Is 1000 calories a day okay as a temporary goal for someone really short (5'0")?
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xo0candypops0ox wrote: »I'm 5ft 1 and I rarely go over 1000 calories and I go to the gym 5 times a week and burn an extra 300 each time. I feel fine. A bit tired and always cold, but still fine. I lose 1.5 lbs a week. You'll be okay
it's different when you're short, we don't need as much.
If you continue on this path things will go down hill for you. The symptoms you are feeling are just the start...
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/eating-disorders/index.shtml#part_145414
Thinning of the bones (osteopenia or osteoporosis)
Mild anemia and muscle wasting and weakness
Brittle hair and nails
Dry and yellowish skin
Growth of fine hair all over the body (lanugo)
Severe constipation
Low blood pressure, slowed breathing and pulse
Damage to the structure and function of the heart
Brain damage
Multiorgan failure
Drop in internal body temperature, causing a person to feel cold all the time
Lethargy, sluggishness, or feeling tired all the time
Infertility
Sounds like one of those commercials for a pill for itchy watery eyes.3 -
xo0candypops0ox wrote: »I'm 5ft 1 and I rarely go over 1000 calories and I go to the gym 5 times a week and burn an extra 300 each time. I feel fine. A bit tired and always cold, but still fine. I lose 1.5 lbs a week. You'll be okay it's different when you're short, we don't need as much.
That doesn't sound healthy or sustainable. How much are you trying to lose? Why are you cutting so low?
Being petite does not doom you to having to eat below 1200 in order to lose. I'm an inch taller than you and I lost weight eating 1600-1900 calories. I'm also over 40 and have a desk job.4 -
xo0candypops0ox wrote: »I'm 5ft 1 and I rarely go over 1000 calories and I go to the gym 5 times a week and burn an extra 300 each time. I feel fine. A bit tired and always cold, but still fine. I lose 1.5 lbs a week. You'll be okay it's different when you're short, we don't need as much.
It isn't that different when one is shorter.
I'm 5'1 elderly (gosh I hate that term), sedentary, and lost (130 to 100-105) on 1200 (the correct calories for my goal) plus 200 for every hour I exercised.
Protecting bone, muscle, organs, and brain function was more important to me than a rapid loss.
There is no reason to eat so low, and the damage you are doing, though you may not feel it now, could have long term consequences. The being cold and tired indicates your body is trying to conserve energy by limiting basic functions.
Eat, you only get one body- take care of it.
Cheers, h.4 -
I'd be vary wary with your actual diet (the one you stated) and the nutrients you're getting. The reason you hear the 1200 for women/1500 for men is its difficult to get everything you need in fewer calories than that.
One serving of zucchini pasta, unless its the veggie cut into noodle shapes, isn't really a vegetable, it's a carb and that's your only veggie for the day. You're saying maybe some fruit later. I'd suggest more nutritious foods with that calorie intake, though I would also suggest 1200 and that should be 1200 NET (calories left after exercise). You're not currently giving your body enough to sustain itself and another 10 weeks at this level (after several weeks already) could do some real damage.
You want to have nice hair for your wedding, right? The first thing your body will do is deprive hair and nails of nutrients. While nice, hair and nails aren't vital to survival.
You want to have energy and enjoy your wedding, right? Lack of essential vitamins and minerals for several months will deplete your energy.
Not to mention the lean mass you will lose along with the fat.
Please ask yourself why you want this and who you're doing it for. Is it worth your long-term health (potentially)? Please take care of yourself!
