Low-Calorie Diaries?!

Im under all the time and im not starving at all

900 kcal a day is actually enough for me, I don't feel hungry.
I eat more if I'm bored.

believe it or not but I've seen some diaries with a total of 300-600 and I dont think thats healthy but Im not here to point out others wrong.. its their journey so I let them do it how they want.

i read in self magazine that if you are aiming to lose weight you should eat around 1600 a day. and i have read many places that eating under 1400 a day is enough to get your body into starvation mode. i was first surprised to see that on this site, many ppl's calorie goal is around 1200 (including my own). i often go over but i don't think thats a bad thing considering what i've read elsewhere.

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pescatarian here and it keep my cals lower and my weight
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interested what exactly is a pescatarian

As the others said, every one has different needs, not every body is the same. Also, starvation mode is a very controversial topic with research supporting it's truth and falsity. Most agree you would need to eat about 300-600 calories a day for a long period of time to actually do some serious damage to your metabolism. This isn't a place to pick on each other habits, it's a place for support.

My plan had me at 1300 a day and I stopped losing after the second week. I went and saw a nutritionist she bumped me up to 1600-1700 a day minimum and I started losing again almost instantly. I still love MFP, but I changed my calories.

Everyone loses in different ways, and many people who eat under 1200 a day are doing so based on a doctor or nutritionist's recommendation.

Yeah I was going to say - I guess you have to factor in height, weight, previous eating habits, activity level and the fact that BMI is not *the* most accurate tool of measurement. I guess the best thing to do is use your common sense - if you need more calories and are eating the right TYPE of calories, I can't see a problem, the same way if you don't need as many calories and are still eating a healthy, balanced diet.

From the diaries I've seen on here, people tend to use the tool by-and-large appropriately and it's great to see so many people having nutritious diets, no matter how many or few calories they are consuming.

I can't be satisfied with less than 1500 calories!! I have no idea how people do it.

I like to eat almost all of my calories (although I have been eating a bit cleaner and have struggled to reach my goals) and my goal is around 1600. I'm also 5'11" though.

Someone who is a lot smaller, I suppose I can understand being under 1200 as long as they are not starving themselves. I would personally be starving!!!

IMO, It's none of my damned business. If I thought they had an ED I'd remove them though. Don't have room for that in my life because it encouraged ED tendencies in the past and screwed up my metabolism.

"7 Facts You should Know Before Having Another Low-Calorie Diary"

1. RMR or Resting Metabolic Rate is the rate of calories your body burns calories at rest. Not sleep; rest. Meaning while sitting or doing your "usual" daily activities. MFP will base your daily calories off of your RMR based on your height, weight, age, and activities. If you eat the RMR calories, you will not loose or gain weight. You will sustain your current weight.

2. BMR or Basil Metabolic Rate is similar. The difference is that this is the rate your body burns calories while laying down or sleeping.

It is important not to confuse the two, because you will come up with two different numbers.

3. Starvation mode is when you consume 50% or less of your RMR. A female of 'healthy' weight is supposed to consume 1200 calories. A male of 'healthy' weight is supposed to consume 1500 calores. So a woman should not eat under 600 calories or you body will start to store fat because it thinks you are starving. Obviously for the males its 750. Now keep in mind that a morbidly obese person is usually required around 2300 calories. So if they eat under 1150, their body will store every drop of fat and calories.

Now starvation mode, and fasting mode are also easily confused.

4. Fasting mode (a.k.a. crash diet) is when you eat 51-75% of your RMR. So if we based this on the 1200 RMR of a healthy female, that would mean 600-900 calories will result in excessive and fast weight loss. However, after losing weight in fasting mode, as soon as you sart to eat between 1000-1200 calories again you will immediately gain all your weight back, in far less time than it took you to lose it AND probably will weigh more than before you did your 'crash diet'. Fasting mode should only be used at the recommendation of a doctor. Usually this is done to decrease fatty organs (usually the liver) prior to certain surgeries or procedures.

5. Nutrionally, it is not possible to provide all of the nourishment that your body requires if you are eating in starvation or fasting mode. For those people who swear that the feel good, it is temporary. Eventually it will catch up with you because your are damaging your organs. See the USDA's nutritional guidelines: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/ Formerly http://www.mypyramid.gov/

6. If you want to lose weight, reduce your calories by 100-150 calories per day until you reach your goal weight and increase your exercise. The key to losing weight is to burn more than you consume in exercise... period. There's no magic pill, that is the only real cure for obesity. Unless of course you are so far gone that your only hope is weight loss surgery. If you are starving yourself to lose weight, then you are trading one eating disorder for another.

7. Remember you need to burn 3500 calories for every pound you want to lose. So if you want to lose 2 lbs per week and eat your 1200 (ladies) 1500 (men), then you need to burn 7000 calories, so put your running shoes on.

I am super morbidly obese (malignant obesity). I have met with every nutritionist, dietician, doctor, fitness trainer, and surgeon. This information is quite accurate.