1200 calories...who's with me?

You can add me as a friend and look at my diary. I am on a 1200 a day calorie intake.

I am on 1200. My diary is friends only but you are welcome to add me. I am by no means perfect but it seems to be working. :happy:

Hello!! I am on the same intake!! I have found what works best for me is to portion each meal (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) to be as close to 400 calories as possible. That was those 3 meals equal 1200 calories... so, the exercise I do throughout the day is actually like working for snacks. So, the more you work out, the more yummy snacks you can have. This may not work for everyone, but it works GREAT for me. Good luck!

Oh, and if you want some meal ideas, add me and check out my diaries. So yummy. I never starve.

That is the number I have too. I stick with it mostly, but let myself enjoy some of the calories earned from exercise. I have found I plateau if I stick with 1200 too many days in a row. I definitely give myself one really bad cheat day once every 10-14 days. As for daily examples, I do Kellog's low fat nutrigrain waffles for breakfast, have a piece of fruit around 10 am, eat a frozen meal for lunch (usally a smart one), have some vegetables (baby carrots, celery stuffed with 1 triangle of light laughing cow cheese, tomatoes, etc.) and another piece of fruit in the afternoon, and then I eat almost whatever I want for dinner. I try to stick wtih a protein, more veggies, and more fruit. I know it can be boring, but eating different fruit and veggies helps. You can actually eat quite a bit if you keep out the bread, pasta, and rice. No one gets fat off fruit and veggies. Good luck!

Im 1200 calories a day too (sometimes i eat a few more - if exercising more, eg over 500calorie work out)

i eat for breakfast either
- 45grams of cereal with 250ml of skim milk
- 1 wholegrain english muffin with vegemite or lite peanut butter
- 250ml of skim milk, banana, 4-5 strawberries (optional) and 1 tbs of chocolate powder or a shake to give it flavour!

lunch i eat
- 4 premium crackers with 1 or 2 laughing cow cheeses, tomato and tuna with pepper & salt
- ham & salad sandwich on wholemeal bread
- brown rice (1/2 cup) small can of tuna, and small can of corn - mix it all together
(if im doing a big personal training exercise that night, i may have left overs, eg.. spaghetti bol or something with pasta

dinner
- 100gm of lean meat (porterhouse steak, chicken breast, salmon) with steamed cabbage, corn, zucchini and brocoli with a small bit of lite grated cheese on the greens, or 2 tbs of gravy (not many calories)
- small bowl of spaghetti bol or pasta with herb chicken (grilled)
- homemade chicken parmy (grilled chicken, with tomato paste and lite cheese under the grill
- bbq meats - with charcoaled vegetables
- a shake (if im out of time)
- bruscetta (tomato, basil, lite cheese - if need)
- quorn sheperds pie (vegetarian pie) only 200 calories per serve - normally i can only eat half at a time, so only 100 calories!
- roast chicken or pork with vegies

hope this helps. i know what you mean about getting bored, at the start i was too! motivation is what we need

It's pretty easy to stick to I reckon! (Well I'm used to it now so I find it's plenty of food!)

I tend to have three meals a day of 300 calories (or thereabouts) and around 300 calories worth of snacks (give or take). I never get bored - there's so much good food available! I'll usually have porridge, yogurt or an up & go for breakfast. Fruit, nuts, hummus or cappuccinos for a snack, sometimes dark chocolate. Lunch is generally a sandwich, wrap, microwave meal, or leftovers and dinner is whatever - usually a stir fry, pasta, curry, steak - generally have some meat and veges!

Good luck with it all!

That is a pretty common allotment for most of us starting out- I just Upped mine by 100 more calories since I'm ALMOST to my goal- but I'm still eating about the same things- just a little bit more.

ONE of the best ways to get some good ideas is to peruse people's diaries that they've opened to the public-
that's how I got some ideas for different types of snacks/breakfasts.

Nonfat plain yogurt sweetened w/ Truvia/vanilla, Light string cheese, Laughing Cow light cheese wedges ( in place of cheese/mayo on sandwiches) , Egg Beaters,
Light English muffins, Special K cracker chips, Fiber Plus bars are just some of the goodies I've adopted as my food stuffs.

You can still eat alot on 1200 calories. I've been doing that for 6 months, I can go up to 1470 as I'm now in maintainence mode, but I'm still eating about 1200/day. Keep your 3 meals about 300 calories, plus 2 snacks at 100-150 calories.

Good luck!! Friend me if you need a buddy! Then look at my food diary for ideas!


A few examples of what I eat:
B-fast is an Arnolds multi grain sandwich thin, toasted with a wedge of Laughing Cow cheese and 6 sliced strawberries-less than 200 cals
My mid-morning snack is Dannon Light & Fit Yogurt & either a piece of fruit or 100 calorie almonds
Lunch is salad with chicken (love Chick-fil-a!!)
Dinner is lean protein & veggies
Hope this helps!

i am on a 1200 net calorie diet that i have been trying to stick to. not because mfp told me to but because i feel that i have enough energy to get through the day with it and im not having problems with my runs. I normally have my breakfast 200-300 cals. A small lunch maybe a tin of tuna or something max of 200 cals. Then a big dinner between 600-700 cals.

My run each day tends to burn between 500-600 cals. This is normally the difference that i use for snacking but i make sure that i am keeping to healthy snacks and not overloading my body with crap.

I find it quite easy to keep my calories to a 1200 net when i am exercising however i dont think i could do it without the extra 500-600 that i earn from exercise each day.

I wish you luck!

I just joined, but I'm around 1200-1300