800 Calorie a Day - Suggestions

My strongest recommendation is that you see a different doctor to get a second opinion.

Ditto

Many physicians do not have nutritional education - I'd ask for a second opinion, and/or go see a nutritionist.

Your health is your greatest asset. Short-term weight loss will definitely happen, but long-term will not. I've kept off 70 pounds for 20 years - by eating well. Please take care of yourself.

This reminds me of the doctor in the movie about Liberace who put him on the California Diet. Very low calorie - main ingredient cocaine! Except Liberace took drugs to lose the appetite.. uh but he died eventually. The doctor himself was a plastic surgeon, didn't do a very good job!!!

I do not recommend the California Diet.

My suggestion on what to eat - about 400 calories more a day.

If you are hell bent on doing this, I suppose you would have to eat what they tell people who just had weight loss surgery.. get protein first.

New Dr. More food.

Best of luck meeting your goals!

I'd start the day with a big heaping bowl of holy **** am I hungry
Lunch a balanced plate of a few peas, a drawing of a nice juicy ribeye steak
Dinner of another big bowl of holy **** am i hungry with a side of 800 calories worth of fast food
Follow that up with a big glass of not a chance will you stick to 800 calories a day

I questioned him as well - about the STARVATION MODE, and he disagrees with it. He says as long as you are eating throughout the day, your body will burn.

Your doctor is so wrong on this. It doesn't matter if you eat throughout the day or all calories in one sitting. Timing doesn't have an effect on your metabolism. quantity does.

Get a new doctor.

New Dr. More food.

Best of luck meeting your goals!

Still waiting on the OP to come in and defend his doctor.

I'm a doctor, so I will give you my advice:

Eat nothing until to lose 37 pounds. It may take a couple of months, but stick to it. What people don't tell you is that eating becomes a habit! Just break the habit.

Good luck.

That's brilliant! If somebody did your plan, they could break *all* their other bad habits too at the same time, if they stick with it long enough! :laugh:

Breakfast I would suggest low calorie yogurt with lots of fruit: berries are great anti-oxidents and they're low calorie. Try turkey bacon (if you're not vegetarian) you can have 2 slices for the same calories as 1 slice of the regular stuff. But you'll need the protein to keep from getting hungry.

I would suggest salads and soups.

Fresh, green, leafy salads with home-made dressings will have very low calories but a lot of good nutrition. I like to use romaine, spinach, cucumber, celery, radishes, onion, tomato, red cabbage, carrots.... and to keep me from getting hungry I'll often add 100 calories of almond slivers, walnuts, or old cheddar cheese. You can have about 3 cups of salad for under 250 calories. So I tend to make that for lunches.

Dinner I would suggest chicken breast, fish or lean pork. You would be surprised how few calories are actually in the stuff. And try using spices or fresh lemon instead of barbecue sauces. Stay away from rice or potatoes because it's really empty calories. You don't really need it. Vegetable choices that are low calorie could be asparagus, peas, beans, brusssel sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli (I usually melt about 50 calories of cheese on the broccoli or cauliflower just to get it down, cuz I hate the stuff). There are tons of choices that are under 50 calories per cup. I would say for you, go with 2 cups of vegetables in a dinner meal, its a LOT of food, but it's low calorie. It's about filling you up but staying in that hardcore 800 calorie budget.

Snacks? Berries, cucumber, celery... there's a lot of stuff out there for under 50 calories a serving. If you're starving, 10 almonds is usually a good choice. The protein makes you feel full.

If your doctor said 800 calories, it must be a FOR NOW diet, because I doubt he wants you to stay there. I mean, prolonged calorie levels like that could kill you.

I feel for you! I am in a similar boat. I had my metabolism tested and found out that my base RMR is 1022 calories. That is almost 500 less than average for my age, etc.

I am borderline obese, and have back and joint problems.

That said, in order to ease the pain on my joints, I have to lose weight. In order to lose weight, I have to eat less than 1000 calories a day.

No.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/3817-eat-more-to-weigh-less

My strongest recommendation is that you see a different doctor to get a second opinion.

This would be my recommendation too!

In the meantime, are you going to learn to eat better and in a way that will be sustainable for you so that the 37 unwanted pounds don't return? If so, why not just eat in that healthy, sustainable way now and not put yourself through the unpleasantness of eating only 800 calories a day?

find a new doctor.

Your doctor is a dilhole

Man. Everyone on here seems to be an expert. An 800-calorie diet is called a Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD) and it is a real thing that is used for obese people, usually with diabetes. It is done under strict supervision by a doctor. You may not agree with it. Your own doctor might not agree with it. Just like some doctors advocate weight loss surgery and others don't. But just because this person's doctor is advising it doesn't mean it's wrong.

However, asking on here about what to eat is probably a bad idea as from what I've read, VLCDs are quite strict about what those calories are made up of.