How do i get to around 500 kcals a day and be ok?

thetabootalk

i am obese. i am 5”3 and weigh over 200 lbs. i am currently eating around 900kcals a day. i am on my 6th day. i want to lose weight. i want to be at around 500kcals consumed a day, what are the best foods for feeling full? i have issues with constantly being hungry and craving pizza or chocolate

Chef_Barbell

Nope. That's dangerous and against TOS.

harper16

Enter your info into mfp, and let that be your guide to how much you should be eating. Eating so little is dangerous to your health along with being against tos.

tinkerbellang83

thetabootalk wrote: »

i have issues with constantly being hungry and craving pizza or chocolate

Not really surprising given that even currently you're eating less than a small child.

What you're doing is neither healthy or sustainable.

nighthawk584

I eat 900 calories for breakfast. if you are female, 1200 is absolute minimum you should be eating. in your case, you should be consuming somewhere around 1600-1700 plus any purposeful exercise calories. Starving yourself is NOT a healthy or sustainable plan!

ladyreva78

This post by @kshama2001 in another thread seems appropriate here:

kshama2001 wrote: »

I've been listening to the Half Size Me podcast. It is very common for people to do the cycle below. The host, Heather, spent 10 years dieting hard and then yoyoing back up. She finally realized if she had only lost a pound a month, she would have been better off than on this cycle. (Not to say that low a weight loss is mandatory, just something to think about when considering your deficit goals.)

ReenieHJ

Considering the OP's name, do you all think this post simply meant to generate some hot talk?

thetabootalk

sorry i made that my username for my email years ago. it isn’t anything to do with this. i am obese and want to lose weight fast and don’t care if it’s healthy or not i just want to be skinny

ceiswyn

thetabootalk wrote: »

sorry i made that my username for my email years ago. it isn’t anything to do with this. i am obese and want to lose weight fast and don’t care if it’s healthy or not i just want to be skinny

If I were you I'd update that goal to 'skinny and alive'.

Don't do what you are doing. You will a) cause yourself serious damage and b) fail and feel even worse

Hollis100

Talk to your doctor. The doctor can refer you to a professional and/or program that can help you get the weight off and keep it off.

NovusDies

thetabootalk wrote: »

sorry i made that my username for my email years ago. it isn’t anything to do with this. i am obese and want to lose weight fast and don’t care if it’s healthy or not i just want to be skinny

Well before this thread gets locked.

This is not rational thinking. Sacrificing health for getting weight off slightly faster is foolish. It is foolish because you WILL care if you can keep doing it which is HIGHLY unlikely. This will fail or you will end up with hair falling out, a emergency trip to the hospital, and/or an eating disorder.

When it fails you will be right back to square one looking for the next dumb plan. I say this from experience. I have done many of the dumb plans.

Abandon the dumb plans. Choose a sensible and sustainable path forward that you can stick with and the weight will be gone faster than years spent jumping from one dumb plan to the next. AGAIN I speak from experience. I was short-sighted. I want you to avoid my decades of mistakes. Jump past all my nonsense and currently yours and just do it right THIS time. Please.

Oh and I am not calling you dumb. Smart people do dumb things. I am pretty smart but it has never kept me from doing dumb things.

mkculs13

You won't get skinny on fewer than 1200 calories net per day. You'll be sick--either develop an eating disorder (if you don't already have one), suffer from malnutrition and its related illnesses, or all of the above. For one thing, after a few weeks at fewer than 1200, your body will start to shut down non-essential functions--getting your period, hair and nail growth, things like that. This is so the few calories you take in can be used for more essential functions. This means your BMR drops-at the same weight, your body will need fewer calories to function, so weight loss will slow down. You will have less energy and move less, again reducing your caloric needs.

Most importantly, you are very likely to experience a rebound effect from drastic dieting in which you gain back not only the weight you lost, but MORE. So your plan is actually likely to have a heavier you as the end result. You can safely lose weight and some if it relatively quickly if you have a lot to lose. But everyone has to live with the laws of physics, and that means understanding and accepting the science of weight loss.

Recommended:
more than 50 lbs to lose--you can target a loss of up to 2 lbs/week
25-50: a 1 lb/week rate of loss is safe and sustainable
under 25 to lose--target 0.5 lbs/week.
under 10--really slow, careful loss by creating and maintaining small deficits, maybe 200-250 cal/day.

I hope you will realize that your desperation is not the same as motivation; it will misguide you. I took a LONG time to accept reality--kind of a "well, if I can't do it FAST, I'm not doing it at all" churlishness that was just self-defeating. Once I crossed over to accepting it would take at least a year before I started to feel like my old self, the thin self I remembered and wanted to recover--I was much better off.

Good luck.

Luke_rabbit

I'm 5'3". I used to weigh over 200 pounds. I now weigh 122. I never ate less than 1200 calories. Even now, I lose weight if I eat under 1600 average. Also, I am 55 and not particularly active.

