500 calories a day program?

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  • Squiggs67
    Squiggs67 Posts: 178
    yup this diet exists, it's called natural selection. It's used to help us identify the dumbest people on earth when they aren't wearing an Ed Hardy shirt

    YUP! What he said!
  • smokinjackd
    smokinjackd Posts: 341
    Probably wears sunglasses all the time too because it's always sunny in doucheville.
  • JenniBaby85
    JenniBaby85 Posts: 855 Member
    Way too few calories to take in IMO. Even 900 calories a day is considered too few in most cases. Not a wise decision. :noway:
  • wareagle8706
    wareagle8706 Posts: 1,090 Member
    yup this diet exists, it's called natural selection. It's used to help us identify the dumbest people on earth when they aren't wearing an Ed Hardy shirt


    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Amazing. I love you!
  • lizMMedrano
    lizMMedrano Posts: 14 Member
    Yes I have done this program. I lost about 50 pounds on it - however, like any diet if you go back to eating your old way the weight will come back and mine did. This plan is called Mediweightloss and is medically supervised. I am doing a modified version of this on my own. I do 40% carbs, 40% protein, and 20% fats and I try to stay at around 800 calories a day. Once I get to my goal I plan to increase the calories but maintain the same composition of calories.
  • davert123
    davert123 Posts: 1,568 Member
    500 cals a day will mess you up. Your health will suffer and it could have very negative psychological results too. The best way (according to any sensible medical profession) is to loose weight at the rate recommended by MFP - I'm going to listen to them rather than someone like your friend who doesn't know what she is doing when it comes to diet
  • fanci9900
    fanci9900 Posts: 5
    I didn't read every comment so I am sure it's been said... 500 calories is to few calories for anyone... a woman needs a minimum of 1200 calories and a male 1400 calories and this is for someone who is NOT active... my opinion on fad diets such as this is don't do it. You are better off just logging your calories and exercises
  • MemphisKitten
    MemphisKitten Posts: 878 Member
    It's most likely a Pro Ana type diet. Yeah, they work, but people who do them are unhealthy and miserable! Also, restricting like this CAN trigger eating disorder behavior in some people. Being thin isn't something we should be risking our lives for. . . is it?
  • hollyNhollywood
    hollyNhollywood Posts: 426 Member
    well I'd say if there were awards for best comment per thread, this one would be alllll mine lol

    Agreed, I was thinking you win the internetz today.
    Plus, you're completely modest about it! :tongue:
  • sonshinelady
    sonshinelady Posts: 16 Member
    hahahahahaha!! I had to laugh right outloud when I read your post. I am somewhere between you and 'doesn't sound wise to me'.
  • AEL79
    AEL79 Posts: 10
    LOL!!!!!
  • sonshinelady
    sonshinelady Posts: 16 Member
    Hey....I LOVE your goal counter...gal lying on the beach. Where did you get it? May I ask? FUN!!!
  • Helloitsdan
    Helloitsdan Posts: 5,564 Member
    You cant teach common sense.
  • davert123
    davert123 Posts: 1,568 Member
    http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/item/diet-reverses-type-2-diabetes

    "In an early stage clinical trial of 11 people, funded by Diabetes UK, all reversed their diabetes by drastically cutting their food intake to just 600 calories a day for two months. And three months later, seven remained free of diabetes."

    For info.
    So, based upon a study involving 11 diabetics (who I assume were morbidly obese), you'd recommend a 500-600 calorie/day diet for healthy individuals?

    This is a real study and it worked ... but the people on it were monitored very closely by doctors and were not doing it to loose weight - it did get rid of diabetes. Its like any medical intervention though - the long term damage caused by just a stringent fast are still unknown - also things like muscle wastage, flabby skin etc are likely to occur. I prefer to do what is recommended by the medical profession to loose weight which is basically what MFP suggest
  • robin52077
    robin52077 Posts: 4,383 Member
    yup this diet exists, it's called natural selection. It's used to help us identify the dumbest people on earth when they aren't wearing an Ed Hardy shirt

    :heart:
  • Vx3_
    Vx3_ Posts: 102 Member
    You cant teach common sense.
    :laugh: :laugh:
  • Vx3_
    Vx3_ Posts: 102 Member
    So, what about those of us who really CAN't lose on 1200 or more cal?. I've tried.. and tried. The ONLY success i've ever had has been to stick around 1000. Yes it's miserable. Yes I work out (p90x). I've even tried the whole "metabolism reset" thing. NOTHING seems to work. I have resigned myself to having to eat VERY small amounts for the rest of my life. I know that I will never be able to increase my cals without gaining weight :(
    You probably have a medical issue that needs attention, OR you're not eating the right food.
  • RAFValentina
    RAFValentina Posts: 1,231 Member
    yup this diet exists, it's called natural selection. It's used to help us identify the dumbest people on earth when they aren't wearing an Ed Hardy shirt

    LOLZOR! true story.
  • hollyNhollywood
    hollyNhollywood Posts: 426 Member
    Hey....I LOVE your goal counter...gal lying on the beach. Where did you get it? May I ask? FUN!!!

