Is it bad

hillbillly85
hillbillly85 Posts: 1 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Is it bad if I only consume 2/3 of the calories that are listed for me

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  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    What's your calorie goal and what rate of loss did you pick?

    Under-eating isn't healthy. It can lead to fatigue, being malnourished (hair loss, brittle nails, ect), and even lead you to binge eat.

    If your deficit is too large (greater than what is needed to lose 1% bodyweight per week) than your body turns to it's lean mass as well as fat for fuel. This means along with fat your body will use connective tissue, muscles, organs, ect. Sure weight comes off faster, but it's not just fat and can cause serious health problems.

    Now...if you mean only eating 2/3 of what MFP estimates you burn through exercise. That's fine. It's actually not a bad place to start.

    Once in awhile a low day won't hurt, but doing it consistently everyday is not wise or healthy.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    Undernourishing your body is not good!
  • Seffell
    Seffell Posts: 2,244 Member
    Only if you do it on a regular basis.
  • FlyingMolly
    FlyingMolly Posts: 490 Member
    What’s your goal?
  • h1udd
    h1udd Posts: 623 Member
    Depends .... how many calories are you meant to be eating to be loosing how much a week ?

    If you have opted for 1lb a week to keep you sane and eating 2/3rds puts you in the 2lb a week category and you are not going below 1200cal then it’s fine

    If you are intermittent fasting and only eat 500cal on 5:2 then it’s fine

    If you eat under your goal during the week and in excess for the weekend it’s fine

    If you are ill for a week, it’s fine

    If however you are only eating 700cal a day, everyday ... then no it’s not, you are heading for long term issues
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,611 Member
    hillbillly85 wrote: »
    Is it bad if I only consume 2/3 of the calories that are listed for me

    Are you ill?
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    Depends. Have you set your goal correctly - loss, gain or maintenance, and at the correct rate? Are you logging food intake correctly? Is this just today, or does it happen often? Is this something you plan for, so that you eat more, but controlled, other days? Or does it lead you to massive overconsumption when you're too hungry to stand it anymore?
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    For a one off its ok but you really should be eating all the calories MFP has given you.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    yes
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    malibu927 wrote: »
    For one day, no. Continuously, yes. You should be coming as close to your goal as possible.

    This! You don't have to meet your goal every day but you should be pretty close if you average it out over a week or so. But it's perfectly fine to have low days and high days to meet that average goal.
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    Consistently, yes...
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,092 Member
    It's bad. It's so bad. It's the kind of thing that earns you a spanking. ... Oh, wait, this isn't that kind of thread?

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