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Holy Freak'n Cow!!!MAY BLOODY DAY!!!! Sunshine... some of you others as well you are NOT o.k. I am a DR. A surgeon....I just switched to Sports medicine....reading this I nearly had a heart attack.Let me first say,no one on God's green earth should be consuming under 1200 kcals unless you are 4'10" and small framed with no underlying health issues.Then it should be high protein based.Let me also say that anyone giving diet advice well it is illegal unless you are a dr. or an RD.It is medical diagnosis.Food is medicine.The human body is a fine tuned machine or at least it should be however, many knock it out of alignment by crash dieting, not consuming a nutrient dense well balanced meal plan and yes that includes complex carbs and healthy fats.Yes you NEED both Cardiovascular and strength bearing exercise.Why? The internal organs are muscles they needs to be "worked out" like everything else.To those who think they can be in serious Kcal deficit and workout 5 plus days a week and "feel fine" let me tell you right now the hard truth.You are in a state of anorexia. You do not want to admit it but your body is feeding off your muscles,which includes your brain tissues, your nerves, your vital organs, your bones etc...I promise you are not even close to being fine.There are soo many variances to weight people.This includes bone density,height, white adipose versus brown adipose tissue, surgery(metal implants etc), hormones amongst other things. Dr.'s do not use BMI any more.. and we honestly rarely use just weight differentiation's. We DO use waist to hip ratios and BF. However even BF(Body Fat%) is 100% unless you are using water displacement. Here is the deal.The more you move the body the more you need to consume.Strength training burns more Kcal that basic cardio and will do so for many many hours after.In order for the body to be healthy.You need the basics and you CAN"T get that from a freak'n pill. You need to get from food.Supplements are called such for a reason.Another thing..these hype remarks.."proven",Guaranteed....etc are your warning sign that it is all sales techniques because in both allied and allopathic medicine in which I am both licensed in.We do not used these words.There is no such thing.Just like there is no such thing as a cure.you can not totally erase a pathogen. You can render it mute and or illeffective but not erase it.Yes, your body needs high amounts of protein unless you suffer from the rare ailments that state other wise, YES.. you do need complex carbs, Yes, your body need proper hydration and electrolytes.. You DO need healthy fats.. withdrawing from these leaves you in a train wreck health wise..NOTHING should ever trump your health.. being dead never looks good...0
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I'd be vary wary with your actual diet (the one you stated) and the nutrients you're getting. The reason you hear the 1200 for women/1500 for men is its difficult to get everything you need in fewer calories than that.
One serving of zucchini pasta, unless its the veggie cut into noodle shapes, isn't really a vegetable, it's a carb and that's your only veggie for the day. You're saying maybe some fruit later. I'd suggest more nutritious foods with that calorie intake, though I would also suggest 1200 and that should be 1200 NET (calories left after exercise). You're not currently giving your body enough to sustain itself and another 10 weeks at this level (after several weeks already) could do some real damage.
You want to have nice hair for your wedding, right? The first thing your body will do is deprive hair and nails of nutrients. While nice, hair and nails aren't vital to survival.
You want to have energy and enjoy your wedding, right? Lack of essential vitamins and minerals for several months will deplete your energy.
Not to mention the lean mass you will lose along with the fat.
Please ask yourself why you want this and who you're doing it for. Is it worth your long-term health (potentially)? Please take care of yourself!
To be clear, the zucchini pasta is the new "veggie-made" zucchini lentil pasta that Birds Eye is selling in a variety of flavors. Per the website, "Birds Eye Veggie-Made Pasta - a delicious way to bring the nutrition of vegetables to traditional starchy pasta side dishes. In this new range of Pasta, the starch is replaced with real vegetables. It’s a great way to get your family to eat more veggies! Pasta made from vegetables, 1 serving of vegetables per serving, No artificial flavors or preseratives"0 -
LuvtoBeme1 wrote: »Holy Freak'n Cow!!!MAY BLOODY DAY!!!! Sunshine... some of you others as well you are NOT o.k. I am a DR. A surgeon....I just switched to Sports medicine....reading this I nearly had a heart attack.Let me first say,no one on God's green earth should be consuming under 1200 kcals unless you are 4'10" and small framed with no underlying health issues.Then it should be high protein based.Let me also say that anyone giving diet advice well it is illegal unless you are a dr. or an RD.It is medical diagnosis.Food is medicine.The human body is a fine tuned machine or at least it should be however, many knock it out of alignment by crash dieting, not consuming a nutrient dense well balanced meal plan and yes that includes complex carbs and healthy fats.Yes you NEED both Cardiovascular and strength bearing exercise.Why? The internal organs are muscles they needs to be "worked out" like everything else.To those who think they can be in serious Kcal deficit and workout 5 plus days a week and "feel fine" let me tell you right now the hard truth.You are in a state of anorexia. You do not want to admit it but your body is feeding off your muscles,which includes your brain tissues, your nerves, your vital organs, your bones etc...I promise you are not even close to being fine.There are soo many variances to weight people.This includes bone density,height, white adipose versus brown adipose tissue, surgery(metal implants etc), hormones amongst other things. Dr.'s do not use BMI any more.. and we honestly rarely use just weight differentiation's. We DO use waist to hip ratios and BF. However even BF(Body Fat%) is 100% unless you are using water displacement. Here is the deal.The more you move the body the more you need to consume.Strength training burns more Kcal that basic cardio and will do so for many many hours after.In order for the body to be healthy.You need the basics and you CAN"T get that from a freak'n pill. You need to get from food.Supplements are called such for a reason.Another thing..these hype remarks.."proven",Guaranteed....etc are your warning sign that it is all sales techniques because in both allied and allopathic medicine in which I am both licensed in.We do not used these words.There is no such thing.Just like there is no such thing as a cure.you can not totally erase a pathogen. You can render it mute and or illeffective but not erase it.Yes, your body needs high amounts of protein unless you suffer from the rare ailments that state other wise, YES.. you do need complex carbs, Yes, your body need proper hydration and electrolytes.. You DO need healthy fats.. withdrawing from these leaves you in a train wreck health wise..NOTHING should ever trump your health.. being dead never looks good...
