is it ok to eat around 500 calories a day?

You NEED AT LEAST 1200 Calories a day.

Really unsafe to eat only 500 calories a day. You're starving yourself. You should follow the guidelines on here and eat what the program suggests. If you don't see changes, after a couple of weeks, tweak it a bit.

No

Faster doesn't mean better.

Losing weight takes time, just like it took time to gain it. And limiting your calories below what your body needs to function is only going to do more damage in the end. Take your time losing weight and don't worry so much about how soon, it's about doing it healthy and without starving yourself

Nope. You may lose weight, but you are killing your metabolism. You'll find your energy levels are lower, and you'll make it harder to keep the weight off once you lose it. Plenty of tools around to help you find out where you should be aiming for and what to eat to make goal when you're not hungry.

500 calories isn't even enough to keep your body going if you were in a coma. if you eat that few of calories yor will have more binging and even worse, your body will give out from all the fatigue. you have to eat. plain and simple. i think even 1200 is too few. i was losing weight at 1200 cals a day but plateaued because my body was in starvation mode. i upped my cal intake by 480 calories..so now i eat 1680 cals a day - in two days, the weight started falling off again. don't starve yourself. if you are really eating that few of calories i would recommend a psychologist -

If you have to ask, it's probably a dumb idea.

If your only goal is to lose as fast as possible, enjoy gaining it all back.

No.

I survived on 500 a day and I had a life threatening eating disorder.
I'm not even going to go into all the health risks, I think the fact I nearly killed myself eating so little speaks loud enough.

So very much this ^^^ Good of you to speak about your own experience with the same thing!

I ended up in the hospital twice when I was 19 because of doing this same thing, terrifying.

:frown: no no no, not healthy at all! please eat more to be healthy and stick around for your little one

ETA: your little "ONES"...I didnt' realize you had 3 children.

This instant-gratification mindset when it comes to fitness and weight loss makes me laugh. It took you years to get where you are. You think you can just stop eating and it all goes away? That ridiculous. Get out. Easy come, easy go. Even if you did lose a bunch of weight by some stupid unhealthy means, you'd gain it all back when you ended your diet and went right back to old eating habits because you not only have not increased your basal metabolic rate, but actually decreased it by losing muscle mass in the unhealthy weight-loss phase.

I'm with SKeywood. This has to be a wind-up. No one is this stupid.....Are they?.....

Yeah. For breakfast.

a) only do it under a doctor's supervision
b) don't do it
c) find out what your resting metabolic rate (RMR or BMR) is & eat that as a minimum (general guideline - not perfect for all people, but it doesn't sound like you're looking for serious advice anyway)

Absolutely not. Yes, you'll lose it quickly, but it will be all muscle you're losing. Then once you start to eat normally again you'll just gain it all back. Sustainable weight loss means losing slowly. You MUST have at least 1200 or you will surely make yourself sick.

NOOOOO !