Weight-Loss Eating

[ImWasser]

Well, just recently I've decided that I want to lose weight. (Acutally, I've wanted to for a long time, it's just now that I've actaully started.)

Well, one thing that somebody told me was to only eat when I'm hungry. Alright, that seems fair enough and reasonable.

And honestly, I'm not really that hungry. When I really look at it as when I'm hungry and not hungry, I really don't eat that much.

I only really eat about 600-750 Calories a day.

And from reading online, it seems that that's not good at all. I'm supposed to be eating 2k> calories?

I'm currently 17 years old, roughly 5'9 (Haven't measured my height in a while) and weigh 180.

I do physical things such as walk from here to there with friends. And I do try to do a run at least once a day. So I'm not completely inactive, but I am definitely active to a degree.

Anyways, thanks for your time.

EDIT: I also forgot to add... if this is bad like I mentioned, why is it bad for you? The simple concept is: If you eat less, you burn it all faster.

 

[mjbelkin]

if this is bad like I mentioned, why is it bad for you? The simple concept is: If you eat less, you burn it all faster.

Its not the case. If you don't eat enough your body goes into 'starvation mode' and uses up calories at the slowest possible rate it can.

In simple terms, your body imagines that for some reason food is scarce so holds onto it rather than burning it at the same rate.

 

[maleficent]

Do a search on the thread called Starvation... you'llg et your answers..

while you're at it - read the rest of the stickies arond the forum...