8-1200 Cal/Day

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  • mspianomistress
    mspianomistress Posts: 22
    It sounds to me like your reasons for wanting to lose weight are very unhealthy. Please do not continue on this path. Skinny is not necessarily healthy, and starving yourself to get thin can lead to very bad long-term health effects.
  • zcb94
    zcb94 Posts: 3,678 Member
    A doctor advised you to go as low as 800? 1200 is the safe minimum for weight loss, and even then thats kinda starving yourself. Sounds like you're already healthy anyways. If anything, I wouldnt go as low as 1200.

    Hm. My RD recommended that too. I, though, am morbidly obese right now. I do wholeheartedly agree that this is bad for normal people.
  • photochik71
    photochik71 Posts: 37 Member
    Dump your doc and boyfriend! Seriously, run away very fast!
  • SkimFlatWhite68
    SkimFlatWhite68 Posts: 1,254 Member
    Surely this can't be right... Crazy talk.
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Sounds like BS.
  • Ulwaz
    Ulwaz Posts: 380 Member
    i dont know what dr would suggest this, at your size you dont need to lose weight at all!
  • ontherightpath14
    ontherightpath14 Posts: 35 Member
    hmmmmm...this whole thing seems fishy!
  • bettyjoburdett
    bettyjoburdett Posts: 120 Member
    Get a new boyfriend and Doctor!
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    Has anyone ever been to see their doctor when they didn't weigh you? And this is for non-obesity/weight loss visits. I can't imagine a doctor prescribing this approach without having weighed the patient. Something isn't adding up here at all.

    I haven't been weighed by a doctor since I gave birth 21 years ago. They just write down what I tell them, if they bother to ask at all.

    I agree with the people suggesting you lose both doctors.
  • darlilama
    darlilama Posts: 794 Member
    It's Monday and you were bored at work? :ohwell:
  • MysteriousDreamer
    MysteriousDreamer Posts: 96 Member
    Ignore the advice. That is crazy.

    Completely agree. Yo u need to report him, that advice is dangerous.
  • Maleficent0241
    Maleficent0241 Posts: 386 Member
    I'm new to this app which is kind of embarrassing because my boyfriend kept advising me to join. When a dr tells you to join an app, it's a good idea to listen lol. Anyway, my own dr recently suggested that I try an 800 cal per day diet along with HGH / Vitamin B-12 injections to lose weight. (I am 5'6" tall, size 6 or 8 jeans but too scared to get on a scale, so don't know my weight.) Has anyone had any experience with this combination? If so, how fast did you see the weight come off?

    IF OP is for real, I can't help but wonder if there are eating disordered behaviors involved that the doctor is aware of that she would either not be weighed at all or weighed in a way that OP wouldn't be able to see (I have seen this done with a friend of mine). Along the same line, doc may have said one thing and another thing entirely was heard, though not sure about the weight loss drugs. It doesn't add up, but to give the benefit of the doubt, please see a therapist OP.
  • kbeatty1015
    kbeatty1015 Posts: 56 Member
    I ' m sure I shouldn't encourage you, but I'm curious if you've lost any weight yet and how much
  • blondageh
    blondageh Posts: 923 Member
    40 yrs old and you are a size 6. That is something to celebrate! I wouldn't. Change a thing. I can't think of a Dr that would recommend that unless they were the ones pushing it for sales.
  • HoleeMoses
    HoleeMoses Posts: 1
    From an old guy, who no one ever offered HGH too, the only way to do it is to cut calories and increase exercise. My 16 yo cat is hyperthyroid and gets medicine to gain weight. Why hasn't anyone offered the opposite? Because it's dangerous. Get a second opinion.
  • SomeNights246
    SomeNights246 Posts: 807 Member
    I'm guessing we don't know the whole story. I find it unlikely that a DR would ever recommend that no matter how bad the Doctor is.

    So much this.

    Doctors - even bad ones - go through extreme lengths to avoid lawsuits. Including doing blood work even when it's probably not needed just in case it is needed (there's a very small chance that it is in most cases).

