hair loss with 1200 calories

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  • Dearnik
    Dearnik Posts: 3 Member
    1200 calories is alright but truly you need to add more protein to your diet. This is almost always a sure sign that you are not getting enough. Try increasing to see if that helps. Also if you need to add more calories to accommodate the protein, add more exercise to balance so you continue to lose.
  • LongIsland27itl
    LongIsland27itl Posts: 365 Member
    See a doctor you need a blood panel. In the mean tie, if I were you, I'd get on some hardcore omega 3 6 9 supplement like animal omega to help regulate hormones from a depleted body
  • Ang108
    Ang108 Posts: 1,706 Member
    False, I was never a yo-yo dieter and my metabolism is fine, thank you. It takes a lot less calories to maintain someone of my height and weight than it does for a bigger person. I don't know how old the OP is, but there's no guarantee her BMR is 1440 just because the TDEE calculator says so. So, to another poster, no, she's not me, but that doesn't mean generic calculations apply to everyone. Someone else on another post said she had her BMR tested, and like mine, hers was very low.

    I guess what I was trying to say is that 1200 isn't too low for everyone.

    Maybe that was me in another thread. I am 65, five feet tall and no longer have a thyroid ( which I lost to cancer and not yo-yo dieting because I never had a weight problem up to that point ). I have my BMR checked once a year ( for medical reasons ) and the last time it was 1031.......but of course if I say I do more then well, but actually excellent on a very balanced, healthy diet eating more volume of food than most at 1200 calories a day I get set upon by a bunch of uninformed " you need to eat more to lose more " advocates. They cannot understand that for me losing on average a pound a week is just fine. For those who don't believe me, take the time and check my diary where you find oodles of food in a great varoety from protein to lots of vegetables and fruit anywhere from 1000 - 1200 calories a day.
  • __Di__
    __Di__ Posts: 1,659 Member
    For those of you telling OP she's starving herself at 1200 and she can go way higher, read this link: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/777877-i-had-my-bmr-tested-it-s-1032-calories. Eating over 1200 doesn't work for everybody.

    And this is why i knew that thread was a failure waiting to happen. Now all the special snowflake low calorie eaters will point to it while claiming they're the outliers from the norm/average. This will be the 1200 calorie rallying point, instead of being acknowledged as one woman who has an oddly low BMR.

    You didn't actually read the whole of the OPs posting in that thread did you? She was not the only one who had a low BMR, when she got the results of her test and was told it was 1032, she said she always thought it was a few hundred higher than that to which the terchnician replied that most people were under that exact same impression, but the truth is, most people have a lot lower BMR than they think.

    Now then, if BMR calculators are out, that means TDEE calculators are also out, because TDEE is based on the base rate.

    and no, that thread is far from a failure, you just do not like the thought of what it really means........
  • Ang108
    Ang108 Posts: 1,706 Member
    For those of you telling OP she's starving herself at 1200 and she can go way higher, read this link: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/777877-i-had-my-bmr-tested-it-s-1032-calories. Eating over 1200 doesn't work for everybody.

    And this is why i knew that thread was a failure waiting to happen. Now all the special snowflake low calorie eaters will point to it while claiming they're the outliers from the norm/average. This will be the 1200 calorie rallying point, instead of being acknowledged as one woman who has an oddly low BMR.

    If you have time, why don't you investigate diets in other countries, even if you only chose the developed ones like most countries in Europe, or Japan. ?They all think that 1200 calories is normal for balanced weight loss, because it is considered that average women need about 1500-1800 depending on size to survive and thrive.
    Of course it is possible that the whole world is wrong and that the high weight loss/maintenance calorie amounts that are preached here are actually the only ones that are right. Or is is just a little bit possible that those cultures who eat a more " natural " diet just live on less ( calorie, not volume wise ) and are quite a bit healthier ? Not looking for problems .....just wondering........
  • prattiger65
    prattiger65 Posts: 1,657 Member
    For those of you telling OP she's starving herself at 1200 and she can go way higher, read this link: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/777877-i-had-my-bmr-tested-it-s-1032-calories. Eating over 1200 doesn't work for everybody.

