1200 calories is insane

[Anonymous]

you gotta cut the dairy out. you had three slices of cheese which is like 300 calories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And that’s why I’m overweight.

Also, switch a hard-boiled egg out for a fried one and get rid of breads, rolls, and wraps.

Is this for more density? Or because the egg may have been fried in oil/butter?

Latter. Fried is not a concept someone trying to stick to 1200 calories should be using.

Why? A tsp of oil has maybe 40 calories and so much more satisfying that a bland crumbly hard boiled egg

[Anonymous]

I have done 500 calories a day 2x a week. I eat:

Breakfast - 2 cups of coffee with almond creamer

1 egg, 2/3 cup egg whites, about 8 cherry tomatoes, 2 cups spinach and a small dash of extra sharp

Snack - 1/2 apple with almond butter, sliced cucumber and salt, celery sticks

Dinner - stir fry chicken with broccoli, spinach, carrots, cauliflower rice, snap peas. Light dash of story fry sauce.

Or - veggie soup

You need to dump the cheeses and add a whole lot more veggies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And that’s why I’m overweight.

Also, switch a hard-boiled egg out for a fried one and get rid of breads, rolls, and wraps.

Is this for more density? Or because the egg may have been fried in oil/butter?

Latter. Fried is not a concept someone trying to stick to 1200 calories should be using.

DP but I disagree. Frying an egg and eating it drained of the fat only adds about 20 calories. Eggs aren't like, say, fried chicken, with breading that is absorbing a bunch of oil.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And that’s why I’m overweight.

Also, switch a hard-boiled egg out for a fried one and get rid of breads, rolls, and wraps.

Is this for more density? Or because the egg may have been fried in oil/butter?

Latter. Fried is not a concept someone trying to stick to 1200 calories should be using.

Why? A tsp of oil has maybe 40 calories and so much more satisfying that a bland crumbly hard boiled egg

Different Poster but agree that if possible those are the easy substitutions to make. At 1200 cal, every 40/50 cal matter. I personally prefer to save a teaspoon of olive oil at breakfast and have enough cal let for one piece of dark chocolate after dinner (also 50 cal). And also : fried food is extremely difficult to measure properly, if she really puts a teaspoon of oil to cook her egg fine, but usually people use more without realizing it, and you quickly end up with 100cal in oil at your meal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trainer and nutritionist here - no one should be eating a 1200 (or less) calorie diet unless they are under the supervision of a physician. Also, carbs are not the enemy. I’m so tired of reading this.

Would love to hear what you suggest for weight loss then…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I've gone in and out of 1200 calories for about 8 months now and it's not too bad. Sometimes I go over and sometimes I even go under but it's averaging out fine.

This is my menu today, so far:
breakfast - 10 almonds and 1/4 cup blueberries, coffee and almond milk (I eat light before I go to the gym)
protein shake with almond milk, post gym

lunch - 1 cup chili with diced sweet onions. One orange

snack - 1 oz goat cheese with ryvita crackers

dinner - 4 oz pork chop, a ton of broccoli

snack - light and fit greek yogurt

I'll still have 300 calories left over and haven't decided what do with them yet. Note: I use my walking calories (but not my weightlifting calories for convenience reasons) and I walk about 10k steps a day.

I weigh 117 lbs so I'm sure this is harder if you are bigger.

You have an eating disorder and need to get help. If you know the number of almonds you ate today and are measuring blueberries, your eating is really disordered.

Interesting thought. I'm the PP here. This is under advisement by a dietician. It's called tracking and I'm not emotional about it. It doesn't bother me. I'm not underweight. The goal is to keep my A1C within a good range. People throw out their diets within any background info. For me, 1200 calories was what I was told to do and I do that by tracking my calories and making sure I average throughout the week a wide variety of foods and sufficient protein, fiber, etc.

Honestly, if you DON'T count your almonds, you'll end up eating several portions. Nuts are difficult. I've found that I've let myself be influenced by the commercial world at large to think that big portions are what we need but my body actually doesn't need all that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trainer and nutritionist here - no one should be eating a 1200 (or less) calorie diet unless they are under the supervision of a physician. Also, carbs are not the enemy. I’m so tired of reading this.

Have you actually met other dietitians? I haven't met one that didn't say 1200 calorie diet, here are some handouts, and good luck with that. Even when I push back with "are you sure?," and "isn't that low?" Their response, nope, not too low. Just do it.

Now, a trainer would say eat more than that. You are switching your hats around.

Dietician - 1200 calories
Trainer - eat more than that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've gone in and out of 1200 calories for about 8 months now and it's not too bad. Sometimes I go over and sometimes I even go under but it's averaging out fine.

This is my menu today, so far:
breakfast - 10 almonds and 1/4 cup blueberries, coffee and almond milk (I eat light before I go to the gym)
protein shake with almond milk, post gym

lunch - 1 cup chili with diced sweet onions. One orange

snack - 1 oz goat cheese with ryvita crackers

dinner - 4 oz pork chop, a ton of broccoli

snack - light and fit greek yogurt

I'll still have 300 calories left over and haven't decided what do with them yet. Note: I use my walking calories (but not my weightlifting calories for convenience reasons) and I walk about 10k steps a day.

I weigh 117 lbs so I'm sure this is harder if you are bigger.

You have an eating disorder and need to get help. If you know the number of almonds you ate today and are measuring blueberries, your eating is really disordered.

