500 Calories a day??

MagicalLeopleurodon

1. Yes. When i was anorexic.
2. Yes. Yesterday i got 478 because im sick as a dog and wasnt hungry.

fimary

I once had a nutritionist tell me that if I wanted to lose any weight at all I would have to stick to a 800 cal/day diet.

If it doesn't sound right, chances are it isn't. For some reason we like to think that doctors are somehow exempt from the general rule that every profession has fools who slip through the cracks. So glad you immediately sensed the crazy.

This happened to me as well, I am in the UK but she said 800 cals a day, it was before i joined here so did not know much about anything and had been eating around 1000 cals a day before hand and took her my diary, she treated me like i had been on about 3000 a day, i am 4ft 10 but even to do this day still find it hard I went back to the doctors and they said she was the expert and if i didn't want to do as she said i was wasting their time, i never went back but still feel guilty everytime i eat 1200 cals her look of disgust at my diary at 1000 cals (all healthy foods) still echoes.

katylil

Now I'm currently a US Size 10/ Aus Size 12 (Although my wedding dress is a US Size 8, so I'm pretty happy with that lol). I don't think I qualify as morbidly obese, but she certainly made me feel that way.

She followed this advice by saying if 500 calories a day doesn't work for me I should consider lap band surgery or the like. Again, made me feel as though I was as big as some of those people I see in documentary's that need to break down walls of their house to get them out of there!!!

Is she the only doctor at the surgery? If not, I think you should make an appointment with her boss to report it. This is unhealthy and frankly dangerous advice. Luckily you have enough common sense to realise this, but if she's treating teens or even adults who don't have your nutritional knowledge, this could get seriously out of hand.

And obviously find yourself another doctor!!!

MarliQQ

Your doctor is obviously confusing you with another patient. The only person I know who was ever put on such a low calorie diet was my grandmother, and she had open heart surgery and was suffering from congestive heart failure. Get a new doctor. From the sound of it, if you increase your daily caloric expenditure, even without a change in diet, you will manage to lose the 10kg you want. Also, consider going to another doctor. One who does not "project" the problems of other patients on you.

I once had a nutritionist tell me that if I wanted to lose any weight at all I would have to stick to a 800 cal/day diet.

If it doesn't sound right, chances are it isn't. For some reason we like to think that doctors are somehow exempt from the general rule that every profession has fools who slip through the cracks. So glad you immediately sensed the crazy.

This happened to me as well, I am in the UK but she said 800 cals a day, it was before i joined here so did not know much about anything and had been eating around 1000 cals a day before hand and took her my diary, she treated me like i had been on about 3000 a day, i am 4ft 10 but even to do this day still find it hard I went back to the doctors and they said she was the expert and if i didn't want to do as she said i was wasting their time, i never went back but still feel guilty everytime i eat 1200 cals her look of disgust at my diary at 1000 cals (all healthy foods) still echoes.

I was trying to think of instances where a "professional" might suggest such a thing.

SoreTodayStrongTomorrow222

According to the Doctor I saw yesterday this is what I should be eating ...

And that the 500 calories shouldn't include any fruit as it is "too calorie rich".

Apparently I should lose about 1kg per week this way.

Let's be clear - I don't intend on following this advice. I eat about 1200 a day and that sometimes leaves me feeling like I need more.

Just curious as to whether anyone has ever tried something so drastic and where it got them (hospital?!?!?!?!?).

Uh, I would get a new doctor? Was he a doctor or a nutritionist? Are you morbidly obese on the cusp of death? If not, maybe get a second opinion because 500 calories a day is just nuts....I wouldnt even be able to get out of bed.

BornxVillain

When I was eating 300-600 calories a day, I landed myself in the hospital with gallstones that turned into pancreatitis. :ohwell:

That's the silliest thing I ever heard.