3 small healthy meals = 1200 calories

if your use to eating healthy portions- a caloric intake that low just might do you more bad than good. Since food tends to be the main issue here as far as what keeps us from losing weight so easily, I would have to say, unless you have alot of willpower, try to decline ur caloric intake, slowly. because if you go form ur usual eating habits to 1200/day, chances are you'll be so hungry, you'll cave and eat the first delicious thing you see.
let me give you and example. For breakfast this morning, I had tea with honey, 1cup of cereal with fat free milk and an apple. I've already consumed about 350 calories. on a 1200 a day diet, that would leave you about 850 calories for the rest of the day. but since this breakfast make me full and I feel fine, I'm okay. but if ur the kind of person who prefers to have a nice muffin and may some coffee for breakfast- you'll consume about 600 calories-and ur poor day hasn't even begun! so I would say the choice is yours, but please consider the reality of it, before you decide on such a drastic change in ur daily diet

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I am allowed 1360.... I have a pretty good sized breakfast and lunch and a small dinner with 2 snacks (sometimes 3 if I am under) and do pretty well. I am not losing a huge amount of weight at once, only 1-2 pounds a week, and am okay with that.

Remember that 1200 calories is final count...after excercise. So remember to eat some extra healthy calories to compensate for your workout.

I thought I would not be able to do it....I too have a "good" breakfast. It goes a long way for me. I miss breakfast I am running on empty the rest of the day.

I was just curious how many people follow a 3 sm meal =1200 calories a day diet. If so how long have you been doing it for. Has it worked well to loose weight? Could you follow this as a life change? Apparently it's healthy to live on a calorie restrickted diet but I'm not sure how many calories.

3 meals totaling 300 each

snacks 150 each

totals 1200 calories a day

You wont stick to 1200 for life. That is a calorie deficit. When you reach your goal weight, you start eating more.

Switch your current weight and current goal real quick to your goal weight and you'll see how many calories you'll be eating once you reach your goal weight. It moves up gradually as you get closer.

Thats funny that you said that because in one of my fitness magazines someone wrote in asking that since they lost all there weight if they could now increase the amount of calories they are eating daily and they were told NO because they would end up gaining since there body was used to eating the calories to maintain the weight loss at that weight and eating more calories would have them gain it

I think you are speaking also about the "Calorie Restriction" movement that is followed to extend life - I've read up on it, and Oprah did a show recently on it. The man on the show was 5'9" and weighed around 140 lbs, and ate around 1900 calories daily. The woman did not tell her weight (but she was SKIN-ny!) and she ate around 1700 calories a day. Both of those are obviously quite a bit lower than their maintenance weight calories!
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I read about it too but they were very healthy- and have been doing it for quite sometime.