I eat about 600-800 cal per day

What you are doing is called an eating disorder. Please talk to a dr.

You are not giving your body enough food to function. Your body needs calories for energy to fuel the basics of organ function. To move your heat and lungs and for your liver and kidneys etc to work they need fuel and your not getting enough fuel.

Put your details into Mfp. It will work out how many calories your body needs to simply tick over. Once it's worked that out it will calculate a deficit. If you eat that amount and do no exercise you will loose weight. If you exercise you need fuel so when you exercise you need to calculate how many calories you used and eat approx that many calories back.

Mfp is calculated scienficically. If you work with the correct numbers it will work. You can't speed it up by eating fewer calories. All you'll be doing is starving your body and damaging it.

Weak = poor nutrition.

Poor nutrition or NO EATING = disorder. Exercising and NO EATING = disorder...

I can't believe there is a person that is using MFP to eat 600 calories a day. I don't need MFP to do that..

Get a doctor asap...

You need to at least double your eating. Your weight loss will slow down accordingly but it's not a race, and you get to keep your hair, nails, not die from malnutrition/exhaustion related episodes, etc. You may also be more likely to not fizzle out and quit if you're not doing a crash diet

I wonder if some of these posts are due to the app glitch that was giving folks less than 1200 cals. There've been a few of these kinds of posts recently?

Another note. Once you make the decision to increase your calories expect your weight to go up. Don't let that scare you. That's just more food in your system, more water, more glycogen...etc. It's not real fat gain. In a week or two of eating at your new reasonable goal you will start losing again.

You're 19, you want to lose 13 pounds, and if you're losing 1kg per week, that's just over 2 pounds. If you can lose 2 pounds per week and only be looking to lose 13 total, you might be setting your weekly goal too aggressively. Be realistic about your expectations. Eat more and get your nutrition. If you feel weak, you're not doing it right.

I agree, let's not diagnose eating disorders here. Who here wasn't impatient and uninformed about this sort of thing at 19?

rabbitjb wrote: »

tinascar2015 wrote: »

You're 19, you want to lose 13 pounds, and if you're losing 1kg per week, that's just over 2 pounds. If you can lose 2 pounds per week and only be looking to lose 13 total, you might be setting your weekly goal too aggressively. Be realistic about your expectations. Eat more and get your nutrition. If you feel weak, you're not doing it right.

I agree, let's not diagnose eating disorders here. Who here wasn't impatient and uninformed about this sort of thing at 19?

Are you serious ?

She's on a VLCD which is dangerous and needs RL help

Let's not sweep it under the carpet with the idea we are being supportive...that's not support that's just failure to give appropriate advice

We do not know why she is on a VLCD. Is it because she doesn't know better and thinks that's what she needs to do to lose weight, or does she really have an eating disorder (which involves much more than simply adopting a VLCD btw). In the first case she can easily switch to eating at a reasonable deficit, knowing that she would still lose weight if she does that. In the second case she would need real help. Until we know what is causing her to eat this low we should hold our assumptions.

You need to see a therapist about your eating disorder.

tinascar2015 wrote: »

You're 19, you want to lose 13 pounds, and if you're losing 1kg per week, that's just over 2 pounds. If you can lose 2 pounds per week and only be looking to lose 13 total, you might be setting your weekly goal too aggressively. Be realistic about your expectations. Eat more and get your nutrition. If you feel weak, you're not doing it right.

I agree, let's not diagnose eating disorders here. Who here wasn't impatient and uninformed about this sort of thing at 19?

Thus she's being told to seek professional help. The fact that she IS only eating 800 calories a day states the problem. No one is going to sugar coat this, as this young lady needs help.

Liftng4Lis wrote: »

tinascar2015 wrote: »

You're 19, you want to lose 13 pounds, and if you're losing 1kg per week, that's just over 2 pounds. If you can lose 2 pounds per week and only be looking to lose 13 total, you might be setting your weekly goal too aggressively. Be realistic about your expectations. Eat more and get your nutrition. If you feel weak, you're not doing it right.

I agree, let's not diagnose eating disorders here. Who here wasn't impatient and uninformed about this sort of thing at 19?

Thus she's being told to seek professional help. The fact that she IS only eating 800 calories a day states the problem. No one is going to sugar coat this, as this young lady needs help.

So what if they came back with, "oh shoot I knew there was something off about eating so little. Here I've set my account to 1600 cals and will start eating that amount". Do they still need an ED counsellor to sort that out?

But hey maybe this is just semantics because I think your statement would have been perfectly fine if you had said "you may need to see a counsellor about a possible eating disorder". But could be too sugar coated for you, though!

I am closing the current thread. MFP does not allow starvation diets on the forum.

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