How do you people stay at 1200 a day??

Check my diary out, I eat 1200 a day. Every once in a while I will go over by one or two calories, and if I do, I exercise to gain that back. I don't eat my exercise calories back that often.

It's easy once you get in the swing of it, you just have to change what and how you eat. I eat a lot healthier than I used to, drink a lot more water than I used to, work out and exercise more than I used to and I feel better than I've ever felt in my life.

You need to look up low calorie recipes, and healthy snacks and replace the high calorie foods with those Feel free to add me if you'd like, I'm starting up a blog soon with low calorie yet filling recipes, that are easy to make!

Hi, I have porridge with low fat milk, fruit, slivered almonds and a teaspoon of brown sugar for breakfast. Soup and bread for lunch. Homemade usually veggie and lentil. A snack of yoghurt and more fruit about 4 pm. Then just whatever I am cooking for the family for dinner. I rarely eat take away, and never eat pre packaged super market meals. This way I know what I am eating and I am not having the hidden fats and sugars. I live Australia and we do not have the pre packaged mentality that seems to be in US supermarkets, although we are catching up fast! I do not find that I am hungry, especially after my hearty breakfast. Just try and cook from scratch, then you are eating real food. Your body with thank you. Good luck!

I drink water, I eat lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, lots fruit, spinach, lean chicken breast......but somewhere, oh somewhere I throw in a potato or some ranch or something that adds up..... I also tend to get up at night and snack because I can't sleep...THAT is what usually throws me wayyyyyyyyyyyyy over.....

Thank you all for responding....I just feel whiney today and am not seeing any progress and it gets frustrating....

Thank you though for your thoughts....I will take them to heart and keep them in mind and get to moving more.

Maybe you need to sort out this sleep issue as like you said the snacking at night is probably the reason why not losing. Perhaps a doctor can prescribe something or some natural products may help to get a good night's sleep.

There's a great book called Volumetrics. It focuses on eating large amounts of lower calorie foods until you are full (salad, soup, etc...) It is a great concept: choose low calorie foods, and eat essentially as much of them as you want! There are some great recipes in it to get started, too! I highly recommend checking it out, it has been quite helpful for me!

Don't worry too much about the 1200 mark either. Everybody is different...different bodies need different calories! You can always start slowly too...start at 1800, once that is comfortable, try 1500, and work your way down. Keep up the good work!!!

Edit: Ooops, looks like I posted this a bit late! Encouragement!! Support!! You're definitely not alone.!

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I have a few questions.

Why are you eating only 1200 calories?
Did you enter your age, height and weight into the program?
Because it will tell you how many calories you should be eating.

I notice you wrote that you are eating RANCH dressing. For the love of God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Check out the calories on there. And REALLY measure the amount you are using. You are probably using a ton more than you think.

A word of advice: Enter your age, weight, and height into the system and let the suystem determine how much you should be eating.
WEIGH and MEASURE everything you eat. Make better choices than RANCH dressing.
Look at my profile. I eat around 1500-1600 a day. And I eat PLENTY of snacks. And I have been decently successful.

I was like you ....how do people say they can't eat 1200 a day. Then I had a friend who is a personal trainer look at what I was eating. She said I wasn't eating enough protein. When I started eating between 59-70 grams of protein (which is my daily recommended amount) filling up on veggis and drinking all of my water I now sometimes have a hard time eating 1200 calories a day.

Also, if you have never read it pick up the book by Dr. Oz called YOU ON A DIET. It's a very easy read and helps you to understand what can help you stay full and how to eat. It really has helped me eat better. I follow that book to the T.

The idea of only eating 1200 calories makes me want to jump off a bridge. I have mine set to lose 1/2 a pound per week so that gives me a base of 1390 and then I eat back all my exercise calories (usually between 500-600 calories)

I eat roughly 1750 calories /day. Mainly Protein then fat then carbs.

Reduce your carbs and eat more lean protein. Drink lots of water/green tea. Welcome to look at my diet plan. I stay within the range and never get hungry. I could probably take the 2 meals i eat and break them down into 4. Sometimes I exceed my 1200, but not much.

I burn 900 calories every single day during my workout. And I workout 7 days per week, so I get good amount of calorie deficit.