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Old December 11th, 2007, 02:11 AM posted to misc.fitness.weights, alt.support.diet, sci.med.nutrition,alt.support.fat-acceptance, rec.running
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On Dec 10, 6:41 pm, wrote:
I've been on about a 800-1000 calorie diet for the past 7 months. I've
lost 60 pounds in doing so. I'm a bit scaired though because I've just
started reading articles about weight loss and I'm reading stuff like
1000 calories are too few, etc. and I'm actually seeing
recommendations of things like 2000 calories.


Yeah, I'd started dieting back in January and had lost 20 pounds by
Arpil! By then, I'd read that my 1500-2000 daily caloric intake was
actually too low, and, unfortunately, I let that be an excuse to eat
more...and by summer's end I gained back all the weight I'd lost!
(Though ten pounds were apparently water weight due to creatine
intake, which I've stopped recently since running out of the stuff.)

What I've found is that
when I eat even 1500 calories in a given day, I don't lose weight, but
when I eat around 1000, I do.


I've found that I lose weight by starving myself like that, but
unfortunately I also lose a LOT of strength. I don't mean just
mentally feeling out of it, feeling sleepy, etc., but that I simply
can't lift as much. I notice this real quick: if I eat only 1500
calories tomorrow, I will be sure to have lost a whole set of reps! I
didn't realize that that was what was going on at first, and had
thought I'd reached a training plateau...what had actually happened
was my muscles wasting away!

I'm pretty young (26) and I don't don't
exercise or work out too much. In fact, I spend most of my time at my
dest working on my research.

Oh and one more thing. I'm not starving myself. In fact, I have a rule
that whenever I'm hungry I eat something. Its just that I eat things
like steamfresh brocolli, which has 120 calories per bag, steamfresh
Asian Medely which has 120 calories per bag, Fat Free Ball Park Beef
Franks (50 calories per Hot Dog), Nature's Own Double Fiber Wheat
Bread (50 calories per slice), Puffed Wheat cereal (60 calories per
serving), Fat Free Pringles, etc.


You can get used to feeling hungry, or a low-calorie "state of being,"
such that you're no longer consciously hungry at calorie consumption
points you would have been previously...I'd also noticed that my sex
drive went straight through the floor on a healthy low-cal
diet...?!?! I mean, to the point where, then, after eating a pound
cake, I got horny as hell!

With these foods, I've got to almost FORCE myself to eat more than
1000 calories per day by doing things like going to a fast food
resteraunt or ordering a pizza. So am I doing something wrong?


Depends on what your goals are. If you simply want to lose weight, as
in numbers on a bathroom scale, it seems like you're doing just fine.

In terms of athletic performance, you're almost certainly just losing
muscle, and not so much fat. In terms of general health and fitness,
well, that's probably not such a pretty-looking picture, either.
 




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