My working diet is a 500 cal diet is anyone eles trying this

terracotta1985

I eat 500-700 calories a day I have oatmeal or grits for breakfast Campbles chicken soup 100% natural chunky for lunch and half to a 4th of a serving of whatever I cook for dinner excluding mac and cheese cant touch that and I cook a main dish and 3 to 4 sides not including the mac and cheese. My work out include 3 times a day routine of walking 2mph for an hour 100 crunches 100 arm circles 25 pushups and 25 squats and I have lost 12 pounds in about 2 and a half weeks and feel better then I have ever in my entire life. Has anyone tried this diet and has it worked for them?

yurika975

I am a bit concerned. I think it's basically due to starving. You're working out too? I think you will find it harder to lose weight this way because you have to restrict even more. Eventually you will be down to 100 to 200 calories. That's what a cup of yogurt? I'm not bashing. I applaud your effort. I just think that eventually the weight will come back and bring many friends...

I say keep the works and increase your calories to support your weight loss. Oatmeal is good and has fiber. May more meatless meals, hummus, veggies. HTH

MelsAuntie

You're either going to be in the ICU or on a slab in the morgue at those calories. I sincerely HOPE no one else is trying this!

violettatx

Sounds like a recipe for gaining all of the weight back as soon as you start eating normally. Good luck!

tbetts23

Good luck keeping that up. Eat at least what MFP set out for you (aka 1200 calories). Enough with the I feel great nonsense.

ChristinaR720

Wowza. I just ate an almost 800-calorie meal for dinner.

What you are doing is extremely dangerous and you are hurting yourself. Please get help.

jess_1993

Please eat more!

ndj1979

in...for the eat more statements....

seriously, I had about 1200 for dinner....and your plan seems destined for crash and burn, followed by a mass binge, followed but a post on the motivational thread about binging ...ahhh the viscous cycle of MFP life...

merryberry99

That doesn't sound safe. Please consider going by what MFP suggests. The body needs food; it needs energy.

marciebrian

never mind. it wasn't going to be kind so I decided to just shut up

devils44

How does the body survive, let alone function on only 500 calories??

LindaMVachon

Wow that is very dangerous. You are not getting everything you need. :explode:

brower47

I think you're trollin.

ndj1979

this is only her third post..I smell troll...

and 500 is the bottom base line figure that your body can deal with but eventually there will be long term metabolic damage and maybe even the dreaded "starvation mode"

ndj1979

I think you're trollin.

i second this...

actually I am giving this my "troll thread stamp of approval"

MelsAuntie

There is a ton of information out there ( also on this site) about how dangerous this is. Unfortunately, as my dad used to say, you can't fix stupid.

Badassey

This is incredibly disordered eating. Please, please never eat less than 1200 calories a day. What you are doing is not healthy, nor is it sustainable. Take care of yourself and eat at least the minimum that MFP is telling you to.

ddhdml

You need to eat more. I eat 1200 calories and excercise and i've lost 18 lbs in 50 days. I plant to lose it and keep it off by eating healthy things

misssiri

OP, are you coming back to defend yourself and your ridiculous diet?


Give me one good reason why you would eat that little and I'll give you a lot of reasons why you shouldn't.

ETA: Losing weight is not a good enough reason btw. You will gain it all back and probably more.

ItsCasey

I eat 500-700 calories a day I have oatmeal or grits for breakfast Campbles chicken soup 100% natural chunky for lunch and half to a 4th of a serving of whatever I cook for dinner excluding mac and cheese cant touch that and I cook a main dish and 3 to 4 sides not including the mac and cheese. My work out include 3 times a day routine of walking 2mph for an hour 100 crunches 100 arm circles 25 pushups and 25 squats and I have lost 12 pounds in about 2 and a half weeks and feel better then I have ever in my entire life. Has anyone tried this diet and has it worked for them?

Yes, I tried that diet. It worked for about 3 weeks. And then collapsing on the floor of my office at the end of the workday seemed like a more feasible idea than walking to my car and driving home. But good luck.

tbetts23

this is only her third post..I smell troll...

and 500 is the bottom base line figure that your body can deal with but eventually there will be long term metabolic damage and maybe even the dreaded "starvation mode"

Can edit but not respond... Trolling....

Sweetrose1963

I don't know how you are living on that small amount of food. Aren't you starving?

jogglesngoggles

not only are you starving yourself, but what little you are giving yourself has little to no nutritional value. Please don't do this to yourself.

DrMonhattan

600 calories? Sounds like breakfast.

Raeontherun

You've got to be kidding me.......

skymel14

Let me start by saying that I agree with everyone else on here, that 500 calories/day is 99.999% not medically advisable.

HOWEVER, having said that. back in December of 2012 I lived on 600 calories/day for three weeks in order to make my Navy weigh-in, and I agree with you I felt SO GOOD. It was INSANE how good I felt.

HOWEVER, five pounds of the 11 I lost came back practically overnight once I increased my calories up to 1200.

CLFrancois

I just have to

If you are not, and this is serious, please consult a doctor of some sort.

stephanielynn76

Uhm yeah... you need to watch these... http://www.biolayne.com/nutrition/biolayne-video-log-16-metabolic-damage-v3-0-damage-control-a-mechanistic-discussion-of-metabolic-adaptation/#comment-122726

melindasuefritz

1200 a day is way to few so is 500 - 800
starvation mode is real and you will gain

themommie

This is ok to do to jumpstart a diet but the problem is you cant eat like this forever .you need to find to find a diet that is doable forever so that you can lose and then maintain, good luck

Raeontherun

600 calories? Sounds like breakfast.

My post workout meal was 900......