Forcing yourself to eat

You should gradually increase it.. It's very important to start eating more in this case if you've always eaten that little. But don't suddenly stuff another 700 calories in your body. But try to gradually increase it with things that have some calories, but not necessarily fill you up. A drink such as milk or fruit juice easily packs 100 calories a glass, without immediately overstuffing you.

Try to gradually increase your foodintake with just 50 calories a day until you reach your goal. Be aware that the scale may show a weight increase at first, but after a few weeks your body will adjust and you'll start losing weight and inches!

Sometimes it's easier to get extra calories in in liquid form. Make a smoothie or something with whole milk (since you are trying to get more calories - whole would make more sense than skim). Or, you can make a "melty root beer float" out of diet root beer and heavy whipping cream.

The milk suggestion is a good one, or maybe something with peanut butter, some almonds and dried fruit, etc. On future days, though, I would really try to focus on spacing out the calories more, across the day. If you regularly get that few calories, you may set yourself up for a binge or just general bad choices, or just to feel tired and grouchy, etc.

I found myself in a similar situation. I've been eating 1300 calories a day for 15 months, losing weight at a slow and steady pace with an understanding of the calories involved in what I'm eating, and how many I used doing my daily exercise. I joined MFP when I added further exercise and knew I'd need to re-learn my calorie limits. Turned out that with the extra and the MFP way of working, I'd have to be snacking to eat back my exercise calories.

After over a year of limiting my calories to the point where I didn't snack, trying to get back into snacking was incredibly tough. I wasn't hungry at the right times, and when I did snack I ended up too full for my proper meals. Then, I had a day when I couldn't exercise and I realised I was really hungry not being able to snack. I'd adjusted to snacking properly. Now, my body seems to cope fine whether I'm snacking or not on a specific day. I still need to force it occasionally, but I've definitely adjusted.

your profile says you want to have a baby-- you're going to have to give the baby proper nutrition while you're pregnant, so this is good practice. It doesn't have to be about volume. You can make it about quality food that is calorie/nutrient dense. Your body is probably used to eating so little, but that doesn't make it healthy. Use the suggestions here and get those numbers up. I like to sip on a glass of naked juice in the morning-- it's a kind of thick fruit smoothie drink and it's 150 cals per 8 oz. I don't have to gorge myself on food to reach my calorie allowance.

So since i'm new to the recording everything you eat thing...I'm a little confused...

There are so many times when I'm at the 900 calorie mark, and i'm just not hungry anymore. Am I supposed to force myself to eat when I'm not hungry?

MFP says I should be consuming 1610 calories (more if I work out that day) but i just cant sit there and shove food in my mouth when i'm not feeling it.

It also takes me a long time to digest foods. It could takes me 4-6 hours (the longest time was 11 hours) to digest a meal when my husband is ready to eat again in an hour or so. I don't eat foods that are high in fat, so that isn't the issue - that's just always been the case. So that factors in to my not feeling like eating 1600 calories for the day.

When you were fat, you didn't feel like eating right or exercising, and neither did I.

That's irrelevant.
Yes, force yourself to eat.
Eat to goal. If you don't, you're engaging in a typical form of self-sabotage, and you will fail.
Don't let this happen!
Eat to goal every day.

Have you always been like this? Have you had a chat with your doctor?

Congragulations:flowerforyou: