need help on what to eat.... 1200 calorie diet..

I like to browse the recipes at EatingWell.com for inspiration. They also have 1200 calorie meal planners that you could browse for ideas:

http://www.eatingwell.com/nutrition_health/weight_loss_diet_plans/diet_meal_plans/7_day_diet_meal_plan_to_lose_weight_1200_calories

Look on Hungry girls website. Lots of quick one person meals, with low calories.

Check into volumetrics diet, lots of tips to load up your plate without overloading the calories. This is great if you live alone because your less likely to snack if your full.

I like lean cuisines, salad, and soup for a quick by myself dinner.

Eating on 1200 cals can be easy (ish) I found that I immediately switched to eating foods that would fill me up or were so low cal that I could eat a lot of them so my diet went into lean protein and loads of vegetables and fruit. I also eat porridge pretty much every day and it will be a filling breakfast (I've also discovered you can add sugar free milkshake mix to add some flavour for no added calories). Mushroom omelettes are great and low cal (leave the yolk in - it's where the goodness lies) and tuna can become your best friend! I added a can of tuna to some 100cal soup today, a little sprinkle of curry powder and a delicious easy lunch for 245 cals that kept me full until dinner. I used to find that experimenting myself was the most fun and also taught me so much about how much of things I can have and the calorie value of them, so eating out now is pretty easy because I can gauge calories by looking at my plate.

p.s. Congrats on your loss so far - that's an amazing amount to lose! xx

I like to make a big meal that I can eat for the rest of the week. quinoa and garbonza bean salad, pre cut fruits for smoothies, chicken stir fry, premade rice (to mix beans or homemade curry into), just anything that you can spend a few hours one day cooking and then pull out whenever your hungry works great for living alone!

I'll second quinoa, it is good hot or cold and in salads. It is a complete protein which is good too. I like to squeeze fresh lemon juice onto it along with some pepper. Just steamed artichockes the other day and they took time to eat which made it an interesting change. Plus: they're in season right now!

Ellie Krieger has a great cookbook called "the food you crave" - you can get it on Amazon. The recipes are pretty easy, taste great, and work easily into a 1200 calorie diet. http://www.amazon.com/The-Food-You-Crave-Luscious/dp/1600850219

She is a registered dietician in addition to being a TV chef.

Try www.skinnytaste.com

The woman who owns the site gives you all of the nutritional info for each recipe, such as calories, fat, protein, and carbs, plus sodium and all of her recipes are Weight Watchers friendly. She even puts the WW Points and Points + values for each recipe. So far, every recipe I have tried has been delicious! I especially love the Skinny Chicken Enchiladas! They are all easy recipes to make, without requiring a bunch of hard to find, expensive ingredients.

This is my absolute favorite website. Great meals, they don't make a whole lot so you can finish it yourself through the week.

really great info here, thanks for posting...

http://swole.me/

If you are flexible, sucking on your toes is low cal

I also live alone and high recommend in investing in some nice tupperware (or glass storage-ware) so that you can freeze portions of low-cal/fat lasagna, stews, spaghetti sauce. soups, chicken, etc. I find that if I'm really tired and don't have the motivation to cook, I just pull out one of my ready-made dinners (that *I* made, so I know what's in it and it isn't loaded with salt) and nuke it. Also, since I portion it out for one person, it's ready to go and I don't have to measure!

Best of luck to you!

Just spent 15 minutes browsing eatingwell.com. Looks amazing! Can't wait to try these, and they have 7 day and 28 day plans on different calorie levels. Awesome!

BUY A BOX OF WHOLE GRAIN PASTA. I swear you can do so many things with it. These are my favorite brands - Barilla PLUS and Barilla Whole Grain. Up to 7 grams of fiber per serving and insanely filling and versatile. I use linguine and bow tie.

Linguine is good for asian-style dishes like teriyaki noodles with grilled chicken or shrimp. OR noodle soups. Some of my favorite recipes are also chicken & broccoli alfredo (there are low-calorie alfredo sauce recipes out there that are frighteningly similar to the real thing) and stir fry veggies with noodles.

Thanks for posting all these great websites. I will be looking into them today.