I would think the headaches could be from consuming maybe too much sodium?
(ie; cheese, popcorn) and maybe the wine because of the alcohol in it.
I would cut out the beef and stick with chicken and fish.
I would cut out any fried food and the peanut butter and cheese.
Maybe instead of cream in your coffee you could use some non-dairy creamer.
It also sounds like you need to add alot more fresh vegetables.
JMO of course.
Good luck!
Debby
188/125/?

What are you doing for exercise?

If it were me, I would need a lot more fiber than that.  It looks like
you ate about 50% fat, 25% protein and 25% carbohydrate and about 12
grams of fiber.  I would probably want about 3x the fiber to feel full.
 Also, be really sure to drink plenty of water.  I don't know what WOE
you are following so I'll stop there.  I do hope that you are doing some
kind of exercise as well but I realize that sometimes you can't change
everything all at once either.

I'm no expert by any means, but here's what I see -- you are spiking
your blood sugar repeatedly with sweet fruit & wine and empty carbs
(bread) that metabolize like sugar. So you are getting the least bang
for the buck, so to speak. Eat some lean meats, fish and veggies
through the day and you may notice a marked improvement. Try yogurt,
eggs, lowfat cottage cheese, nuts as snacks rather than bread.

HTH

Ally
212/196/160

Have you cut your caffeine intake along with the diet?  If so, this could
be the source of the headaches.

I don't know how much you weigh, but computer calculators aren't always
accurate.  If you are getting adequate exercise you should be able to lose
at between 10-12 cal x current weight in lbs.  You may be going too low...
Looking at your diet, I think I would cut back a little on the fruit, eat
more veggies, cut back on the bread and eggs...  More protein, more fiber,
less carbs, less fat.  Eat frequent small meals throughout the day.  And
also, the body has a hard time adjusting all at once to a large calorie
drop, so you might want to just cut 100 calories a week from your daily
intake until you are down to 1300.  Say your body was used to 1800
calories - so go to 1700 then 1600 and so on over several weeks.  The
headaches should stop.  Your body just needs time to adjust.

det

And alot of fat. Try adding low fat alternatives, cutting back from
cream to milk, poached eggs instead of fried, cheese can be very high
in fat. How about a meat and salad sandwich with just a trace of
mustard instead of butter.  5 portions of fruit and veg, loads of bulk
without alot of fat and calories. It would really bulk up so you are
not hungry and your blood sugar levels should also even out a bit,
because you eat more frequently.  1600 cals try for 400 cals for the 3
main meals and a snack of 100 cals each.  Tweak after a week, you are
an individual so the computers are not always right, if you are losing
to fast add 100 cals per day, if not cut cals by 50 or so and up the
exercise by 50 or so.  Let us know how you get on.
Michelle
Ozzie in Switzerland
69.8/59.7/61kg

I'd suggest going back to your regular diet and finding out how many
calories you noramlly eat.  Then subtract 400.  You may be starving
because you're eating too few calories. Want an easy way to lose the
ten pounds?  Try drinking one cup of grapefruit juice before each
meal.  It has worked for me when nothing else did.  BTW the juice is
also good for you.  The acid in the juice slows digestion, apparently.

I get a carb count in the 80-100 range.

Likely as not, you have reduced your carb level to the point where
your liver is partially full of stored glycogen.  Full *or* empty
generates no carb cravings.  The headaches are typical of early low
carb detox.  Basically you hit the hard work spto in between low
carbing and high carbing, probably.

So either increase your carbs to fill your liver tank, or decrease
your carbs to empty it.  Either way, the headaches will pass when
you do it most likely.

I haven't yet read all the responses -- perhaps someone else has
commented on this.  But, I'm guessing that you at the brisket, the
salad, and the bread with cheese all in the evening -- and maybe the
second piece of cantaloupe as well.  This is half of your day's
calories at dinner at subsequently.  If your hunger was mainly up
until dinner time, that's probably due to how you distributed the
day's eating.  In particular, you don't seem to have had much of a
noon meal.  I'd recommend trying to consume 2/3 of your day's calories
before dinner time.

Chris
262/153/ (145-150)

These calculators are mostly bullshit. They will very accurately these
values for an average human being. The only problem is that an average human
being really doesn't exist in the real world.
The only way to really know your daily needs would be to put you in a close
chamber and to measure oxygen intake. That's a pretty expensive thing to do,
and then, we would know your daily need for *that* day. It's likely to
change with your menstrual cycle, your stress level, how much you sleep and
of course exercise. Likewise, the calculation for energy spent exercising
are for average human beings. They're interresting if you want to compare
different kinds of exercise, but that's about all.
Likewise, I would not credit any calorie table with a high precision,
because they, too, only measure average nonexistant food - most real food
will jump around that value by as much as 20%.

What this means is that you can't do the math at that level of precision.
This especially need that your evaluation of 1600 cal/day might be
*completely* off. It depends completely on your metabolism, and this one is
very different from one person to the next. Several things can lower it :
- low thyroid hormones
- lean mass lower than usual (muscular disease, total lack of exercise,
protein deprivation...)
- crash diet that has put the body in starvation mode (starvation mode being
the body trying to lower the metabolism as much as possible to fight off the
diet - the body is often very successful at that).
- some people have just a passive attitude, in their daily life, their every
move is a lesson in economy.
And several others can up it :
- high thyroid hormones
- lean mass higher than usual (you lift weights, you have naturally high
hormones, you're just blessed with good genetics...). That's also why
exercise amounts for much more than the calories you burn while doing it,
the extra muscles will also burn calories for you 24/24.
- stress, you're naturally hyperactive, you're so nervous you don't know
what sitting still means...

This means that some people can maintain on a very low level of calories.
There are reports of people who *maintain* on a 1200 calories diet. At the
other hand of the spectrum, you have people who are massively obese and can
actually start losing weight on a 3000 calories intake, just because their
body was used to be stable on a 5000 calories diet. Yes, this is totally
unfair. I don't count my calories, but I know I lose weight eating the same
portions as most people around me.

That's why you can't use a formula, do some calculation and come up with
your reasonning above. The human body is way to complex for these formulas
to be anything more than an approximation. Maybe your diets never put your
body in starvation mode, maybe you have good muscles, maybe you're just an
active person or whatever, and as a result, your need 2200 calories instead
of 1600 to maintain. In that case, your 1400 diet would be much lower than
expected.

None of that stuff actually has any substance to it. Its all like empty
calories that burned up really fast and that's why you're so hungary. I
actually had more filling food for about the same calories today:

coffee, black(0)
salad with 2tbsp Ken's light ranch dressing, 2 tbsp cheese- (240)
1 can tuna mixed with 2tbsp cheese, 2 tbsp sour cream (210)
1 cup manderine oranges (70)
8 small pretzels (package)- (100)
3 oz. Pot Roast with carrots and potatoes (500)
Diet Coke (2)

I have not been hungary all day. Maybe you are not gettin enough carbs.
Whoever said you dont need carbs is lying because they give you energy and
keep you from gettin so hungary.