600 Calories per day!!!

Sunny_Sunflower

Some doctors put people that are significantly overweight and at a high health risk on low cal diets for a good portion of time to quickly shock the bodies metabolism and lose enough weight to be active etc. He may be under doctors orders.

Apa93

Tell him his **** is going to shrink and then he will not have a brain at all! Dumb a@@!

Just...no. No. This is how a society of idiots is created - e.g. if you go out without a coat on you will catch a cold. Biologically impossible. People just sprouting s**t and other people believing it. Just let him do what he wants - his choice.

Amy271189

Tell him his **** is going to shrink and then he will not have a brain at all! Dumb a@@!

Thanks for your lovely comment!!! really greatful!! Haha think your the dumb a** here love!!!!!
Has it not been made clear how worried I am about a friend of mine and he clearly needs help!!!
I haven't got time for people like you who are clearly so disrespectful.

If you don't want to help then don't comment simple!!!!

Amy271189

Thanks every one for your comments

Take care

Amy

beckylawrence70

If he thinks that's okay, there's something wrong with him, probably nothing you say will change it either. Live and learn. There are some people you just can't help or get thru to.........

em9371

I rarely comment on these threads because I suffered with anorexia for a number of years in my late teens and I have no great love for re-living those years that wreaked my mind and my body. It took me 15 years to get over the damage I did to myself after eating tiny portions of foods for years.

Here is my experience of reducing my calories to below 1000 a day.

At the time I aimed for less than 900 cals per day as someone told me I would lose loads of weight if I kept my cals under this number. However, it escalated into me getting more paranoid and controlling about my eating and some days I ate an orange and a piece of toast and thought I was wonderful for it (more fool me) As well as eating half a cup of dry cornflakes and calling it a meal, I also exercised 3 or 4 times a day.

In the short term (1-6) months eating under 800 or 900 cals a day:
Makes you irritable, grumpy and a pain to live with
Your breath will smell
Your face skin will dry out and/or you'll get spots
You will feel nauseous with hunger
You stomach will make noise all the time
You will lose hell of a lot of weight (up to 7lbs a week)

6 -12 months
Your period will stop
Your appetite will be gone.
You will have trained yourself to go without food.
Your energy will be non-existant
Your circle of friends will have whittered away as you fall out or cut out all of them in turn because of your eating
Your family will be in a panic about your appearance
Your weight loss will slow down to about 1lb a week (or less)
Your hair will thin

12-18 months
You are really ill now
You panic about your weight loss and drop down to 300-500 cals because some other anorexic on an internet forum said this worked for her
The other Anas on the forums are your only "friends" now
All your muscle has gone
The skin all over your body and your face will be in a shocking condition
You are cold all the time, a horrible soul sucking coldness that seems to come from within
Organ damage has started
Your hair will stop growing and may start to fall out

18 months +
As well as everything else above
The symptoms of mental illness appear (paranoia being the most common)
Irreversible organ damage may have started
Lumps of your hair will fall out leaving you with bald patches

After recovery:
Your body clings on to every calories like a dying man to a shipwreak and you put on weight. You think dropping back to your previous habits will lose it - it doesn't. What do you do then?

Those are the consequences of surviving on anorexic/tiny portions of food. Those are the ones I saw myself and others in real-life support groups go through.

I am not saying your friend is anorexic (nothing like it) but what will he do when 600 cals per day no longer loses him the weight he he was used to losing from day to day? Will he cut his calories further? Is this really the path he wants to go down? If it were my friend, I would beg them now to stop before it is too late and he embarks on a lifestyle that negatively shapes the rest of his life.

You already say that he has trouble sleeping and looks ill. This sounds to me like his mind and body are not happy are being given this meager volume of food. Get off the internet, people here cannot see you or your friend. Get your friend to a medical professional. If he will not listen to you, he may listen to them.

Right now, I am now losing 2lbs a week eating around about 2000 cals a day. I am happy, healthy and energetic.

Encourage your friend to get smart before it is too late for him.

Amazing post, I think a LOT of people on MFP could benefit from reading this, you should repost seperately!!

noneya710

This will not make you lose weight. I eat less than 1000 calories a day for several years...and am gaining weight. And I am not sedentary...I grow most of those calories and raise animals. I am actually gaining weight. Leave people like us alone. You might be starving...I am getting fat, while feeling like I am starving. I eat one small meal a day up on my feet for hours, walking, digging, landscaping and am getting more and more fat doing so. Maybe some of us are different.

wheird

This will not make you lose weight. I eat less than 1000 calories a day for several years...and am gaining weight. And I am not sedentary...I grow most of those calories and raise animals. I am actually gaining weight. Leave people like us alone. You might be starving...I am getting fat, while feeling like I am starving. I eat one small meal a day up on my feet for hours, walking, digging, landscaping and am getting more and more fat doing so. Maybe some of us are different.

Nice necrothread.

Fullsterkur_woman

This will not make you lose weight. I eat less than 1000 calories a day for several years...and am gaining weight. And I am not sedentary...I grow most of those calories and raise animals. I am actually gaining weight. Leave people like us alone. You might be starving...I am getting fat, while feeling like I am starving. I eat one small meal a day up on my feet for hours, walking, digging, landscaping and am getting more and more fat doing so. Maybe some of us are different.

Nice necrothread.

Yep. Solid first post too!

broox80

I had to defiriend someone who was doing that recently. There were many days he was negative net cals.I tried telling him how bad it was for him but he liked the way it made him feel. I told him that I suspected ED and he should be careful. Defriended. I am here uultimately for my own health but want to also motivate and help others. I just cant watch people deliberately abuse their bodies, that could mess up my progress.

action_figure

Hi Everyone,

600 Calories per day is what somebody I know is eating!

I know, I have tried to explain what he is doing is wrong and that eating such a low amount is not only going to make his body go in to starvation mode but can also cause great complications. He suffers with a condition called Narcolepsy which basically if your unaware is a sleeping disorder which he takes medication for. I am worried that he is making a bad decision but unfortunately isn't listening to me!
I have told him about MFP, but refuses to give it a go.
Please could anyone comment so I can show him the negetives of only eating this amount.

He has lost 2 stone (28Ibs) in 6 weeks, which he thinks is good. He is a large man.

Please help, I have treid to explain but nothing is working.

Your help is really appreciated.

Wow. That's not really that much weight to lose even. When I first started I was eating 1760 calories a day and I dropped 30 lbs my first month. Depends on the size you are when you start, but yeah, he's doing himself no favors.

FindingMyPerfection

Being in ketosis for a long time can damage your kidneys because your kidneys are being overworked.

This is a myth. I have been in nutritional ketosis for perhaps 2 years. My urine is pale yellow to clear depending on hydration etc.

I think she was confusing it with ketoacidosis which is dangerous.

DamePiglet

This thread is from April, 2012.

OPs friend might be dead by now.

UndoneTwo

I would just let him do what he wants. It's his body, he wants to lose weight his way. If someone told me I was losing weight the wrong way whilst it was still working for me I probably wouldn't listen either. If he plateaus, then maybe try explaining it to him again.

This. You can't control another person's decisions. Express your concerns. Then drop it or you will probably alienate yourself from him. Who wants their diet criticized every time they talk to their friend? If he asks for your opinion, then give it. Other than that, once you have expressed your concerns I would advise biting your tongue. I know it;s hard when you care about someone, but he's a grown up (I assume) and will continue to make his own choices.

Tigermum9

I think the OP should mind your own biz