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Calories

Farouha98
Farouha98 Posts: 11 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Is it dangerous to go below 1200 calories.

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  • tlpina82
    tlpina82 Posts: 229 Member
    That depends on your age, height and weight.

    If your baseline to maintain weight is 1400 (One of my friends is 5.1 and that's her baseline), then 1000 to 1200 would be normal if she was trying to lose weight.

    The one thing you need to understand is sustainability.
    There's no point in losing weight and sacrificing your health.

    Undercutting your calories by a lot, without taking proper precautions to maintain your micro-nutrition at proper levels leads to bigger issues, especially on the hormonal side of things.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    edited December 2020
    Give more info.

    Age, gender, height, current weight, what do you do for a living, do you exercise, are you logging your food using a food scale?
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    Probably.
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