You do realise everything you've said here is exactly what the veterans say. And nobody is diagnosing any medical conditions even if you believe food is medicine I don't go to my doctor for a food prescription (some do for calorie dense meal replacements or if tube fed but that's not the situation here).
Also, holy wall of text Batman.7 -
serenityfrye wrote: »I'm 5'1" and 120 lbs. I've been eating around 1100 cal in order to lose weight. My maintenance is around 1300. I'm just learning that I eat to not be hungry instead of eating to get full and it's not too bad. That said, if it's bedtime and I'm so hungry I think it'll interfere with sleep, I'll eat even if it brings me up to 1200. Weights been coming off pretty fast
If you're eating 1100 calories and your maintenance calories are 1300, then your weight wouldn't be "coming off pretty fast". A 200 calories a day deficit would mean slowish weight loss, not even 0.5lbs a week, which is fine when you have little to lose.
How fast is fast? Maybe your definition of fast weight loss is different to mine. How did you arrive at 1300 calorie for your maintenance cals.3 -
LuvtoBeme1 wrote: »Holy Freak'n Cow!!!MAY BLOODY DAY!!!! Sunshine... some of you others as well you are NOT o.k. I am a DR. A surgeon....I just switched to Sports medicine....reading this I nearly had a heart attack.Let me first say,no one on God's green earth should be consuming under 1200 kcals unless you are 4'10" and small framed with no underlying health issues.Then it should be high protein based.Let me also say that anyone giving diet advice well it is illegal unless you are a dr. or an RD.It is medical diagnosis.Food is medicine.The human body is a fine tuned machine or at least it should be however, many knock it out of alignment by crash dieting, not consuming a nutrient dense well balanced meal plan and yes that includes complex carbs and healthy fats.Yes you NEED both Cardiovascular and strength bearing exercise.Why? The internal organs are muscles they needs to be "worked out" like everything else.To those who think they can be in serious Kcal deficit and workout 5 plus days a week and "feel fine" let me tell you right now the hard truth.You are in a state of anorexia. You do not want to admit it but your body is feeding off your muscles,which includes your brain tissues, your nerves, your vital organs, your bones etc...I promise you are not even close to being fine.There are soo many variances to weight people.This includes bone density,height, white adipose versus brown adipose tissue, surgery(metal implants etc), hormones amongst other things. Dr.'s do not use BMI any more.. and we honestly rarely use just weight differentiation's. We DO use waist to hip ratios and BF. However even BF(Body Fat%) is 100% unless you are using water displacement. Here is the deal.The more you move the body the more you need to consume.Strength training burns more Kcal that basic cardio and will do so for many many hours after.In order for the body to be healthy.You need the basics and you CAN"T get that from a freak'n pill. You need to get from food.Supplements are called such for a reason.Another thing..these hype remarks.."proven",Guaranteed....etc are your warning sign that it is all sales techniques because in both allied and allopathic medicine in which I am both licensed in.We do not used these words.There is no such thing.Just like there is no such thing as a cure.you can not totally erase a pathogen. You can render it mute and or illeffective but not erase it.Yes, your body needs high amounts of protein unless you suffer from the rare ailments that state other wise, YES.. you do need complex carbs, Yes, your body need proper hydration and electrolytes.. You DO need healthy fats.. withdrawing from these leaves you in a train wreck health wise..NOTHING should ever trump your health.. being dead never looks good...
