892 calories in one day ?

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Tomorrow I'm starting on a very strict diet. I thought why not sign up on fitday to keep track of my weight loss ? So I keyed in what I ate today...

It adds up to 972 calories! Surprises me, I thought I ate alot. I know many say say about the Starvation Mode theory but I don't feel hungry at all! Is this the metabolism doing its work since I've been adjusting my lifestyle?

I'm now 89kg, I'm aiming to atleast go into the 70kgs zone. I've been on this diet for 1 month, my weight is still the same but I'm not giving up. Not only to lose weight, I also aim to be healthier.

I'm going on a strict eating until I reach my goal, I'm not rushing.

This is my plan.
M - Wholemeal tuna sandwhich
Snack - Fuji Apple
L - Chicken Salad w/ Thousand Island dressing (Reduce chicken)
Snack - Fuji Apple
Dinner - Salad only w/ Thousand Island dressing
Supplement - 2 tables of Vitamin C

I don't drink tea, coffee. No more coke/soda for the past 4 months. Avoiding all soda/sweet beverages and will only stick to water not only for the diet, forever.

I exercise for 30 minutes, intense exercise. I'm increasing some of the reps of the exercise by tomorrow.

What do you think of this plan ? I hope you could give me some tips and advice.

Thank you!
 
Why go so strict?

And if you're going that strict you are rushing -Why?

Why not go with something you can stick with for the rest of your life...

Do you honestly expect the weight to stay off once you reach your goal?
 
from a thread recently posted.
Myth No. 8: To lose weight, you need to cut calories drastically.
The Theory: Eat much less; weigh much less.

The Reality: Sure, if you subsist on 1,200 calories a day, you’ll take off weight, but it won’t be for long. Consider an analysis of 31 studies of long-term diets, where the diets averaged 1,200 calories a day. The report, published last April in American Psychologist, found that within four to five years, the majority of dieters in these studies regained the weight they had lost. “Psychologically, it’s difficult for people to adhere to strict diets over a long period because they feel deprived and hungry,” says Traci Mann, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis, and the lead author of the report. “Also, our bodies are brilliant at keeping us alive when we try to starve them.” Your body becomes more efficient at using the calories you consume, so you need fewer to survive. In addition, people who are put on a very-low-calorie diet (800 calories a day) have an increased risk of developing gallstones and digestive issues.

The Best Advice: Don’t starve yourself. “If you want to lose weight and keep it off forever, you need a modest calorie restriction that you simply continue and never stop,” says nutritionist Christopher Gardner. But what’s the right number of calories for you? Use this easy formula, a favorite of cardiologist Thomas Lee, editor in chief of the Harvard Heart Letter.

First find your activity level on the table below. Multiply your weight by the number indicated. (You may fall between two categories. If that’s the case, adjust the number by adding a point or so.) The result is the number of calories you need to maintain your weight. Let’s say you weigh 135 pounds and do light exercise one to three days a week. Multiply 135 by 13.5 to get, approximately, 1,800 calories. If you want to drop some pounds, try cutting out 250 calories a day, says Lee. In a year, if you make no other changes, you could be 26 pounds lighter. Exercise more and you could lose more, too.

And Your Number Is…
You Exercise: Almost never
Multiply Your Current Weight By: 12

You Exercise: Lightly, one to three days a week
Multiply Your Current Weight By: 13.5

You Exercise: Moderately, three to five days a week
Multiply Your Current Weight By: 15.5

You Exercise: Vigorously, six to seven days a week
Multiply Your Current Weight By: 17

You Exercise: Vigorously, daily, and you have a physical job
Multiply Your Current Weight By: 19
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You will NEVER touch anything but water again? Dream on! LOL

Huge changes often are very hard to keep up. You're better off making some realistic changes and going from there. Say limiting your drinks to water and cutting back on portion sizes, or cutting out junk if that's what made you gain the weight.

Its hard to answer your question without knowing your weight and height and how you have been eating before your strict diet that you'll start tomorrow and that we ALL wish we could keep up forever.

You should probably have a protein with your dinner as well.

Good luck!
 
Trust me, going strict is not the answer. These guys schooled me on that. I work hard to get my consumption up to 1800 a day, sometimes I make it, sometimes I'm over. Once I did that, I started to drop.

You can have herbal tea with no sweetener. I don't drink much else aside from water and herbal tea. I just do it, don't think about it. I have 1/2 cup of soymilk in my smoothie in the morning and that's it.

Now once I'm back down to my size, I will have a coffee now and again and maybe fresh juice. :)

Anyway, just by looking at your meal plan, your protien is lacking. And your whole grain carbs is low (or non existent).

You really need to eat more food. Why make yourself miserable?
 
Yeah lol, listen to them, they know what they're talking about. I was on a 800 calorie diet at 6 foot 242 lbs, I was actually gaining weight instead of losing it!

Take all the advice you can get from these guys and girls, they're brill. :blush5:
 
Then how did my brother did it ? His weight loss plan is almost the same as mine and he's looking great after 4 months.

I'm confused, should I got with this diet or just go back to my old habit of eating ?
 
