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jennydelgado09
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What does your 1200 calories a day look like?
Just want to get some ideas
Just want to get some ideas
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3 x 400 calorie meals or my wife sometimes has 2 larger meals and a milkshake0
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Sorry, i meant to say google "400 calorie meals"1
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[Regardless of calorie goal] I have ~same every day:
B'fast: oats/toast, coffee & fruit
Lunch: crunchy noodle and bean salad
Dinner: steamed veg & tofu
Dessert (every other day): ice cream &/or alcohol
Snacks: protein shake, fruit, nut butter on rice cakes
(+sugar-fee drinks, lollies, hot cocoa & tea)
Where:
Type of fruit/veg varies seasonally
Calories vary monthly
Proportion calorie/meal ~constant.
Macros are activity/mood-dependent, ranging from 40-60g fat, 60-120g protein & 100-160g carbs0 -
1200 looks like a crappy day of hunger to me. I wasn't able to keep it up. I can survive 1700 and lose about a pound a week. No need to white knuckle it.19
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My daily goal is 1290 and I don't remember the last time was ate that little. I have my Fitbit sync'd with MFP and I eat back about 1/2 - 3/4 of my exercise calories...typically eating between 14oo - 1600 daily. 1200 is just so little food I would NEVER be able to sustain that.
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I've just upped mine to 1300 (today refeed) generally keep to 1200, diary public. Not looking for criticism BTW each to their own6
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Working with a very low number such as 1200 calories means you will have to volume eat. Fill up on lots, I mean lots of veggies like broccoli, leafy greens, peppers, ect. It gives you little room for only lean protein like chicken breast. It's definitely doable, but can you sustain very long on only 1200?5
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Judging by your posted picture, OP I am going to go out on a limb and guess that 1200 is nowhere near where you need to be even to meet your most basic TDEE needs. You will wind up getting lightheaded frequently and generally feeling lethargic and miserable. I know many people are in a hurry to lose weight. I get it. Trust me I do, but burning yourself out and punishing your body is not the right way to go about things.7
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With my stats MFP gives me 1200 calories, 1380 when Fitbit exercise is added yipppppeeeeee. I can do 1200, BUT it's not much fun. So I track and log according to my burned calories on Fitbit and aim for the proper calorie deficit according to what I want to loose per week. It's much easier to maintain a calorie deficit of 200,500,750 or even 1000 than existing on 1200 a day. That just plain sucks
It won't be perfect, I don't expect it to be as long as the scale keep moving the right direction and I can stick to it!!! It seems whole lot easier for me than existing on celery and hope. Which is what 1200 calories gives you1 -
JustRobby1 wrote: »Judging by your posted picture, OP I am going to go out on a limb and guess that 1200 is nowhere near where you need to be even to meet your most basic TDEE needs. You will wind up getting lightheaded frequently and generally feeling lethargic and miserable. I know many people are in a hurry to lose weight. I get it. Trust me I do, but burning yourself out and punishing your body is not the right way to go about things.
I agree. But the pic is old lol. I just had a baby and been very inconsistent. So 1200 is what was calculated if i don't do anything. Which I'm trying to get back at it. And when i do I'll of course add 200-300 more calories2 -
jennydelgado09 wrote: »JustRobby1 wrote: »Judging by your posted picture, OP I am going to go out on a limb and guess that 1200 is nowhere near where you need to be even to meet your most basic TDEE needs. You will wind up getting lightheaded frequently and generally feeling lethargic and miserable. I know many people are in a hurry to lose weight. I get it. Trust me I do, but burning yourself out and punishing your body is not the right way to go about things.
I agree. But the pic is old lol. I just had a baby and been very inconsistent. So 1200 is what was calculated if i don't do anything. Which I'm trying to get back at it. And when i do I'll of course add 200-300 more calories
If you are breastfeeding, 1200 could jeopardize your milk supply.8 -
I've been doing 1200-1500 for the last 4 weeks since I started back on MFP and seeing good results. Getting in 10,000+ steps a day with my fitbit. I'm a walker. Typical day might be a protein shake with ground flax and a banana. Snacks thru the day. 1 oz air popped popcorn with seasoning. Fruit like peach or pear, Vegetarian chili for lunch, Taco salad for dinner and grilled zucchini for seconds. I make all my food and weighh and log it all. Recipe builder is a great tool for batch cooking.2
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Not that I always stick to it, but here's the way I divide up my 1200 calories per day:
Breakfast 730am: 200
Typically a smoothie or oatmeal with berries. Both options are filling and tasty.
