How do people eat 1200 calories?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everytime I try, I fail!! But this is my suggested calorie intake to lose any weight.

Start by tracking food on MyFitnessPal or something similar. I would have it subtract 250-500 calories a day depending on what you are trying to lose. MFP will set your caloric intake based on age, height, gender and activity level. It will subtract the amount of calories you want to avoid eating so you lose weight. Then you can eat back your exercise calories knowing that the other calories have been removed.

I never set my food tracker for 500 calories a day, I am fine with 1/2 pound drop a week so I set it for 250 calories a day. That would probably move you from 1200 to 1450, which is more doable for most people.

I only do this when I move to 10 pounds overweight, fortunately not all that often.

[Anonymous]

I won’t. I exercise and I do IF. Eating 1200 will just mess up your metabolism.

[Anonymous]

I haven’t found it to be that hard, if you’re eating lots of fruits and vegetables, with lean proteins and not a ton of bread or dairy.

But I couldn’t live on 1200 net calories indefinitely...it’s just for weight loss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes 1200 calories per meal x 3 meals per day. It's not hard.

This is so me. Hence, I have 30 pounds to lose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Soup is your friend, OP. It’s filling, healthy, and cheap. During the winter we eat soup everyday; mostly vegetarian.

Agree:

Yogurt (110) or egg (70), coffee (2) and fruit (45-110) for breakfast.
Soup (110) and simple salad (70) for lunch.

That leaves ~800 calories for dinner, which is a feast.

Unfortunately, 800 calories for dinneer is not a feast for some of us.

But this is definitely the way to do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Soup is your friend, OP. It’s filling, healthy, and cheap. During the winter we eat soup everyday; mostly vegetarian.

Agree:

Yogurt (110) or egg (70), coffee (2) and fruit (45-110) for breakfast.
Soup (110) and simple salad (70) for lunch.

That leaves ~800 calories for dinner, which is a feast.

Unfortunately, 800 calories for dinneer is not a feast for some of us.

But this is definitely the way to do it.

NP. 800 is a lot of calories for one meal. It’s an entire chipotle bowl with rice, beans, steak, veggies, salsa, sour cream, corn, and cheese.

Last night, I had 6 oz of pan fried cod, olive oil, Quinoa, and grilled veggies for 385 calories. The night before, I had beef bulgogi, white rice, spinach and ice cream for dessert for 750 calories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Soup is your friend, OP. It’s filling, healthy, and cheap. During the winter we eat soup everyday; mostly vegetarian.

Agree:

Yogurt (110) or egg (70), coffee (2) and fruit (45-110) for breakfast.
Soup (110) and simple salad (70) for lunch.

That leaves ~800 calories for dinner, which is a feast.

Unfortunately, 800 calories for dinneer is not a feast for some of us.

But this is definitely the way to do it.

NP. 800 is a lot of calories for one meal. It’s an entire chipotle bowl with rice, beans, steak, veggies, salsa, sour cream, corn, and cheese.

Last night, I had 6 oz of pan fried cod, olive oil, Quinoa, and grilled veggies for 385 calories. The night before, I had beef bulgogi, white rice, spinach and ice cream for dessert for 750 calories.

NP again. Your meals sound good but don’t really do anything to refute the PP’s comment on 800 not being a feast for some people. You can easily hit that and much more with say—decent appetizer, a creamy pasta, a few glasses of wine, and good dessert. Which is my idea of a good feast. (But should not be eaten at all regularly!)

Your dinners are reasonable and healthy (and very in line with my family’s eating) but not what I’d think of as a feast!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Soup is your friend, OP. It’s filling, healthy, and cheap. During the winter we eat soup everyday; mostly vegetarian.

Agree:

Yogurt (110) or egg (70), coffee (2) and fruit (45-110) for breakfast.
Soup (110) and simple salad (70) for lunch.

That leaves ~800 calories for dinner, which is a feast.

Unfortunately, 800 calories for dinneer is not a feast for some of us.

But this is definitely the way to do it.

NP. 800 is a lot of calories for one meal. It’s an entire chipotle bowl with rice, beans, steak, veggies, salsa, sour cream, corn, and cheese.

Last night, I had 6 oz of pan fried cod, olive oil, Quinoa, and grilled veggies for 385 calories. The night before, I had beef bulgogi, white rice, spinach and ice cream for dessert for 750 calories.

NP again. Your meals sound good but don’t really do anything to refute the PP’s comment on 800 not being a feast for some people. You can easily hit that and much more with say—decent appetizer, a creamy pasta, a few glasses of wine, and good dessert. Which is my idea of a good feast. (But should not be eaten at all regularly!)

