down 50 lbs 3 months :)

ano463s wrote: »

tibby531 wrote: »

shell1005 wrote: »

SuseAndo26 wrote: »

Steelkid wrote: »

That's great! Try not to let your calories ever get under 1,200. Congrats!

Why is this?

Because it's unhealthy. Because you are much more likely to lose heaps of lean muscle mass along with the fat.

and you don't learn healthy habits to keep the weight off once you stop overdoing it.

I was a little confused on the original comment, just because I didn't see a reference to calories or an open diary. Maybe just being suspicious about the amount of weight loss over the time period? Either way, it's a good discussion topic (though possibly unrelated to this post if OP didn't go that low).

I also didn't see a height anywhere on the original post... Since it doesn't apply to everyone, I wouldn't expect everyone to view it this way, but some of us short women have much smaller allowances, so it's possible for us to go under 1200 without being in dangerous/unhealthy/overly large deficit zones. I'm not talking about severely below (MFP does give warnings that you've gone too low starting at <1000 for women), but eating at 1200 or so (with days where we don't quite meet the 1200, therefore going under) doesn't really do us any harm, and can teach us the portion sizes that our bodies will need down the road (which, even when brought back up to maintenance, will still be lower than what most others will have).

It can be easily compared to someone going for a 1.5lb/week loss with a goal of 1500 calories who happens to eat 1450 one day. That kind of additional deficit is not going to get them to 2lb/week, and certainly is below the "goal" amount listed, but barring other difficulties, it's not dangerous in any way. If that person goes down to 1200, that might be a bigger concern, but it's all relative.

madhatter2013 wrote: »

No pic, OP hasn't come back to the thread, just joined last night...I call troll!