole basis of athletes who carb load the day before an event, and don't each as much the day of the event.

In fact I think I have caused myself some problems by overeating because I looked at my totals when not hungry in the slightest and said, "Ooh, 200 calories. I can totally eat a brownie!" Sometimes it's better to listen to one's body. As long as you are generally staying at the calorie goal norms, you'll be fine.

....But, I would recommend eating more earlier in the day on the days you know you're going to workout. THEN you're getting the calories you need and will still net 1200 calories with exercise.

This... This way also serves 2 purposes. If you eat, you HAVE to do the exercise. ;-)

I'm not concerned about finding calorie-dense foods--clearly I made a smoothie earlier--just about whether it's smarter to pass up on the remaining calories when you're full, or very important to eat them.

What do you "think" will happen if you eat more, compared to less?

Well, I either eat the 1200 goal, or am under it. It's not recommended to be under 1200 net cals/day, but I've also know that exercise speeds up your metabolism, which could potential balance out the lower calorie intake. I was hoping to hear from someone who had experienced the same issue, and had a results-based reply.

Thanks for supporting my point. All jokes a side.You shouldn't force feed yourself, that's how health people gained weight in the first place. If you're not hungry don't eat. The more you over eat, the more you're training yourself to over eat. Not a good thing.

As you said exercise speeds up your metabolism which is true. You think if you eat 1150 calories in one day, you're metabolism is going to slow down The entire starvation mode theory, is partially true and partially not true. The theory is, "if you reduce your calories to a low level you will lose muscle mass and slow down your metabolism and you'll stop losing weight."

What if I was eating 3000 calories and exercise, i stopped losing weight, so I reduce my calories to 2500... There will be a point I do lose muscle mass and my metabolism slows down and I stop getting results. This can happen at 5000 calories, or 500 calories, makes no difference. So I'll be in starvation mode eating 3000 calories? yeah right.

My general message is don't force feed yourself based on a "inaccurate" number.