SUPPORT NEEDED HERE PLZ ANYONE ELSE ON 1300 CALORIES

Hello...there are many many things you can do to eat healthy and feel full. One place to find really good meal and timing www.fit2fat2fit.com He has put menus for the past 40 weeks. they are printable and have really simple easy and normal things to eat. They are extremely healthy and taste awesome. AND you wont be hungry. It isnt a "diet" but a healthy way of eating for a Lifestyle! 30 lbs down in 3 mons and I am on 1200 calories.

I started out on 1300 calories and am now down to 1200. I plan out my meals in the morning so I know exactly what I can afford to snack on during the day to keep me from getting hungry. I work 40 hrs a week and go to the gym after work about 3-4 nights a week and every Saturday. I don't have a lot of time to cook so I use the crock pot A LOT. There are a lot of delicious low calorie crock pot recipes out there. I'm 24 and have lost 25 lbs in 2 months. I usually don't eat back the extra calories I get after working out (except when I go out to eat for special occasions or sometimes use the extra to have a drink with dinner!).

I'm on 1250 per day and week days thats enough weekends when I have a couple of glasses of wine & chocolate then I do go over and my exercise calories come into play.

Typical weekday is:

Breakfast - Slimfast shake (I can't face breakfast & a suggestion by my cousin to try this is working)
Lunch - either left overs from evening meal or a salad or homemade soup
Dinner - normally something with either pasta or rice, lots of veg and either chicken or fish. Keep red meats down to a minimum, mainly due to preference rather than a specific decision) or boiled new potatoes and maybe once a week a jacket potato. Also make casseroles with loads of veg.
Snacks - very rare I snack if I do its normally a piece of fruit or I may have a laughing cow light cheese triangle

Weekends I'll include things like homemade curry or lasagne something still healthy but more calorific.

I struggle to eat the calories some days and don't usually eat back exercise calories but reading some other posts yesterday it seems that eating them is better as MFP is based on losing weight from doing no exercise, yesterday after eating a cheese sandwich to get to my base calories. Its a tricky one. But good luck

Split it into 4, so that's about 300-350 calories each for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks.

breakfast - porridge/ oatmeal, eggs, slice toast with peanut butter, natural yoghurt with nuts/ berries
lunch - salad or soup
dinner - lean meat with loads of veg
snacks - fruit, cottage cheese on rice cakes, celery with humous, yoghurt

I'm on a 1,000 calorie per day limit for 1.5months now and have lost 15kgs through it. If there was such a thing as starvation mode. It hasn't hit my body yet.
I suggest having a good review at what you eat daily and substitute them with their low calorie counterpart.
I have very low calorie jelly to satisfy my sugar cravings, corn cakes and hummus instead of bread in the morning, tuna salad for lunch etc..... Foods that are low calorie but high in nutrional value would help stretch your calorie limit and not make you feel like you are starving yourself.

I am actually on a 1200 calorie diet on "non exercise" days, 1500 on "exercise" days. It's not easy but as I've been going along, it's gotten much easier! My typical diet is: For Breakfast, 4 egg whites and a slice of ezekiel bread, Lunch is typically a big salad with measured out couscous (for the carbs), 100 calorie steak, frozen corn (cooked), maybe some beets, cukes and 1 Tbsp of Balsamic Dressing. Dinner is typically a piece of protien (whatever I'm making that day), measured out, a veggie (fresh or frozen, NO cans), and some sort of measured carb. I also use New Whey Protein every day to help maintain muscle mass since muscle burns fat!

I also exercise 5 days a week, 3 with a trainer and two on my own.

Hope this helps!!

Hey eveyone my first week on 1300 calories and I've lost 7 pounds I no most of it is probably water weight but I'm still happy was just wondering if anyone else is on 1300 calories how is your weight loss going? And most importantly what type of things are you eating ? I'm finding it difficult to know what I should be eating and I've heard a lot about starvation mode and need some reasurrance that 1300 calories isn't starvation mode I am currently 179 pounds and would love to lose 50 pounds by august I am 21 years old and exercise 1 and a half hour 5 days a week any advice would be really really helpful need this weight off badly need support x

My trainer and I have talked about exercise and if you arent building muscle, you won't lose as quickly and it will be harder to keep it off. Be sure to be doing weight training as well.