Weight-Loss Did I eat enough today?
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dreamtobethin
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You are at a serious calorie deficit 466 calories consumer all day 
that is too low..I also notice that you have not had your breakfast; breakfast is the most important meal of the day..it gets your metabolism going...also just eating two meals does not suffice; you need to eat atleast 5-6 meals over the course of the day having the right amount of proteins, carbs, veggies, fruits and healthy foods within your caloric value for the day. Also remember to drink atleast 64 oz of water a day; cannot stress enough on the importance of water when you are on a diet.
It is difficult to set absolute bottom calorie levels, because everyone has different body composition and activity levels. Health authorities do set some baselines - these are 1200 calories per day for women, and 1800 calories per day for men. again this depends on factors such as - are you are sedentary person with little muscle mass? Or someone who is tall, muscular, and exercises a lot? Absolute levels don't work but using the URL below you can see how many approximate calories you should be consuming.
When reducing calories:
Try not to lower your calorie intake by more than 1000 calories below maintenance. Doing so may invoke the bodies starvation response, which can lead to the Yo-yo dieting effect.
Try to gradually lower calories. A sudden drop (such as 500 calories or more) can cause your metabolism to slow.
What happens when calories are too low?
1) Muscle mass is broken down for energy (catabolism).
2) Metabolic rate will begin to drop (typically) after 3 days of very low calories - this is related to, and compounded by the loss of muscle mass.
3) With very low calories you risk sluggishness, nutritional deficiencies, fatigue, and often irritability.
You are completely set-up for a regain in fat if you suddenly return to your previous eating patterns.
Use the following link to determine your calorie needs for the day
that is too low..I also notice that you have not had your breakfast; breakfast is the most important meal of the day..it gets your metabolism going...also just eating two meals does not suffice; you need to eat atleast 5-6 meals over the course of the day having the right amount of proteins, carbs, veggies, fruits and healthy foods within your caloric value for the day. Also remember to drink atleast 64 oz of water a day; cannot stress enough on the importance of water when you are on a diet.It is difficult to set absolute bottom calorie levels, because everyone has different body composition and activity levels. Health authorities do set some baselines - these are 1200 calories per day for women, and 1800 calories per day for men. again this depends on factors such as - are you are sedentary person with little muscle mass? Or someone who is tall, muscular, and exercises a lot? Absolute levels don't work but using the URL below you can see how many approximate calories you should be consuming.
When reducing calories:
Try not to lower your calorie intake by more than 1000 calories below maintenance. Doing so may invoke the bodies starvation response, which can lead to the Yo-yo dieting effect.
Try to gradually lower calories. A sudden drop (such as 500 calories or more) can cause your metabolism to slow.
What happens when calories are too low?
1) Muscle mass is broken down for energy (catabolism).
2) Metabolic rate will begin to drop (typically) after 3 days of very low calories - this is related to, and compounded by the loss of muscle mass.
3) With very low calories you risk sluggishness, nutritional deficiencies, fatigue, and often irritability.
You are completely set-up for a regain in fat if you suddenly return to your previous eating patterns.
Use the following link to determine your calorie needs for the day
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sirant
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Wow, seeing a lot of these kinds of posts these days...
Faster is beter, even if you are hurting yourself...
This seems to be the common opinion. I wish more people would read the success stories and pay more attention to how the winners in the fat loss game are doing it. I have not heard of anyone having long term success by starving themselves.... Ever.
466 calories is a meal, and even then you should be eating 4-5 of those a day depending on your age, weight and activity levels.
Take it from a guy who has had friends hospitalized due to undereating, getting skinny at the cost of your health is never worth it. Sure, you could make a nice looking corpse, but I always figured the reason behind losing weight was to look and feel better and enjoy life more. Hard to enjoy life from a hospital bed with your friends and family standing around telling you what a dummy you are... Ask my friend Michelle in Vancouver, thats EXACLTY what happened to her.
TO be quite frank, if you keep depriving your body of fuel, then try running on a regular basis, be prepared to get dizzy and pass out. Your body is a high performance machine and deserves to be treated as such. If you dont put enough fuel in the tank, you will never finish the race. You can have the fastest stock car in the world, but you wont win if you run out of gas.
Bottom line.
Do some reading here on the site and you will see that eating like you are will not only slow down your weight loss, but will very likely, if continued, end you up under medical care and permanently damaging your body.
sirant
Faster is beter, even if you are hurting yourself...
This seems to be the common opinion. I wish more people would read the success stories and pay more attention to how the winners in the fat loss game are doing it. I have not heard of anyone having long term success by starving themselves.... Ever.
466 calories is a meal, and even then you should be eating 4-5 of those a day depending on your age, weight and activity levels.
Take it from a guy who has had friends hospitalized due to undereating, getting skinny at the cost of your health is never worth it. Sure, you could make a nice looking corpse, but I always figured the reason behind losing weight was to look and feel better and enjoy life more. Hard to enjoy life from a hospital bed with your friends and family standing around telling you what a dummy you are... Ask my friend Michelle in Vancouver, thats EXACLTY what happened to her.
TO be quite frank, if you keep depriving your body of fuel, then try running on a regular basis, be prepared to get dizzy and pass out. Your body is a high performance machine and deserves to be treated as such. If you dont put enough fuel in the tank, you will never finish the race. You can have the fastest stock car in the world, but you wont win if you run out of gas.
