500 Calorie Diet

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  • meerkat70
    meerkat70 Posts: 4,605 Member
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  • 10fairywings
    10fairywings Posts: 136 Member
    Hi there, I am so sorry honey but you are seriously doing the wrong thing. Not to take away from you fabulous loss results well done for having the will power! But there is a better direction to go in, I am actually fuming with your GP!

    most people above have said what I'm going to say but really this is all fact my love,

    500 calories does not sustain a healthy body for longer that two weeks, the heart hospital recommend this for urgent surgery cases only, and it is only done for short spells because the patient will not recover from surgery if it oes on too long.

    More than 2-3 pounds of weight loss per week will lead to muscle loss, this gives a much higher percent of "skinny fat" Syndrome and if you have been very big will lead to skin folds that may require surgery.

    Your body works on hunger and fuel, if you do not feed it and you feel hungry (this goes after you have done it a while due to stomach shrinkage) your body assumes you are starving to death, so everything you put in your mouth you will hold on to as fat! After resuming normal eating you will pile weight on faster than you can believe because your body is expecting to be starving again.

    You cannot get a days worth of marco-nutrients in 500 cals so you are stressing your body and thinning your blood, it will be unable to fight against illness and disease and become more susseptable to illness and disease. vitamins taht do not come from food are less likely to be absorbed into your body.

    You are at great risk from developing eating disorders, that will effect the rest of your life, and that is a hell I would hate anyone to suffer.

    You also should not exersise with such a low consumption, so on top of everything else you will lose energy and muscle will not grow to replace what you are losing. Becoming unfit is an absolute.

    People taht do these fads lose weight fast in the first few weeks so they think it's great, but it really isn't!

    Eating more of the right food regularly is what I would recommend, and do not ever go lower than 1200 cals. The key to sustained wieght loss is nutrition and exercise period. Get the two right and you will have the body of your dreams!

    I wish you luck and urge you to please re-think this.
  • koosdel
    koosdel Posts: 3,317 Member
    I support Natural Selection.

    Good idea!
  • Natalie43
    Natalie43 Posts: 122 Member
    intense!
  • koosdel
    koosdel Posts: 3,317 Member
    Just thinking here... but I think a comparison of before and after pics of those whom eat moderate calorie deficits and eat back excersize calories, vrs those on extreme deficits may demonstrate what some of us are trying to prove.
  • Naomi_84
    Naomi_84 Posts: 197 Member
    How do you enjoy life on 500 calories a day????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is BAD for you I don't care what anybody says. Do you wanna be slim with damaged health, thin hair, no energy, dull skin? Or be patient, lose weight slower with the right amount of exercise and be fit and healthy?
  • mammado11
    mammado11 Posts: 26
    I consume more than 500 calories at dinner alone!! I couldn't imagine eating only 500 all day!!!! I agree with what people said, your body will go into starvation mode, not a good idea! Not to be nosy, but I notice in your profile picture, you have a baby. If you're breastfeeding you need to be consuming 500 more calories a day anyways to keep your milk supply up. Breastfeeding burns alot, and helps to loose weight! Not to sound snotty, but I gave birth to an 11lb baby (I'm 5'3) Aug 2010, and with breastfeeding, exercise, and counting calories (Im set at 1650 calories a day), a year later and Im under my pre pregnancy weight (by 4 lbs)
  • drdenise
    drdenise Posts: 87 Member
    I strongly support your desire and effort to lose weight. But 500 calories on a diet is extremely unhealthy. You will loose muscle mass, including potentially muscle mass from vital organs, if you continue to long! Remember Karen Carpenter and her struggle with anorexia? In the end, she succumbed to a wasting disease, with heart issues! I really don't care if you have a "doctor's supervision". Really? A doctor has ZERO training in nutrition! ZERO!!! It is like any other quick fix "diet".....keep in mind, the word "diet" has "DIE" in it! There is no such thing as a true DIET! To get healthy, you must live a healthy lifestyle. Eat right, exercise and feel GREAT! You will have sooooo much energy if you start exercising, you won't know what to do! You will find you desire exercise. It is the endorphins released that give you that high! And if you are spending the time losing weight, why not just do it right the first time!
    Like everyone else on this site, I have been over weight and lacking motivation. BUT, I am not going to be that person that can't walk up a flight of stairs without almost dying! I set a goal......to complete a triathlon. And I did it! Respectably! YOU CAN DO IT TOO!!!!!
    Best wishes for a healthy lifestyle!
  • hottottie11
    hottottie11 Posts: 907 Member
    LOL I eat 460 at breakfast alone. I eat between 1200-1400 on non exercise days and 1600-2000 on exercise days, and I still lose weight (Check out my before and afters), but hey I like to eat, what do I know.
  • CLA2801
    CLA2801 Posts: 50 Member
    If one is doing the HCG + 500 calorie diet properly, you only eat at that restrictive 500 calorie level for 21-40 days, depending on how long YOU want to stay on it. It's a very specific diet comprised of lean protein, and specific fruits + veggies.

