500 cal diet

NotAllWhoWanderAreLost

first off, let me say i am more than twice your age, but very close in height and weight. So i totally understand how you might feel in your body; like you'd like to lose 20 more pounds to look fierce for your vacation. But please, please listen to us. 500 calories a day is not enough to properly nourish your body. In ten weeks you will be tired, weak, malnourished and not at all feeling like an energetic diva in a swimsuit with your girlfriends. I can promise you this. You are at the upper end of "healthy bmi" right now so a healthy weight loss for you is going to be more like 1 pound a week. Thats 10 pounds. Eating nutritious foods, moving around and enjoying your life and getting compliments on how healthy you look & what is your secret... and you know what, you will have actual healthy information to share with them! You will have learned a skill that you can take into your adult years and thrive. Malnourishing yourself intentionally, dealing with the consequences of that and the resulting weight-gain-rebound and shame just doesn't sound like a winning proposition, does it? I am soooooo happy that you are starting to reconsider your choice to go this extreme. When a person eats less than 1200 net calories a day the body WILL respond (and since you don't have much weight to lose, you will have this response faster than someone who is more overweight/obese). Famine response is triggered and your body fights to hold onto its fat reserves by canibalizing your own muscle tissue. The weight you lose will be more like 50% muscle tissue. You will end up with a HIGHER fat:muscle ratio at the end of this than you started with. And your metabolism will slow down considerably, making weight regain come on fast and furious. You will gain fat back and if you get back to 172, it will be a much more FAT 172 because you won't be regaining the muscle tissue, you will be regaining fat. Not at all what you want for your future, i hope. Please hon, i feel for you because, like i said, we are very close in height and weight and i totally get it. Its frustrating to want to lose weight and lose faster. Just get it done and get it done now. But this is your life and its better to think in longer-term goals for your life. You are young, but you aren't stupid. Just think about what we are saying and trust that we aren't trying to steer you wrong and only want the best for you.

take care :flowerforyou:

skinnyhopes

even if you do that diet, you might have saggy, loose skin from losing to fast
slow and steady wins the race (;

HeidiMightyRawr

I really wouldn't do this, there's so many things wrong with only eating 500 cals a day not to mention it will completely mess up your metabolism.
If you want to lose weight for 12 weeks time you could sensibly lose 2lbs a week on here and lose up to 24lbs in that time. That's a big difference and something to be very proud about, rather than eating next to nothing in order to get where you want.

Mairgheal

oh my godddd seriously?! i need to get these pills. and well done thats amazing by the way! where did you get them from? oh and thanks for replying

Way to pick the one post that gives you the answer you want and ignore all the ones that warn you about how dangerous and unhealthy your plan is. You're 18. Don't be in such a hurry to lose weight. Learn how to eat and live properly rather than looking for some "magic" solution that will solve all your problems.

:laugh: :laugh:

myofibril

Im 5ft9 and weigh about 172pounds, im going away in 12 weeks and am DYING to look good, especially as my friends are all so thin. I know a 500calorie diet is far from healthy but its not permenant, if i did it for around 10weeks how much weight might i realistically lose? and im not saying i will go straight back to a normal diet after those 10weeks or anything because i know the weight will pile back on. I just want to know a realistic answer to motivate me.

You certainly will be dying to look good if you use this dangerous approach in such a simplistic way.

If you are willing to plan, apply and put in enough effort then an aggressive cutting strategy can be used in the short term without too much harm and with significant physique benefits. However, grapefruit diets, cabbage diets, diet pills or other such nonsense simply will not cut it in this context.

Purchase either Lyle McDonald's "Rapid Fat Loss Handbook" or Tom Venuto's "Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle" and apply the contents (in Tim Venuto's ebook there is a specific chapter on pre contest dieting - I think it is chapter 12 off the top of my head.)

Of course it will take a huge amount of effort to do this the right way but if you are committed then go for it...

ladyprincess99

Wow!!! Whatever you do please be careful That is not safe hun

ladyprincess99

oh my godddd seriously?! i need to get these pills. and well done thats amazing by the way! where did you get them from? oh and thanks for replying

Way to pick the one post that gives you the answer you want and ignore all the ones that warn you about how dangerous and unhealthy your plan is. You're 18. Don't be in such a hurry to lose weight. Learn how to eat and live properly rather than looking for some "magic" solution that will solve all your problems.

