? about body in starvation mode

Forget starvation mode.

You aren't feeding your body the nutrients it needs.. you need a certain amount of carbs, protein, and fat. You also require a certain amount of micronutrients, like iron, calcium, zinc, etc. There is no way you are getting that based on 700 calories a day. You definitely need to eat more. You don't plan on eating 700 calories a day for the rest of your life do you? No. It's not feasible. You will scar your metabolism completely..

As part of my undergraduate course work, we had a class specifically for diet selection and prescription, which also went into detail about the consequences of fad diets, eating disorders, and disordered eating. For adults, the suggested minimum calorie requirements for adult women was 1000 calories/day, and adult men was 1200 calories/day.

Even though you may feel fine, and you may see results fairly quickly...I can tell you it's ineffective in the long-term results, and in most cases who follow under consumption do gain their weight back, plus more. Also, under consumption means the breakdown of protein (muscles), which weakens the body.

This is just the tip of the iceberg on giving out info on low-calorie dieting. If you have any more questions, feel free to add me as a friend or message me anytime!

To emphasize what the previous poster said and drive home the point, what you are doing is flat-out unhealthy and dangerous. Aside from effects on your metabolism, because your body is not getting the nurition it needs, it will start breaking down muscle and other systems will slow down and stop working effectively. Essentially, eating this little is anorexia, and you can easily check out the side effects of that on your health - at 6'0", you need to be eating a lot more than 700 calories a day, with a lot more variety than what you are currently getting - fresh fruits and vegetables, more protein, etc.. Your mind can play tricks on you and make you think you feel fine. You need to be smarter than that and do what is known to be healthy. You should shoot for a weight loss of 1-2 pounds per week, which MFP can and does set for you - that's healthy - anything else risks your health long term.

Actually I would recheck your calories...what you wrote seems much more than 700 which probably explains it. The bread alone on the sandwiches are probably at least 400 calories...

check out the recipe section and see what sounds good to you. also you definately need to add some color (fruits and veges) to your diet. good luck with your goals!!!

Ask yourself this, can you keep your diet up for the rest of your life? If you can't, find something that will help you lose weight that you can maintain the rest of your life.

Up your daily caloric intake to 2,000 calories. 50% of those calories should be from protein, 30% from carbs and 20% from fat. That translates to 1,000 calories from protein, 600 calories from carbs and 400 calories from fat. You are currently feeling good because you are riding on inspiration. Once that ends, you will most likely go on an eating-fest.

I don't intend to offend you, but carbohydrates are the most important energy source for the body which should make up 45-65% of your total calories for the day. Next is fat 20-35%, and protein is anywhere from 10-35% of total calories.

Depending on your age, gender, activity level, and type of activity you concentrate in (i.e. weight lifting vs cross country running) will play a role on the carb/fat/protein composition of your diet.

Ask yourself this, can you keep your diet up for the rest of your life? If you can't, find something that will help you lose weight that you can maintain the rest of your life.

Great question. I think this diet would be hard to keep up for the rest of my life, nor would i want this to be my diet the rest of my life.

Bingo. Use that litmus test for any changes you make to your diet. Whatever your doing should be sustainable forever. Some people have short term success doing crash diets or other weird things. The vast majority of these people are the serial dieters who lose weight, gain it back, lose weight, gain it back, ad naseum. To really succeed, you need to learn how to eat RIGHT and just do it, starting today and sticking with it till you die. Once you get used to it, there's really no going back.

Aim for something like 1800-2000 calories per day. The numbers that MFP gives you, in my experience have been too low, especially for men. I bet it will tell you to eat something like 1500 per day. Don't go below that level. I don't honestly see how you could, without feeling starving all the time.

For best results in terms of energy and feeling of well being, eat as many clean unprocessed foods as possible. I don't know how long you've been on 700/day (and man, I hope you've somehow been counting wrong). If it's been a while, your metabolism will have probably slowed down a bit; when you up the calories back to normal, you may see some weight gain. Don't get alarmed at this. Stick to it and things will settle out and you will begin regular healthy weight loss again.

Last night, my DINNER ALONE was 741 calories.

Hey no need to be ashamed. We all had some unhealthy habits in the past and that's how we got here. You obviously have discipline if you can put your body through that for a month at a time. Now apply that discipline to proper eating, and preferably some killer workouts and you will be built like a tank and feel like a god year round!