Not hitting my calorie intake mark...by a lot. Help??

MissKtana
MissKtana Posts: 4 Member
in Food and Nutrition
So, I've been working on losing weight and toning myself back to a point where I'm happy. I'm being fairly negligent about weighing myself as I feel I will know when I'm happy with my own form again. This being said, I'm not hitting my calorie target of 1690...Some days I'm not even hitting 1200. Yeah, I know. Bad. But I work out, I go for 3km walks at the slightest and I can't seem to get/keep an appetite. I snack on fruit, veggies (hummuuuuussss), protein shakes when I am hungry and am basically keeping a really healthy diet...except for the fact I'm not eating enough. I don't find myself overly lethargic throughout the day -or the next-, but I know eating 700-1000 calories in a day is kinda bad af. Especially in the long run.

Any hints, tips, help on what I should do?

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  • musicfan68
    musicfan68 Posts: 1,143 Member
    How are you calculating the number of calories? Cups, spoons, or food scale? My guess is that you maybe aren't accurately counting calories and eating more than you think, because if you are eating at that much of a deficit, you would be really hungry.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Peanut butter
  • MissKtana
    MissKtana Posts: 4 Member
    I've been weighing my food by grams. On things that only have cups or ounces as a measurement, I calculate how many grams to the cup/ounce and use that. I'm on 12 days so far and this isn't my first weight loss rodeo. (I gained a lot of weight when I moved from Canada to Europe because they have really amazing cheese and I kinda lost control for a while xD There were soooo many new ones that were really goood!).
    I'll check out that link, but I'm pretty sure I'm weighing and calculating correctly.
  • RadishEater
    RadishEater Posts: 470 Member
    MissKtana wrote: »
    I've been weighing my food by grams. On things that only have cups or ounces as a measurement, I calculate how many grams to the cup/ounce and use that. I'm on 12 days so far and this isn't my first weight loss rodeo. (I gained a lot of weight when I moved from Canada to Europe because they have really amazing cheese and I kinda lost control for a while xD There were soooo many new ones that were really goood!).
    I'll check out that link, but I'm pretty sure I'm weighing and calculating correctly.

    I understand that I lived in Switzerland for a summer and Gruyere cheese is so cheap there!!!! and amazing. Also the chocolate was amazing and cheap tasty wine. And the vending machine had Kinder chocolate and mini linzer tortes.....I ate a lot of food that summer, but I did a lot of hiking just not enough to balance the food.
  • kami3006
    kami3006 Posts: 4,979 Member
    Opening your diary for a bit will help with suggestions.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    MissKtana wrote: »
    So, I've been working on losing weight and toning myself back to a point where I'm happy. I'm being fairly negligent about weighing myself as I feel I will know when I'm happy with my own form again. This being said, I'm not hitting my calorie target of 1690...Some days I'm not even hitting 1200. Yeah, I know. Bad. But I work out, I go for 3km walks at the slightest and I can't seem to get/keep an appetite. I snack on fruit, veggies (hummuuuuussss), protein shakes when I am hungry and am basically keeping a really healthy diet...except for the fact I'm not eating enough. I don't find myself overly lethargic throughout the day -or the next-, but I know eating 700-1000 calories in a day is kinda bad af. Especially in the long run.

    Any hints, tips, help on what I should do?

    How long have you been at it? If it's been at least a month and preferably two, but you're not losing weight as expected, you're eating more that you think and need to tighten up your logging. (Don't take this personally - logging errors are very common.)

    If you are losing as expected over time, use calorie dense foods such as cheese, peanut butter, nuts, ice cream, etc., to hit your calorie goal.
  • MissKtana
    MissKtana Posts: 4 Member
    I haven't been gaining weight that I know of (as I said, I haven't been weighing myself. Mainly because I dont have a scale) but my muscles are toning back up nicely. Even when I look at my food entries it looks, for the most part, highly nutritious but very low on calories. In the 12 days I've been doing this steadily, I've noticed a drastic improvement health wise, but I'm simply not certain about weight. The last time I wweighed myself was well over 3 weeks ago and my friend insisted her scale is off by 10lbs. I know how I look and how I feel and I'm more concerned with that than with my how many lbs/kgs I'm at. Which may be throwing a lot of things off.
  • try2again
    try2again Posts: 3,562 Member
    MissKtana wrote: »
    I haven't been gaining weight that I know of (as I said, I haven't been weighing myself. Mainly because I dont have a scale) but my muscles are toning back up nicely. Even when I look at my food entries it looks, for the most part, highly nutritious but very low on calories. In the 12 days I've been doing this steadily, I've noticed a drastic improvement health wise, but I'm simply not certain about weight. The last time I wweighed myself was well over 3 weeks ago and my friend insisted her scale is off by 10lbs. I know how I look and how I feel and I'm more concerned with that than with my how many lbs/kgs I'm at. Which may be throwing a lot of things off.

    How you feel is not a reliable indicator of whether you are under-eating. Many feel fine- and in fact, are on a bit of a "dieters high" due to the quick results- until they don't feel fine, and by then the damage is done and can take weeks to recover from. Impossible to say where you are at with no scale data, but if you are confident you are logging accurately, make sure you at least get the 1200 and eat back some of your calories from intentional exercise. We all know how to get extra calories in or we wouldn't be here ;)

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