Is my low calorie diet going to harm me?

sophiejboyle wrote: »

I am using scales to weigh my food, middlehaitch

Here are the last 3 days of my diary:
Wednesday (870)
Breakfast: 2 x weatabix biscuits, 60ml milk
Lunch: wholemeal tortilla, 1/4 pepper, handful watercress, 50g tikka flavoured turkey, spoonful of mayo
Dinner: wholgrain chicken flavoured rice, 1/4 of a pepper, 50g plain turkey
Snacks: grapes, go ahead yoghurt bar, nectarine

Thursday (943)
Breakfast: 2 x weatabix biscuits, 60ml milk, tangerine
Lunch: cup of wholewheat pasta, 50g crab meat, 1/4 pepper
Dinner: Cottage pie, cup of peas
Snacks: peach, tangerine

Today (1227)
Breakfast: 2 x weatabix biscuits, 60ml milk, peach
Lunch: wholemeal tortilla, 1/4 of a pepper, spoonful mayo, handful of lettuce, 50g tikka flavoured turkey
Dinner: cottage pie, cup of peas
Snaxks: tangerine, ginger nut granola bar, go ahead bar

Thanks for all the advice guys!

How the hell do you only manage 60ml of milk on 2 weetabix. You can soak up half a pint of the stuff in that!

You need to cut out the crappy processed snack bars and add in some more actual protein and fat. Instead of the "yoghurt" bar (hardly any yoghurt in it) have a full fat yoghurt. Instead of a "granola" bar, have a 30g portion of mixed fruit and nut. 1/4 pepper is not a portion of veg. A portion of chicken or turkey needs to be nearer 100g.

You're tall and young. Your body definitely needs more fuel than what you're giving it.

TavistockToad wrote: »

Yep, you're probably going to crash and burn pretty soon eating so little and doing 6 hours of exercise per week.

I got great results from low calorie crash diets.
MARVELOUS!

And then after 3 great weeks of progress, everything would crater.
You're here on MFP, so learn to log in foods and work the application to lose about 1 pound per week.
That's not too sexy, but I lost 110 total pounds here, so it adds up, and what great is that I am keeping the weight off.
It's safe, steady and lasting results.
Do what you want, but I'd be focused long-term - not stifling my metabolism with fleeting results.

Feed your body, help it to grow in the right way by getting in some exercise that is appropriately fueled then set yourself a reasonable caloric deficit below your TDEE once over time you establish roughly what your TDEE is through rigorous and careful tracking of your calories. At 20 years old frankly you are still developing, you do not have to and honestly should not at all calorically restrict down to 1200 calories, that is way to low. That is the diet of a toddler or a 90 year old 4'5'' sedentary woman, not the diet of a 20 year old woman who exercises. 1400 still too low most likely.

Eat more like 1800 for a while if you are exercising regularly, and track carefully...see what you weigh and more importantly how your clothes fit and how you measure in 3 months, most importantly see how you feel.

Losing weight shouldn't make you feel fatigued and weak and if you stick to 1200 a day that is where you will end up.