Can't reach at 1200 calories goal to lose weight

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 ...

How are you measuring/calculating the calories in your curry?

12ka4 wrote: »

How are you measuring/calculating the calories in your curry?

m using MFP

Okay - but HOW. Are you eyeballing your portion, are you using a food scale, are you using a measuring cup? How do you determine how much you are eating?

Also if you made it are you using the recipe builder or are you picking someone else's homemade entry or are you picking a generic entry?

A single tortilla in my cupboard (much thinner than naan) is 200kcal. Id like to have the recipie for this curry if its really that low

For the Greek Yogurt you are eating, is this a prepackaged size and it's plain? Where I shop, we don't have any Greek Yogurt that is 80 calories. Unless you buy the big containers and are measuring out a smaller portion of it? Just curious how you are getting 80 calorie Greek yogurt and not weighing it out.

12ka4 wrote: »

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 ...

Curious, what is in that salad, just some lettuce and cucumbers or something? A couple of tablespoons of salad dressing alone could be that many calories. Add some. Throw some nuts and cheese on that puppy as well. Or some cooked quinoa. Put some kind of nut butter on the brown bread. Eat larger portions of the yogurt...

daisyfields79 wrote: »

I'm surprised at some of the comments here, saying she is not doing her calculations properly. Someone said bread is at least 100 calories a slice, my bread is 75 calories in 1 slice. Some people use a full tbs of butter but I only use 1/4 per slice of bread so her butter may not be the same as yours. My Greek yogurt is 35 calories in 100g and it took me time to find that because most are 80+. Milky tea, mine is only 14 calories, unless we measure and calculate how much milk someone puts in their tea, we can not say oh your tea is at least 80 calories. We all live in different areas of the world and our food is made different, so we can't say how many calories are what someone else is eating unless they tell you.

I think the problem was/is that the OP was just not very clear on how she's coming up with those calorie counts for her food. It's important to ascertain whether the person actually methodically checked it out or did they assume. I think for many "old timers" on this board, they have seen so many instances of people just grabbing something out of the database and think it fits what they are eating.

The OP here was looking for some advice and gave out details of her daily food. I don't think anyone is trying to be hard, critical, mean or anything but it's REALLY hard to tell how accurate she is being and that does make a difference when giving the right advice.

My Greek yogurt was a question to use for example. She cites 80 calories for Greek yogurt. I just wanted to know how she's coming up with that? Most people in my world don't make their own yogurt so I asked if she's buying that somewhere, measuring out a small amount of storebought plain yogurt, or if she's making it.

The bread and butter thing was also just very vague.

I'm confused by some of the things the OP has said so I will just say this: First, tighten up your logging by weighing and trying to get more accurate on what you're eating. The Roti and Curry to me seems incredibly low especially.

Secondly, you didn't get here because you're physically incapable of eating more than 1,000 calories. If you're doing s good job estimating your calories consumed and burned you should be able to eat everything MFP gives you plus your exercise calories and still meet the goals you set on MFP. Add back some of the things you like in moderation if you want to.

If you do that for a month and aren't seeing results you want them re evaluate.

mywayroche wrote: »

Oh and a heads up. Flour and water isnt a health food, its paper mache paste

That's a rather mean thing to say. Flour tortillas are made of only flour and water. So are a lot of Indian grilled breads. I don't see how to make these breads low cal though. 31 grams of unbleached white flour (1/4 cup) is about how much would make a tiny serving of bread, for 110 calories.

I'll try to remember to post my curry recipe in the recipe section on Monday, when I'm not on my phone.

@12ka4 nice to hear that the scale is moving in the right direction but it's a little steep. You really should be eating more daily. You don't want to lose your hair for instance from not enough protein. Someone mentioned eating beans. Or I suggest lentils. Add a little oil to your bread. Have two slices of bread for breakfast.

If you can't reach 1,200, there's always wine.