Is it possible to eat only 1500 calories a day?

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Anonymous wrote:I worry that you are too obsessed with your sisters weight and activities. You have posted this multiple times and I’m not sure you’ll be happier losing the weight, which you don’t even need to do- you are perfectly proportionate according to any chart. You probably have bigger bones than she does, or a larger frame. I hope you find what you’re looking for and some peace too.

I recognize OP too. Put down the measuring stick!!! Your sister's exercise and weight has nothing to do with you or your worth. I think you need to examine why you are so competitive with her, probably with a therapist. It is not something that should be occupying so much space in your head.

Especially because your sister has a pretty severe eating disorder. I’m one of the posters eating about 1400-1500 a day but I am in my 50s and don’t exercise a ton. You said your sister runs 5-10 miles a day and yet only eats about 1300 calories (and I’m guessing isn’t menopausal yet)—-that’s really disordereed. She should be more in the range of 1800-2200 depending on her size and metabolism if she’s running 5 miles a day. If she’s running 10 a day, should be even more.

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Anonymous wrote:If you drink a water all day, and eat vegetables, proteins, whole-food fats and saute (not deep fry) oil, and avoid whole servings of plain carbs (bread, noodle, rice), you can eat as much as you want and not gain weight.

Don’t you realize that hunger is different for different people? It is very possible to eat 3000 calories a day of vegetables, proteins, and whole food fats and still be hungry.

BS. People mistake thirst, boredom, etc for hunger. If you’re eating that much you should not be hungry.

3000 calories of vegetables and lean proteins would be a ridiculous amount of food

And expensive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you are a 5'7" woman who needs to lose weight? Will I be starving? I work out every day and take around 18,000 steps per day. I cannot seem to lose weight and realize I just need to stop eating so much. Not sure what is realistic though.

Don’t work out if you want to feel satisfied with 1500 calories - just walk and lift weights.

Intense cardio drives hunger hormones which makes it very hard to stick to a lower calorie diet.

Best way to feel good at a lower calorie level is to eat lots of fiber. Beans/legumes, vegetables, fruits, whole grains nuts and seeds.

+1 on stopping the intense cardio- it drives hunger and you don’t need that. Weight lifting and walking will do wonders + up your protein intake. You may not lose too many if any pounds on the scale, but you will look better and your clothes will fit better!

Let me understand- you’re recommending less exercise because it make a person hungry . Yeah that sounds healthy. Definitely not an eating disorder…

If a person is trying to lose weight, it’s much easier to achieve that through diet than cardio for a variety reasons including increased hunger. Cardio is great for lots of reasons but weight loss isn’t one of them. Nothing disordered at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I worry that you are too obsessed with your sisters weight and activities. You have posted this multiple times and I’m not sure you’ll be happier losing the weight, which you don’t even need to do- you are perfectly proportionate according to any chart. You probably have bigger bones than she does, or a larger frame. I hope you find what you’re looking for and some peace too.

I recognize OP too. Put down the measuring stick!!! Your sister's exercise and weight has nothing to do with you or your worth. I think you need to examine why you are so competitive with her, probably with a therapist. It is not something that should be occupying so much space in your head.

Especially because your sister has a pretty severe eating disorder. I’m one of the posters eating about 1400-1500 a day but I am in my 50s and don’t exercise a ton. You said your sister runs 5-10 miles a day and yet only eats about 1300 calories (and I’m guessing isn’t menopausal yet)—-that’s really disordereed. She should be more in the range of 1800-2200 depending on her size and metabolism if she’s running 5 miles a day. If she’s running 10 a day, should be even more.

You can’t call someone disordered based on this information. Maybe sis has a super slow metabolism. Maybe if she ate 1800-2200 calories a day she’d blow up like a balloon.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m 5’7” 165lbs and eat about 2500kcal but I’m size 2-4 and pure muscle.

Odd I’m the same height/weight and I’m size 12

When I was 145 I was size 10.

I believe you but it’s wild.

I look like a smaller version of the rugby player or more like Sabalenka.

Who do you resemble?

Body frame

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worry that you are too obsessed with your sisters weight and activities. You have posted this multiple times and I’m not sure you’ll be happier losing the weight, which you don’t even need to do- you are perfectly proportionate according to any chart. You probably have bigger bones than she does, or a larger frame. I hope you find what you’re looking for and some peace too.

I recognize OP too. Put down the measuring stick!!! Your sister's exercise and weight has nothing to do with you or your worth. I think you need to examine why you are so competitive with her, probably with a therapist. It is not something that should be occupying so much space in your head.

Especially because your sister has a pretty severe eating disorder. I’m one of the posters eating about 1400-1500 a day but I am in my 50s and don’t exercise a ton. You said your sister runs 5-10 miles a day and yet only eats about 1300 calories (and I’m guessing isn’t menopausal yet)—-that’s really disordereed. She should be more in the range of 1800-2200 depending on her size and metabolism if she’s running 5 miles a day. If she’s running 10 a day, should be even more.

That’s because the “story” here is compete BS. However slow this “running” might be, it’s physically impossible to be eating this little and allegedly “running” 5-10 miles a day.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are a 5'7" woman who needs to lose weight? Will I be starving? I work out every day and take around 18,000 steps per day. I cannot seem to lose weight and realize I just need to stop eating so much. Not sure what is realistic though.

