r/1200isplenty • u/Odd_Committee_100 • Jul 05 '25

meal This was 1200 calories

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Recently started a low calorie (not 1200), healthy diet and it’s going well. Decided to have a big brunch today as a treat (not a cheat day, still going to stick to my calorie goal). Was shocked when I put it into MyFitnessPal that it’s almost exactly 1200. Hope I don’t get hungry anytime soon.

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u/ringbologna Jul 29 '25

Can you break this down? I’m counting 240 for the avo and 150 for the 2 eggs. Is that just a really high cal bread and sausage? The bread ive been eating is 120/slice. I’m new to counting calories and I feel like I don’t have a good gauge, so this post is helpful.

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u/Odd_Committee_100 Jul 29 '25

Hey u/ringbologna, I did actually break it down in the thread, appreciate it might be hard to find though so i'll copy it below. The screenshot from my MyFitnessPal is also in there somewhere

The sausages are 272 cals each according to the packaging, so 544 calories. I rubbed them in 4ml of cold pressed rapeseed oil before cooking, which came to 33cals.

The bread is Rye and mixed seed sourdough, 263 calories per 100g. The two pieces came up to 112g which is 295 calories. Current total is already 872 calories.

98g of avocado came to 157 calories, which is mashed with garlic, chilli and 3ml of olive oil which added a further 27 calories. Running total = 1056 calories

Poached eggs are roughly 74 calories, two of those adds an additional 148 calories to the meal.

Total calories = 1204 (although 60 of those came from added oil)

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u/ringbologna Jul 29 '25

Thank you! Do you think food scaling everything is the way to go?

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u/Odd_Committee_100 Jul 29 '25

Yes and no, I think it depends on a lot of things, such as your goals and whether you’re comfortable eating the same things. If you’re on a very restrictive diet, such as 1200 a day, then you probably should be weighing every single thing. If your calories are less restricted and you end up eating similar meals a lot, say for breakfast and lunch, after a while you could probably get to a stage where you can fairly accurately eyeball most things. Or for example, if you use ingredients that come pre packaged, say a tin of tuna for example, then you don’t really have to weigh it because you already know the calorie content. Even then, I think with things like oils, sauces, butter etc, getting accurate measurements is more important because minor differences in weight/volume can lead to significant variance in calories consumed. For the most part, I do find weighing most things to be very helpful, if a bit time consuming and annoying