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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.

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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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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 [/quote]

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