I'm in a program at my gym, and the personal trainer that heads it told us that for a female, you shoud NEVER go under 1200 calories a day. If you go under this you're muscle will be effected.

I am doing the soy whey protein diet and only having the three meals not the additional 2 snacks as recomonded. I am loosing weight fast but only a few days in.

After reading all these messages I think I need to add the two 100 cal snacks as with out them I am only eating just under 900cal. I'm now worried the weight loss will be short lived and body will go into survival mode.

Anyone have any tips on any good 100 cal snacks. Browns no fat yoghurt is only 108 cal but the sugar content is pretty high 14.4 grams.

Any advise would be appreciated.

tt

if your into snacks, you can buy the 100 cal snacks already proportioned for you this way you don't have the guilt that you ate one too many. Also if you read the articles, if you eat fruit like a peach, banana etc. In can be replaced for the 100 cal snack. And I'm sure if you eat 108 calories you'll still see results. Im on the same diet, just make sure you're doing some sort of exercise

yes, way too little. To lose a pound a week you need to burn 500 more calories than you eat a day. 600-800 calories a day would be starving yourself.

Well I dont know about everybody else but im at about 600 to 800 cals and that is on a day that i pig out and i have been doing this for about a month and a half and i have lost about 25lbs i feel great and the thing is if i try to eat alot i cant my stomach just cant take it i can eat about as much as a 4 piece chicken nugget and small fri happy meal wih a glass of water and that will do me for the day i dont think there is nothing worng with it its better then being over 200lbs

CEBOULD, 600-800 calories doesn't even cover the calories needed to maintain your natural body functions (breathing, digestion, blinking, etc.) and if you add any type of excercise whatsoever you are burning even more calories than that! Not to mention that a happy meal has no nutritional value at all, so you are not even giving your body necessary vitamins and minerals from lo-calorie fruits and veggies. It is true the scale might be going down day by day, but that is due to your body's starvation survial mechanism that breaks down important muscle fibers to get the missing calories needed everyday. I am going to go out on a limb here, but I would say you are definately headed into anorexia, if not already there! My best friend became anorexic in high school and while she dropped over 60 lbs she permanently injured her digestive system and will never be able to eat many normal foods, including many fruits because of their acidity level and the toll it takes on her now fragile stomach. She suffers from ulcers, anxiety, has problems eating normal quantities of food (because her stomach "just can't take it), and will be on medication for the rest of her life because she only ate between 500 and 700 calories a day. I would suggest you look in to some nutritional information and see what you might be headed for because it is a scary road!

well i take vitamins and i do eat veggies and some fruit i also eat yogurt everyday i just dont eat alot of cals thats all i dont think im headed down the anorexic road im just watching what i eat im tired of being fat so im doing something about it and i do work out i was at 220lbs now im 175 i think that if i was hurting my body that i would feel it but i feel great so missing a couple of meals is ok i can handle it oh i dont always eat happy meals i just ate it like twice this month but i wont be making that a habbit but i do know it has protein and at the time i was craving meat so thats what i ate but i didnt eat it all and i dont drink the soda i drink water lots of it to flush what i do eat i know it sounds weird but i would not go back to my old self ever again