Eating all my calories is hard!

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  • Shweedog
    Shweedog Posts: 883 Member
    Eat more calorie dense foods. Instead of the egg white eat the whole damn egg. Instead of light cheese have a normal piece. Instead of skim milk drink 2%. Your diary is private so I am unsure as to what you are eating but if you are having trouble getting your calories in then you probably don't need to be cutting them in the first place (unless of course you are on this site to be "healthier" as opposed to "skinnier"). Good luck!
  • Bobby_Clerici
    Bobby_Clerici Posts: 1,828 Member
    I think if you are eating when you are not hungry, then you are crazy. Do not eat more than your body is telling you to. You will not go into "starvation mode." Trust me, you will know "starvation mode" when it happens. It is not something you want to experience. You will have NO energy. As long as you have energy, you are good. Only eat as much as you're hungry for.
    ^^^^^
    That's just the kind of thinking that got me fat - eating what I was hungry for.
    No, set a goal and just stick to it without excuse or complaint.
    Simple deal.
  • Smuterella
    Smuterella Posts: 1,623 Member
    Eat more calorie dense foods. Instead of the egg white eat the whole damn egg. Instead of light cheese have a normal piece. Instead of skim milk drink 2%. Your diary is private so I am unsure as to what you are eating but if you are having trouble getting your calories in then you probably don't need to be cutting them in the first place (unless of course you are on this site to be "healthier" as opposed to "skinnier"). Good luck!

    this. no need to choose the fat free / low fat options if you have the calories for them. Fat is good.
  • bathsheba_c
    bathsheba_c Posts: 1,873 Member
    Girl, pick up a spoon and peanut butter jar and start scoopin'. Or eat some nuts, avocado or cook food in evoo. Or get a protein shake like muscle milk which is 300 calories per two scoops.

    I used to love peanut butter but then i read somewhere that almost every jar has some rodent hair in it and it totally put me off it!! I got some whey protien so i might start using that, i just really dont like the taste of it much! lol

    Just about *EVERY* commercially produced food product has traces of rodent hair/feces, insect parts, etc. Check out the FDA's website for the list of "acceptable" contaminants -- althought reading through that just make make it even more difficult to eat.

    http://www.fda.gov/food/guidancecomplianceregulatoryinformation/guidancedocuments/sanitation/ucm056174.htm

    If it's any consolation, you've been eating this stuff for YEARS with no ill effects... :smile:

    Is this the same here in the U.K.?
    It is almost certainly the same, if by the same you mean "contaminated below a certain acceptable threshold."
  • priyac1987
    priyac1987 Posts: 115 Member
    Thanks guys!
  • kittenmcgowan
    kittenmcgowan Posts: 83 Member
    I have, more than once, resorted to ice cream. Honestly, I don't know what to do. I eat (healthy, low meat, high veg, almost no carb) food, because that's what I LIKE eating, and it makes me feel healthy. More carbs and I bloat. More meat and I feel like I've eaten a lead weight.

    Of course these are discoveries made in the last 3 weeks since I started this adventure. But since then? Ugh. I'd rather be under and deal with THOSE consequences than feel like a lead-weighted bloat-machine when I'm trying to defeat my elliptical demons!
  • julialla
    julialla Posts: 232 Member

    I used to love peanut butter but then i read somewhere that almost every jar has some rodent hair in it and it totally put me off it!! I got some whey protien so i might start using that, i just really dont like the taste of it much! lol

    Oh WHY did you say that??? I love love love peanut butter. I hope I forget your comment by tomorrow! ;)
  • svepps
    svepps Posts: 2
    Thanks for sharing!
  • cherylfromboji
    cherylfromboji Posts: 9 Member
    I'm set at 1200 plus I do workout - so I post an additional 300-400 calories....but I'm always hungry....I lost about 10 lbs January-February and then haven't lost another ounce. So, do I eat more? I'm so confused.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    A lot of good suggestions already - peanut butter (around 190 calories in 2 tablespoons), almonds, avocados, protein shakes (the one I use is chocolate peanut butter flavor and has 280 calories, 52g of protein). Cottage cheese is another suggestion that I don't think has been mentioned yet. Even a couple tablespoons of olive oil on your salad/vegetables will pump up the calories without being a nutritional disaster.
  • BubbleGumKisses
    BubbleGumKisses Posts: 156 Member
    bump
  • AmyW4225
    AmyW4225 Posts: 302 Member

    I used to love peanut butter but then i read somewhere that almost every jar has some rodent hair in it and it totally put me off it!! I got some whey protien so i might start using that, i just really dont like the taste of it much! lol

    Oh WHY did you say that??? I love love love peanut butter. I hope I forget your comment by tomorrow! ;)

    Me too! :sad:
  • sydnisd183
    sydnisd183 Posts: 247 Member

    I used to love peanut butter but then i read somewhere that almost every jar has some rodent hair in it and it totally put me off it!! I got some whey protien so i might start using that, i just really dont like the taste of it much! lol

    Oh WHY did you say that??? I love love love peanut butter. I hope I forget your comment by tomorrow! ;)

    Me too, and I just bought a jar of sunflower butter, had a serving a couple days ago and really enjoyed it. Now, I don't want to touch it.

    ugh
  • LindaLou252
    LindaLou252 Posts: 106
    I always wonder why people who struggle to eat 1700 calories a day ended up on this website anyway...

    Amen sister!!
  • AsellusReborn
    AsellusReborn Posts: 1,112 Member
    To exercise and eat your calories back, im sorry but its practically impossible.

    After adding what i will have for Dinner here is what i have left after exercise..
    Totals 1,691 314 20 46
    Your Daily Goal 4,489 617 150 168
    Remaining 2,798 303 130 122
    Calories Carbs Fat Protein

    How is someone supposed to eat 4.489 calories???


    :o Wow! How much exercising are you doing to have that high of a daily goal?
  • astraldream
    astraldream Posts: 39 Member
    I walk the dogs for 45 mins. I then after tea walk to the baths which takes half an hour i swim for 90 mins then walk back.
    Its not as much as it seems really but it really adds up.

    Am i supposed to eat all those calories? How is that possible?
  • astraldream
    astraldream Posts: 39 Member
    bump
  • waldenlev
    waldenlev Posts: 102 Member
    I walk the dogs for 45 mins. I then after tea walk to the baths which takes half an hour i swim for 90 mins then walk back.
    Its not as much as it seems really but it really adds up.

    Anyone that takes tea and walks to the "baths" is cool in my book! On the calories front, how are you calculating the burn? Might your estimates be high? How are your results?
  • astraldream
    astraldream Posts: 39 Member
    I walk the dogs for 45 mins. I then after tea walk to the baths which takes half an hour i swim for 90 mins then walk back.
    Its not as much as it seems really but it really adds up.

    Anyone that takes tea and walks to the "baths" is cool in my book! On the calories front, how are you calculating the burn? Might your estimates be high? How are your results?

    MFP calculate the exercise, and come up with the calories. Is that what you mean? I am new to this site.
    Are you mocking my northern accent saying the baths?? :)

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