Tell us what becomes of your brother when he stops eating so little. No one keeps this up forever as we're just made to normally eat at least 1600 calories a day and for men way more. Because your brother has gotten his body used to surviving on so little, as soon as he adds some more food (like normal portion sizes) he will surely put his weight back on.

I came down with the flu yesterday so I could only eat around 900 to 1000 calories. Well I lost 3 pounds overnight. Yippee, except last time I got sick and didn't eat I lost about 5 pounds in 3 days, but honestly I actually gained more back as soon as I started eating normally again. Being sick was a total waste LOL!

Focus on HOW YOU GOT TO WHERE YOU ARE and make changes based on that. Do you eat lots of junk? Fast food? Healthy but large portions? Are you getting enough physical activity (remember humans used to be very physically active during most of our history)? Most importantly, how many calories do you eat on a normal day without any dieting (you can calculate this in fitday.com or list your food here for a day or two and we'll help figure it out)?
 
Just to keep up with the forums, I actually lost 4kg!

Blancita : My brother is now actually doing well, he still eats healthy and the diet is now a lifestyle for him. I stopped eating junk food 6 months ago and will never eat junk food again. Not only because of diet but also personal beliefs of junk food society.

I lift weights everyday intensely for 30 minutes, on Fridays I will usually play a sports game and on Sunday I will take a long walk or run once in a while (not been running properly, pain on the back)

Thanks for the reply Blancita!
 
I can't imagine that diet would work in the long-term. However, it is your diet and if you can keep with it and enjoy it then power to you. I used to eat a banana and breakfast bar in the morning, salad with turkey in it for lunch and then a low cal high protein dinner. That was my diet for about 6 months and by the second month I hated it. Now I try to eat healthy and workout to keep the weight off. I think some people put too much emphasis on the amount of calories they intake and not enough on the food they eat.

Drinking primarily water is a great way to help boost the weight loss process. I drink nothing but water Monday through Saturday. On sundays I have beer because I am a guy and a sports fan. I never get sick of water so that part of the diet I can see sticking around even after you shed the additional weight.

Good luck to you.
 
if you actually manage to lose weight, you will gain every bit of it back and then some. ask me how i know. i did this for years and it sucked.
 
How can I possibly gain every bit of it back ? This is a change of lifestyle, I'm not going to stop exercising after I reach my goal. I was an unhealthy eater before and now I'm trying to eat all the healthy foods.

I don't starve myself really, when I'm hungry, I just eat some salad or drink water, I don't feel hungry at all.

All this while I've been saying that my brother is my inspiration. He still looks great after a year of this diet.

Thanks for the replies everyone.
 
I understand what you are saying about changing your lifestyle through your eating habits. That is what most of us did. I think what boggles people is the low calorie intake. Your brother lost the weight and kept it off, that is great. Personally I think it is better to let your body find its natural weight through a healthy lifestyle slowly. You can eat healthy and lose weight w/o going so strict.

My main concern about such a low calorie diet is not the weight part, it is the nutrition part. How could you get everything you need on 892 calories a day? Protien for muscles, Calcium for bones, All the vitamins that are required? How would your brain function?

But hey, if you really want to go that way, I'm not here to discourage. :biggrinjester:
 
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If you eat 900 calories until you reach you goal, then go back to eating normally...you will gain the weight back. You yourself said "I'm going on a strict eating until I reach my goal". So I assume you don't plan to eat like this forever...and if you do, you are in denial. A normal person cannot function effectively on that kind of caloric intake. You said your goal is to be healthy. This is not healthy. But hey, don't what you want. Just don't expect other people to agree with the abuse your giving your body.
 
There for awhile, I was eating around 1200-1500 calories a day and I was miserable. Last year, there was even a point where I was getting dizzy just sitting down and blacking out. If you keep this up, it will happen to you and you'll eventually start to lose hair and have other side effects.
 
busy91 said:
I understand what you are saying about changing your lifestyle through your eating habits. That is what most of us did. I think what boggles people is the low calorie intake. Your brother lost the weight and kept it off, that is great. Personally I think it is better to let your body find its natural weight through a healthy lifestyle slowly. You can eat healthy and lose weight w/o going so strict.

My main concern about such a low calorie diet is not the weight part, it is the nutrition part. How could you get everything you need on 892 calories a day? Protien for muscles, Calcium for bones, All the vitamins that are required? How would your brain function?
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mastersync-
I couldn't agree with busy91 more. Gradual is best, don't shock your body. There's something to be said for quality of life too- you can't feel your best bringing in less than 1000 calories per day. With how often you're working out, you should bring in no less than 2000 cal.

Excellent job kicking the high cal drinks. Stick with water or green tea.
 
Now that I think about it, I think I'm going to step up my calorie intake just a bit. I'm consuming around 500cals per day, pretty crazy, but that is according to fitday.com. Maybe an error on the website, haha.

Anyway, I'm now 83kg, lost 6kg. I'm maintaining the weight until the holidays come where I'm going to exercise more intensely.

Thanks all for help, don't worry, I'm feeling fine and I'm not forcing myself.
 
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