3 Day Diet

shaquanawilson1993

Breakfast (182 calories)
:
1 egg, 
1 slice of toast
, 1/2 banana

Lunch (297 calories):
1 cup of cottage cheese
, 1 hard-boiled egg, 
5 saltine crackers

Dinner (660 calories)
:
2 hot dogs (without bun), 
1 cup of broccoli
, 1/2 cup of carrots, 
1/2 banana,
1/2 cup of vanilla ice cream

cmriverside

What is this?

It's definitely not enough calories for an adult human - not even if you want to lose some weight. Are you only eating this for three days? Then what? ...?

You are posting in the "Maintaining Weight" subforum. I'm a little old lady and I maintain my current weight of 140 on 2300 calories per day (I'm 5'7"ish).

??

corinasue1143

I remember that. Ok, but harsher than needed. Looks like you’ll lose a couple pounds quickly. But don’t be disappointed if you gain them back almost as quickly. Some of the loss will be water.

snowflake954

Yep--not a good idea. What are your stats? What daily calorie goal did MFP give you? Eat that. You are on the road to binging. This is how it starts, eating too little until you go crazy and eat everything in sight. Better to do something sustainable and lose weight slowly AND keep it off.

AnnPT77

Honestly, that sounds grim to me. Maybe a person could do that for 3 days to start, but personally I wouldn't.

Losing any meaningful amount of weight is a long-term proposition: Weeks, months, maybe even years. Staying at a healthy weight is even longer-term, ideally permanent.

IMO, that puts a premium on figuring out sustainable habits that keep one reasonably full and energetic, alongside sensibly gradual weight loss.

As a 59 y/o 5'5" obese woman (hypothyroid besides), I lost down to a healthy weight usually eating in the range of 1400-1600 calories daily, plus all carefully-estimated exercise calories. That totaled 1600-2000 calories eaten, most days. As a bonus, the eating habits I learned then have kept me at a healthy weight for nearly 7 years since, after about 3 previous decades of overweight/obesity.

Successful weight loss is not a quick project with an end date, no matter what clickbait headlines on the internet may say.

Best wishes!

ninerbuff

Day 4 large pizza.

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