what's your experience with a 1200 calorie diet or less?

AnvilHead

cwolfman13 wrote: »

OP is a male....no friggin' adult male should be eating 1200 calories. My 8 year old boy eats more than that.

Agree 100%. "Starvation mode" isn't a thing - but cortisol increase, fatigue, loss of muscle, etc. certainly are. But it looks like OP is going to have to find this out the hard way for himself.

Making yourself sick/unhealthy while you're trying to "get healthy" is counterproductive. You don't have to make yourself sick or physically damage yourself to lose weight - that's doing it wrong.

paperpudding

MrTee1985 wrote: »

paperpudding wrote: »

MrTee1985 wrote: »

Works great for me. Eat about 1000cals a day, never hungry and have lost 71 pounds since July 18'.

Nobody is denying that people can lose weight on VLCD's if they can sustain them over a length of time.

For almost all people they are not sustainable and for almost all people they are not healthy.

No adult should be eating only 1000 calories a day - unless short term in extenuating circumstances under medical supervision

Nice.

MrTee1985 wrote: »

paperpudding wrote: »

MrTee1985 wrote: »

Works great for me. Eat about 1000cals a day, never hungry and have lost 71 pounds since July 18'.

Nobody is denying that people can lose weight on VLCD's if they can sustain them over a length of time.

For almost all people they are not sustainable and for almost all people they are not healthy.

No adult should be eating only 1000 calories a day - unless short term in extenuating circumstances under medical supervision

Nice.

Realistic objective stating of facts actually.

psychod787

Hunger....

GottaBurnEmAll

1200 was okay for me when I first started.

Bear in mind that I was 52 years old when I first started and I am 5'1" tall and was pretty much completely sedentary.

As I started exercising, I needed to eat more.

I'm now 56, 90 pounds lighter, and eating 1800 calories to lose a few vanity pounds. I'm also a lot more active than I used to be. I could never eat 1200 calories.

For anyone who is not a very short, sedentary older female, 1200 calories usually too low. For a man? Definitely too low.

Orphia

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1077746/starvation-mode-adaptive-thermogenesis-and-weight-loss/p1

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/761810/the-starvation-mode-myth-again/p1

apullum

1200 plus exercise calories worked just fine for me. However, I am a woman under 5 feet tall and I have a sedentary job. If that description doesn’t sound like you, then you can almost certainly eat more than 1200 and still lose weight.

Lillymoo01

I found staying at 1200 calories the pits because there was no room for treats. At 4"11 I wasn't going to be able to eat more and still lose. Fortunately I grew to love spending time outside walking. Those exercise calories taste so much nicer than normal food intake.

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