Anyone can give advice or voice an opinion on anything they like, actually. Nothing illegal about it. If it *were* illegal as you claim, the entire internet would have to be arrested.
I think you might be confused with someone claiming to be a professional when they aren't in order to charge fees for their 'services' or to try and give false credence to their statements by using the tired old "appeal to authority" gambit.
To the OP: You do realize your heart's a muscle, right? You can do damage in as little as 10 weeks. Better to slow down your rate of loss and do it in a healthy manner.8 -
I was about that weight when I started and I'm 5'0" as well. I would be starving on 1,000 calories. I lost most of mine by eating 1,200.1
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@LuvtoBeme1 you say you are a surgeon.can I ask how many hrs you had of nutrition and dietary needs in med school? and weight bearing exercises dont burn many more calories after you do it like you think(there are studies on this out there). I have also kept track of my calorie burns while doing cardio vs weight lifting. for a few hrs I burn more calories but then it returns to my regular calorie burn. and I only burn an extra 2-3 calories a minute for a few hrs. so while Im burning say 5 calories a minute at rest after weight lifting,a few hrs later its down to say 2-3 sometimes a little less.
cardio while doing it burns more than weight lifting but at rest it takes about an hr to get back to my regular calorie burns.maybe for me Im a rare case who knows0 -
I'd be vary wary with your actual diet (the one you stated) and the nutrients you're getting. The reason you hear the 1200 for women/1500 for men is its difficult to get everything you need in fewer calories than that.
One serving of zucchini pasta, unless its the veggie cut into noodle shapes, isn't really a vegetable, it's a carb and that's your only veggie for the day. You're saying maybe some fruit later. I'd suggest more nutritious foods with that calorie intake, though I would also suggest 1200 and that should be 1200 NET (calories left after exercise). You're not currently giving your body enough to sustain itself and another 10 weeks at this level (after several weeks already) could do some real damage.
You want to have nice hair for your wedding, right? The first thing your body will do is deprive hair and nails of nutrients. While nice, hair and nails aren't vital to survival.
You want to have energy and enjoy your wedding, right? Lack of essential vitamins and minerals for several months will deplete your energy.
Not to mention the lean mass you will lose along with the fat.
Please ask yourself why you want this and who you're doing it for. Is it worth your long-term health (potentially)? Please take care of yourself!
To be clear, the zucchini pasta is the new "veggie-made" zucchini lentil pasta that Birds Eye is selling in a variety of flavors. Per the website, "Birds Eye Veggie-Made Pasta - a delicious way to bring the nutrition of vegetables to traditional starchy pasta side dishes. In this new range of Pasta, the starch is replaced with real vegetables. It’s a great way to get your family to eat more veggies! Pasta made from vegetables, 1 serving of vegetables per serving, No artificial flavors or preseratives"
You should still get about 9 servings of fruits and veggies a day and one serving of zucchini isn't even coming close.1 -
I'd be vary wary with your actual diet (the one you stated) and the nutrients you're getting. The reason you hear the 1200 for women/1500 for men is its difficult to get everything you need in fewer calories than that.
One serving of zucchini pasta, unless its the veggie cut into noodle shapes, isn't really a vegetable, it's a carb and that's your only veggie for the day. You're saying maybe some fruit later. I'd suggest more nutritious foods with that calorie intake, though I would also suggest 1200 and that should be 1200 NET (calories left after exercise). You're not currently giving your body enough to sustain itself and another 10 weeks at this level (after several weeks already) could do some real damage.
You want to have nice hair for your wedding, right? The first thing your body will do is deprive hair and nails of nutrients. While nice, hair and nails aren't vital to survival.
You want to have energy and enjoy your wedding, right? Lack of essential vitamins and minerals for several months will deplete your energy.
Not to mention the lean mass you will lose along with the fat.
Please ask yourself why you want this and who you're doing it for. Is it worth your long-term health (potentially)? Please take care of yourself!
