new problem trouble eating 1200 cals

ok so i have been trouble meeting the 1,200 cl mark. i have been only eating 900 or so and feeling full.... today only something like 850... its been about 2 weeks since i last went over 1,000 cal and i have been losing weight FAST i know you are only supposed to lose 2lbs fat a week but since tuesday... i weighed 135 then and i weighed myself today 132 .... and i am really starting to enjoy doing this!!! the pounds are like melting off but i am not sure if its healthy.... but i am sooo close to my goal weight (want to be 120 ... down from 165 since early june.... i am 5'6 btw) so i want to stick with this but it may not be healthy... what should i do???

Im proud of the weight you've lost since June! I admit im quite jealous of you, in that i find it hard to stay at or below the 1200 mark. What do you eat that adds up so only 900 cals?

Eventually you will need to eat 1200 cals or more because your metabolism is probably really slow. But keep up the great discipline!

Hope i helped:)

I am having the same problem. I am just not as hungry as I used to be. You need to eat more though because eventually you will plateau (I know from experience), and also you want this to be a lifestyle change not a quick and temporary diet.

Like I said, I am having the same problem, but I am trying to eat more meals a day with smaller portions. It's nice losing weight so fast but very unhealthy. I am also welcome to other tips.

My problem is that I'm on a college campus and I am so busy that I forget to eat and just don't think about food as much so I don't get hungry. Or, on the weekends I figure that I would eat more at night so I try to scale back during the day. Finding my groove on campus is hard! Any tips?

my diet is very very strict.... i dont eat meat and cheese in the first place so that made things maybe a little easier..... i cut out almost all grains, focused on fruits, veggies, and soy.... no cheat days or snacks EVER..... i did 1 binge (a WHOLE BOX OF PASTA!!!) in this entire time... thats it. i prefer not to eat things with over 12g of fat/5g saturated fat/ANY trans fat.... after awhile i kind of lost the urge to eat chocolate and stuff and now its a lot easier.... not getting any cravings for anything really, unlike before where i would only be satisfied with a bunch of swets and salty snacks.... i dont feel like eating them anymore

when i get t 120 (hopefully by mid october maybe sooner!! i will MAINTAIN at 1,200cal/day i think)

thanks for your advice!!!!

I eat exactly 1200 calories a day. Sometimes a little under, but never more than 100 over.

For Breakfast I always have my Special K, and nonfat milk.

For lunch: tuna fish on whole wheat bread, or a chef salad, or french toast made with two peices of whole wheat bread, egg beaters, and low cal jam instead of high cal syrup.

Dinner usually consists of fish: Halibut, Salmon, Tuna, Talapia, or other kinds of seafood (scallops, shrimp). Also, some frozen or canned vegetables, and sometimes some fresh ones. I tend to stay away from pork, and red meats. Chicken is a pretty good choice too.

For snacks I have apples, a little low fat ice cream, maybe some canned corn, shitake mushrooms, and other things like that.

And when I find myself a little hungry still even after dinner or after I ahve exceeded my calorie allowance for the day, I will drink some hot no cal decaff tea sweetened with splenda, and that will fill me up.

By the way....you can always drink one or two high calorie drinks during the day instead of eating all of your calories.

Hope this helps you.

i was reading today about starvation mode. and i think you might be there. it said that you will be hungry then stop wanting to eat and not be hungry at all. your body will start eating muscle form the lack of calories. it might be fast but certainly not healthy. females are supposed to eat 1200cals if they do nothing. hope you stay healthy=]

"i am really starting to enjoy doing this!!!"

-when you start to enjoy starving yourself, you know you have a serious problem! believe me, i was there too, wanted to lose weight really badly so stopped eating more than 800 cals a day. after a couple of weeks i really started to have fun losing all that weight and kind of got "addicted" to it. even though i had already lost enough weight, i still wanted to lose more! and i wasn't even hungry at all anymore! but this was due to the fact that my metabolism had slowed waaaay down and my body was kind of shutting itself off.

what you're doing is bad and you'll regret it in the long term. please try to up your calories. i know you're scared of gaining all that lost weight back, but trust me, you'll only gain a few pounds which will come off again when you start dieting normally. and eating more DOES help you lose weight! i experienced it myself. after i stopped starving myself and started eating 1200 cals a day i hit a plateau after a couple of weeks and  couldn't lose anymore. so i upped my cals to between 1300 and 1500 and guess what? i'm losing again and pretty fast too!

so please, believe what the people on this forum are telling you! they DO know better.

good luck