    And this is why i knew that thread was a failure waiting to happen. Now all the special snowflake low calorie eaters will point to it while claiming they're the outliers from the norm/average. This will be the 1200 calorie rallying point, instead of being acknowledged as one woman who has an oddly low BMR.
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    If you have time, why don't you investigate diets in other countries, even if you only chose the developed ones like most countries in Europe, or Japan. ?They all think that 1200 calories is normal for balanced weight loss, because it is considered that average women need about 1500-1800 depending on size to survive and thrive.
    Of course it is possible that the whole world is wrong and that the high weight loss/maintenance calorie amounts that are preached here are actually the only ones that are right. Or is is just a little bit possible that those cultures who eat a more " natural " diet just live on less ( calorie, not volume wise ) and are quite a bit healthier ? Not looking for problems .....just wondering........

    I'm too lazy to do endless searches, but it would be awesome if you would cite your source for this info. I would like to read the studies that prove this. Especially the "quite a bit healthier" part.
  • Sinnister78
    Sinnister78 Posts: 134 Member
    You people are hilarious.

    Do some of you get paid based on the amount of posters you sway to your way of thinking? 1200 calories baaaaaad ha ha ha ha ha. Or 1000 calories gooooooood he he he he he.

    OP - go see a dr. None of the people here seem concerned at all with your problem, just pushing their own BS on to you as if a cookie cutter generic calculation somehow applies to the entire population at large.

    The only thing I can tell you that may be helpful is to go see a PROFESSIONAL and have them run tests to determine what the problem is. All of this low calorie bad/high calorie good stuff is all speculation in your case. For all we know this is a psychological/emotional response.
  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    For those of you telling OP she's starving herself at 1200 and she can go way higher, read this link: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/777877-i-had-my-bmr-tested-it-s-1032-calories. Eating over 1200 doesn't work for everybody.

    And this is why i knew that thread was a failure waiting to happen. Now all the special snowflake low calorie eaters will point to it while claiming they're the outliers from the norm/average. This will be the 1200 calorie rallying point, instead of being acknowledged as one woman who has an oddly low BMR.

    You didn't actually read the whole of the OPs posting in that thread did you? She was not the only one who had a low BMR, when she got the results of her test and was told it was 1032, she said she always thought it was a few hundred higher than that to which the terchnician replied that most people were under that exact same impression, but the truth is, most people have a lot lower BMR than they think.

    Now then, if BMR calculators are out, that means TDEE calculators are also out, because TDEE is based on the base rate.

    and no, that thread is far from a failure, you just do not like the thought of what it really means........

    Most people getting tested likely have a medical condition which requires they/their doctor get a more clear picture of what is going on with their health, i.e. the majority of them fall "outside of normal", so just because a technician said "most people have a lower BMR than they think", doesn't mean anything. Skewed statistics, since their sample population is not the norm.
  • MaydayParadeGirl
    MaydayParadeGirl Posts: 190 Member
    You people are hilarious.

    Do some of you get paid based on the amount of posters you sway to your way of thinking? 1200 calories baaaaaad ha ha ha ha ha. Or 1000 calories gooooooood he he he he he.

    OP - go see a dr. None of the people here seem concerned at all with your problem, just pushing their own BS on to you as if a cookie cutter generic calculation somehow applies to the entire population at large.

    The only thing I can tell you that may be helpful is to go see a PROFESSIONAL and have them run tests to determine what the problem is. All of this low calorie bad/high calorie good stuff is all speculation in your case. For all we know this is a psychological/emotional response.

    THIS because I feel like everyone whose actually trying to help OP is getting lost in this battle of the calories stuff so THIS THIS THIS!
  • prattiger65
    prattiger65 Posts: 1,657 Member
    You people are hilarious.

    Do some of you get paid based on the amount of posters you sway to your way of thinking? 1200 calories baaaaaad ha ha ha ha ha. Or 1000 calories gooooooood he he he he he.

    OP - go see a dr. None of the people here seem concerned at all with your problem, just pushing their own BS on to you as if a cookie cutter generic calculation somehow applies to the entire population at large.

    The only thing I can tell you that may be helpful is to go see a PROFESSIONAL and have them run tests to determine what the problem is. All of this low calorie bad/high calorie good stuff is all speculation in your case. For all we know this is a psychological/emotional response.

    THIS because I feel like everyone whose actually trying to help OP is getting lost in this battle of the calories stuff so THIS THIS THIS!

    Because the OP made the correlation between diet and hair loss. People have given their opinions. The OP didn't go to her doctor for an opinion, she came to an internet message board for an opinion. Believe it or not, people have differing opinions. I believe the OP did get help, she may have gotten different opinions, but she certainly got advice and things to look into.
  • katherose1222
    katherose1222 Posts: 2
    Hello - I had the same issue. I did ask my doctor about this - she suggested that I take a biotin supplement, and make sure you get plenty of protein. I take one along with a multi-vitmin and an extra b complex vitamin supplement, and I also use Organix biotin and collagen shampoo. All of these things seem to be helping. I hope this helps you as well :)
  • MaydayParadeGirl
    MaydayParadeGirl Posts: 190 Member
    You people are hilarious.

