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eating 800 calories for 6 days and 7th day cheat meal?

denhaag070
denhaag070 Posts: 5
in Food and Nutrition
if i only ate 800 (clean) calories for 6 days and then on the 7th day eat a cheat meal at kfc/mcdonalds/bag of crisps+chocolate and have caloric surplus will I lose weight ???
And does starvation mode really exist?

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  • kgeyser
    kgeyser Posts: 22,505 Member
    Why on earth would you want to do this?
  • denhaag070
    denhaag070 Posts: 5
    because i wanna lose weight, and im feeling not that well probably because of my weight
  • chloeealicee
    chloeealicee Posts: 204 Member
    I'm sure all answers will be the same to this but i'm not even sorry to say that eating only 800 calories a day will not help you lose weight in a sustainable or healthy way.

    Y'all are gonna have to exercise and my motto is always 'eat better, not less.'
  • oneoddsock
    oneoddsock Posts: 321 Member
    Eating 800 calories a day is not going to make you feel better. Eat 1200-1500 calories a day (taking in all the food groups - think "everything in moderation", including a little bit of KFC, crisps, chocolate, or whatever else you want, within your calorie goal) and get some exercise in. That will be a great start to losing weight.

    There are loads of threads on this website about whether or not starvation mode exists. General consensus seems to say that it doesn't, but that you reach a point where you just feel horrendous and you won't have enough energy to do any proper exercise that's required for developing and maintaining a healthy, fit body.
  • kgeyser
    kgeyser Posts: 22,505 Member
    Ok, there are plenty of healthy ways to lose weight that don't involve some cockamamie diet scheme where you barely eat for 6 days and then binge. That plan you've got there isn't a healthy weight loss plan, it's disordered eating.

    Read these to get started:

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1235566-so-you-re-new-here
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1080242-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819925-the-basics-don-t-complicate-it
  • PJPrimrose
    PJPrimrose Posts: 916 Member
    "Eat better, not less"

    Yep, that about sums it up. NOTE: The healthiest, most muscular folks on here eat fairly high calories. The people who struggle tend to eat under, binge over and are all over the darn place! Treat your body well and it will treat you well!
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
    if i only ate 800 (clean) calories for 6 days and then on the 7th day eat a cheat meal at kfc/mcdonalds/bag of crisps+chocolate and have caloric surplus will I lose weight ???
    And does starvation mode really exist?
    According to your profile you're an 18 year old male. You need to eat a lot more than 800 calories a day.

    I'm 41 and I lose weight eating an average of 2300-2400 calories per day.
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    Ok, there are plenty of healthy ways to lose weight that don't involve some cockamamie diet scheme where you barely eat for 6 days and then binge. That plan you've got there isn't a healthy weight loss plan, it's disordered eating.

    Read these to get started:

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1235566-so-you-re-new-here
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1080242-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819925-the-basics-don-t-complicate-it

    ^This. You're going to feel miserable every single day if you keep doing what you're doing.
  • Graelwyn75
    Graelwyn75 Posts: 4,404 Member
    That plan is a fail from the start. How on earth is that a lifestyle change? Most diets fail for a reason...because people go on them, go to stupid extremes then gain all the weight back because what they did was temporary and not sustainable. You need to change your overall lifestyle, not starve for 6 days just so you can have something you enjoy the 7th. Work hard, then you can play hard. Set yourself up with a sensible deficit, focus on balancing out healthy foods with smaller amounts of less healthy foods and find a form of activity you enjoy to get things burning nicely. I eat over 2000 calories daily, and I lose weight eating over 2000 calories daily as do quite a few of my mfp friends.
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