    That must be for me :happy:
    Good ol' snooping around on google image search. Me in a tropical paradise is supposed to be my reward for when I get this weight off. However, its looking like a trip to the Keys at end of next month.. which is a little early. Oh well.
  • Irish_eyes75
    Irish_eyes75 Posts: 475
    Stop!!! Just stop with this nonsense already!
  • specialemy
    specialemy Posts: 141 Member
    Oh gosh, for a normal stomach this sounds unheard of. Keep us posted on how long that person lasts...I'd be dying to know. I'm a weight loss surgery patient and even I can eat more than 500 a day :P ..
  • crudd123
    crudd123 Posts: 244 Member
    This is called the HCG diet where you take HCG drops or pills and then eat 500 calories a day! Insane! But my sister in law lost 45 pounds doing this and my husband's brother lost 30 but I don't think I could survive eating so little! I do work so how on earth would you have enough enery to do that! Crazy!
  • crudd123
    crudd123 Posts: 244 Member
    Plus I'm waiting to see if they gain it all back and more! lol
  • stephl21uk
    stephl21uk Posts: 123 Member
    ive just deleted a friend off my friends list as she was doing alternate day fasting so 1 day she would eat under 500cals (somedays she ony eat 2 cereal bars all day which amounted to 280cals!!) and the day after that she would eat what ever she wanted and so on and so on!! how on earth is that healthy!!!!
  • Michellereducf
    Michellereducf Posts: 168 Member
    It's crap.
  • dittmarml
    dittmarml Posts: 351 Member
    So, what about those of us who really CAN't lose on 1200 or more cal?. I've tried.. and tried. The ONLY success i've ever had has been to stick around 1000. Yes it's miserable. Yes I work out (p90x). I've even tried the whole "metabolism reset" thing. NOTHING seems to work. I have resigned myself to having to eat VERY small amounts for the rest of my life. I know that I will never be able to increase my cals without gaining weight :(

    If you open your diary, maybe we could help. Worth a shot?
  • cmbalint
    cmbalint Posts: 71 Member
    I did something like this .I also stopped having my cycle and my hair fell out because i was starving myself.It is not worth it
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,337 Member
    ive just deleted a friend off my friends list as she was doing alternate day fasting so 1 day she would eat under 500cals (somedays she ony eat 2 cereal bars all day which amounted to 280cals!!) and the day after that she would eat what ever she wanted and so on and so on!! how on earth is that healthy!!!!

    Assuming her weekly calories are in line, there is nothing wrong with that. There is lots of research on intermittent fasting, and frankly, until the last century or so, that would be the pattern many, in fact most, people would eat like simply because food was not that available for the majority of people. They would eat a lot when it was available, but would go hungry when it was not. Since the current approach of always being fed is only leading to a society of fat people with the attendent health issues, don't slam something because it involves occasionally not eating. I do 1-2 days a week of 24 hour fasts (supper one night to supper the next so I don't actually go a day without eating) and eat normally the other days. Frankly it has been, for me, one of the best changes I could make. I am more focused and alert on fasting days, and have lots of energy on them as well, and I can eat more on my non-fasting days than I would doing a daily deficit. In the weekly picture I end up with about the same deficit as I would eating less calories each day, but I am much happier overall.
  • celebrity328
    celebrity328 Posts: 377 Member
    My mother in law over the last 15 years has had 2 weight loss surgeries that has amounted to 220 lost and 2 tummy tucks. In the end she has gained all the weight back and more.

    This last week she told me shes on a diet, I was excited!... then she tells me shes been on HGC and has lost 4 lbs in the last 3 days(Sigh) She eats 500 calories a day and does the drops etc which btw her doctor has given his blessing to do!

    I am VERY concerned for her health (shes 65) and she wont listen to me. Her reply is well ive had many clients do this diet and they have all lost weight. My doctor says its safe and you dont know what you are talking about. I understand people want to lose weight I really do but at what point do you just shake a person and tell them what they are doing can kill them?! I have read the stories on MFP about HGC and some of them are down right scary :(

    I guess in the end it comes down to how much damage are you willing to do to your body to get what you want?
  • mjj79
    mjj79 Posts: 415 Member
    So, what about those of us who really CAN't lose on 1200 or more cal?. I've tried.. and tried. The ONLY success i've ever had has been to stick around 1000. Yes it's miserable. Yes I work out (p90x). I've even tried the whole "metabolism reset" thing. NOTHING seems to work. I have resigned myself to having to eat VERY small amounts for the rest of my life. I know that I will never be able to increase my cals without gaining weight :(

    If you open your diary, maybe we could help. Worth a shot?
    thanks. I opened it and looked back ti when i was logging 1600 to 1700 cals. Definitely wasn't as "clean" as i thought :/ i read apost earlier that suggesred SLOWLY upping cals to repair metabolism. This week i finally lost 2.8, but that was sticking close to 1000 :/
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