Wow!!! I notice That rofl!!! SMDH

wilson1jessica

oh my godddd seriously?! i need to get these pills. and well done thats amazing by the way! where did you get them from? oh and thanks for replying

Way to pick the one post that gives you the answer you want and ignore all the ones that warn you about how dangerous and unhealthy your plan is. You're 18. Don't be in such a hurry to lose weight. Learn how to eat and live properly rather than looking for some "magic" solution that will solve all your problems.

Wow!!! I notice That rofl!!! SMDH

Then maybe notice the reply i said about the first comment bein the only one i saw when i wrote that? actually blind.
oh and "SMDH" really?? you're 33 please stop using these acronyms its a bit embarrassing.

nyctraveler

I did 800 calories last summer and didn't lose much at all...all I did was mess up my metabolism so that when I went back to eating normally (1200 cals), I GAINED weight. I don't know how long it will take for my body to recover and to burn calories normally. It's still not doing it right, I think.

I agree - you will not lose as much as you think you will. I've been there I did this crazy regimen of eating once every 3 days basically and lost like 35 lbs in 3 months but honestly I could have probably lost more with a lot less suffering lol (eh i was young and stupid then)

I am just saying you might only end up losing 10-15 lbs with all that deprivation! You might just do something more sustainable (1200 cals) and exercise

If you are completely determined to do the 500 calorie diet thing - YOU NEED TO VARY the cal intake. You need to throw in spike days etc; same goes for exercise

xelle2

Hi you,

I've been on really low calorie diet for a few years, I would say the same as the other girl, if you want to go through this, better not to take any other pills and eat only really healthy stuff.
Meat, fish, lots of veg, banana, (rice or chickpeas once a week)

There is nothing that will make you change your mind I suppose.
If you see you cannot do it, eat a little more an exercise more.

Don't forget, under 1000kcal our mind is not working properly, so be gentle with your friends and careful while driving and working.

Silvergamma

Was going to post about the FDA recalling the pills mentioned on page 1, but saw a bunch of other people already linked to it.

DaveNix

Just wanted to say:

WHAT A FANTASTIC COMMUNITY!!!!!

Cautioning against this type of behavior and educating around quick fixes = awesomesauce.

Let's do it, and let's do it right!

wilson1jessica

Hi you,

I've been on really low calorie diet for a few years, I would say the same as the other girl, if you want to go through this, better not to take any other pills and eat only really healthy stuff.
Meat, fish, lots of veg, banana, (rice or chickpeas once a week)

There is nothing that will make you change your mind I suppose.
If you see you cannot do it, eat a little more an exercise more.

Don't forget, under 1000kcal our mind is not working properly, so be gentle with your friends and careful while driving and working.

Thanks yeah, well to be perfectly honest i've been eating a lot healthier then i did when i was eating a 2000 calorie diet, as opposed to eating rubbish and processed food i've been actually cooking and eating chick peas, lentils, steamed vegetables etc, i am vegetarian anyway so my diet was always lacking certain things, and has done pretty much my whole life. But since i have been doing this diet i have eaten so much healthier and i feel so much better. So i am still gonna carry on doing what im doing, despite how many people i have so clearly offended on here by the very thought of eating so little calories.

thanks for your reply though, it was actually helpful

lenwie

Eating 500 calories for 70 days, you would probably die. Seriously.

Go into a day on this website, add enough food to be 200 calories or so below your target for losing 2 lbs a week, click the complete entry button. It tells you if every day were like this, in 5 weeks you'd weigh (this). Find a number that is reasonable so you don't kill yourself in ten weeks.

Find a workout program, eat right, and for the love of all that is holy, eat at least 1400 calories a day unless you plan going away to the hospital for malnutrition.

I did a very low cal diet with supervision of my GP (Cambridge Diet) shakes & soups etc, I did this for 4 months and only lost on average 1lb a week? but the cal deficit it should have been a minimum of 3lb a week :sad: and I had a large amount of weight to lose. Everybody is different, oh and when I stopped the diet, because I felt terrible, mouth ulcers and coldsores ewwwwwwww all the time, I put it all back on and some more.

