1250 calorie a day

Hi everyone... I am at an intake of 1250 calories a day.. ending most day below that by 100 to 200 calories.. is it good to end lower then that number or is that going to put my body into starve mode and hurt my chance at loosing more.. I want optimal results.. any help with this would be great... good luck to all i am week two into this .. and i am down 8lbs!!!

You should be netting 1200 and not going below that.

FIrst of all awesome job and congrats on losing 8 lbs already. Second you should NEVER eat less than 1200 calories in a day. 1200 CAL is what your body needs just to sit and breathe. Your body will start holding onto the weight if you give it less than that cause it will think you are starving. Good luck and if you have any questions feel free to always ask there are lots of wonderful people here who are always willing to help.

What she said. Make sure you are NETTING at LEAST 1200 a day. Lower than that and you will be sabotaging yourself.

Starvation mode does not stop you from losing weight. At all. What it does is likely deprive you of necessary vitamins/nutrients and cause a variety of problems including chopping your fingers off and various other insanities (OH YEAH - IT'S DOCUMENTED IN A STUDY! :-D ).

Basically, if you're overweight you should only be aiming to lose one pound a week (500 cals less than you need to run your body a day). If you're obese you can safely aim for two pounds a week (1000 cal cut per day). If you try to lose three lbs a week by cutting 1500 cals/day you are likely (in time when the initial water weight diet shock subsides) to only see 2.5 lbs lost a week. Considering the malnutrition you would be getting from attempting this, it's really not *worth* the extra half a pound a week.

Personally, if you're looking for a short term to get over a plateau, I find cutting back a lot or adding a few hundred calories for a couple of days helps to shock the body into weight loss again. Some people don't like to mess with calories and just do a carb/protein shift to shock the system. Some work out more and don't eat it back. There are a *lot* of different approaches and as long as you don't try anything extreme for too long (unless under medical supervision) you'll probably be a-ok. :-)

Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experiment

*edited or grammar because I'm tired :-D*

i sit at a desk job most days.. very inactive.. so i set it with a sedetary lifestyle.. MFP set me at 1250 intake.. currently i weight 243.5... i want to loose 100lbs... i am eating over 1200 calories a day but just exercisising so much that it makes it look like i have more.. so lets say.. i need that sugar free pudding.. i have eaten all day.. and i am at 1250 i now know i need to get on treadmill for a mile to burn 123 calories.. so i do that.. then i can eat the pudding and be under the 1250 cal mark.. is this thinking going to hurt my results?

I don't think it will hurt your results. Honestly, thats what I do and so far I've been good. Granted I have less to lose than you and everyone's body is different, so you need to listen to your body and if you gain then stop doing that.

On a different note, I was talking to my trainer tonight and he said I need to eat at least a 1000 calories..but everyone here is saying 1200. So it makes you wonder which is right...

I am always 100 cals over or under. I think as long as you stay close to 1200 you will lose lbs. Thats what works for me. But everybody is different.