    I can attest to them doing that, too. When i went to the hospital, they thought I just had the flu. The doctor explained the above, and that it was a good thing they did - as I was one of those rare cases, and had gallbladder disease.

    Knowing that doctors don't like lawsuits, I honestly do not believe this post. At all. Perhaps her bf is the 'doctor'.
  • cathipa
    cathipa Posts: 2,991 Member
    I'm new to this app which is kind of embarrassing because my boyfriend kept advising me to join. When a dr tells you to join an app, it's a good idea to listen lol. Anyway, my own dr recently suggested that I try an 800 cal per day diet along with HGH / Vitamin B-12 injections to lose weight. (I am 5'6" tall, size 6 or 8 jeans but too scared to get on a scale, so don't know my weight.) Has anyone had any experience with this combination? If so, how fast did you see the weight come off?

    Is this a medical doctor? I'm a medical professional and advise my patients to avoid these types of diets due to potential of complications and also the high failure rate. Less in and more out is a better plan (I recommend MFP to all my patients who want to lose to help log and help motivate to reach their goals). The other thing I don't get is that based on what you have told are your stats you are not overweight (we are the same size). Maybe you just need to tone?
  • One_Last_Time
    One_Last_Time Posts: 125
    Get a new doctor. Your a healthy size and he is telling you to starve and take shots to lose weight you don't need to lose. **** that guy. I can't see a legit medical professional doing this.
  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    OP: Get a new doctor along with the boyfriend, they are both nuttier then a fruit cake!! Craziness!! :grumble:
  • tacticalhippie
    tacticalhippie Posts: 596 Member
    Here, any one can go pay 100-200$ and have a "doctor" to tell them to eat 5-800 calories and give them shots and diet pills.
    The "better" places only do it only if you're obese.
  • ruthejp13
    ruthejp13 Posts: 213 Member
    People who posted on page 2 - thank you for the belly laughs
    testify in congress
    pimp
  • meluhneekay
    meluhneekay Posts: 82
    IDK if this is an elaborate attempt at trolling or what, but assuming it's not: OP, I'm the same height as you and weigh 121 lbs. I could lose a half pound in a week by eating 1500 calories net daily if I really wanted to. What I'm trying to tell you is, you absolutely do not need to go on a VLCD. You're at a healthy weight; assuming you don't have any other health problems, why would you want to rise messing your body up?

    I'll end with advice I was given here recently: start lifting heavy stuff and quit measuring your health/success by your weight. You'll be a lot happier.

    ((oh, and lose the boyfriend and whacko MD.))
  • RebeeMac
    RebeeMac Posts: 5 Member
    Would the doctor who told you that be selling you these injections? Just sayin'

    You should dump your boyfriend.
  • MysteriousDreamer
    MysteriousDreamer Posts: 96 Member
    I'm guessing we don't know the whole story. I find it unlikely that a DR would ever recommend that no matter how bad the Doctor is.

    Sadly my old doctor told me 7 years ago to go on a 500 calorie diet. Some doctors have no understanding at all.
  • ReaganP13
    ReaganP13 Posts: 35 Member
    I'm guessing we don't know the whole story. I find it unlikely that a DR would ever recommend that no matter how bad the Doctor is.

    Sadly my old doctor told me 7 years ago to go on a 500 calorie diet. Some doctors have no understanding at all.

    Reallly? That's wild! I assumed the original poster was a spammer do to the weird vagueness of the initial post. If not, I give her the same advice as everyone here has.
  • MysteriousDreamer
    MysteriousDreamer Posts: 96 Member
    I'm guessing we don't know the whole story. I find it unlikely that a DR would ever recommend that no matter how bad the Doctor is.

    Sadly my old doctor told me 7 years ago to go on a 500 calorie diet. Some doctors have no understanding at all.

    Reallly? That's wild! I assumed the original poster was a spammer do to the weird vagueness of the initial post. If not, I give her the same advice as everyone here has.

