weight loss and min calorie intake?

Is dinner the only meal you're eating?

I just started trying to loose weight.My goal is 109 pounds.I'm using the equate ultra loss shakes two times a day and a healthy-ish dinner.But truthfully I don't know much about this at all.I've been averaging less than 1100 calories a day doing this for the last week,when my goal is supposed to be 2130.My husband says this isn't exactly healthy.So my question is how much should you eat when trying to loose weight?I thought I was doing very good but I don't want to make myself sick either....

How much do you weigh at the moment?

Have you worked out your TDEE? try this - http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/tdee-calculator.html

Depending on your TDEE, 1100 may well be too low for you, as it seems a very aggressive defict. Anything over 30% is considered aggressive.

have a read of this

http://davfitfitnessforum.forumotion.com/t56-muscle-retaining-factor-1-severity-of-calorie-deficit-by-tom-venuto-a-trusted-friend

It's great to see that your husband is being supportive and worrying about you - there are often threads on here about unsupportive family.

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Is this a part of a plan you've talked to your doctor about? Because that doesn't sound very healthy. And that means you're getting all your calories from food at one meal in the evening.

Those shakes are the equivalent to Slim-fast, right? If so, Slim-fast says you should be eating minimum 1200 calories a day. You should have a shake for breakfast, a healthy snack, a shake for lunch, another healthy snack, dinner, and then a THIRD healthy snack.

Source: http://www.slim-fast.com/3-2-1plan/visitor-Plan.aspx

I just want to mention... I'm not a fan of Slim-fast's recommended snacks. When you're getting such a limited number of calories in the day, if you eat something high in protein (greek yogurt, nuts, cheese, milk, edamame, tuna salad, chicken, cottage cheese, etc...) it will help keep you feeling full longer.

The big problem when you eat under your BMR is that you may be losing muscle instead of fat. If you eat at your TDEE you will be just be maintaining your present weight so you should be eating at least 500 calories below that figure but staying above your BMR.

that TDEE thing is showing more than my min. calorie intake on myfitnesspal...?my fitness pal says it should be 2130 and the TDEE says 2549?

When they ask for your fitness level for the purpose of calculating your TDEE they are asking about your daily activity level as it relates to your job (ie if you sit at a desk all day you are burning less than a mailman or a salesclerk) not for the added exercise you are doing in conjunction with your diet.

I am absolutely not a fancy doctor or anything like that.

I do agree with your husband that you should eat more than just 1 meal a day of real food.

Eating only half of your recommended calories is not a great idea either. I assume this is the recommended amount calculated here on MFP? I personally eat all, or close to all, of the calories it is recommending I eat (1540) and am losing weight more rapidly than what I had entered (1.5 lbs/wk).

Also, if you eat only one meal of real food per day, it is probably a better idea to do it at breakfast than dinner. When you eat more calories earlier in the day it gives you more opportunity to burn them before sleeping. This is something I picked up from Harley Pasternak's 5 Factor fitness and diet.

I think overall the concern is that your metabolism will plummet, when you want to keep it high. There are posts like http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/3047-700-calories-a-day-and-not-losing linked to in a sticky'd newbies thread.

that TDEE thing is showing more than my min. calorie intake on myfitnesspal...?my fitness pal says it should be 2130 and the TDEE says 2549?

What did you set your weigh loss goal at - i.e. how many pounds per week?