What does 1300 cals a day look like for you?

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I need some inspiration please!

I've been doing 16:8 since August and after losing almost 3kg it all went to pot in October with various celebrations and just generally fancying a pain aux raisin every morning so from today I'm back on 16:8 and calorie counting. I want to get to under 70kg by the Xmas (currently hovering around 74kg) and want to calorie count as well as 16:8. Im thinking if I do 1300 cals during the week and around 1500 on the weekends I can hopefully shift this.

what does 1300 cals look like for you? I don't mind eating the same thing everyday!

Please can you tell me how you heat up part of the ready meal?
Or do you heat it all and then divide?

Thanks

I cook it in the oven (lasagna) and then let it cool so I can cut into 3 portions then I heat up each portion when needed.

For me it looks like 140g protein and then the carbs and fat sort themselves out. I don't get hungry on it.

Breakfast - Homemade uncooked, unsweetened meusli based on rolled oats and Special K with slithered almonds, pepitas and skim milk.

Drinks ..
Long black with added skim milk x 1
Water x 5- 6, plain, iced or bubbly
Tea with slurp of milk x 3

Morning snack - avocado or Marmite on large low cal cracker.

Lunch - Canned tuna or roast beetroot or scrambled egg and lettuce, cucumber and capsicum.

Snack - Apple or orange

Dinner - Handful of berries and tablespoon of greek yoghurt following Fish Soup - white fish, herbs, barley or lentils, carrot, onion, cabbage, broccoli, leek and silverbeet.

im a bit lower on 1200.

breakfast - soft boiled egg 80
snack - piece of fruit between 40-100
lunch soup or salad about 200
apple - 80
dinner - meal from hairy dieters book 500
pudding - fruit & skyr yoghurt

dinner varies every day. not hungry and plenty of nutrition.

I don’t eat breakfast (just black coffee) and I don’t snack. So 1300 is quite easy with a lunch of around 550 cal and the rest for dinner which is pretty generous amount. I do get hungry before meals but I’m not sure I’m any hungrier than I was before when I was eating around 1800 calories a day. It’s just become a habit and I love being slim so it’s worth it.

1302 calories:

2 large boiled eggs
half a can of pink salmon
1 avocado
3 cups tea with honey
1 portion parmagiana
2 slices of mozzarella/1 tomato/1 handful of mixed leaves/balsamic vinegar
2 glasses white wine

Placemarking for ideas…!

So my 1300 today was
Breakfast- 2 corn cakes with a laughing cow triangle and cooked chicken

Lunch - konjac noodles, mushrooms, tuna, sweet corn in a tomato sauce

Afternoon snack - mallow and marsh bar

Dinner - ostrich steak with broccoli, cabbage and leeks with garlic and Philadelphia light
Get Pro Chocolate mousse

2 cups decaf tea with milk in the day and numerous mugs of mint tea and water

For me:
B - mint tea
L - if I'm at work, the easiest thing from the canteen is a tuna or egg sandwich and a packet of crisps - approx 460 cals
D - this leaves me with enough cals to have a portion of the normal family dinner - usually around 600 cals
Snack - popchips (72 cals) or a few squares of chocolate

So yesterday was low for me at 1,278 calories

Breakfast - 323 calories
Scrambled egg on toast - 1 slice thick bread, teaspoon butter, 2 large eggs with 40ml milk
tea with splash of milk (x2)

Lunch (338 calories)
2 slices medium bread
lettuce
3 slices honey roast ham
Frazzles

Dinner (424 calories)
Grilled skinless cod fillets (200g)
Jacket potato 250g ish
Peas & Sweetcorn

Snacks (193 calories)
tea with splash of milk
mini snickers

I just planned my day tomorrow and this is my 1300 cals:

40g oats
scoop of protein powder
250ml milk (this does my overnight oats and 2 cups of tea)
50g frozen raspberries
150g skyr

• I have this breakfast every day

salad box for lunch - lettuce, cuc, cherry tomatoes
sweet chilli chicken breast (80g)
Aldi chilli and mango dressing
30g cheese
Lindals kvarg protein yoghurt

dinner- lamb curry with 100g lamb, 100g lentils, onion, carrot, tinned tomatoes per portion. I’ll have mine with a steam fresh veg bag and other veg, dh and kids will have rice.

that’s it. It doesn’t go far does it?
my allowance is actually 1400 so that means I have maybe some sugar free jelly, and a piece of fruit after dinner.
I have a can of zero sprite and black coffee and lots of water.

