Can you eat too few calories?

magicfairy99
magicfairy99 Posts: 9 Member
edited November 9 in Introduce Yourself
Hi I've been eating 1000 or less calories and exercising, but not losing weight. WHY?

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  • BakaNekoChan
    BakaNekoChan Posts: 14 Member
    Sometimes you can eat too few calories. If you aren't eating the calories you gain from working out back. Atleast try to maintain the recommended calorie intake for your daily limit. I myself don't like to always eat my work out calories and don't always meet my calorie intake, falling below where I need to be. Just don't do it too often and you might not get the required nutrients.
  • magicfairy99
    magicfairy99 Posts: 9 Member
    Thanks I'll try
  • FatFreeFrolicking
    FatFreeFrolicking Posts: 4,252 Member
    edited January 2015
    Yes, you can eat too few calories but you will still lose weight. How do you think some anorexics become 70-80 lbs?

    You should be eating AT LEAST 1200 calories daily to ensure you getting enough nutrients.

    Moral of the story… If you aren't losing weight, you are eating too many calories and are not in a caloric deficit.
  • GregHind
    GregHind Posts: 2
    Also, if you eat too little your body will retain more of what you do eat and try to store as much as it can as it goes into famine mode
  • FatFreeFrolicking
    FatFreeFrolicking Posts: 4,252 Member
    GregHind wrote: »
    Also, if you eat too little your body will retain more of what you do eat and try to store as much as it can as it goes into famine mode

    There's no such thing as "famine mode."
  • MusicalSharon52
    MusicalSharon52 Posts: 31 Member
    There can also be medical reasons to gain weight with low calories. A friend's thyroid is not giving out whatever chemical that regulates calorie burning. She lives on less than a thousand a day and gains weight. Have a doctor check to rule out medical reasons too.
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