so im a guy and im supposed to have 680 cal a day huh?

so i was bored and just surfing random diets forums... well according to the people at the south beach forums, for my stats (5'10, 138, male, 21) i should be consuming around 680 cals... lol. no i am not following that advice at all, i eat about 1800 a day for maintenence, i just thought it was kinda funny. anyone else ever just look around other forums to see what kind of things other people do for diets?

on what did they base that conclusion?

I've done my best to stay away from the extreme diets, such as that.

680 calories? Dear god. I don't see that working for them very well. :p

Nah, I follow good advice. :)

How on earth can a male who is 5'10" only weigh 138 lbs? I know it's supposedly on the "normal" range of the BMI scale, but still...

that's awful!!!  how can they give ppl such bad advice... lol... 

I had plenty of guy friends at 21 that were tall and skinny. I dated a guy that was 6' tall and weighed 135. He was a skinny minny, but he ate plenty. He has since filled out a bit, but I don't think it was abnormal for him.

Different folks, different bodies.

well, i used to weigh 230, but over 2 years i have done everything i could to eat healthy and go to the gym a lot, so its not like im gifted in anyway lol, but it took a lot of work to get here, and im just trying to maintain now.

Today the nutritionist told me that I should be eating at least 2300-2600 cals a day to maintain given my activity levels (I work out 5 days a week for 1 hour, and I'm 22, 6'1" 172lbs). She also said that while I was at a healthy weight, I really shouldn't allow myself to drop any lower.
1,800 calories is probably too low to adequately maintain, but I guess numbers don't matter if 1,800 works for you. I wish I could maintain at 1,800.

since ive moved to okinawa, i have been a lazy person and dont go to the gym anymore thou. so the cals are low because i really dont do much anymore, i just run like 3 times a week, and thats really only because its mandatory. i want to start going back to the gym, 5 days a week about an hour long, but its been so long and ive gotten lazy :P ill be starting again soon thou

yeah sometimes I look around other forums and stuff just for ideas on how to spice it up abit, you know recipes, exercise tips, etc...
But so many diet forums advise eating tiny amounts of calories... like exercise and diet so that you have 2000+ deficits! its unreal!

OP, this has nothing to do with the thread, but have you named yourself 'ninja warrior' because you love the show? I have am a huge addict! My fav competetor was makoto nagano, he was so hardcore!!
this guy did sit ups from off the side of his ship jesus christ.

anyways, that was neither here nor there. Sorry for the derail.

but on topic:

the only other forum I look at is bodybuilding.com. They are so hardcore there. These are the bodybuilders who only eat chicken, steamed veggies, brown rice, and protein shakes and shun everything else, and lift 6 days a week. So hardcore. I actually got on the wrong track at first, but I am going to visit there more often once I take up a lifting regimen when I come back from study abroad in July.

Ricen- lol actually i had never heard of the show. i just made up a name real quick because ninja/warrior was what i played in ffxi online lolz. (75nin/75war ffxi - phoenix server) (70 BE Hunter WoW - thaurissian) (i know almost nobody knows what that means but ima huge online gaming addict - mmo's ftw) (sry off topic lolz)

Jesus christ you play WoW AND ffxi! How the hell do you function?

I stay away from all of those games like the plague.

Since you are japan, look up a sports show called Sasuke. Ninja warrior is the name they have given it for us american audience, as it is the closest translation they could find, IMHO. (sasuke was a famous ninja).

The show is like american gladiator with no story and Japan's intolerance of failure. ^_^. Back on topic, everyone.

Diet is a nasty 4 letter word. When I hear or see it, I move on. What I eat and don't eat is simply my lifestyle. It's different than it used to be, but it's not a diet. I think the term scares folks and maybe if they'd look at it differently, they might be more successful. Not eating fast food for instance, is just the way it is.

Now, I did try low carb once. I lost a couple pounds and decided to take pieces of so-called diets and used my own common sense to merge them into what I consider just my way of doing things. I tried that hideous NutriSystem. You can easily loose weight on that garbage because it taste no better than the box it comes in. Looks nothing like it did on TV. I threw it all away. I figured I didn't need to follow anyone else's plan. 40 pounds later, I think I made the right choice. No sugar, no salt, lots of exercise and water. Try it, works great!

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 lol, people just bump random threads these days that are 3 years old .