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To anyone replying to the original post, this has pretty much been resolved now. Thanks for all the advice :)

Sounds tasty! I'll pick some up next time I'm shopping.

Please see the posts by 1ConcreteGirl! It may just be that you don't eat a great deal and your body is used to it so it tells you you are full but actually you aren't eating as much as your body actually requires. Maybe you shouldn't workout every single day if it makes eating back the calories too hard and you shouldn't…

I'm glad I made your day, haha. Thank you again. Consumed 1524/1664 cals today and I will definitely keep at it. :)

I honestly don't look at the calorie value of foods if I think it looks healthy and then when I put a meal together and it's only 350 cals or whatever, I'm like "oh ok". But I'm far over 1200 today and working to a higher calorie limit which suits me more thanks to the advice posted on this thread.

.... I'm sorry, what?

Alright, my mistake then, sorry for being on the defensive, haha. I think I have a better understanding now and I should be able to up my calories and get into better habits with practice and perseverance :)

Can I just say again: thanks! I had no idea that eating less makes you less hungry. I was told that if you should only eat when you're hungry or you're just eating out of boredom! I think since September I have probably been eating less (with the exception of most of December when I was with my family) since that's when I…

Haha, I'll surely have one but I don't love peanut butter enough to eat it three times in a day! :) This was all very interesting, thank you so much. I feel much more educated now :) Could you please give me those links?

I'm still paying for 2/3 years ago when my diet was ****e and I just didn't care about health or fitness and ate McDonald's like twice a week because it was convenient. I've been steadily losing (and gaining a little bit and losing again etc) for almost a year now. Calorie counting is relatively new to me but keeping a…

Apart from this Monday, I usually a long day on Monday (up at 6am, home by 7pm) and I usually end up buying quite a lot of food while I'm out, and it's much harder to resist a chocolate and flapjack binge when you're not in the comfort of your own home where you know exactly what you have in. I think I'm gonna have to…

I think I love food too much to get an eating disorder but thanks for the concern and I hope you have a healthy recovery. I'm having a snack now while my lunch is cooking. But yeah, I'll try and snack between my meals. Shouldn't really be that hard if try :)

I had bacon in an omelette yesterday. Maybe I should have had 3 or 4 slices instead. I consider bacon quite an unhealthy meat so I only had 2.

What would you eat the black beans and the lentils with, or would you eat them on their own? I'm not big on nuts so these could be easier for me to eat.

I absolutely love hummus! Quite angry at myself for forgetting to buy some when I was shopping. I wouldn't have thought to put it on a sandwich though, so good advice, thanks :)

Oh I am definitely not scanning through magazines crying over how I'm not as slim as other women or anything. I am happy being myself but I also love exercise and improving myself. I want to tone up, be proud of myself and a big part of it is confidence. And I'm not going to turn down a chinese takeout with my boyfriend…

Haha, slightly scared of trying them. What does it taste like? Are they similar to any other vegetables?

I do feel like I'm eating enough in my portions but I might give it a go. Maybe put a bit more rice in the rice cooker in future or something. Thanks

This might be ignorance but I assumed anything dripping in copious amounts of melted cheese isn't healthy but I see where you're coming from :). Haha

You sound really angry at me... Can I mention I am not eating less than 1200 calories a day by choice. I am trying to get to 1200 and over but when you feel full do you really want to be stuffing half a packet of trail mix down your throat just because of numbers? I'm not completely new at this. I've been going to the gym…

Ah again, another vote for nuts! I've bought a jar of peanut butter as it's the only thing I can eat without wanting to spit it out again. I am not a big cheese eater but I guess I could invest in buying some. Smoothies is a good idea, I should probably buy some of those since I like them a lot (and I don't have a blender…

A lot of people are commenting on this post, so don't worry, I am not taking it to heart. I did eat after my exercise, it's just that I was full after eating 341 calories worth of it...

Well, I'm glad someone feels similarly :'). I don't feel like I'm crying over missing big fatty meals and I'll most probably have one if I'm craving it as long as I exercise. I don't feel like I'm eating a great deal of meat but maybe if I was then it would be easier to get to 1200.

Well there is that possibility! Yesterday I was walking quite a lot yesterday, 100 minutes in total with 70 minutes of that being brisk and the rest leisurely. I also did 75 minutes of salsa dancing which I put under "dancing, general" on the myfitnesspal app, however I am not entirely sure that's true.

Ah, unfortunately no. I was thinking of eating some fish cakes, spinach and egg for my lunch, but I don't really think further than that!

I love eggs but I don't like nuts. I've never tried an avocado though... Maybe I should. What do you eat them with?

Hmmm, I could switch to full fat milk, thank you! I don't really eat much cheese however. I've bought some Philadelphia cheese which is the normal stuff, not the light version, but I'll probably only eat that with crackers if I'm peckish.

I've actually started eating peanut butter recently. I HATE nuts but I find I can stomach peanut butter and I put it in my porridge this morning along with some jam which boosted my breakfast to 422 calories. Meat is a little bit harder for me to eat because I'm a student and meat tends to quite expensive but I have a some…

I'll use Monday as an example then. I had 335 cal for breakfast, which was porridge some strawberry jam and a small banana 263 cal for lunch, which was a chicken breast sandwich on a brown bread roll with some margarine 440 for dinner, which was a meat and potato pie (which I am quite sure isn't healthy but I had yet to go…