    40 day at the 500-calorie level is the absolute MAX. Then you immediately bump your calories up to maintenance-plus. Most people I know are eating around 1800-2200 per day to maintain. You abstain from SUGAR and processed CARBS for the first three weeks, then start adding them in slowly.

    Most people (not all of course) do NOT gain the weight back during this maintenanc period.

    For examply, my best friend did this diet last year under the care of a clinic and lost 20 lbs and 2 sizes in 6 weeks, and has maintained beautifully - plus lost more weight and inches since then. And she now eats 100% normally -- NO restrictions. Just listens to her body and eats mindfully.

    So YES, this is an extreme plan during it's low-calorie phase, but it's als a very short lived phase. I'm not an advocate, but I think it's only fair that the diet is understood before it's bashed to pieces.
  • audram420
    audram420 Posts: 838 Member
    If one is doing the HCG + 500 calorie diet properly, you only eat at that restrictive 500 calorie level for 21-40 days, depending on how long YOU want to stay on it. It's a very specific diet comprised of lean protein, and specific fruits + veggies.

    40 day at the 500-calorie level is the absolute MAX. Then you immediately bump your calories up to maintenance-plus. Most people I know are eating around 1800-2200 per day to maintain. You abstain from SUGAR and processed CARBS for the first three weeks, then start adding them in slowly.

    Most people (not all of course) do NOT gain the weight back during this maintenanc period.

    For examply, my best friend did this diet last year under the care of a clinic and lost 20 lbs and 2 sizes in 6 weeks, and has maintained beautifully - plus lost more weight and inches since then. And she now eats 100% normally -- NO restrictions. Just listens to her body and eats mindfully.

    So YES, this is an extreme plan during it's low-calorie phase, but it's als a very short lived phase. I'm not an advocate, but I think it's only fair that the diet is understood before it's bashed to pieces.

    I honestly do not think many people who start this diet (possibly excluding the ones that talk to a doctor) even understand the maintaince part...they see the works "quick" and "no exercise" and other key terms and they jump on the band wagon. A lady at my work has been doing the 500 calories part of the diet for 4 months now...she has no idea she needs to another phase...she's clueless as are many people that start it!
  • dawnthomas5
    dawnthomas5 Posts: 12
    I used to suffer from a serious eating disorder where I never ate more than 500 calories per day. I did this for about a year. I got frighteningly thin and after I recovered and started eating right again I gained 100lbs. My body wasn't used to digesting food in a timely manner (it held onto food for as long as possible rather than digesting it right away) so whenever I ate I always felt bloated and over-full for hours on end. I taught my body to live on only several hundred calories per day so when I started eating normally (1,500cal/day) it didn't know what to do with all of the excess. Here I am three years later and one hundred pounds heavier. A 500 cal diet is not sustainable and what do you think is going to happen once you start eating more?

    I am on a 1,200 cal diet and I've been working out only 2-3 times per week. I just started a week and a half ago and have already lost eight pounds. I am not starving myself, I am not depriving myself. If i want ice cream at the end of the day and I have extra calories left over then I eat ice cream. This is sustainable and I won't gain the weight back this time.
  • lkblazek
    lkblazek Posts: 36
    I try to be supportive of everyone's effort to lose weight. BUT as the Mother of an emergency room Physician who has seen the results of such a diet. I can not support such a diet. Sometimes the best support is good dose of reality. I Pray she finds her way to improved health
  • CLA2801
    CLA2801 Posts: 50 Member
    If one is doing the HCG + 500 calorie diet properly, you only eat at that restrictive 500 calorie level for 21-40 days, depending on how long YOU want to stay on it. It's a very specific diet comprised of lean protein, and specific fruits + veggies.

