Extra daily calories?

deenanna
deenanna Posts: 39
edited September 29 in Food and Nutrition
If I'm not all that hungry and I have a significant amount of calories left for the day, should I try to eat them? What's a good number of calories to have left at the end of the day?

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  • whisperingdragon
    whisperingdragon Posts: 334
    If I'm not hungry I don't eat them.
  • Gojira74
    Gojira74 Posts: 57 Member
    If you are over 1200 calories, then you can choose not to eat them. It might be a good idea to eat a little bit more with each meal to use some of those calories up. Calories don't all simply make you fat. They run your body, and you need a healthy body to have a thinner body.
  • jazzy1129
    jazzy1129 Posts: 39 Member
    You should take in a minimum of 1200 calories a day before exercise. I am lucky if I do that. Sometimes I find it hard to get in 900 but I think that is why I have such a difficult time losing weight. After so long of staying under 1200, your body will go into starvation mode. Unfortunately that happens to me too often.
  • KourtneyP83
    KourtneyP83 Posts: 319
    As long as I am above 1200 and I'm not hungry I don't eat them. Sometimes I use a lot of my calories...sometimes I'm right at 1200.
  • ladyhawk00
    ladyhawk00 Posts: 2,457 Member
    If it's one day, don't worry about it too much, just try to plan better next time. If it's a frequent occurrence, you need to work at choosing more nutrient dense foods and perhaps eat more often throughout the day to ensure you're eating enough.

    May help to read these:

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/186814-some-mfp-basics

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/231636-the-eating-when-you-re-not-hungry-dilemma
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