baabybabs

Cutting out sugar and sodium has extremely helped me out. On a typical western diet with a lot of processed food your taste buds become dull, but once you cut them out you can truly learn to savor food. For example, I used to salt my broccoli a lot. Now I just dryfry them (stir-fry basically with a non stick pan, except I…

If it's hard for you to stay within 1200 calories a day, you should really try clean eating. Food is a lot more satisfying when it's been prepared by you, and healthier food is just more filling overall. I eat 5-6 big meals a day and stay within 1200 calories. It's processed food that can sometimes ruin my day for me! As…

I recommend one cheat day every week or two. 1200 calories is pretty low intake, since it is the minimum. I hope you also make sure to stick to keeping your NET calories 1200, as MFP instructs you to do. Anyways, because 1200 is the bare minimum to keep your body going, you will lose weight but starvation mode kicks in a…

Levedi's post is perfect and well written, I agree 100%. "No matter how slow you run, you're still lapping everyone on the couch."

I crush up 8 to 12 almonds depending on how hungry I feel, a teaspoon or so of brown sugar and a bunch of cinnamon. Love love love it.

I'm vegan and I take VegLife's Vegan Iron (which gives me the b12 I'd otherwise struggle to get from my diet!). I have energy all the time now. Once I felt as you did and that's when my caloric intake was really low. And now as long as I get 1200 cal (I'll eat more if I burn more than 250 calories, which is hardly ever) I…

I'm vegan :) Great to see others here. I'd love for other vegans to add me!