Interesting thought. I'm the PP here. This is under advisement by a dietician. It's called tracking and I'm not emotional about it. It doesn't bother me. I'm not underweight. The goal is to keep my A1C within a good range. People throw out their diets within any background info. For me, 1200 calories was what I was told to do and I do that by tracking my calories and making sure I average throughout the week a wide variety of foods and sufficient protein, fiber, etc.

Honestly, if you DON'T count your almonds, you'll end up eating several portions. Nuts are difficult. I've found that I've let myself be influenced by the commercial world at large to think that big portions are what we need but my body actually doesn't need all that.

If you are a normal weight why are you eating 1200 calories? Low calorie diets aren’t for a1c control in the absence of also needing to lose weight. If a1c is an issue why not keep carbs low, cut out refined sugar grains, but keep calories at a maintenance level? Sounds disordered to me still

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've gone in and out of 1200 calories for about 8 months now and it's not too bad. Sometimes I go over and sometimes I even go under but it's averaging out fine.

This is my menu today, so far:
breakfast - 10 almonds and 1/4 cup blueberries, coffee and almond milk (I eat light before I go to the gym)
protein shake with almond milk, post gym

lunch - 1 cup chili with diced sweet onions. One orange

snack - 1 oz goat cheese with ryvita crackers

dinner - 4 oz pork chop, a ton of broccoli

snack - light and fit greek yogurt

I'll still have 300 calories left over and haven't decided what do with them yet. Note: I use my walking calories (but not my weightlifting calories for convenience reasons) and I walk about 10k steps a day.

I weigh 117 lbs so I'm sure this is harder if you are bigger.

You have an eating disorder and need to get help. If you know the number of almonds you ate today and are measuring blueberries, your eating is really disordered.

Interesting thought. I'm the PP here. This is under advisement by a dietician. It's called tracking and I'm not emotional about it. It doesn't bother me. I'm not underweight. The goal is to keep my A1C within a good range. People throw out their diets within any background info. For me, 1200 calories was what I was told to do and I do that by tracking my calories and making sure I average throughout the week a wide variety of foods and sufficient protein, fiber, etc.

Honestly, if you DON'T count your almonds, you'll end up eating several portions. Nuts are difficult. I've found that I've let myself be influenced by the commercial world at large to think that big portions are what we need but my body actually doesn't need all that.

If you are a normal weight why are you eating 1200 calories? Low calorie diets aren’t for a1c control in the absence of also needing to lose weight. If a1c is an issue why not keep carbs low, cut out refined sugar grains, but keep calories at a maintenance level? Sounds disordered to me still

For small women, the weights go quite low. 117 is not a low weight if you are short. It's not terrible but not considered optimal by many "experts." Wanting to get to an optimal weight is fine.

[Anonymous]

Women in starving countries eat 1400 calories per day. Just think about that. Unless your 5’0” you probably need more energy to function. I would start by tracking what you eat on a daily basis without restricting. Monitor your weight, see if it’s stable. You might even find like I do that monitoring intake alone helps you lose because you consciously make better food decisions. Once you establish what your baseline is, then you can decide what you need to do to lose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Women in starving countries eat 1400 calories per day. Just think about that. Unless your 5’0” you probably need more energy to function. I would start by tracking what you eat on a daily basis without restricting. Monitor your weight, see if it’s stable. You might even find like I do that monitoring intake alone helps you lose because you consciously make better food decisions. Once you establish what your baseline is, then you can decide what you need to do to lose.

Are those women overweight Americans trying to lose weight? Or are they women in third world countries just trying to survive?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The food you are eating is junk. You need to eat more fiber like vegetables fruits and sweet potatoes which will fill up your stomach.

This. I can't believe you think you can eat 1200 calories and eat this nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've gone in and out of 1200 calories for about 8 months now and it's not too bad. Sometimes I go over and sometimes I even go under but it's averaging out fine.

This is my menu today, so far:
breakfast - 10 almonds and 1/4 cup blueberries, coffee and almond milk (I eat light before I go to the gym)
protein shake with almond milk, post gym

lunch - 1 cup chili with diced sweet onions. One orange

snack - 1 oz goat cheese with ryvita crackers

dinner - 4 oz pork chop, a ton of broccoli

snack - light and fit greek yogurt

I'll still have 300 calories left over and haven't decided what do with them yet. Note: I use my walking calories (but not my weightlifting calories for convenience reasons) and I walk about 10k steps a day.

I weigh 117 lbs so I'm sure this is harder if you are bigger.

You have an eating disorder and need to get help. If you know the number of almonds you ate today and are measuring blueberries, your eating is really disordered.

Eh, that’s how accurate calorie counting works. PP’s menu sounds fairly nutritious, and it’s apparently working for her.

I recently went from 250 to 220 and I know how many berries and nuts I ate today. The definition of calorie counting. Still working on it and still counting each and every bite. I can't do it without tracking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trainer and nutritionist here - no one should be eating a 1200 (or less) calorie diet unless they are under the supervision of a physician. Also, carbs are not the enemy. I’m so tired of reading this.

Would love to hear what you suggest for weight loss then…

DP. I am not a trainer, but this is not that complicated.

Unless you are very short, if you you eat 1500 calories, you will be fine. It may take longer but you will lose weight.

Now if you want to be a size 0, that's another topic.

Eat some vegetables in there please!