Can't reach at 1200 calories goal to lose weight

You were eating way more than 1,000 calories if you got to the point of needing to lose weight.

My guess is that you cut out too much fat...dietary fat is an essential macro nutrient and a very easy way to get in more calories.

You can eat anything you want to hit your calorie targets.

I also have 1200 calorie goal and think it would be very hard to eat much less especially exercising. Make sure you are weighing and logging accurately. I eat regular foods and very little low calorie foods with the exception of one zero calorie drink per day. I try to eat about 200-250 calories in the morning, 300-350 at lunch, 450-500 at dinner, 150-200 for snack, and if I exercise I have about 300 more I can use for something special. For breakfast I rotate eggs, French toast, hot and cold cereals, and smoothies mostly. Lunch I always have some protein and a reasonable side like soup or salad or fruit. For dinner I eat a 3-4 oz. portion of meat/poultry/fish, 1/2 cup carb side dish, and vegetables with butter. My snack depends on what macros I'm high on or short on during the day. You might want to screen print one of those 1000 calorie days and I'm sure lots of people can offer some more suggestions for you. Best of luck to you.

Personally I think the roti and curry are higher than that. How did you get to that figure?

12ka4 wrote: »

dwilliamca wrote: »

I also have 1200 calorie goal and think it would be very hard to eat much less especially exercising. Make sure you are weighing and logging accurately. I eat regular foods and very little low calorie foods with the exception of one zero calorie drink per day. I try to eat about 200-250 calories in the morning, 300-350 at lunch, 450-500 at dinner, 150-200 for snack, and if I exercise I have about 300 more I can use for something special. For breakfast I rotate eggs, French toast, hot and cold cereals, and smoothies mostly. Lunch I always have some protein and a reasonable side like soup or salad or fruit. For dinner I eat a 3-4 oz. portion of meat/poultry/fish, 1/2 cup carb side dish, and vegetables with butter. My snack depends on what macros I'm high on or short on during the day. You might want to screen print one of those 1000 calorie days and I'm sure lots of people can offer some more suggestions for you. Best of luck to you.

thx a lot
my diet is like
breakfast... brown bread 1 slice with 1 or 2sp unsalted butter + mil tea.... 230 cal
snack... greek yogurt or 1 apple.. 70-80cal
lunch... salad or veg fruit juice... 80-100 cal
dinner between 5-6 pm .... Indian Tortila (roti)+ any home made curry ... 300 -400 cal
7-8 pm ...milky tea ...80 cal
thats my almost regular routine ...

I'd be very surprised if you're not already at 1200, but you're just not calculating it correctly.

Breakfast -- Brown bread is easily at least 100 calories. Your milky tea on top of that would be 80, based on below, and butter is 110 per tablespoon. So that's already at 300.

What's the recipe for the curry, and what's in the roti? Because I'd be very surprised if any roti is less than 160 calories, depending on size, which leaves you 140 to 240 left for the curry -- which would either be a small portion of curry, or just plain not accurate.

Your apple, juice, and yoghurt are also likely higher than what you're calling it.

MoveitlikeManda wrote: »

also you should be weighing your food, not using spoons etc
even the greek yogurt needs to be weighed as every pot will never be the exact same therefore giving you different calories each time

I'm going to respectfully disagree here. Based on how the OP is calculating their food now, I think any method or measuring food (even using cups/spoons) would probably make a noticeable difference. I'm not sure it's necessary for this OP to jump right to weighing individual pots of yogurt; I think that might be overkill and could be more discouraging in this case.

OP: If you are interested in learning how to use a food scale, great! It's a wonderful tool. However, if that sounds intimidating, don't worry. You can start with measuring cups and spoons, and by logging every food item into MFP separately. That might be a good place to start for you.

12ka4 wrote: »

main reason is its genetic in our family and 2nd is

You can't gain weight because of your genes though. If you have excess weight, it's because at some point you were consistently eating more than your body could use.

That said, before you determine you're eating too little now, I would focus on accurately logging. If you aren't hungry while you think you're eating that little, it's possible that you are eating more than you think you are.

12ka4 wrote: »

yes you are right ... i ate bad things too ..but i wanted to say that we gain weight quickly like in days and difficult to lose ...

It's not eating "bad things," it's eating more of *anything* than your body is using.