How many calories did I just eat? I can not count my cals properly.Help

[Anonymous]

Hi.I am 22 years oldm , trying to lose some weight. I woke up at 6 in the morning, feeling dizzy, because I think my blood sugar fell, because I had no dinner the night before. So I ate

-a white roll and two small pieces of chocolate with some water. Then I woke up at noon and worked out, and ate -

- some cabbage soup and then a little amount of rise with soy sauce on it, a small piece of friend chicken breast and fresh pepper.

This is all so far, I am planning to eat some fruits in the evening and maye cooked chicken breast with some fresh pepper.

So does this amount of food reach 1100 calories or more? I really am trying to eat healthy , but I am hungry too, specially in the evening.

[rachiee]

There's so much you need to know to determine how many cals you consumed. What kind of oil/butter was used? How big were the portions? Etc. You want to stay away from fried foods! It also sounds like you're trying to starve yourself which isn't good. Eat fruits and veggies and also lean meat (chicken, fish) but don't fry the meat! You want to bake or grill them. Don't starve yourself. You can lose weight doing it the right away. Otherwise all of the weight you lose will just be water weight and will come back once you start eating. Also exercise! You can't expect the weight to drop if you just sit around.

[Asker]

Yes thanks for the advice, I do exercise min 3 times a week...and I rarely fry anything, I mostly cook and steam :) my problem is going overboard with eating too little,. But I am trying .

[pepper01]

you are starving yourself. you need to eat WAY more than that. you feel dizzy and weak because your body isn't getting nutrients it needs. when the body starves it holds onto fat so you won't lose weight

[Asker]

Yes your right. I just had my dinner not long ago (I love in Europe). I am trying, just sometimes I can't keep it right.

[WeaponZero]

not even close to 1100 calories. eyeballing it I would have to say (depending on what "small" is and whether its milk choc or dark choc) you're looking at roughly 700 calories so far.

if you're active then you have different calorie requirements than a sedentary person and 1100 is too little for weight loss.

[Asker]

i see, I think I'm doing smthg wrong. I am just scared to go over this kind of amount, I doe at veggies and I drink tons of water, but I can not seem to be able to go higher. I bet if I do eat in the evning, some green peas and cooked chicken breast,it will add to the amount. You know I am a recovered bulimic, and it is scarry to me to eat too much , because then all I want to do is to get rid of it the bad way. So this is how I try to controll it.

[WeaponZero]

the thing is undereating is bad for fat loss. why do you think that the nutrtion guides that come with workout programs like p90x and insanity have even small women eating 1500 calories a day to start out?

[Anonymous]

It's impossible to tell, without seeing what the portions are.

What may be a "small piece of fried chicken breast" could vary a lot. (From 97 to 213 calories, depending on such factors as the size, whether the chicken skin was on it, and whether it was fried in flour or batter or nothing at all.)

[Asker]

well, it was very small, no skin on it, and friend in oil.

[Opinion Owner]

Yeah, that doesn't help with the portions in the least. "very small" means what?

How big is a "white roll"?

The reason you can't count calories, is that you aren't being accurate enough in what you eat.

To count calories properly, you'd have to be able to say something like

80g chicken breast

120g white rice

Things like that.

Not "a bit of rice".

[Asker]

Thanks for the advice. Will do that from now on/

[shumailkazimi]

i calculated your calories accurately via my app

Cals

970

Fat

14 g

Cholesterol

138 mg

Sodium

441 mg

Carbs

122 g

Fiber

7 g

Protein

69 g

Sugars

7 g

[WeaponZero]

not nearly enough.

[shumailkazimi]

yes it not enough it depends upon the weight how much calorie intake shld be and also upon our lifestyle

[Asker]

wow thanks man!

[shumailkazimi]

ur welcome madam

[kereru]

learn to count calories.

you re for sure not eating enough.

You can only loose weight so fast and after a certain point continuing to cut down calories becomes pointless and counter productive,

[kheserthorpe]

You're not eating nearly enough, and in particular not enough protein.

eat at least three meals a day. Protein at every one of them.

[Asker]

Thanks' I will do that. I do eat eggs in the morning usually, I drink milk and I have chicken breasts often...cooked usually...

[kheserthorpe]

3 eggs, 3 chicken breasts and a glass of milk is ... well under 800 calories. You need to eat quite a lot of lean protein to even get to 1100.

[Anonymous]

We have no idea of the portion size you ate. Look at the back of the package. It should tell you the amount of calories per serving. You should get use to reading that.

[Asker]

It was home cooked, and I was talking about in general.

[Opinion Owner]

Yeah but you could had a dinner roll that was like 90 calories or a sandwich roll that was like 200 calories. You might have had a 1/4 cup of rice or a cup of rice. =O You also need to eat at least 1200 calories per day as a girl as the bare minimum and that is without considering your exercise regime. Knowing how a lot of girls eat, from your listed I would take a wild guess and say you maybe ate about 500-600 calories so far which would explain why you are feeling dizzy.

[pandaninja]

sounds more like anorexia than eating healthy

[Asker]

you clearly don't know how little anorexics consume. I am FAR from anything like that.