is 600-800 cals a day too little

[kjersi]

well what you gals think is it to little a amount

[Little]

YES, that's way too little an amount!
Where did you get that number? If a professional gave it to you, s/he's off her/his rocker.

[kjersi]

i heard it from some where... thats what i was thinking.. what is a decent amount?

[Little]

Depends on how much you want to lose ... you can Google a calorie calculator.
HOWEVER, at a certain point, you are beginning to starve yourself. It's somewhere around 1000 calories per day. Under that point, you won't lose weight, but GAIN.
600-800 calories is how much lots of healthy people eat just for dinner.

[Calamity Jane]

Unless you weigh somewhere in the vicinity of 50lbs, then yes 600-800cals is way too little. If you were to consume this little amount of energy from food, yes, you'll lose weight quickly. Much of it will be a loss of muscle tissue in addition to some fat and water weight. But guess what happens very quickly thereafter...your metabolism slows (your body begins to burn less calories at rest) and your body begins to go into fat (energy) conservation mode. This is a biological consequence of evolution as the body seeks to conserve as much energy as possible. When you resume eating above 800cals/day guess what happens then? Your body begins to convert the surplus calories into bodyfat to protect itself from the next 'period of starvation'. Add the loss of muscle tissue now, you will be back to square one minus two paces. If you're going to reduce your caloric intake to lose weight slowly, then use an online BMR/RMR calculator to determine your daily base caloric needs (factor in an estimate for cals burned for daily activity level like your job and exercise) and then subtract about 300-400cals from that. It's te simplest rule of weight loss...consume less calories than your body require and you will drop the pounds.But you have to be a bit patient as well as you want to drop body fat and preserve the lean body mass (muscle that you have.

[bevnurse16]

i was eating around 600 calories a day back in high school and I had an eating disorder...does this answer your question about it being too little to eat???

[anonymouswhitefemale]

1200 is supposed to be healthy weight loss....

I doubt a couple of weeks of 1000 or so won't hurt if you're properly fat though.

[anonymouswhitefemale]

I forgot to mention,

if you want to lose som weight get some bloody exercise haha.

[CHANDLERS WISH]

I'm 5'8, size 10, 63/4 k pending and have gone to 71 once only. I did a lot of research on this because apart from walking the dogs daily and i do go to the gym not enough but i wanted to maintain this weight being older, not get that middle age spread bit. I read 2500 calories for my height but 25 grams of fat max per day to maintain that 63k.... If i eat rubbish then i will be 65k so the next week, i monitior again and have a few days of tuna, salads, 15 grams ie) and lose that 2k straight away, keeping a balance. So, i actually concentrate on the fat content... It seems to be a lot easier.... A normal week for me will still consist of meat, chicken, fish, shellfish, pasta what ever, but meat content 250 grams max... Thankfully i love veg and salads..... I"ll still cook a roast, but i avoid bread lunch or dinner and takeaways.... and i love food...... The reason why i concentrate of fat intake instead of calories is it's easier, an egg is 5grams, tuna is 2 grams, it's easier to count and once your in a pattern or understanding you don't have to watch it at all... Calories counting 500, 1000 ahh to hard.... CW

[C]

When our son got married many moons ago I had to lose some weight fast. So I went to one of those places where you give $800 to weigh you ever day and tell you how lovely you are...I did pretty good and lost well but at the end I still was not where they said I would go and they had me go to 700 calories a day...This was some kind of a Weight Loss Clinic I think that is now outlawed...That little episode just about gave me an ulcer...Now in order to lose because I cannot excercise it is around 1000 calories...This is hard because I love food but I do watch it all the time. I have to or I could explode from eating.....