Dieting and impact on health

DebTavares

Hello everyone. I know that extreme defects lead to poor health. I once did a crash diet and lost weight fast but I also lost a lot of hair and felt like crap. But what about modest defects like 500 calories at most? Do these have a negative effect on health too? I have been losing just under a pound a week and feel amazing unlike I did when I had very high defects in the past. Just curious as to what is happening physiologically during the diet process.

kommodevaran

As long as you have sufficient fat stores, your body should be able to handle a modest calorie deficit, it's designed to do that, "eat up" fat stores. Losing weight when you're overweight, will improve your health greatly, so when you lose weight, but not starving yourself, no wonder you feel amazing. An often thrown around number, is 1% of your weight per week as a maximum amount, where the max is for obese individuals and always decreasing with lower weight.

PAV8888

I prefer 0.5% to 1%

While we, hopefully, usually chose to do things because we believe they will have a positive effect, everything that we do has the potential to have some level of negative effect.

For an obese or high overweight person a weight loss based on caloric deficits that do not exceed 20% of TDEE (25% while obese) seems to have positive effects that far and away exceed any of the potential negative effects--when we consider the situation from the perspective of population statistics.

Aspirin is also a dangerous drug and people do choke while eating apples!

Cascadae

Im on low calories lower carb diet 500cal deficit and its ok, as long as u keep ur protein high enough also your fats moderate, what people usually fall into they lower their calories and their fats and proteins are already low and that's a huge mistake

Cheers!

GottaBurnEmAll

PAV8888 wrote: »

I prefer 0.5% to 1%

While we, hopefully, usually chose to do things because we believe they will have a positive effect, everything that we do has the potential to have some level of negative effect.

For an obese or high overweight person a weight loss based on caloric deficits that do not exceed 20% of TDEE (25% while obese) seems to have positive effects that far and away exceed any of the potential negative effects--when we consider the situation from the perspective of population statistics.

Aspirin is also a dangerous drug and people do choke while eating apples!

The one potentially negative impact, especially for older women is on the bones. My rheumatologist pointed that out to me seeing that I've lost all my weight while under her care.

So strength train and watch your calcium intake, ladies!

Cherimoose

DebTavares wrote: »

I have been losing just under a pound a week and feel amazing unlike I did when I had very high defects in the past. Just curious as to what is happening physiologically during the diet process.

If you feel amazing, you're probably doing fine.