LOOKING FOR FRIENDS WHO WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT BY FOOD ALONE

Eating under 1200 calories to lose weight is just not necessary.

It shouldn't be that hard. To eat that little you can't really fit in the foods you like or fit in a meal out with family.

Longer term that will make you quit as it not sustainable or make you binge.

You are also risking health issues as fitting in the bodies nutritional needs to that many calories is almost impossible.

Considering MFP lets you close your diary as long as you're over 1000, I don't think that's accurate.

Tshadee wrote: »

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »

Eating under 1200 calories to lose weight is just not necessary.

It shouldn't be that hard. To eat that little you can't really fit in the foods you like or fit in a meal out with family.

Longer term that will make you quit as it not sustainable or make you binge.

You are also risking health issues as fitting in the bodies nutritional needs to that many calories is almost impossible.

Remember our bodies are not the same. So my BMI put me on 1200... So I go slightly under for 4 days then extremely under for 3 days. With 2 peotein, 1 carb or starch, 2 fruit, 2 vegetables for 4 days. I eat lunch and dinner only.

Our bodies all work in the same way. It is simple science.

If you carry on like this you will either quit or become ill.

Your BMI didn't put you on anything. You chose how much weight to lose a week and MFP just applied the maths to this.
If you chose 0.5lb a week it minuses 250 calories. 1lb a week 500 calories and 2lb a week it will minus a whopping 1000 calories a day.
You've had that calculated to 1200 yet your trying to eat drastically even under that.

You really don't have to.

I'm with you on this ! I cannot exercise much due to being permanently disabled (distracted driver in SUV vs. Little old me on my bicycle). As well as the inactivity I am on four medications and each of them cause weight gain of 10-20lbs...so 40-80lbs. I gained 42lbs whilst bedridden which put me from the lower end of healthy BMI to 2lbs into the start of the Overweight BMI. Thank goodness I had been mindful and just naturally ate a lot less or it would have been worse. I am now mostly housebound but can move about easier, so I have since lost almost half of that (18lbs) putting me back into healthy BMI (barely) but I want to get back to being at least in the middle or lower half of the healthy range. Since I can only walk a little bit as exercise and even then it is something like 3miles/wk due to fatigue/injuries (grr! Today's massive exercise was yesterday's random stroll not even considered part of my exercise routine). So, it's gotta be adjusting my food that will do it. I figured this app will help me get accustomed to a right level of eating to accomplish that goal.