I already ate half my calories for the day and it’s only 10:30 and all I ate was 2 bananas, a 1/4 cup of walnuts and a cup of coffee with cream and sugar. I plugged everything into myfitnesspal.com and it’s 550 calories already. I didn’t even eat anything hardly. Well no wonder I’m fat. I would consider those things snacks normally. Jeeze I’m gonna be hungry later when all I can have is carrots sticks or some crap like that. But when I start to see the scale go down I’ll be happy.
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550 calories is half your calories for the day? That doesn’t seem like very much.
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yea I’m doing a 1200 calorie a day diet, is that not enough?
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Oh, i don’t know, i’m not a doctor. It just doesn’t seem like a lot. I thought the average was 2000 calories a day, but i guess you have to consume less to lose weight. Don’t go by what i think! Did the doctor put you on it or are you doing it yourself?
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oh she didn’t say how much, she just gave me a diet pill and said lose 10 pounds a month, but didnt say how
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Oh ok. Well i hope it works out for you. I know it probably isn’t the easiest thing to do. I wish you the best.
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myfitnesspal.com put it at 1200 calories
I’m trying to cut back on sugar, but all I want is sugar.
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I know, me too, sugar, sugar, sugar
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I am not on a diet but very active… and my weight started to loose
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If you exercise at all, you’ll want to increase your calories a bit. I use Sparkpeople.com and it takes into account your starting weight, your goal weight in what period of time, and your activity to give you a range of calories. Good luck wiht your diet.
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I expressed my concern with my pdoc about how I gain weight on so little calories. like 1500/day now, and she assured me I have a healthy bmi. although she did seem to think I would be able to eat more than that but it’s not the case on these meds. when I was younger I had to eat 2500/ calories per day to gain weight.
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1200 calories is the minimum that’s healthy without dr supervision.
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You need to exercise walk or do something it will burn colonies faster… eat healthy eat enough love yourself and you will be in a best shape you are dreaming
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I went from a skinny muscled guy to a guy with a gut and no six pack. After I hit 30 my metabolism changed.
“I had a banana, and a coffee. Why am I so fat?”
That’s one of my favorite Peter Griffin quotes.
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Man counting calories is hard don’t think I could do it,
Just remember at one point if you do eat more than your suppose to, don’t let it get you off track or upset. Just start tomorrow with a positive attitude about the continuous process of dieting.
Anyways good luck with your diet, the joy of losing weight is worth it I think .
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Welcome to the calorie counting club. I took a week off calorie counting recently and gained about 4 pounds. So I’m starting again tomorrow.
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If you want to lose weight you’ll need to start exercising. Restrictive diets do more harm than good, and your body would never let you eat 1200 calories a day long term.
When people want to lose weight they either binge on exercising or go restrictive dieting. These are bad.
Consult a dietician or nutritionist of your serious about losing weight.
It’s hard though, I had a harder time changing my eating habits than I had quitting smoking.
You’ll need to change your lifestyle. GL
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