Help! Looking for 1200 calorie per day meal plan.

What are daily food logs that keep people under 1200 calories a day? Thanks

im not asking how to do it.  im asking what to eat in a day that consists of 1200 cal.  thanks

Well CC can definitely help you with that. But it is good to have a solid basis of nutrition. Otherwise you will be cutting back food rather than just changing it.

You can get this information on CC as well. Just search around a bit.

Look through your CC account because you can have your own food log and search foods. You can see the calorie content on each of these foods as well and then add them accordingly into your food log.

That is you can see if you are eating under 1200.

Just focus on eating as many whole grains and low fat foods. Fiber will keep you full and healthy!

Just curious - why are you trying to eat below 1200 calories a day?

Here's my general lay-out for a 1200 calorie day

Breakfast: 400
Morning Snack: 100
Lunch: 400
Afternoon Snack: 100
Dinner: 200
Night Snack: 100

You can work around within those however you want... here's some sample ideas that fit those numbers

Breakfast: 2/3 cup cereal (250), 1/2 cup milk (50), banana/apple/orange/etc. (100) 

Morning Snack: 1/2 banana blended with 1/2 cup milk and a few ice cubes (100). can substitute papaya/mango/strawbery/whatever type of fruit. OR light granola bar OR crackers with light cheese <-- just watch portions, keep it to 100 cal.

Lunch: two slices low-cal bread (100), two slices meat (70), one slice cheese (80), lettuce/tomato/etc./light condiments (50), your choice (100)

Afternoon Snack: 100 cal pack of those little cookie things, popcorn, granola bar.... anything really, just watch portions... if you're looking for munchies while doing something else, I'd go with popcorn or a bowl of grapes or something like that... volume without too many calories. And if you're in munch-mode, separate out how much your going to eat before you even start.

Dinner: Salad (40), meat (100), cheese (100), salad dressing (60)

Night Snack: again, your choice on munchies.... a fruit is a good healthy choice... an egg scrambled with minimal butter or hard-boiled... crackers... just be sure not to eat this immediately before going to sleep. Try to leave a good hour or so for the food to settle into your stomach

whoops, accidently gave you 1300 cal day.... cut out a night or morning snack and it comes to the same thing

I eat oatmeal and a banana in the morning and then take veggies to snack on during morning and afternoon.  Since I am at school, I tend to take frozen dinners for lunch (South Beach average around 250 per meal and are high in protein....) and then stick to a reasonable dinner of meat, salad/veggie.  If I have enough calories, popcorn for a later snack.  That's my general intake and it can be as low as 1200 or up to 1600.  I personally strive for about 1400 calories a day. 

That's a "sketch" of my day.....

good luck!

Eat 13 apples

I would try to get more protein in. It keeps you feeling full and burn more fat faster than carbs. Good luck.

Shorty, when I first started trying to figure out how to lose weight in a healthy way - that was my first question. But we are all different, and we live in different prts of the world, with different foods (and budgets) available to us, and have different eating patterns. What I did, I and suggest you do this - keep a notebook and write down everything you eat now. Calculate your caloric intake - then start subsituting lower calorie, more nutritious foods into your diet. It's a gradual thing, learning how to eat healthy.

Take breakfast first - I used to have a Carl's breakfast burrito for breakfast everyday. Then,  started having breakfast at my local restaraunt everyday - that was healthier, but the portions were too big. I ended up making my breakfast everyday - that way I can control the serving size. Plus, the calorie info on the side of a food package is as accurate as you can hope for.

When I look back at all the ways I tried to lose weight in the past, the reason I failed was I tried too hard too soon, and ended up discouraged. Not this time, LOL. Slow and easy wins the race.

Here are some generalizations I have arrived at:

 the less processed a food is, the better it is for you (an apple, vs apple sauce, a strawberry vs strawberry jam).

If you are really starving before a meal, you need to have a healthy snack between meals. 

Broil/boil chicken without the skin. 

Most peoples bodies won't want to give up more than 1 or 2 pounds a week. Do't go overboard - try for a 300 to 500 calorie deficit every day. Half from eating smaller portions, half from some kind of exercise. I hate exercise, by the way, but there is no way around it. Ya gotta move your body.

Good luck to you, let us know how it's going!!

Nubiker:

Good advice!  I used to eat at Carl's JR almost every day... I absolutely love their breakfast burritoes.  However, I moved and now there isn't a Carls' Jr close by (thank goodness).  I make my own burritoes or eggs in the morning and it's much better. 

Anyhow, Shorty, I think it's all about the small more natural steps than really large ones all at once.  If you start smaller and work towards larger goals, they will hopefully "stick" better. 

Good LucK!