Take that "alive" comment seriously. People die every day from eating too few calories. Most of them don't have a choice, but you do.

thetabootalk

thank you all very much for caring about me so much to post
i honestly am failing to understand how i will develop hair loss/systems shutting down when i have so much weight to lose. surely the body will burn through that first? there is plenty there to burn
i will eat a bit more today but my brain is screaming at me. it’s like one of you said earlier, if it’s not fast then i csnt see the point. every time i have tried to lose weight healthily it goes bad in my brain, it turns into if you eat more than 1000 you’re going to get fatter, if you don’t stop eating you’ll get fatter. i can’t see any progress in my body so it works in my brain to back it up if that makes sense

janejellyroll

thetabootalk wrote: »

thank you all very much for caring about me so much to post
i honestly am failing to understand how i will develop hair loss/systems shutting down when i have so much weight to lose. surely the body will burn through that first? there is plenty there to burn
i will eat a bit more today but my brain is screaming at me. it’s like one of you said earlier, if it’s not fast then i csnt see the point. every time i have tried to lose weight healthily it goes bad in my brain, it turns into if you eat more than 1000 you’re going to get fatter, if you don’t stop eating you’ll get fatter. i can’t see any progress in my body so it works in my brain to back it up if that makes sense

Because even when you have a lot of fat, your body can only use so much fat for energy per day. It will then turn to your other systems, including your muscles (including your heart) and break them down for the energy that you need.

If the problem is the messages your brain is sending you, there are ways to get help with that. Lots of us get funky food and weight messages from our brain, messages that can wind up harming us if we try to live by them. Have you tried talking to a mental health professional about these feelings? It did wonders for me.

tinkerbellang83

thetabootalk wrote: »

thank you all very much for caring about me so much to post
i honestly am failing to understand how i will develop hair loss/systems shutting down when i have so much weight to lose. surely the body will burn through that first? there is plenty there to burn
i will eat a bit more today but my brain is screaming at me. it’s like one of you said earlier, if it’s not fast then i csnt see the point. every time i have tried to lose weight healthily it goes bad in my brain, it turns into if you eat more than 1000 you’re going to get fatter, if you don’t stop eating you’ll get fatter. i can’t see any progress in my body so it works in my brain to back it up if that makes sense

At over 200 pounds you're not going to gain weight eating more than 1000 calories. You burn more than that just living (at your stats just living, breathing, etc, without moving you will be burning around 1500 calories).

You then have the calories you burn from Non Exercise Activity, which even at sedentary is around another 400 calories per day.

Then anything burned from exercise.

To burn 1lb of fat per week on average requires a deficit of just 500 calories, so that would be for you an intake of approximately 1400 calories minimum + anything burned through exercise to lose approximately 50lbs in a year.

Your body can only burn a certain amount of fat before using other things as fuel.

You can still eat chocolate and pizza as part of a balanced diet, just not in the portions and frequency you might be accustomed to.

asellitti6523

thetabootalk wrote: »

sorry i made that my username for my email years ago. it isn’t anything to do with this. i am obese and want to lose weight fast and don’t care if it’s healthy or not i just want to be skinny

Weight loss isn't a race, especially if you want to keep it off for good. Your plan is simply not sustainable. There are no foods that are going to make you feel full at 500 calories a day. At 500 calories or even 900 calories you are past the point of cravings and your body is just hungry. You really need to re-calibrate your expectations of yourself. No one gets obese overnight so expecting to lose weight at the rate you expect to is a fools errand.

lemurcat2

Trying to eat some unhealthy and unsustainable number of cals leads to falling off the wagon and binging (see your cravings for pizza and chocolate) or just blowing it one day and then giving up for a while only to start over again with even less confidence.

Doing it in a healthy and sustainable way -- i.e., eating an adequate number of cals and not being hungry -- is going to get you to goal faster, in reality.

joycelynns1

Woke up at 5am. Walk/ran 2 miles on treadmill at 14.5 minutes a mile. Goal is to get to a run mile of 13 minutes. Any advise from anyone?

janejellyroll

joycelynns1 wrote: »

Woke up at 5am. Walk/ran 2 miles on treadmill at 14.5 minutes a mile. Goal is to get to a run mile of 13 minutes. Any advise from anyone?

You will probably want to start your own thread to get advice on this.

joycelynns1

Thank you. Newbie here.

tinkerbellang83

Just to illustrate more about your calorie burn.

I heard a great analogy in a Podcast the last couple of days explaining daily calorie burn as a 10 story tower block.

I've adjusted from the TDEE method of calculation used by many fitness/diet professionals to NEAT method of calculation that MFP uses.

Basically, most of your calorie burn in a day is what your body used for basic bodily functions like breathing, pumping your heart, brain activity, etc, in the analogy, that accounts for the first 7-8 "floors", activity you do at home/work/school is known as NEAT (non-exercise activity thermogenesis) and makes up the 2-3 floors.

RGv2

joycelynns1 wrote: »

Thank you. Newbie here.

Also, not in "getting started" go to health and fitness.

RGv2

thetabootalk wrote: »

i have issues with constantly being hungry and craving pizza or chocolate

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i am currently eating around 900kcals a day. i am on my 6th day. i want to lose weight. i want to be at around 500kcals consumed a day

PAV8888

To the OP:

if you're real and your brain really handles things the way you described, your current method is guaranteed to result in mental and physical problems and not successful weight loss.

Your current weight level does not preclude you having an undiagnosed ED and your thought processes during your previous weight loss attempts, as described, are either the results of deficits that are *excessive* for your unique situation or well on their way to what someone suffering from an ED would end up thinking.

Talking to a specialist in the field may be of great use to you. Given what you're said, and assuming you're actually in a position to be trying to lose weight, and assuming you should be doing this via calorie counting (both big assumptions that I would want to confirm face to face with a professional if i were you), then a very small deficit designed to drop no more then a lb a week is what I would implement.

As to the person seeking exercise advice a post in the exercise forum may be the ticket!

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