Your dinners are reasonable and healthy (and very in line with my family’s eating) but not what I’d think of as a feast!

Which is the real problem, most of us have lost track of what a healthy amount to eat actually is. What you describe is great on occasion, and I get that you did not say that was an every day meal, but should not be a regular meal. While you can say that is not a regular meal, there are a good number of folks who think that is a healthy size meal. We switched to Blue Apron because I suck with meal time planning, seriously I am so bad with follow through, and because the portion sizes are a healthy size. There are meals that I wish we had more of but I know that we are eating a balanced meal that is the correct portion size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Soup is your friend, OP. It’s filling, healthy, and cheap. During the winter we eat soup everyday; mostly vegetarian.

Agree:

Yogurt (110) or egg (70), coffee (2) and fruit (45-110) for breakfast.
Soup (110) and simple salad (70) for lunch.

That leaves ~800 calories for dinner, which is a feast.

Unfortunately, 800 calories for dinneer is not a feast for some of us.

But this is definitely the way to do it.

NP. 800 is a lot of calories for one meal. It’s an entire chipotle bowl with rice, beans, steak, veggies, salsa, sour cream, corn, and cheese.

Last night, I had 6 oz of pan fried cod, olive oil, Quinoa, and grilled veggies for 385 calories. The night before, I had beef bulgogi, white rice, spinach and ice cream for dessert for 750 calories.

NP again. Your meals sound good but don’t really do anything to refute the PP’s comment on 800 not being a feast for some people. You can easily hit that and much more with say—decent appetizer, a creamy pasta, a few glasses of wine, and good dessert. Which is my idea of a good feast. (But should not be eaten at all regularly!)

Your dinners are reasonable and healthy (and very in line with my family’s eating) but not what I’d think of as a feast!

Which is the real problem, most of us have lost track of what a healthy amount to eat actually is. What you describe is great on occasion, and I get that you did not say that was an every day meal, but should not be a regular meal. While you can say that is not a regular meal, there are a good number of folks who think that is a healthy size meal. We switched to Blue Apron because I suck with meal time planning, seriously I am so bad with follow through, and because the portion sizes are a healthy size. There are meals that I wish we had more of but I know that we are eating a balanced meal that is the correct portion size.

+1. OP asked how to stay under 1200. Being able to eat an entire loaded Chipotle bowl for 800 calories is certainly a “feast” on a diet for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Soup is your friend, OP. It’s filling, healthy, and cheap. During the winter we eat soup everyday; mostly vegetarian.

Agree:

Yogurt (110) or egg (70), coffee (2) and fruit (45-110) for breakfast.
Soup (110) and simple salad (70) for lunch.

That leaves ~800 calories for dinner, which is a feast.

Unfortunately, 800 calories for dinneer is not a feast for some of us.

But this is definitely the way to do it.

NP. 800 is a lot of calories for one meal. It’s an entire chipotle bowl with rice, beans, steak, veggies, salsa, sour cream, corn, and cheese.

Last night, I had 6 oz of pan fried cod, olive oil, Quinoa, and grilled veggies for 385 calories. The night before, I had beef bulgogi, white rice, spinach and ice cream for dessert for 750 calories.

NP again. Your meals sound good but don’t really do anything to refute the PP’s comment on 800 not being a feast for some people. You can easily hit that and much more with say—decent appetizer, a creamy pasta, a few glasses of wine, and good dessert. Which is my idea of a good feast. (But should not be eaten at all regularly!)

Your dinners are reasonable and healthy (and very in line with my family’s eating) but not what I’d think of as a feast!

Which is the real problem, most of us have lost track of what a healthy amount to eat actually is. What you describe is great on occasion, and I get that you did not say that was an every day meal, but should not be a regular meal. While you can say that is not a regular meal, there are a good number of folks who think that is a healthy size meal. We switched to Blue Apron because I suck with meal time planning, seriously I am so bad with follow through, and because the portion sizes are a healthy size. There are meals that I wish we had more of but I know that we are eating a balanced meal that is the correct portion size.

There are a good number of people for whom is a healthy meal size, though. If you're a guy who is 5'10", 170 lbs, and moderately physically active, your TDEE could easily be 2,600 calories. There's just such a gap as far as age/sex/size/physical activity.

[Anonymous]

Open.my resting metabolism is 960 calories so to maintain my weight I eat around 1400 2workout 4-5 days a week and eat two meals a day. Lunch very simple,.around 500 calories (usually.turkey sandwich on one slice bread and fruit or salad).. Dinner around 600 -700 calories and maybe a glass.of wine or snack for the rest. if I want to.lose I stick to 2 meals only. then again because of my slow.metabolism I don't think.I'm.as hungry as other people so it evens out I guess.