Dont think I would go as far to say you would die, but I dont think I could go back there again :noway:

RiverRatChick

oh and "SMDH" really?? you're 33 please stop using these acronyms its a bit embarrassing.

If I were you, I'd be embarrassed that you came to a forum called "MyFITNESSPal" and asked a question about everyone's thoughts on starving yourself. There are forums out there for this type of behavior, Google "Anorexia" and you'll find plenty. Best of luck to you in your goal. When you want to embark on a journey to become healthy and fit, I encourage you to return and join this community. Posts such as yours are ridiculous and make me feel really sad for you.

tammy200678

people she is not going to die I did 700 for 6 months and I am still alive as long as u get the vitamins and nutrients u need and it is not for long long periods of time that is what gets to me about this site we know our bodies better than anyone and everyone on here is trying to lose weight none of us our professorial people on this or we would not be here so why sit there and tell someone they r wrong for this they know their body not u or to tell them they r going to die come on get real that is why I hate these threads half the time because everyone thinks they know better or r very judgemental

RiverRatChick

people she is not going to die I did 700 for 6 months and I am still alive as long as u get the vitamins and nutrients u need and it is not for long long periods of time that is what gets to me about this site we know our bodies better than anyone and everyone on here is trying to lose weight none of us our professorial people on this or we would not be here so why sit there and tell someone they r wrong for this they know their body not u or to tell them they r going to die come on get real that is why I hate these threads half the time because everyone thinks they know better or r very judgemental

Holy punctuation, batman... :noway:

I'd like to point out that she came on here and asked for input. She has received a broad spectrum of responses and she has the ability to decide what information she will take into account when making her decision. If you're going to ask for input in a public forum you should already be aware that you may not like some of the responses you get. There is no sense patting someone on the back and coddling them if they want input on a bad decision.

tammy200678

she ask your opinion yes it is that NOT JUDGE if u read were people r telling her she is going to die come on I hate that crap everybody has some stupid judgmental comment she wants to know your what u think not stupid comments from people who do not know crap and I am not saying everyone is doing that so before u get so offensive u might think all I saying stop judging on here we r here for support

wilson1jessica

If I were you, I'd be embarrassed that you came to a forum called "MyFITNESSPal" and asked a question about everyone's thoughts on starving yourself. There are forums out there for this type of behavior, Google "Anorexia" and you'll find plenty. Best of luck to you in your goal. When you want to embark on a journey to become healthy and fit, I encourage you to return and join this community. Posts such as yours are ridiculous and make me feel really sad for you.

did i actually ask that though? or did i ask approximately how much weight i would lose? i think you will find it was the latter. And i did this in the hope to get some replies off people with experience of a low calorie diet, which thankfully i have. And lets be serious here, im not the only person that is resorting to a low calorie diet for weight loss. And also, you dont know me, at all. So how about you think about that before you start judging and making accusations about me having an eating disorder.

tammy200678

If I were you, I'd be embarrassed that you came to a forum called "MyFITNESSPal" and asked a question about everyone's thoughts on starving yourself. There are forums out there for this type of behavior, Google "Anorexia" and you'll find plenty. Best of luck to you in your goal. When you want to embark on a journey to become healthy and fit, I encourage you to return and join this community. Posts such as yours are ridiculous and make me feel really sad for you.

did i actually ask that though? or did i ask approximately how much weight i would lose? i think you will find it was the latter. And i did this in the hope to get some replies off people with experience of a low calorie diet, which thankfully i have. And lets be serious here, im not the only person that is resorting to a low calorie diet for weight loss. And also, you dont know me, at all. So how about you think about that before you start judging and making accusations about me having an eating disorder.

