Hard time consuming 1200 calories

I really don't know what you want to hear. You just have to eat more calories. Period.

Try more calorie-dense foods like avocados, nuts, chocolate, peanut butter, etc.

Try incorporating more high calorie healthy fats. When Im way under...I go for almonds, peanut butter, trail mix... That kind of thing.

Yeah you really do or else weight loss will stall.

But let me ask you, why aren't you feeling hungry? wondering about an underlying issue? could be anything from tiredness, feeling low emotionally, bored....you name it, many thing that make other over eat will make others feel less hungy>

Just something to consider.

Cook with a little olive oil when you sautee foods, 1 table spoon is about 120 calories and is good for digestion - and a healthy fat.

eat a baked potato with sour cream & butter - 400 calories easy. cheese adds at least 100 cals to any burger or sandwich and mayonnaise doubles that. smoothies don't require much appetite & are calorie dense. Milkshakes, ice cream. if all else fails, try protein powders

You may need to add a protein shake into your daily diet. This will give you protein and healthy calories. Check out Dashing Dish website for some great variations for protein shakes. My hubby will have one in the afternoon and then one before bed if he needs more calorie intake.

Also as others have said - peanut butter, almonds, cottage cheese, greek yogurt will give you lots of protein which your body needs if you are eating less than you work off and good healthy calories.

There's about a million threads on this so try the search function and read up.

I honestly think this is a mental issue rather than a physical disability to eat that many calories. You are in a learning process and part of that process is learning how to eat enough calories (which for you should probably be more than 1200 if you are exercising at all).

You need to eat healthy fat and it's okay to get some sugar in the form of fruit.

Bump your calories up by adding avocado to your wraps and sandwiches, eat peanut butter (I don't know why everyone thinks peanut butter is a taboo food!), snack on nuts - snacking is not always a bad thing!!!!, drink fresh fruit juice, drink milk - are you getting your recommended 3 serves of dairy a day? You should be! Your bones want and crave it!!!, drizzle olive oil on your salads...

Guess my issue really is, I don't know what is considered "Healthy" high calories lol. Does that make sense? I'm afraid if it is high in calorie then I'm going to blow my diet.

Honestly, you're going to blow your diet if you continue to not net enough.

Get to the 1200 but don't eat carbs and some of the other stuff mentioned.

Eat protein rich foods that will help you lose weight and build lean muscle.

Even if its via a protein shake - no more than 200 calories and a min of 25grams of protein or a protein bar - again max of 200 calories and a min of 17 grams of protein.

You can do it!!!

I've went on a complete health nut way of life. I've take sugar out of my diet all together, I do however do splenda or other forms of no calorie sweeteners.

My issue is now that I've stopped frying foods, stopped eating out, and went healthy, I have a hard time reaching my 1200 calories a day. I usually consume 800 sometimes 1000 calories, I really try to eat at least 1000. I burn more then I eat and I know that is not a good thing. How can I work on consuming what I need to eat a healthy amount of calories?

Let me add this.. I don't have much of an appetite, I normally have to force myself to eat anything, I do have 4 small meals a day but it's hardly ever over 1000 unless we go out.

I would first suggest you prepare all your food in advance. I cook all my meat on Sunday, I grill 9 to 10 chicken breasts, and I make a breakfast egg meat dish that is baked I will cut and paste the recipe to you also.

You need to eat (whether you want to or not) 5 to 6 times a day. Go to a Max Muscle Store and buy High 5 Protein if you can and do 3 shakes a day with Almond Silk Milk. The High 5 Protein is great do to the way it absorbs into the system over a two hour period which helps set your insulin levels a big key to fat burning.

Due to fasting all 8 hours of sleep your most important meal is Breakfast

Your eating clock starts with your first meal so here is an example:
7:00am Protein Shake & 1/2 cup of Oatmeal
10:00am Protein Shake
12:00pm Two Packs of Tuna over lettuce and a lowfat dressing
3:00pm Protein Shake - & 6 Pitted Dates
6:00pm 4 oz of Chicken, Steak or Fish (your Choice) 8 oz your favorite veggies
9:00pm Protein - Right before bed so your metabolism will be working while you sleep
Plus work up to getting your water up to at least 100 oz a day.

This will not only hel you burn fat but it gives it a way out of the body and helps your liver clean up.

Hope that help.
Proper Preperation Prevents Poor Performance!
You go girl!!!
Proud of you - Stick to it BE CONSISTANT - your body will take time to adjust.

You can not lose the weight if you do eat enough your body says "I will not burn anything, you are starving me!"

Lori :-) Hope that helps!

i just can't understand this at all- i eat very healthy and 1200 calories a day is hardly any food! ??? i wish i had this problem.

If you're not hungry and most of your foods are nutrient dense with good proteins, healthy fats (olive oil, coconut oil, real butter not margarine, avocado, nuts) and a great variety of veggies then I wouldn't stress, listen to your body's hunger signals. Lean Cuisine would not be my personal first choice for nourishing my body, too processed. Fresh, whole foods that you cook yourself, maybe quick salads, better choices. 1200 is not some magic "one size fits all" number, it's a "let's cover our butt so we don't get sued if some 6ft person goes too low number". I'm 5'3" and if I counted calories my low number is not going to be the same as that of someone much taller.

If your weight loss has stalled then I can "maybe" see making yourself try eating more to shake things up but for the most part I think forcing ourselves to eat is counterproductive. Unhealthy thinking about food is the kind of thing that led to our weght problems in the first place.

I have the same problem, so good luck