Weight-Loss Extremely low calorie diets

Weight-Loss
Oh look, tis me.. Anyways, just to add to this thread. Most, and by most I mean more than 90% but am too lazy to actually dig up sources, people who loose weight fast, gains it back again and in a fair amount of the cases with some added weight on top due to lean body mass loss and metabolism adjustment due to starving yourself. Now like both steve and kara has pointed out in other posts the "starvation mode" thing is hyped, but your metabolism does change in small ways when you go below your BMR, and this will hurt you in the long run if you don't fix it, and fixing it can take a damn while.

On the other hand, people who don't diet but "just" change their life and go for "living like the person they want to be" I know this is a trite sentence but I couldn't make one up that sounded less like a bad reality show, have waaaay more success in the long run.
 
It makes me sad to hear that people are only taking in 400 or 700 calories a day because they think it's the fastest route to the body they want.

It's the fastest route to a hospital...
 
Very interesting post as I will admit that I am one suffering from the low cal diet thing myself. I consume 400-700 calories a day. Not thinking about it but its just as much as I can eat and I feel full. I couldnt imagine eating 1200 calories in a day. I think I would probably end up puking but Im working on getting there. Emerald I know you read my post today and im in a very bad spot health wise and i realize it but im trying to improve my calorie intake. It wont happen over night but ill get there. The whole nazi starvation thing is very interesting and to be honest I never thought about it. Why? Because that was a long time ago and way before i was even brought into this world. I learned about it in school and was very interested in that topic but at the time i was very over weight and couldnt imagine not eating everything in sight. Now I have been living on liquids and pretty much maybe if i felt i could handle it a small meal a day. I consumed 610 calories today and cant imagine putting anything else into my stomach. It took me two hours to get down 1 cup of solid food today and i keep telling myself that tomorrow will be better and in all reality idk if it will be until tomorrow is here. We will see what happens I guess. As for all the fighting on this post, speaking for others, people dont come to these post looking for arguments on who is right and who is wrong. Rather people come to this post in despiration, sadness, hopelessness for help or come in happiness and proudness of their sucess. Thanks for this post big time and im not ashamed to post in the open in front of others.
 
nena2011 said:
Very interesting post as I will admit that I am one suffering from the low cal diet thing myself. I consume 400-700 calories a day. Not thinking about it but its just as much as I can eat and I feel full. I couldnt imagine eating 1200 calories in a day. I think I would probably end up puking but Im working on getting there. Emerald I know you read my post today and im in a very bad spot health wise and i realize it but im trying to improve my calorie intake. It wont happen over night but ill get there. The whole nazi starvation thing is very interesting and to be honest I never thought about it. Why? Because that was a long time ago and way before i was even brought into this world. I learned about it in school and was very interested in that topic but at the time i was very over weight and couldnt imagine not eating everything in sight. Now I have been living on liquids and pretty much maybe if i felt i could handle it a small meal a day. I consumed 610 calories today and cant imagine putting anything else into my stomach. It took me two hours to get down 1 cup of solid food today and i keep telling myself that tomorrow will be better and in all reality idk if it will be until tomorrow is here. We will see what happens I guess. As for all the fighting on this post, speaking for others, people dont come to these post looking for arguments on who is right and who is wrong. Rather people come to this post in despiration, sadness, hopelessness for help or come in happiness and proudness of their sucess. Thanks for this post big time and im not ashamed to post in the open in front of others.
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I did read your post today. You're situation is a bit different but it reminded me of this thread.
I hope you get better soon hun. *hug*
 
aww thanks emerald please stay in touch!
 
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