But I would have to add a HONEYBUN
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nicolepburgess91
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So, I'm finding it incredibly difficult to meet 1200 calories a day. I eat when I'm hungry and make healthy choices. I love oven roasted vegetables for lunch. And then I typically have a lean cuisine at night. I am pretty much sedentary except the occasional days of walking around the local town. I typically cap off my days around 900 calories. I refuse to eat 1 and a half hours before I go to sleep. I know I'm supposed to be at 1200, but I can't seem to reach it. I'm just not that hungry. And get this - I've been at the same weight for almost a month!! Tips and advice appreciated.
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Add oil to your roast veg.
And a spoonful of peanut butter as dessert12 -
My guess would be that you aren't logging everything or logging by volume. If you were really eating 900 calories every day for a month, you would have lost something. Are you using a food scale and weighing everything?
ETA: I just learned the other day that packaged food must contain 99% of the quantity listed on the label. Because this is hard to do, manufacturers most times will purposely go a bit over. I've seen it especially with baked goods, where the actual product is 20% larger than what the label suggests! It can seriously add up to someone consuming a lot more calories than they think they are.10 -
You could add a honeybun. I don't know what that is, but if it's something you like and it fits in your calorie/nutrition goals, why not eat it?3
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Tried30UserNames wrote: »You could add a honeybun. I don't know what that is, but if it's something you like and it fits in your calorie/nutrition goals, why not eat it?
Haha it was an exaggeration. It's like a giant breaded thing that's coated in gooey sugar. Totally not subjecting myself to that malarkey.1 -
nicolepburgess91 wrote: »Tried30UserNames wrote: »You could add a honeybun. I don't know what that is, but if it's something you like and it fits in your calorie/nutrition goals, why not eat it?
Haha it was an exaggeration. It's like a giant breaded thing that's coated in gooey sugar. Totally not subjecting myself to that malarkey.
Why not? Under eating is unhealthy. If a honeybun fits your cals and macros then it's not doing you any harm.29 -
For the most part I try to avoid things with ingredient lists this long:
enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, water, palm oil, vegetable shortening (soybean oil and palm oil with added mono- and diglycerides), yeast, contains 2% or less of each of the following: dextrose, salt, cornstarch, soy flour, monoglycerides, corn syrup, calcium carbonate, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda), datem, soy lecithin, soybean oil, dried honey, cinnamon, calcium sulfate, agar, colored with extracts of annatto and turmeric, titanium dioxide (for color), natural and artificial flavor, enzymes, azodicarbonamide, preserved with calcium propionate, sodium propionate, and potassium sorbate3 -
nicolepburgess91 wrote: »For the most part I try to avoid things with ingredient lists this long:
enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, water, palm oil, vegetable shortening (soybean oil and palm oil with added mono- and diglycerides), yeast, contains 2% or less of each of the following: dextrose, salt, cornstarch, soy flour, monoglycerides, corn syrup, calcium carbonate, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda), datem, soy lecithin, soybean oil, dried honey, cinnamon, calcium sulfate, agar, colored with extracts of annatto and turmeric, titanium dioxide (for color), natural and artificial flavor, enzymes, azodicarbonamide, preserved with calcium propionate, sodium propionate, and potassium sorbate
Because....?27 -
How did you gain the weight you are trying to lose?20
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Why do you refuse to eat one & half hours before bed? That makes no sense.21
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MelanieCN77 wrote: »How did you gain the weight you are trying to lose?
I have always been overweight. Since I was a kid.2 -
nicolepburgess91 wrote: »
Nope38 -
TavistockToad wrote: »nicolepburgess91 wrote: »For the most part I try to avoid things with ingredient lists this long:
enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, water, palm oil, vegetable shortening (soybean oil and palm oil with added mono- and diglycerides), yeast, contains 2% or less of each of the following: dextrose, salt, cornstarch, soy flour, monoglycerides, corn syrup, calcium carbonate, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda), datem, soy lecithin, soybean oil, dried honey, cinnamon, calcium sulfate, agar, colored with extracts of annatto and turmeric, titanium dioxide (for color), natural and artificial flavor, enzymes, azodicarbonamide, preserved with calcium propionate, sodium propionate, and potassium sorbate
Because....?
Because I prefer to eat as clean as possible. I'm not 100% into clean eating. But I would like to eat as clean as I can.1 -
nicolepburgess91 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »nicolepburgess91 wrote: »For the most part I try to avoid things with ingredient lists this long:
enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, water, palm oil, vegetable shortening (soybean oil and palm oil with added mono- and diglycerides), yeast, contains 2% or less of each of the following: dextrose, salt, cornstarch, soy flour, monoglycerides, corn syrup, calcium carbonate, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda), datem, soy lecithin, soybean oil, dried honey, cinnamon, calcium sulfate, agar, colored with extracts of annatto and turmeric, titanium dioxide (for color), natural and artificial flavor, enzymes, azodicarbonamide, preserved with calcium propionate, sodium propionate, and potassium sorbate
Because....?
Because I prefer to eat as clean as possible. I'm not 100% into clean eating. But I would like to eat as clean as I can.
Have you looked at the number of ingredients in your lean cuisine?66 -
nicolepburgess91 wrote: »So, I'm finding it incredibly difficult to meet 1200 calories a day. I eat when I'm hungry and make healthy choices. I love oven roasted vegetables for lunch. And then I typically have a lean cuisine at night.... I typically cap off my days around 900 calories.... I've been at the same weight for almost a month!!
Are you very lean and trying to hit an ultimate goal weight? If so, it's possible something wacky could be going on to explain the stall. If not, either you have a medical issue or else there's an issue with the logging.
If you really think there couldn't possibly be anything wrong with the logging, take your log to the doctor and explain what you have here.
If not, you probably are eating close to maintenance. We could check out the diary for ideas/suggestions if you opened it.1 -
Eating a well rounded diet that fulfills your nutritional needs and is maintainable long term is much more important than eating clean.
As said above, eating below your calorie level consistently is worse for your overall health than a pastry or bun.
Personally I love our locally made honey buns.
Cheers, h.14 -
Tried30UserNames wrote: »You could add a honeybun.
Like a cinnamon roll, I think, but less cinnamon-y.2 -
nicolepburgess91 wrote: »
That's just not true.13 -
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nicolepburgess91 wrote: »
That's just not true.
Well it's what I've always heard. It may be incorrect. But, I was under the impression it was true for a long time.0
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