Exercise tips for a 1,000 calorie diet

Why?????? 1200 is the normal minimum....are you on a specific medically supervised low calorie diet? It is going to be hard to have the energy to do a lot of exercise on that low of a calorie deficit. I hope you are going to at least eat back your calories form exercise.....

fixing some food and eating it would be fantastic exercise on a 1000 cal a day diet

Strength training will help burn fat too....fyi.

ill take the skinny flappy body:)

At 1,000 calories, I wouldn't suggest much exercise at all. You're not taking in enough calories to support your most basic bodily functions, let alone an exercise program. If you're highly overweight/obese, your body will draw from your fat stores to help supplement, but 1,000 calories is a very low intake level.

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Please don't do 1000 calories a day . You'll just stall out and damage your metabolism

on a 1200 cal diet, you might not have a lot of energy...depends on your body and also what exercises you are planning to do. When I did that (before I researched more about fitness)....I could barely get through a 30 minute workout without feeling exhausted.

I eat 1600 calories and exercise 4-5 days a week. I have done some pretty high cal burn days since then (800-1600 burns at 2-3 hour sessions) and I can tell you if you plan to do anything more than 30 minutes or anything intense, you need energy and you won't get that on a 1200 calorie restricted diet.

Here's my tips:

- Don't do a 1,000 cal diet. The deficit is too large. You don't burn FAT faster with that big of a deficit, the extra weight you may lose will come from your lean body mass. The really unfortunate thing is that LBM is MUCH harder to replace once it's lost than fat, so when you inevitably crash and burn on 1000 cals and regain weight, you will end up with proportionally MORE fat than you started with. Seriously. Don't discount what I'm saying here because you don't like that I said it's inevitable that you'll regain. Seriously consider that at the end IF you regain the weight (which you will) you will be fatter. It's the curse of the yo-yo diet.

- Start strength training YESTERDAY. You can do as much or as little cardio as you want, but devote 90 minutes a week to lifting, and your body will transform. Eat back your exercise calories, or at least most of them.

- Get enough protein, 1g/lb LBM, or if you don't know your LBM 100-120g is a good place for most women to start, call it an educated guess on my part.

-Keep your maximum deficit at 20% from your TDEE. Fat loss is proportional to how much you have to lose, not to your deficit. Of course, it is DRIVEN by your deficit, but there's an upper limit to how much actual FAT you can lose. If you can't lose more fat, why eat less?

- Log every morsel of food you eat. Get a food scale and weigh the morsels.

- Get off the scale, and take body measurements with a measuring tape, and take "before" pictures of every angle of your body in a swimsuit (or underwear, but you won't be able to post underwear shots here later when you do awesome!)

-Cut all excuses. ALL excuses.

That's pretty much it!