    It broke my heart, I had been tracking my calories and didn't believe what I showed him. I went to another doctor, they did bloods and discovered my thyroid was close to not functioning.
  • bettyjoburdett
    bettyjoburdett Posts: 120 Member
    Why?

    SELF VALIDATION.

    The OP is looking for people to tell her, oh you're so beautiful just the way you are, don't lose weight, you don't need to lose weight. She is looking to hear . . or rather, read, these things.

    I don't know of any doctors (and I've been to a few about my weight loss and nutrition) that have ever once suggested something this dramatic. To me, it's trolling for comments like these.

    If she needs help, I am all for it and I totally support speaking to professionals and figuring out what's best for her but almost all of the replies concur that 800 calories is too low. Now if people who have lost a significant amount of weight and kept it off, are healthy individuals and have research these topics so they know what they're talking about say it's too low than common sense would say, it's too low.


    You nailed it!
  • rebeccaisafish
    rebeccaisafish Posts: 87 Member
    Has anyone ever been to see their doctor when they didn't weigh you? And this is for non-obesity/weight loss visits. I can't imagine a doctor prescribing this approach without having weighed the patient. Something isn't adding up here at all.

    I've never been weighed by a doctor. Well probably when I was a kid but never as an adult. I go to the doctor every 2-3 months as well. There's no reason to weigh me. It's clear that I'm obese, but even when I wasn't there was no need because my weight had nothing to do with whatever I was there for. Might be common practice to weigh you in America, but not here. Or not with any of my doctors anyway

    Having said that I'm sure if I was going in for weight loss help that they would weigh me! But her doctor clearly doesn't think.
  • Dragonwolf
    Dragonwolf Posts: 5,600 Member
    Has anyone ever been to see their doctor when they didn't weigh you? And this is for non-obesity/weight loss visits. I can't imagine a doctor prescribing this approach without having weighed the patient. Something isn't adding up here at all.

    I've never been weighed by a doctor. Well probably when I was a kid but never as an adult. I go to the doctor every 2-3 months as well. There's no reason to weigh me. It's clear that I'm obese, but even when I wasn't there was no need because my weight had nothing to do with whatever I was there for. Might be common practice to weigh you in America, but not here. Or not with any of my doctors anyway

    Having said that I'm sure if I was going in for weight loss help that they would weigh me! But her doctor clearly doesn't think.

    That's interesting. All of my doctors have always weighed me every time I go in, regardless of the reason (except when I drop in to get blood drawn, but that's not an actual doctor appointment). Well...except the dentist, because they really don't care about that. It's all part of getting the vitals -- weight, height (if you're still growing or a new patient), blood pressure, and if at the general doctor - temperature, blood oxygen, pulse rate.
  • rebeccaisafish
    rebeccaisafish Posts: 87 Member
    Has anyone ever been to see their doctor when they didn't weigh you? And this is for non-obesity/weight loss visits. I can't imagine a doctor prescribing this approach without having weighed the patient. Something isn't adding up here at all.

    I've never been weighed by a doctor. Well probably when I was a kid but never as an adult. I go to the doctor every 2-3 months as well. There's no reason to weigh me. It's clear that I'm obese, but even when I wasn't there was no need because my weight had nothing to do with whatever I was there for. Might be common practice to weigh you in America, but not here. Or not with any of my doctors anyway

    Having said that I'm sure if I was going in for weight loss help that they would weigh me! But her doctor clearly doesn't think.

    That's interesting. All of my doctors have always weighed me every time I go in, regardless of the reason (except when I drop in to get blood drawn, but that's not an actual doctor appointment). Well...except the dentist, because they really don't care about that. It's all part of getting the vitals -- weight, height (if you're still growing or a new patient), blood pressure, and if at the general doctor - temperature, blood oxygen, pulse rate.

    The ONLY one of those thing's I regularly have done is my blood pressure. Temperature is only done if there's a reason to suspect I would have a fever, not for a regular appointment. I've only had blood oxygen and pulse done when I'm at hospital. I've been weighed once in hospital when I had a migraine (I assume so they could get the right dose for medication?) other than that I never get any of that done, especially at the doctors.

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