Bottom line.
Do some reading here on the site and you will see that eating like you are will not only slow down your weight loss, but will very likely, if continued, end you up under medical care and permanently damaging your body.
sirant
miracle
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Using , enter your details and see what it shows you.
It will give you a Maintain number, yours is 2130. This is the amount you can eat per day and still maintain your weight, but that is with little or no exercise. Do more exercise, and you can eat more. It's good to exericse anyway.
You get 1664 more calories than you're eating now.
It will give you a Maintain number, yours is 2130. This is the amount you can eat per day and still maintain your weight, but that is with little or no exercise. Do more exercise, and you can eat more. It's good to exericse anyway.
You get 1664 more calories than you're eating now.
sirant
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So what have you been doing since last summer? eating less than 500 calories a day? Or is this something you just started? I am sorry, but I can't believe you have been eating so little for a year with no side effects. So this has to be something new.
What are you more afraid of:
gaining weight?
or
malnourishment -not having enough food to develop or function formally?
One requires watching what you eat and execising to maintain your weight.
The other puts you in hospital or kills you.
But something just doesnt add up. If you lost 50+ pounds last summer and are just now starving yourself, seriously, why the big panic all of a sudden? What has changed? Are you making up for something else? Binging? Partying? etc.
What AREN'T you telling us?
I can see this thread going nowhere fast.
My last point on this topic is simply this, by eating the way you are you are hurting yourself. If your vanity is worth losing your health, well, keep eating at starvation levels, but don't be suprised at the very negative outcome that will follow. Talk to your family or doctor, see what they tell you....
Malnutrition leading to death is a guaranteed weight loss technique, is a little extreme..... Everyone in the graveyard is skinny. Every single one of them.
sirant
I kept collapsing when I was under eating, my energy levels crashed, and that was at 800kcal (1000kcal maybe being burnt off at the gym, how the F*ck I kept that up I have no idea) But since going back to maintenance for 2months, I'm losing just as much as I was then, but I'm on 2500kcal now and feeling ALOT better for it.
Eat more! I get it's hard when you've been overweight, but it's worked for us eh ? You're no different.
Eat more!
I get it's hard when you've been overweight, but it's worked for us eh ? You're no different.How did I do today
Breakfast:
bowl of cinnamon toast crunch (1 cup)
4 large strawberries
cup of milk with cereal
lunch time
2 bowls of fruit
=4 cups of strawberries mixed with black berries
Dinner: Taco Salad
1 cup of diced tomatos
3/4 cup of taco beef
1 cup of lettuce
1 cup of cantalope
This averaged around 1000 calories.
Breakfast:
bowl of cinnamon toast crunch (1 cup)
4 large strawberries
cup of milk with cereal
lunch time
2 bowls of fruit
=4 cups of strawberries mixed with black berries
Dinner: Taco Salad
1 cup of diced tomatos
3/4 cup of taco beef
1 cup of lettuce
1 cup of cantalope
This averaged around 1000 calories.
sirant
New member
Your eating is terrible.....
If this is your average daily eating you are really not doing yourself any favours. Limiting your daily protein intake so much is simply not healthy, nor is eating just fruit for lunch and processed sugar (cereal) for breakfast.
I am beginning to suspect you are just here wanting to justify your very bad eating habits.
I reccomend instead of listing the bad foods you eat each day that you do some reading here in the forum on some diaries or stickies about nutrition and the importance of eating properly.
Unless of course you thrive off of the negativity of everyone telling you how poorly you are eating. The answer to this question, like the first one, is no, you are not eating properly. You will end up doing damage or failure in the future if you continue to do so.
Under nourishment does not equal weight loss success. But it most certainly has been the downfall of many here, including myself in the past.
Worst case scenario go talk to a doctor or dietician and get their professional input on your eating habits. I am sure they will be just as shocked as I am.
Another thing you can do right now which may help is going to and using their free online calorie counter. You will see very quickly that you are under estimating your calories. I punched in what you listed above and it only comes up to 750 calories for the day.
This kind of "dieting" may work for fashion models and paris hilton, but then again they have the money to go get professional help when their worlds crash around them. Do you?
sirant
If this is your average daily eating you are really not doing yourself any favours. Limiting your daily protein intake so much is simply not healthy, nor is eating just fruit for lunch and processed sugar (cereal) for breakfast.
I am beginning to suspect you are just here wanting to justify your very bad eating habits.
I reccomend instead of listing the bad foods you eat each day that you do some reading here in the forum on some diaries or stickies about nutrition and the importance of eating properly.
Unless of course you thrive off of the negativity of everyone telling you how poorly you are eating. The answer to this question, like the first one, is no, you are not eating properly. You will end up doing damage or failure in the future if you continue to do so.
Under nourishment does not equal weight loss success. But it most certainly has been the downfall of many here, including myself in the past.
Worst case scenario go talk to a doctor or dietician and get their professional input on your eating habits. I am sure they will be just as shocked as I am.
Another thing you can do right now which may help is going to and using their free online calorie counter. You will see very quickly that you are under estimating your calories. I punched in what you listed above and it only comes up to 750 calories for the day.
This kind of "dieting" may work for fashion models and paris hilton, but then again they have the money to go get professional help when their worlds crash around them. Do you?
sirant
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