    Do some of you get paid based on the amount of posters you sway to your way of thinking? 1200 calories baaaaaad ha ha ha ha ha. Or 1000 calories gooooooood he he he he he.

    OP - go see a dr. None of the people here seem concerned at all with your problem, just pushing their own BS on to you as if a cookie cutter generic calculation somehow applies to the entire population at large.

    The only thing I can tell you that may be helpful is to go see a PROFESSIONAL and have them run tests to determine what the problem is. All of this low calorie bad/high calorie good stuff is all speculation in your case. For all we know this is a psychological/emotional response.

    THIS because I feel like everyone whose actually trying to help OP is getting lost in this battle of the calories stuff so THIS THIS THIS!

    Because the OP made the correlation between diet and hair loss. People have given their opinions. The OP didn't go to her doctor for an opinion, she came to an internet message board for an opinion. Believe it or not, people have differing opinions. I believe the OP did get help, she may have gotten different opinions, but she certainly got advice and things to look into.

    But that isn't what happened, yeah some people are giving advice and others are just using it to fight about calories and the advice got lost in all the mess. There are certain people who post on these boards, and I've seen them in multiple threads, that just come in to fight about calories and basically beat the other people down who they don't agree with. You can't deny that they were taking over this thread and starting to push it into a fight. I wouldn't blame the OP if as soon as that started to happen they took off and didn't even bother looking back in here for advice.
  • sm_4ever17
    sm_4ever17 Posts: 128 Member
    Thanx guys I think i'll eat a bit more like 1500-1700 calories per day x. Cant imagine myself without hair ewwwew
  • walkingforward
    walkingforward Posts: 174 Member
    Bumping for later.

    FR's welcome
  • tmauck4472
    tmauck4472 Posts: 1,785 Member
    hi m on 1200 calorie diet bt m losing my hair i eat healthy like oatmeal for breaky, veggies, chapatis, milk, cereals weetabix bt m losing hair. does any1 knw why? iv recently started dieting so dnt knw if its coz of dat

    height 5'1"
    weight 139 pounds/63.2 kg

    I work in International Humanitarian Aid and we figure that IF the lack of food is the reason for hair loss it is because the person had consistently ( 6 month plus ) eaten less than 600 calories a day. It takes a very long time on an extreme low cal diet before hair starts to fall out.. At 1200 calories, I would say it's stress, hormonal or other reasons, but I don't think it's the lack of nutrients, IF your diet is balanced.
    ^this I can't say how I know but I know, I should say I know MY results, yours may differ
  • LindseyAlyssa
    LindseyAlyssa Posts: 156
    Go see a doctor. I'm 5'2" and generally eat around 1000-1300 calories a day, have for quite a while, and have NOT seen a problem with my hair growth. My hair is actually healthier now that I'm consuming more vegetables and overall nutrients from a healthier diet. Same applies to my skin. Make sure what you're eating is actually nutritious, or you will run into problems like this.
  • bl1nk6
    bl1nk6 Posts: 175
    hmm interesting.. my hairs not been its healthy curly self since ive been on a 1200 cal diet.. but i have just found out i have health problems that might be to blame also, so please see your doctor about checking your thyroid.
  • danasings
    danasings Posts: 8,218 Member
    *blink*

    Well, if it started to fall out when you started starving yourself, I think the causation is pretty clear.
    starvation??? LMAO :laugh: 1200 calories is not starving. What an insult.

    How do you make it through life if you find that insulting? Like...really?


    Edit: joy_joy women like you on mfp are my heroes. I was eating1200-1400 calories a day, and felt awful and depressed and guilty over every little thing. It wasnt until i saw women eating more and excelling at fitness that i was really able to make changes. I've been at 1600-1700 for a month and lost nearly 8 pounds and started working harder and feeling good for the first time since i left the military.

    Ahem. That is all. Carry on

    :heart:

    I experienced pretty significant hair loss while netting 500-700 a day back in 2012. Once I slowly increased my net to 1200-1400, my hair grew back and started falling out slowly, the way it's supposed to. :laugh:

    41 years old, 5'6", and I lose weight eating between 1700-2000/day. I maintain around 2300-2500/day. Admittedly, I am very active.

    OP, it could be any one of a number of factors. Best bet is to see a doctor.

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