probably a really stupid question!

Why are you eating that little? Are you 4'11"?

As close as you are to your goal, you should have adjusted up your calories by now, so when you reach your goal, you will be only a couple hundred calories a day from your maintenance calories.

And, hopefully, you will notice if you get emaciated

I was watching super sized vs super skinny and there are women on there who look emaciated and tiny then they say its because they only eat say 1300 cals a day! When I hear that I think well that's what I'm eating and I'm nowhere near looking like that.

So my question is if I carried on eating 1300 cals a day even after reaching my goal would I end up looking like that? What about plataus (sp?) Would you eventually just go through them and keep losing?

Sorry this is a silly question and I by no means want to end up like that but im just curious really!

Some people do plateau ... but the people who end up emaciated tend to respond to them by just dropping a bit further. Your metabolism can only reduce so far.

It'll also depend on how tall you are. Someone who was, let's say, 40, female, and 5 feet tall, would have a maintenance of 1310 at 110, which is not actually that bad of a weight. At my age and height (31, 5' 10"), I'd need to be under 70 lbs to have a maintenance of 1300, which would DEFINITELY put me in the 'oh my God someone feed that person' category.

I was watching super sized vs super skinny and there are women on there who look emaciated and tiny then they say its because they only eat say 1300 cals a day! When I hear that I think well that's what I'm eating and I'm nowhere near looking like that.

I've seen that show!

BMR: calories burned just laying in bed
TDEE: calories burned overall during the day-- walking around, getting in and out of car, putting on clothes, taking a shower, exercising etc, you get the picture

I'm guessing their BMRs and TDEEs are much higher than their daily calorie consumption, and at some point they likely went into starvation mode for not providing the fuel their body needs to do their everday activities, hence the emaciated body.

Definitly not the look we're going for.

hey not trying to come off unsupportive but those girls prob. have eaten 1300 their whole life and were never over weight, prob have good genes too

I'm doing Lite n Easy and used to be on the 1200 cal diet.. I lost so much weight and I was actually eating more than I'm used to! But now that I've lost it I've plateued and I have to go up to 1500.. I have no idea how I'm going to eat that much but we'll see. The more weight you lose and the more exercise you do the more you have to eat. If you continually stick to 1300 even when fit and exercising you'll go into starvation mode which you could end up skinny as or just end up piling the weight back on because your body will decide to store everything.


*added note*
If 1300 is what you're meant to be on then stick with it, just saying if you're meant to be on more then you should eat more

I reached my goal, but had a really hard time adding more calories in. I kept losing weight. I got pretty thin. I had to really up my calories. I never hot a plateau or anything. I now eat 1800+ calories to maintain :happy: