Who hear eats less than 1000 cals/day?

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That sounds like far to few calories to me. And looking at your diary i don't know how you cant be hungry eating just what your eating. Your working out also so im not surprised your seeing results. try to aim for 1200-1500?

Why report me, what good does it do to you?

You are promoting unhealthy eating habits.

It doesn't do me any good, but it does a lot of harm to others on here that also have eating disorders.

And why is that so?
Why report me, what good does it do to you?

There are impressionable young folks who read here. Nobody needs to encourage what you are doing. It's harmful to others.

You can't stop people from commenting because you don't want to hear what they have to say. Eating that little is a very bad idea.

But you know that already, and you're going to do it anyways. So what exactly is the purpose of this thread? You are already doing it and losing weight. So it's not to ask people if they have lost weight. Is it to ask if they've kept it off?

I'm not aiming for below 1000 but there are a few days where I'm just not hungry enough to get up to my goal and may dip under 1000... but only just.

With that said, I've been under 1200 almost every day for the past two weeks despite eating lots of decent, nutritious food. I have to eat calorie-rich foods (nuts, junk food *GASP*!) to get myself over the line. It's definitely not slowing my metabolism down and none of my extremities have dropped off.

I'm not suggesting what my appetite says to me is right for anybody else - I'm just sharing what is going on for me.

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Firstly, I only eat one weight watchers bar but sometimes I add them because Ill snack on something that has the same amount of calories if Im on my phone.

No way am I promoting it, I want to know experiences? The REASON I want to hear experiences is because I know its not a good thing to do.

Thankyou to those who have something helpful to say! Off to the gym now so will read when I get back

hopefully the thread will be gone by the time you get back.

and how exactly is saying that you're having great results and not hungry not promoting? :laugh:

"promoting" - seemed the OP wanted to discuss experiences. A question to the OP would be how is your hunger level ? I have eaten low calorie a couple of times for a week, then reverted to my normal regime. I benefited from seeing what it was possible to do, and what it felt like. Hitting a low target requires discipline that is then helpful hitting any target.

Agreed it is a useful exercise - for instance with the 5:2 diet and yes I've played around with that too - and you do have to be very disciplined - but that is two days at 500 and the rest of the week at maintenance. The OP is not talking about occasional days. Have a look at her diary.

I am on 800 - 1000 cals medically directed at the moment and I have to work very hard to get good nutrients in. And I am hungry! I'm on higher calories than you mention and to make sure I stay healthy I live in the kitchen!

I spend my days preparing good, high quality protein sources, preparing a vast array of vegetables and fruit and trying to get flavour in to them, having high quality fiber sources, making sure my calcium is in there, finding sources of good, helpful fats. On such low calories it is hard work!

Despite being on low cals my daily diary is as long as your arm!

Unless you are putting in that time and effort is is VERY hard to get all you need on such a low calorie range. You can eat protein bars and drinks and take a multi-vit but, our bodies are designed to get nutrients from our food and does it better that way.

You will be below target on everything, that's just not good.

You have an ED

Are you a medical professional who is trained in diagnosing eating disorders?

I think not.

To the OP. there are so many people here who have had success while NOT eating less than 1200 calories, I do wonder why you want to do it this way when you know that it is not healthy.

This is called anorexia!

Speaking from experience, I ended up with an eating disorder.

When I was at 800 calories, I felt good for ages. Then I ended up exhausted. You'll be cold ALL THE TIME- even if you aren't even underweight. Your body will use up your muscles instead of your fat- that includes your heart. I get heart palpitations now, I didn't before.
You also can't get enough nutrition in on that amount of calories.
At one point I was so shaky I could hardly walk. And now I throw up what I eat.

Not saying you'll get an eating disorder, but it could happen. And the physical effects will happen if you continue at this calorie level. You will lose health and possibly friends. Possibly life.
Please eat at least over 1200- you'll be so much happier in the long run. And see your doctor if you get urges to restrict that low again.

Thank you Good luck x

I have,I went on complete fitness spree, ate healthy and did tons of excersize..netting very few calories most days.

In the end I completely crashed and burnt, no energy, didn't get out of bed for three days apart from to go to store and buy food for a three day marathon feed..all hard work down the drain.
Oh, and a lot of my hair fell out, in handfuls...

It wasn't good.

The whole time I had tons of energy and never hungry.... shouldn't always listen to our bodies clearly.