I agree

soysos

over the corse of about a month I ate between 0 and 1000 calories a day. not by choice, I literally had to force myself t eat that much. anyway at the time I was sleeping 14-18 hour a day, and what little time I was up I could barely function. I have done this a few times in my life and every time I ended up in the hospital. once I damn near passed out into a fryer. even if you ignore the toll this takes on the body, the actual weight loss is minimal. the body does not want to loose or gain weight, so when you starve the body it tries to minimize expended energy. so you lay around all day, there is no choice the body won't let you do anything else. all that being said, going back and forth between eating normally and barely eating I did loose a significant amount of weight, weight that I am currently struggling to gain back, but this happened over several years, not weeks.

if you want actual numbers, when I first started having trouble eating I was taking in under 1000 a day and lost about eight pounds of mass, but I think most of that was water weight. when I went to the hospital the first thing they did was put a liter of fluids in I got a total of four before I left. the second time over the course of a year going back and forth between eating and not eating I lost 40 pounds and since lost another 20. I'm now 180 pounds 9% body fat and still loosing weight.

afteil

I know how it feels to be super busy and not have time to work out. I am 22 and have a lot of weight to lose (becuase when I first got out of high school I was so busy that i wouldnt cook and didnt work out outside of walking to my classes). But what I think is important for the long run is to find a way to make time to work out- I wake up at 4:30 in the morning to go to the gym with my mom and work out, since I have school 6 days a week and thats almost the only time I am able to go. But I know that isnt for everyone- if you only have 10-20 mins per day then you can always try something like
www.bodyrock.tv - most of her workouts are very short and high intensity, without having to leave your own home. she also does dieting tips and modifications for beginnings.

I was also vegetarian for 2 years and was a lot more thin when I was- if you arent consuming any of the processed vegetarian dishes and eating fresh fruits and vegetables that you are cooking without excess oil or salts, 500 calories can be a lot of food! (i mean, 12 oz of carrots is only 160 calories!). But, the most important thing to remember is that in order to make that work, you need to be eating grains and rice as well. Vegetables do not contain "whole protiens" (because protein is broken into different amino acids, and vegetables only have a certain number), they need grains that contain the other amino acids to work.(the only exceptions to this is generally the beans) If you don't want to have grains or rice, be sure that you are using a soy protein powder and adding that to your foods to ensure you get the right amount of protein in your diet.

Other than that, I would say invest in a food scale: they can be very helpful in ensuring you get the proper amounts of each food, and you can pre-portion your snacks to make sure that you keep eating throughout the day to not get hungry. Also, remember to take multivitamins to make sure your body gets all the nutrients that it needs.

I will say that I agree that eating 500 calories per day is quite low- especially for the length of time that you want to commit to it. I would reccomend trying it for a shorter time and see what effects it will have on you, and if it is actually helping you get to your goals faster. And of course, try to keep your doctor informed Hope this was randomly helpful.

RiverRatChick

If I were you, I'd be embarrassed that you came to a forum called "MyFITNESSPal" and asked a question about everyone's thoughts on starving yourself. There are forums out there for this type of behavior, Google "Anorexia" and you'll find plenty. Best of luck to you in your goal. When you want to embark on a journey to become healthy and fit, I encourage you to return and join this community. Posts such as yours are ridiculous and make me feel really sad for you.

did i actually ask that though? or did i ask approximately how much weight i would lose? i think you will find it was the latter. And i did this in the hope to get some replies off people with experience of a low calorie diet, which thankfully i have. And lets be serious here, im not the only person that is resorting to a low calorie diet for weight loss. And also, you dont know me, at all. So how about you think about that before you start judging and making accusations about me having an eating disorder.

To each their own. :laugh: Best of luck to you. When you gain all of the weight you lose back, there is a plethora of information on this website about fitness programs and healthy eating regimens that will help you make a change in your body that will last longer than an extreme caloric reduction.

kdao

If I were you, I'd be embarrassed that you came to a forum called "MyFITNESSPal" and asked a question about everyone's thoughts on starving yourself. There are forums out there for this type of behavior, Google "Anorexia" and you'll find plenty. Best of luck to you in your goal. When you want to embark on a journey to become healthy and fit, I encourage you to return and join this community. Posts such as yours are ridiculous and make me feel really sad for you.

did i actually ask that though? or did i ask approximately how much weight i would lose? i think you will find it was the latter. And i did this in the hope to get some replies off people with experience of a low calorie diet, which thankfully i have. And lets be serious here, im not the only person that is resorting to a low calorie diet for weight loss. And also, you dont know me, at all. So how about you think about that before you start judging and making accusations about me having an eating disorder.

