Do I want to eat all my calories?

mrsmellymac
mrsmellymac Posts: 236 Member
edited October 1 in Health and Weight Loss
How many cal under the daily goal do you think is acceptable and healthy?

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  • vettle
    vettle Posts: 621 Member
    100. it will be OK for bit, but once you lose about 10% of your body weight, it will slow down and this will be why. So try and make sure you eat what your goal is, after all, that is the point of the goal.
  • KristensMom314
    KristensMom314 Posts: 76 Member
    On a day that you don't exercise, you should always eat all of your calories! It's okay to go over by a few. If you don't eat enough calories, your body will go into starvation mode and make you gain weight instead when you do eat. If you exercise, it is good to eat all of your calories, but if you're truly not hungry I think it's okay to stay within 100-200 of your calorie goal (exercise calories included)
  • killagb
    killagb Posts: 3,280 Member
    On a day that you don't exercise, you should always eat all of your calories! It's okay to go over by a few. If you don't eat enough calories, your body will go into starvation mode and make you gain weight instead when you do eat. If you exercise, it is good to eat all of your calories, but if you're truly not hungry I think it's okay to stay within 100-200 of your calorie goal (exercise calories included)

    Eating under will not magically put you in starvation mode....it can reduce your metabolism yes....but starvation mode...you have to be way under.
  • juliapurpletoes
    juliapurpletoes Posts: 951 Member
    yeah - starvation mode happens at about 500 cals a day for a while. I don't think that is you!

    But what worked for me was to eat my exercise calories back to almost my net goal for the day. See the green number on your home page? Eat till that is very close to zero!

    The hitch is really more about accuracy..........do you weigh your foods or guess?, do you use this database for your exercise (too general) or do you use a heart rate monitor?

    So much depends on how you are approaching things......
  • xraychick77
    xraychick77 Posts: 1,775 Member
    Do some research..starvation mode is a diet MYTH.

    and it all depends on what your goal is and how far below your T.E.E. it is.

    technically any calorie deficit under your TEE is considered 'starvation'. there is no scientific proof of this so called starvation mode. there has been starvation studies done..the most commonly used for this myth is the minnesota study. which took a SMALL number of very healthy muscular men and reduced their calories intakes. this was a study on starvation...meaning when does it happen and how long does it take for the body to starve. starvation is completely different than this starvation mode.

    ps..what they considered starvation for these males was around 2000 cals.
    and all this lovely bro science...oh your body will GAIN weight if you dont eat..is the biggest bunch of BS ever. your body phisiologically CAN NOT gain weight on a calorie deficit.
  • routerguy666
    routerguy666 Posts: 188
    ps..what they considered starvation for these males was around 2000 cals.

    They were fed 1800 calories and forced to do 3000 calories of exercise.

    Now that's a diet...
  • killagb
    killagb Posts: 3,280 Member
    Agreed that people use the term starvation mode on here WAY too much...and really it comes down to eating too little means your metabolism slows down, the less you eat. It's your body's safeguard to last a while if it has no food.
  • Jeanetta10
    Jeanetta10 Posts: 74 Member
    I remember reading that this "starvation mode" doesn't occur for 72 hours after substantially reducing your calories. That means that nothing will happen if you don't eat all of the calories for one or two days. I just stay as close as possible to the recommended calories without going over that number. When I exercise I don't eat all of those calories. It doesn't make sense to me to do that. I'm losing very slowly now. It took 8 days to lose one pound, but I've been working on this on my own since May and have lost 25 lbs since then. Have only lost 6 pounds since I began in July. The loss slows down but will stay gone this way. Also, muscle is heavier than fat, so if you're exercising and building muscle, you may see the results more in the way your clothes fit than in weight loss on the scale.
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