If I don't eat every 2-3 hours I get very weak and faint and am only eating 1200 c a day.

@Neion If you eat every 3 waking hours your only going to get in about 5, or maybe 6 meals a day. Eating 300-400 calories a meal can make perfect sense for a lot of people.

JRose, you are right. Danielle, you feel sick because you have trained your body to be that way. You can train your body to eat only one meal a day, it just takes about 2 weeks for your body to adjust. Just look up intermittent fasting. Best protocol ever.

known fact. Eating less food more frequently keeps your body running better and burns off more fat. If you're eating 2 huge meals a day and that's all, there is going to be down time where your body isn't burning fat as fast. Common knowledge come on

DanielleL why so low in calories? I would feel faint too at your height and weight. Your maintenance cals are probably around 2072. You shouldn't be too much lower than 1572. Numbers are ball park but that's with a 500 cal deficit.