To each their own. :laugh: Best of luck to you. When you gain all of the weight you lose back, there is a plethora of information on this website about fitness programs and healthy eating regimens that will help you make a change in your body that will last longer than an extreme caloric reduction.

Agreed. I mean it didn't work out very well for "tammy200678", as she is here to lose 100 + pounds and she was consuming 700 cals.

tammy200678

ok u l know what before u judge know the story I had 2 miscarriages back to back and got run over by a car all within a year and could not move for almost 6 moths so u better shut your mouth I kept it off until all that so go f your self and that is what i am talking about jugemental crap u do not know me so keep my name out of your mouth

wilson1jessica

I was also vegetarian for 2 years and was a lot more thin when I was- if you arent consuming any of the processed vegetarian dishes and eating fresh fruits and vegetables that you are cooking without excess oil or salts, 500 calories can be a lot of food! (i mean, 12 oz of carrots is only 160 calories!). But, the most important thing to remember is that in order to make that work, you need to be eating grains and rice as well. Vegetables do not contain "whole protiens" (because protein is broken into different amino acids, and vegetables only have a certain number), they need grains that contain the other amino acids to work.(the only exceptions to this is generally the beans) If you don't want to have grains or rice, be sure that you are using a soy protein powder and adding that to your foods to ensure you get the right amount of protein in your diet.

Thanks for your reply, it was all helpful but this in particular is something i want to point out because CLEARLY the majority of people on this site just read things in black and white and don't even give a bit of time to consider something that seems a little bit controversial to what they think. At no point did i ever say that i was starving myself and wasn't eating etc, i am eating little and often and choosing low fat things like chick peas, lentils and porridge etc so quite frankly im getting pretty sick of being accused of all sorts from everyone that have just jumped to conclusions and completely judged me

tammy200678

I was also vegetarian for 2 years and was a lot more thin when I was- if you arent consuming any of the processed vegetarian dishes and eating fresh fruits and vegetables that you are cooking without excess oil or salts, 500 calories can be a lot of food! (i mean, 12 oz of carrots is only 160 calories!). But, the most important thing to remember is that in order to make that work, you need to be eating grains and rice as well. Vegetables do not contain "whole protiens" (because protein is broken into different amino acids, and vegetables only have a certain number), they need grains that contain the other amino acids to work.(the only exceptions to this is generally the beans) If you don't want to have grains or rice, be sure that you are using a soy protein powder and adding that to your foods to ensure you get the right amount of protein in your diet.

Thanks for your reply, it was all helpful but this in particular is something i want to point out because CLEARLY the majority of people on this site just read things in black and white and don't even give a bit of time to consider something that seems a little bit controversial to what they think. At no point did i ever say that i was starving myself and wasn't eating etc, i am eating little and often and choosing low fat things like chick peas, lentils and porridge etc so quite frankly im getting pretty sick of being accused of all sorts from everyone that have just jumped to conclusions and completely judged me

agreed that is all a lot of people do on here

Mads1997

ok u l know what before u judge know the story I had 2 miscarriages back to back and got run over by a car all within a year and could not move for almost 6 moths so u better shut your mouth I kept it off until all that so go f your self and that is what i am talking about jugemental crap u do not know me so keep my name out of your mouth

Really no need for this kind of reply.

kdao

ok u l know what before u judge know the story I had 2 miscarriages back to back and got run over by a car all within a year and could not move for almost 6 moths so u better shut your mouth I kept it off until all that so go f your self and that is what i am talking about jugemental crap u do not know me so keep my name out of your mouth

I wasn't judging you, I was going off simply what you said. Relax, and stop being an "e-thug"

kevanos

there is the controversional HCG diet that in popular on these boards that is based on 500 calorie diet. It uses HCG drops that supposedly turns your fat into calories (isn`t that what your body would do even without the drops).

Anyways, not that I reccomend it, but there are a bunch of threads floating around about it, use the search function with HCG.

Also, you should talk to your fit friends and see what they did to become that fit, maybe it had nothing to do with 500 calorie diets...