Does eating less than 1000 calories a day hurt you more than eating more than your target calorie.
Does eating less than 1000 calories a day hurt you more than eating more than your target calorie. The past 4 days i have eaten less than 1000 calories and really had to push myself to eat that much. i just don't feel like eating and i have been excerising for about 30 minutes 2x a day as well and about 15 minutes throughout the day as well.
If you really felt physically "ill" or "too full" on 1,000 calories then it's unlikely you'd have a weight problem.
Dieting isn't all or nothing - to eat a healthy diet you need to have a variety of foods, not just vegetables and fruits but grains, proteins, and healthy fats.
It would be impossible to be getting a wide range of foods and nutrients on less than 1000 calories. You also may be counting wrong, are you measuring all of your foods? it's very easy to underestimate when you're "eyeballing" portions.
Eating less will hurt you in the long run because it's unsustainable. The truth is, you feel full now because you're tricking yourself but your body is hungry and you won't be able to sustain this kind of diet for any extended period of time.
Original Post by lafoutloud01:
If you really felt physically "ill" or "too full" on 1,000 calories then it's unlikely you'd have a weight problem.
Dieting isn't all or nothing - to eat a healthy diet you need to have a variety of foods, not just vegetables and fruits but grains, proteins, and healthy fats.
It would be impossible to be getting a wide range of foods and nutrients on less than 1000 calories.
I have been waiting so long for someone to say this! I am hungry eating only 500 cals less than maintainace. I don't understand feeling stuffed with a large deficit. I guess I can see it as part of a months-long pattern of drastic undereating...
I'm not saying it doesn't happen...
I measure every thing out in cups from 1/4 to a cup and honestly i skip lunch.I drink a lot of water during the day which i buy in the bottles and green tea. I', 5'3 and went to the doctor on wed. and weighed 279.9 and weighed myself on scales when i got home to see if they were off or where they stand with the dr office and they are off by 2 pounds, okay i checked my weight today it reads adding the 2 pounds to it 272.9. i started working anywhere from 30 min. to an hour depending on what i'm doing. sometimes between workout i'll do 15 minutes of workout as well am over doing it.
Here's usually what i eat during the day
Breakfast:
1 c. Special K cereal plain with 1/2 c. skim milk
snack: either an apple or 20 seedless grapes
Lunch:
skip or i will try to eat a grilled cheese sandwich which is made with 100% wheat bread and kraft cheese made with 2% milk
snack: apple
Dinner:
I dont do alot of cooking so if i do it usually consist of either boneless white meat, no skin, and i usually bake it, and 1/4 cup of veggie and 1/4 cup of say potatoes
snack: grapes or apple
I do sometimes feel full on less then 1000 a day but its because I eat a lot of fruits and veges which are low calorie and filling. To up my intake a bit I've tried adding a couple cups of milk each day as well as my water. Also if you are having trouble nuts are good because they arent very filling but have some good healthy fats and give you a lot of energy.
Also, try not to skip lunch, the more smaller things you eat throughout the day the better your metabolism works. I can recomend a couple good recipes as far as stuff thats easy to make a lot of that you can then package up and take for lunch for a few days.
Figuring its okay to eat a bit less is tempting, but dont give it, if you do mess up your metabolism by doing that then you will either gain the weight right back when you reach your goal and go back to eating a little more, be stuck eating that the rest of your life, or even stop losing on that amount because your body will compensate. If you do eat a little less one day, eat a little more the next. This will at least somewhat stop your body from thinking its starving.
I do not know all the potential bad health effects of eating way too little, but you definitely are screwing up your metabolism big time and are going to make it harder to lose weight in the long run. I plugged in your stats to www. phord.com/cc plus some age guesstimates and your basal metabolic rate is about 1850 to 1950 calories per day. This is the amount you should burn just by being alive and does not take into account any of your daily activities. With the amount you exercise you are probably burning something closer to 3000 calories per day.
I don't think four days will hurt too much, but keeping up that type of calorie deficit will be bad in the long run.
Drink a couple of glasses of Orange Juice and you will get 110 - 120 calories per glass. Silk Soymilk has 100 calories per glass.
Four days may not affect you. But eating too little on a regular basis is damaging chiefly because it results in malnutrition. You simply can't get the right nutrition from a massively reduced food intake. So that puts you in the path of anaemia (iron deficiency), B vitamin deficiencies, skeletal problems through lack of calcium, loss of periods, hair-loss, skin problems, weakened immune system... all kinds of nasty things. Patients post gastric surgery taking in very little food have terrible difficulties with this and need to take supplements all the time.
Irregular eating & skipping meals is a really unhealthy habit. If your blood-sugars drop too low because of lack of food and/or going too long between meals you can find your moods are affected to the point of depression, you feel ill and you lack energy. So you have to start eating lunch again...
The fact that you don't feel like eating isn't good because it's often a sign that the metabolism has crashed. It's not a good thing for someone that needs to lose a lot of weight to have a slow metabolism.... makes weight-loss very difficult and weight-gain much easier. Again, I'd cite post gastric-band patients as examples of how very low calorie diets can seriously backfire.
If you need 1800-1900 cals a day to lose weight do make sure you get it from now on. Map your day out, for example so that you get a 400 cal breakfast, 500 cal lunch, 600 cal supper and 300-400 cals of snacks in between. As your weight gradually drops you will have to revise that intake downwards in order to keep up the pace. Lose one of the snacks, for example. If you're starting at sub 1000 you've got nowhere to go....
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Biiiig mistake!
After getting into the swing of things last year I ended up doing this most days, eating about 800 calories a day. It was great to start with, and I ended up at my dream goal weight. However, once I started eating a "normal" calorie amount for my height/weight the weight just piled back on again, so I eventually ended up almost back where I started.
It isn't worth it!
Make sure you get enough healthy snacks throughout the day, e.g. loads of fruits, vegetables and nuts and you should be sorted :)
Side note:
Current psychological theories believe that hunge isn't related to nutrient and calorie value in food at all. Go look up the "positive incentive theory" of hunger. Your body may still need the excess calories, even if you don't feel hungry at the end of the day. Hope that helps!
The way i have looked at getting the calories i need in a day is thinking that im eating to loose weight on a day that maybe im busy and dont slow down all day and forget or i just dont feel like anything i have in my house to eat or just dont want to eat at all i try to remind myself that to make sure my weight loss keeps going and i stay healthy that i need to find something to eat. I have my own issues around my weight and my self esteem but i have always been concious of my habits as far as making sure i am eating enough and as healthy as i can on a budget and with a somewhat picky family. everytime you think you feel full concider what you ate and how many calories it was then think of how many you need if you didnt eat enough push a little, your mind could be fighting your body.
