Is there any one on a 1000 calorie diet?
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Oh god, I remember all those things. My mother was on a constant diet during the 70s and always had handy her little calorie booklet.beachhouse758 wrote: »Another vote for running your stats into a calculator for an alternate caloric suggestion.
Is your doctor a bit old? I know "1000 a day" was the old calorie-counting diet standard in the 60s and 70s, back when women were advised to take appetite suppressants (Dexatrim or Ayds diet candy, and no, I am not making that up) and smoke more Virginia Slims while eating utterly depressing food and manually adding up the calorie counts you could get in sad little newsprint booklets that they sold at the supermarket checkout.
Thus creating the fad diet industry of bizarre machinations (like eliminating whole food groups or eating massive amounts of a single food like grapefruit or cabbage) and touting "no counting calories!!!!" as a selling point.
This sounds like Betty Draper from Mad Men!
DON'T JUDGE MY ADVANCED AGE!
They ate so much golderned celery.0 -
Can you open your diary?0
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I don't follow the 1000 calorie diet however if you take the snacks out of my daily meal it sadly would barely touch 1000 calories.
I go with the following (and my diary is open if you like)
Breakfast:
3 Egg Omelet with ham, cheese, and diced peppers (300calories) (spray oil)
Multi-vits+fish oil+5hr energy (39calories)
salt, because salt is needed for eggs (450mg sodium)
Lunch:
4oz chicken/salmon (200calories) (spray oil)
1 cup of steamed broccoli (34calories)
salt, because salt is delicious
Dinner: For me this leaves 1000kcal for you this leaves 400 calories so....
6oz chicken/salmon/steak (choose lower fatty to stay closer to your goal, probably 300ish)
1 cup of veggie (butter, water, salt + pepper for the standards work well here in the nuke for 3:30) (WILL RANGE 50-150)
.5tbsp of butter for cooking your meat and veggie (50cal).
If you do decide to expand out or if you get hungry (after a couple of days I stopped being hungry until about 4 hours after a meal) an Orange really helps (esp if you need energy) and so do low cal protein shakes. Please keep in mind today I had two highly processed cookies, I'm not scared of carbs but I simply am not a fan and were the easiest thing to cut out for me (to me they seem to be high calorie with very little filling effect).
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That should get you in the ball park, but as the others said, why? You don't want to lose more than 2lbs a week tbh. Take your time unless it's imminent but as a guy who is almost 70-80lbs overweight (250lbs) when he started this works, and works fast! As of today I fluctuated up 2lbs but after 6 weeks of real logging and actually minding what I eat with cheat days I've lost almost 20lbs (I am a hypocrite I know, but I try to eat 1800 calories in a day... I just suck at it above is really filling, note that's 3lbs/wk). The idea here isn't to lose it real fast then start eating poorly again, it's to change your eating habits for life and allow things to sneak in on moderation (let me give that a hard definition, once a week).
Don't ever take advice of a forum poster over your doctors, but as others said a second opinion is due. And if it's not for a medical condition then I'd suggest using a specialist who is more educated in this, such as a nutritionist. And I don't mean the kid at the grocery mart but an actual nutritionist.0 -
I'm aiming for 1,000 right now. For Breakfast/Lunch I have a poached egg with one slice of toast and 5g butter and a whole grapefruit; or 45 g oatmeal cooked with 40g blueberries and 1tsp honey, or 160g 0% fat greek yogurt with 150g mixed berries, or 150g sweet potato roasted with 1/2tsp olive oil plus 150g low fat cottage cheese.
For dinner I have a huge garden salad with some kind of poached fish such as salmon or cod, or a grilled chicken breast, or pork loin steak, or a tin of tuna packed in spring water with a boiled egg. I dress the salad with 1tbsp olive oil, herbs, salt and pepper and cider vinegar.0 -
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i am having 1000 a day and find that is quite a lot for me, have just made my dairy public, I have not lost anything for 3 weeks and feeling that maybe Im havign too much but know Im not suppose to go under 1000 also running 3km a day and cant understand why I havent lost.0
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Geez, 1k a day? I eat that much for dinner.
Unless you're a midget (under 4'11), bed ridden, or your metabolism is completely screwed up (in which case, you'll be reverse dieting instead), 1000 cals is way too low for an adult.
Check with a dietitian, not a nutritionist. Nutritionists are non-accredited.0 -
My Dr put me on a 1000 calorie diet but so far I am tired of eating the same old food off of the meal sheet she gave me.Do anybody else have any other good ideas on other foods to eat.
I ate nothing but fruits and veggies today (lent fish Friday. Don't like fish) and had so much bulk that I had to go lay down because I felt stuffed and I still didn't even reach 700 calories even though my allowance is 1200 according to MyFitnessPal.
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All these people on extremely low calories make me sad0
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CorinnaShaw wrote: »My Dr put me on a 1000 calorie diet but so far I am tired of eating the same old food off of the meal sheet she gave me.Do anybody else have any other good ideas on other foods to eat.
I ate nothing but fruits and veggies today (lent fish Friday. Don't like fish) and had so much bulk that I had to go lay down because I felt stuffed and I still didn't even reach 700 calories even though my allowance is 1200 according to MyFitnessPal.
That is not something you should be proud of
Neither is the thread she created last night.0 -
Another vote for running your stats into a calculator for an alternate caloric suggestion.
Is your doctor a bit old? I know "1000 a day" was the old calorie-counting diet standard in the 60s and 70s, back when women were advised to take appetite suppressants (Dexatrim or Ayds diet candy, and no, I am not making that up) and smoke more Virginia Slims while eating utterly depressing food and manually adding up the calorie counts you could get in sad little newsprint booklets that they sold at the supermarket checkout.
Thus creating the fad diet industry of bizarre machinations (like eliminating whole food groups or eating massive amounts of a single food like grapefruit or cabbage) and touting "no counting calories!!!!" as a selling point.
My grandmother used to keep boxes of Ayds candies in the house. It was awesome. Trip to grandma's = weird diet candy feast on the sly.
[I'm as *advanced* as you, so no judgment on the grandma reference here]0 -
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oh dear , you will end up skinny fat.0
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Another vote for running your stats into a calculator for an alternate caloric suggestion.
Is your doctor a bit old? I know "1000 a day" was the old calorie-counting diet standard in the 60s and 70s, back when women were advised to take appetite suppressants (Dexatrim or Ayds diet candy, and no, I am not making that up) and smoke more Virginia Slims while eating utterly depressing food and manually adding up the calorie counts you could get in sad little newsprint booklets that they sold at the supermarket checkout.
Thus creating the fad diet industry of bizarre machinations (like eliminating whole food groups or eating massive amounts of a single food like grapefruit or cabbage) and touting "no counting calories!!!!" as a selling point.
You have described this era so well. Yes, I remember Ayds candy and all that.
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I always assume people are holding back on first dates, trying to make an impression. If a date pulled ranch dressing out of his pocket I would assume that was only a small portion of the crazy and there would not be another date.I wonder how many guys here would find it weird if they went out on a first date and the woman pulled her own Ranch dressing out of her purse.
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