Eating around 800 cal a day

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  • Mizzylizzy
    Mizzylizzy Posts: 12 Member
    800 isnt too bad :/
  • frootbat31
    frootbat31 Posts: 6
    There's a concern of the starvation mode, which leads to losing valuable muscle when you diet. So when you gain weight back once you at 'normally' again, you gain even more fat...percentage-wise.
    There's also a huge concern over getting enough nutrition. 800 calories cannot possible give you all the needed vitamins and minerals, let alone enzymes and other stuff your body needs.
  • Pebble321
    Pebble321 Posts: 6,423 Member
    It's great that you recognized you need to eat more. I would suggest peanut butter, nuts, cheese and other calorie dense foods to up your cals without filling you up too much. If you eat salads and soups you can add a tablespoon of olive oil for an extra 120 cals. oh and dessert :drinker:

    Agreed, there are lots of calorie dense yet healthy foods that will get lots of good nutrition into your body to help you stay healthy.
    Besides the ones above, consider: brown rice, avocado, bananas, full fat yoghurt, dark chocolate (in moderation!), oatmeal with full cream milk... and lots more.

    It might help to look at the foods you are already eating, you can probably substitute a better option for some things - full cream yoghurt instead of fat free for example, olive oil dressing instead of fat free. It might seem like these aren't "diet" foods, but its a good idea to focus on healthy calories to give you energy instead of cutting calories at any expense.
  • JMVice
    JMVice Posts: 6
    Try a spoonful of peanut butter for additional calories...delicious plus you get protein!
  • CraftMamaDee
    CraftMamaDee Posts: 13 Member
    .. oops for some reason this showed up in newer posts or something.. nevermind
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  • paulawatkins1974
    paulawatkins1974 Posts: 720 Member
    uh oh!
  • darkangel45422
    darkangel45422 Posts: 234 Member
    Thread reported. Goodbye.


    ....Why would you report a thread about someone asking for tips and suggestions about increasing her calorie intake from 800 a day and getting advice about why she maybe shouldn't do that?
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    Thread was started two and half years ago.
  • tracydr
    tracydr Posts: 528 Member
    Lack of appetite is a sign of a slowed metabolism. Are you still losing weight? Is that your goal? Try taking it up to 1,000 daily and see what happens.

    I give up.

    More like take it up to 1800-2000 and watch the weight drop.
    Restart your metabolism!

    Its like wrapping a belt around your chest so you can only get half the air you need to breathe!

    Eating below your basal rate is starving your body!
    Eat and eat more!
    Even if its a couple empty calories.

    EAT!!!!!
    I would never lose at 1800-2000 calories unless I started working out excessively, which I can't do. ( joint disease and very bad neck) MFP calculates that I will lose 1/2 pound a week at 1200 calories and it seems to be dead-on. I do eat back my exercise calories.
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    Okay thanks so much to everyone who answered! I've decided to try and up my intake even if I feel like I'm forcing myself. I'm doing this to be healthy and the last thing I want to do is damage it! I'm just going to start with adding almonds to my diet to get the calories up without filling myself up to much. If anyone has any suggestions as to what I could eat that would be great but once again thanks everyone! And thanks for not being so judgmental or confrontational too :)

    :drinker: Nuts are a great way to get extra calories and healthy fats in when you're low on calories. It doesn't take a lot to get a significant calorie boost from nuts, so you don't have to feel like you're stuffing yourself when you're not hungry.

    LOL, zombie thread!!!
  • sdefranc
    sdefranc Posts: 30 Member
    7 years ago, I was on a 800 calorie diet through high school in order to lose weight fast. I ended up DESTROYING my thyroid and reproductive system.

    It isn't worth it. Up your calorie intake, eat higher calorie/higher protein foods.

    Same thing was happening to me.... after a while started getting lots of hypothyroidism symptoms without realising what they were, then mineral deficiencies, and to add injury to insult, stopped losing weight as well as my metabolism came to a halt.

    So not only isn't it worth it, it doesn't work... perhaps you'll lose weight in the beginning, even for a number of months and feel ok for a while, but sooner or later you will HAVE to go back to a higher calorie intake, and when you do, expect all those losses to reverse themselves pretty quickly.
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