Just under 1300 today. I usually only have black coffee for breakfast but today I was hungry. Managed to balance it out. Lunch was last night’s left overs.

Today I will skip breakfast.

Have last nights leftover Gnocchi with spinach and salad for lunch (about 400cal)

Tonight I'm making chicken and mushroom risotto. I reckon that will come in around about 700cal leaving 100cal for a snack.

Today I only reached 1058 calories. It’s odd but I feel really full.

Breakfast: black coffee

Lunch: 2 egg omelette with skimmed milk, with 20g grated cheddar and 2 cups of cooked broccoli (left over from last night’s dinner)

Dinner: air fried chicken breast, peas and kale cooked in a little butter

Snack: banana slides with half a teaspoon of caster sugar plus a cup of tea

Since starting this diet I’ve ensured I fill up on healthy choices and it’s weirdly stopped my chocolate and bread cravings!

What are you banana slides @TeenLifeMum?

Today I will eat a king prawn biryani from the healthy and balanced range at m&s which my DH bought yesterday as it had a yellow sticker. 384cal

Because that's huge I'm skipping breakfast.

Tonight I will have homemade meatballs (3 medium) and tomato Sause with 3oz (dry) of pasta. Which apparently comes to about 556cal.

So 940 planned and probably a piece of fruit 100 and a cheat of chocolate this evening 100.

Total 1140

@Hoolahoophop a typo for slices… banana sliced into a bowl 😂🤦🏻‍♀️ feels more like a dessert when I do that.

@TeenLifeMum ah, as you had sugar on there I was imagining all sorts of exciting blow torch caramelized snacks. Maybe I'm hungry!

@Hoolahoophop nothing as exciting but I did eat that rather than a chocolate bar and I’m another 1lb down today - 7lbs off in total. Birthday and Easter this weekend may undo that 🤦🏻‍♀️

This is 1039 calories from today…

B: smoothie made with frozen fruit, coconut water and pea protein powder
L: if I'm at work, either Itsu miso soup with gyoza and a poached egg or a Pret jambon beurre. At home I have a spinach and cheese omelette with two eggs or beans on toast, both without oil/butter.
D: quiche or salmon with steamed vegetables or something else similarly low carb.

It really feels like starvation rations some days and I am often hungry but anything more than this and I don't lose weight!

I've been counting calories for 3 weeks and have lost nothing 😭. I broke my leg and was pretty mobile for a few weeks and put on 7 lb so thought I would try a 1300 a day diet but obviously I need to go lower. I need to do more excercise too but am still in recovery so that's hard. I'm so fed up! I've pretty much stuck to it and have managed a few under 1300 days ( have gone over a few times too but I've been trying so hard). And I'm starving all the time. At least I've stopped gaining I guess..sorry just having a rant.

One of a few things could be happening mmmmm. It could be that in the early stages you are retaining water. You might find you have a sudden whoosh of weight loss. Rather than weight on the scales are you noticing any difference in your body shape yet?

1,300 calories is very low. How tall are you? Are you tracking absolutely everything? By that I mean do you mesure how much milk you put in your coffee, how much butter you put on our toast, how much tomato sauce/mayo you add to your meal. Every single drink? Do you cook your eggs with butter and oil etc. It's amazing how those calories add up.

I'm only 5 ft 3 and have lost almost a stone since January simply by cutting down on some of these things. I know that I have 20 ml of milk per cup of tea and also use roughly the same amount in my scrambled egg. I stopped having one egg and tw rounds of toast and now have two eggs and one round of toast as it makes me feel fuller, is more protein and less calories. I also have one teaspoon of butter on my toast.

I have increased my protein portion at each meal which for me is generally chicken or fish cooked in the oven or steamed with no fats added. I then have a larger portion of veg/salad and my salads are more filling as I add things like grated carrot/sweetcorn etc to them.

I eat lots of potatoes, yes I know they are higher carb but they are nutritious (I eat the skins on either a jacket or air fryer wedges) and they are very filling.

I would be very wary of going any lower calorie. You need to be able to sustain whatever you do. No point starving yourself as then you end up binging.

Thanks for your tips. I really have to do something! I've been counting every calorie although I forgot about milk in my tea! I only have 1 per day though and water the rest of the time. I'll def try upping the protein
I'm also 5'3" (or 5' 2 and a half but round up 🤣).
I'll try a few adjustments and just keep on going. At least I'm not gaining which is a win I suppose! X