Lighter Life 500 Calories a day...

Drinking only liquids and eating snack bars?

500 Calories can't do much good can it? But loads of people claim that they lose so much weight on this diet...

I was just wondering if anyone had tried it or knew someone who had...I've heard it's very expensive aswell :/

i'm sure it works... but easily fails b/c you don't feel satisfied, ever. and i'm positive that it's not healthy for you, at all.

Your organs can't fuction on 500 calories a day, so this is a very bad idea. It would be liek being anorexic, and your body would destroy itself.

Original Post by insaynaudio:

Your organs can't fuction on 500 calories a day, so this is a very bad idea. It would be liek being anorexic, and your body would destroy itself.

 i totally agree.

your hair would begin to thin, your nails would brittle, and your skin would be dull and lackluster.

if you want to be thin but look like hell, go for it. our bodies are like plants, dont give it enough sunlight and water (or vitamins and minerals in human terms) and it will surely shrivel and die.

I've tried the Master Cleanse diet, which means you go about 10ish days not eating, but drinking this yummy lemonade stuff. I was only on it for two days to start with, and I lost about 3 lbs. I gained about one of those pounds off though. I may have gotten good results, but it's really hard to stay on it for long and plus once you go off of it and start eating normal, you gain it all back. I wouldn't recommend it, because I didn't feel that good during those two days and had trouble exercizing.

Even though I'm back to eating, I do still drink the lemonade, and it's really good. 8 oz of water, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, 2 tablespoons of organic grade B syrup, and a dash of cayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper seems majorly weird to put in the lemonade, but it gives it a kick and I actually like of like it. The lemonade gives you a lot of nutrients.

Definitely NOT a good idea.  You should at least consume about 1200 calories.  If you don't you have no energy, constant headaches, and tiredness, it's horrible, (I did 900 per day to prove to my brother I could, and it was HORRIBLE).  You crave food, and liquids can't satisfy you, so don't even try.

it works. but i wouldn't recommend it. that 500 cal diet turned into years of bulimia and anorexia, but that's just me. maybe some people have sense enough to just do it for a little while but it turned into an obsession for me.

look if your just setting out to lose weight im sure that diet would do it and fast... but keeping it off after would be a lot of work and the diet itself would make you feel terible. be good to your body and do it the healthy way. ive been on a filling, healthly diet for a couple weeks now and its been great. i hardly find it difficult at all anymore and my skin looks the best its looked in years (i have a hard time controling breakouts) and i feel amazing. theres so many benifits to dieting the healthy way other than just loosing weight so be good to yourself and dont be deprived of them.

I've been living off 500-800 calories a day for the last few, let's say 6, months. My hair isn't thinning. My skin is actually doing better than it had been before I started trying to lose weight. My nails, well I wouldn't know if they were brittle or not, because I bite them. And I have no problem living off of 500 calories a day; I just eat mostly fruit and vegetables, very little grains, and I'm vegan so no meat and cheese. I always feel full and satisfied. Sounds all good and fun, right?

Not really.

My periods stopped four months ago and haven't come back.

I have at least 2 binging fits per week because my body is trying to take over and feed me properly all the time. Not to mention my willpower is a little shaky after not allowing myself any treats.

My grades in school are dropping - and I used to be top of the class in everything.

I used to have low blood pressure. Now I have extreme low blood pressure. I get dizzy if I stand up too fast. My limbs get pins and needles even if there's only pressure on them for 5 minutes. I am shaky all the time, which means I am constantly spilling things.

I put on weight if I eat more than 800 calories. Sick, right? Especially when I should be living off of twice that.

But the worst part? I know it's wrong, and I can't stop. I am actually afraid of eating more than I am. I have had several awakenings, i.e. realising what I'm doing is wrong and unhealthy. The most recent of these was when I read that my period had probably stopped because of malnutrition. But I still can't bring myself to eat more than 800 calories. I eat more for one day, weigh and measure myself the next, and I'm right back into it. In fact, most days after I've eaten more than my target, I don't eat anything at all. I'm that scared of what the effects will have on my weight.

You think that if you do this this stuff won't happen to you? I'm not anorexic. I'm not ridiculously skinny. When I started it, I was basically thinking, "I'll just do it until I get to my target weight, then I'll stop and eat normally again." Bzzt. Wrong answer. I got to my target weight and thought "okay, I'll lay off now." I did just that, and I put on 2kg again. I was gaining weight from eating the recommended amount! So I just said ok, I'll just have to stay on 500 calories, that's fine. I lost more weight. And more. I was 50.5 kilos - far underweight for my height, but I didn't look it. My mom got so scared and angry that she threatened to take my possessions until I was back up to 52 again. We made a deal and called it 51.5.

But that's not the end of the story. I still haven't stopped. I can't bring myself to do it. I'm too afraid of gaining that weight back again. The last 4 days I've been eating 1000 calories. Of course I've gained weight. Yesterday I didn't eat anything to compensate, and I plan on doing the same today. It's not over, and I don't know when or if it ever will.

So please, PLEASE, don't make yourself do this. It is not healthy. Yes, you lose heaps of weight, but that's not what you want to lose. You want to lose fat. Most of the weight I lost was muscle. All of the weight I put back on is fat.

Please, for your own sake, don't do this.

A female under the age of 21 should eat a MINIMUM of 1500 calories a day. That's about how much you'll burn... in a coma.

I lost 11 kg and It's hard for me 2 to stop I have 1,68m and 47 kg i rarely eat more than 1000kcal a day