    40 day at the 500-calorie level is the absolute MAX. Then you immediately bump your calories up to maintenance-plus. Most people I know are eating around 1800-2200 per day to maintain. You abstain from SUGAR and processed CARBS for the first three weeks, then start adding them in slowly.

    Most people (not all of course) do NOT gain the weight back during this maintenanc period.

    For examply, my best friend did this diet last year under the care of a clinic and lost 20 lbs and 2 sizes in 6 weeks, and has maintained beautifully - plus lost more weight and inches since then. And she now eats 100% normally -- NO restrictions. Just listens to her body and eats mindfully.

    So YES, this is an extreme plan during it's low-calorie phase, but it's als a very short lived phase. I'm not an advocate, but I think it's only fair that the diet is understood before it's bashed to pieces.

    I honestly do not think many people who start this diet (possibly excluding the ones that talk to a doctor) even understand the maintaince part...they see the works "quick" and "no exercise" and other key terms and they jump on the band wagon. A lady at my work has been doing the 500 calories part of the diet for 4 months now...she has no idea she needs to another phase...she's clueless as are many people that start it!

    Agree with you 100%.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,030 Member
    If one is doing the HCG + 500 calorie diet properly, you only eat at that restrictive 500 calorie level for 21-40 days, depending on how long YOU want to stay on it. It's a very specific diet comprised of lean protein, and specific fruits + veggies.

    40 day at the 500-calorie level is the absolute MAX. Then you immediately bump your calories up to maintenance-plus. Most people I know are eating around 1800-2200 per day to maintain. You abstain from SUGAR and processed CARBS for the first three weeks, then start adding them in slowly.

    Most people (not all of course) do NOT gain the weight back during this maintenanc period.

    For examply, my best friend did this diet last year under the care of a clinic and lost 20 lbs and 2 sizes in 6 weeks, and has maintained beautifully - plus lost more weight and inches since then. And she now eats 100% normally -- NO restrictions. Just listens to her body and eats mindfully.

    So YES, this is an extreme plan during it's low-calorie phase, but it's als a very short lived phase. I'm not an advocate, but I think it's only fair that the diet is understood before it's bashed to pieces.
    You do realize that people who haven't reached goal by 21-40 days will continue on 500 calories till they are at least close? Why stop when the desired weight is still far off? If it's worked this good, then let's keep doing it.
    Being in the Fitness industry or well over 2 decades, I've seen the people who extremely diet and how they jack up their metabolic rates. No one on this diet wants to believe it can happen to them, they just want the results regardless of what nutritionists, dieticians, doctors, endocrinologists say about HCG. Sad state of affairs when some want to put possible life at risk for just a little more patience.
  • dogwhisperette
    dogwhisperette Posts: 177 Member
    Put some body armor on and be prepared to be slammed. Most will be very unsupportive of a 500 calorie a day diet. There is a thread on here for those on the HCG diet that is combined with a very low calorie intake. Maybe try there? :)
    Agree!
  • Scott613
    Scott613 Posts: 2,317 Member
    I eat 500 calories in one meal. I could never do 500 a day. Then again i dont want to be a skinny weakling with no muscle. If your goal is to just lose weight and you dont care if Its fat or muscle I say go for it. Happy eating or lack there of.
  • dumb_blondes_rock
    dumb_blondes_rock Posts: 1,568 Member
    I eat 500 calories in one meal. I could never do 500 a day. Then again i dont want to be a skinny weakling with no muscle. If your goal is to just lose weight and you dont care if Its fat or muscle I say go for it. Happy eating or lack there of.

    Please, for the love of mfp eye candy gods.....care if you lose muscle.....because yours are WAY too nice to go anywhere
  • alfredapittman
    alfredapittman Posts: 256 Member
    I really could give a damn about what another person does because it does't impact me.

    Tell us how you really feel Diva....lol.
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