To be clear, the zucchini pasta is the new "veggie-made" zucchini lentil pasta that Birds Eye is selling in a variety of flavors. Per the website, "Birds Eye Veggie-Made Pasta - a delicious way to bring the nutrition of vegetables to traditional starchy pasta side dishes. In this new range of Pasta, the starch is replaced with real vegetables. It’s a great way to get your family to eat more veggies! Pasta made from vegetables, 1 serving of vegetables per serving, No artificial flavors or preseratives"
You should still get about 9 servings of fruits and veggies a day and one serving of zucchini isn't even coming close.
*shrug* 9 servings of anything is never going to happen1 -
I dont even get 9 servings of fruits and veggies a day and my health is fine,but I do get enough calories(and then some)2
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Christine_72 wrote: »serenityfrye wrote: »I'm 5'1" and 120 lbs. I've been eating around 1100 cal in order to lose weight. My maintenance is around 1300. I'm just learning that I eat to not be hungry instead of eating to get full and it's not too bad. That said, if it's bedtime and I'm so hungry I think it'll interfere with sleep, I'll eat even if it brings me up to 1200. Weights been coming off pretty fast
If you're eating 1100 calories and your maintenance calories are 1300, then your weight wouldn't be "coming off pretty fast". . A 200 calories a day deficit would mean slowish weight loss, not even 0.5lbs a week, which is fine when you have little to lose.
How fast is fast? Maybe your definition of fast weight loss is different to mine. How did you arrive at 1300 calorie for your maintenance cals.
Good catch.3 -
Agree 100%. We all want a 'quick fix' but slow and steady really is the most sustainable way. For me, increasing activity substantially enables me to eat more and feel great while still losing. Eating only 1000 or even 1200 calories would be my worst nightmare lolxchocolategirl wrote: »What's the point? Any weight loss you do is just going to come back on and than some. I've read countless posts on this site where people mention trying to lose x amount of weight within x amount of time and gaining it all back
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xchocolategirl wrote: »What's the point? Any weight loss you do is just going to come back on and than some. I've read countless posts on this site where people mention trying to lose x amount of weight within x amount of time and gaining it all back.
You're better off trying to lose 0.5 pounds a week or even 1 pound a week and eating the calories provided by MyFitnessPal it will most likely be 1200 calories.
Good luck! I would recommend even doing some walking 30 minutes and eating back half of the calories and finding some weights.
I'm 5'3 started at 188 pounds and I'm now 150 pounds. I'm losing weight in a healthy way I consume about 1600 calories though eating 1,000 calories sounds crazy!!
Why try to lose weight temporary when you can do this long term and it stay off?
I'm not trying to lose it temporarily. I'm going to continue eating 1200 to 1300 a day after the wedding and then go up to about 1400 once I hit my goal weight.
But why start trying to lose weight in an unhealthy manner? Eating only 1000 calories is really unhealthy. You can lose weight by eating at a normal deficit. I'm not sure if you know this but rapid weight loss can cause loss of muscle, stretch marks, loose skin, tiredness, fatigue. Cold sweats, hair loss, and lots of other things.
Even the user above who does the same thing mentioned she feels "cold" that's not a normal thing to be happening.
Why not try to consume even the minimum 1200 calories? You can even eat more if you wanted. Especially if you work out that means you can eat more food and still have a deficit.
I'm glad you want to continue on with this journey but starting out in an unhealthy manner is not the the best approach. My rate of loss is currently set to 0.5 pounds, but I know you probably want to lose weight so that's why I'm saying even 1 pound is acceptable.
If you want to look good at the end I would recommend starting out in a healthy way at the beginning. I once read a blog post about someone who was eating less than a 1,000 calories they go to their goal weight but ended up dealing with a body that looked really saggy that occurred because they lost muscle mass which is not a good thing. They ended up intentionally gaining the weight back and reducing the rate of loss and adding in lifting to their routine.
If you want a tight toned body muscle is very important to have and I would recommend eating at least 1200 calories if you want more as well and adding in a mix of strength training and cardio.
At the end of the day my body is looking good going slow, but if you want to feel cold all of the time and deal with other health issues that's up to you.
Good luck!0 -
Totally depends on what your job is.1
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