Lunch 1pm: 400
I favor beans and vegetables for this meal, with a small thing for dessert (a fruit, or a cookie if there are any in the office).
Dinner 7pm: 600
I end up going out to dinner a lot, so the 600 calories gives me a chance to eat a reasonable amount of a restaurant dish.
For me, snacking on a 1200 calorie diet is totally counterproductive. It just leads to never being satisfied. If I don't snack, I have to wait longer for food, but at least I can count on getting full three times a day on food I really want to eat.5 -
I tend to do 250/250/700 so I can eat dinner with my fiancee. Usually some eggs/breakfast sandwich , a protein pack or some lunch meat and cheese for lunch and just meat and veggies for dinner with a small piece of 50 cal choc.1
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The last day I ate 1200 calories it went basically like this:
1) consume around 4k calories the day/night before
2) sleep until at LEAST noon
3) figure out how much of the three pounds I gained was water
4) grilled cheese sandwich and chips (655 calories)
5) normal dinner (545 calories)
I try and avoid 1200 calories days.9 -
Check out: www.reddit.com/r/1200isplenty2
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Breakfast-homemade veggie chili with 1 oz lean chicken added in : 240 cal
Coffee milk during day- 40 cal.
Lunch- mixed greens salad with 2 crushed almonds, 1 slice of mango, avacado (1/4), 10 raisins, 1 oz chicken and oil and vinegar. 270 cal
Snack- protein bar. 190-280 cal nibbled throughout the day- very filling. The bar depends on my calorie count.
Dinner- homemade tofu and chicken taco with 1 tsp homemade hummus, 1/4 avacado, 14 gm tofu cheese. 350 cal.
Protein shake with half a banana and blueberries 280 cal.
That gets me to about 1460 (with the higher cal protein bar) and I do cardio which burns 235 cal daily on the weekdays. I cut the protein bars or shake if no cardio.
That's a typical work day. On the weekends I often eat a different lunch and dinner. I've been eating that for years, and get variety on weekends and snacks. But then the protein bar or shake get cut from the day.
I'm 5'2", 62 yo, and lose about 1 1/2 pounds a month for the past 9 months. I'm close to switching to maintenance and will add 150-200 calories slowly. I'm not hungry on this, eat out with friends (half portion usually), and don't feel deprived.
I go over on the weekends by about 300-600 calories depending on the day and event and recognize that this might up my daily calories to 1300 if I averaged it out, but I also don't count walking calories, just dedicated cardio. I feel great and have tons of energy. You need to play with it.0 -
jennydelgado09 wrote: »JustRobby1 wrote: »Judging by your posted picture, OP I am going to go out on a limb and guess that 1200 is nowhere near where you need to be even to meet your most basic TDEE needs. You will wind up getting lightheaded frequently and generally feeling lethargic and miserable. I know many people are in a hurry to lose weight. I get it. Trust me I do, but burning yourself out and punishing your body is not the right way to go about things.
I agree. But the pic is old lol. I just had a baby and been very inconsistent. So 1200 is what was calculated if i don't do anything. Which I'm trying to get back at it. And when i do I'll of course add 200-300 more calories
1200 is a default minimum before exercise. So if you are sedentary AND very petite or elderly.....this goal is adequate. But if you chose a high weekly weight loss goal then MFP bottomed out at 1200 to accommodate that request.1 -
I have been doing 1200 calories since April, don't always make it, but most of the time I'm on target. I have my goals set up as 160 for Breakfast, 470 for Lunch, 250 for Dinner and then two Snacks of 160 each. I generally eat whatever I want, just less of it, but also try to stick to lean meats and lower carb options.
I also tend to wait as long as possible each day to start eating (usually at least noon, unless I'm just really really hungry). Just works better for me that way.0 -
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