Don’t work out if you want to feel satisfied with 1500 calories - just walk and lift weights.

Intense cardio drives hunger hormones which makes it very hard to stick to a lower calorie diet.

Best way to feel good at a lower calorie level is to eat lots of fiber. Beans/legumes, vegetables, fruits, whole grains nuts and seeds.

+1 on stopping the intense cardio- it drives hunger and you don’t need that. Weight lifting and walking will do wonders + up your protein intake. You may not lose too many if any pounds on the scale, but you will look better and your clothes will fit better!

Let me understand- you’re recommending less exercise because it make a person hungry . Yeah that sounds healthy. Definitely not an eating disorder…

If a person is trying to lose weight, it’s much easier to achieve that through diet than cardio for a variety reasons including increased hunger. Cardio is great for lots of reasons but weight loss isn’t one of them. Nothing disordered at all.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are a 5'7" woman who needs to lose weight? Will I be starving? I work out every day and take around 18,000 steps per day. I cannot seem to lose weight and realize I just need to stop eating so much. Not sure what is realistic though.

Yes. I have found it easier in conjunction with Intermittent Fasting - not eating breakfast (black coffee until 11:30), cutting out added sugar (no cookies, pastries), cutting down on trash carbs - no white bread, potatoes, white rice), bulking up on vegetables, lean meats. Fruits, plain icelandic yogurt OK. I get to the end of the day of eating (7:30 hard cut off for food - only hot tea with no sugar after) and regularly find that I've eaten less than 1500 calories. I don't exercise as much as you do so don't need the extra calories. I am only truly hungry in the morning, but the coffee helps and I can usually distract myself with work etc. until time to eat.

[Anonymous]

I ate about 1000 calories today according to Loseit and I am stuffed. I had a Taco Bell chicken cantina bowl, an apple, a hard boiled egg, and some homemade vegetable soup with a couple lean ground chicken meatballs in it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are a 5'7" woman who needs to lose weight? Will I be starving? I work out every day and take around 18,000 steps per day. I cannot seem to lose weight and realize I just need to stop eating so much. Not sure what is realistic though.

Cutting calories just lowers your metabolism. Just an FYI.
Many fitness competitors and bodybuilder women eat 3000-7000 calories a day and stay extremely fit and low bodyfat%. It varies. Find what works for you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you are a 5'7" woman who needs to lose weight? Will I be starving? I work out every day and take around 18,000 steps per day. I cannot seem to lose weight and realize I just need to stop eating so much. Not sure what is realistic though.

Cutting calories just lowers your metabolism. Just an FYI.
Many fitness competitors and bodybuilder women eat 3000-7000 calories a day and stay extremely fit and low bodyfat%. It varies. Find what works for you.

Hear that, OP? If you want to LOSE weight, rather than cutting calories, you should eat two or three times MORE calories than you currently eat, just like all those fitness competitors do!

/s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I ate about 1000 calories today according to Loseit and I am stuffed. I had a Taco Bell chicken cantina bowl, an apple, a hard boiled egg, and some homemade vegetable soup with a couple lean ground chicken meatballs in it.

I would weigh <100 pounds if I consistently ate like this. (I ate slightly less when I had an ED in college and weighed <90). I sometimes envy people with actual dainty appetites though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you are a 5'7" woman who needs to lose weight? Will I be starving? I work out every day and take around 18,000 steps per day. I cannot seem to lose weight and realize I just need to stop eating so much. Not sure what is realistic though.

Cutting calories just lowers your metabolism. Just an FYI.
Many fitness competitors and bodybuilder women eat 3000-7000 calories a day and stay extremely fit and low bodyfat%. It varies. Find what works for you.

No women eat 7000 calories and stay lean. They would have to run a marathon everyday and weight 200lbs and still I am not sure they would burn that much in a day.

[Anonymous]

I probably average 1350 (which is also what my metabolism was tested at—just under 1k bmr and was noted to be about 15% lower that evicted for age and body comp. Maybe eom years of undereating). I eat two meals - day plus coffee. I’m short and going through menopause and not particularly active (workout 2-3 times a week but otherwise rarely get more than 6k steps). This maintains my eight at 116-118#. I also don’t get particularly hungry I guess because I’ve got a slow metabolism. I have done this for years so it’s normal for me. But I would recommend switching it up. Eating less some days but not every day for months on end.
At some point when my life calms down I’m going to go back to a trainer who is convinced that I can and should eat more, lift more, move more and increase metabolism slowly. Mostly worry about sarcopenia and osteoporosis now, not fitting into clothes.

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Anonymous wrote:I probably average 1350 (which is also what my metabolism was tested at—just under 1k bmr and was noted to be about 15% lower that evicted for age and body comp. Maybe eom years of undereating). I eat two meals - day plus coffee. I’m short and going through menopause and not particularly active (workout 2-3 times a week but otherwise rarely get more than 6k steps). This maintains my eight at 116-118#. I also don’t get particularly hungry I guess because I’ve got a slow metabolism. I have done this for years so it’s normal for me. But I would recommend switching it up. Eating less some days but not every day for months on end.
At some point when my life calms down I’m going to go back to a trainer who is convinced that I can and should eat more, lift more, move more and increase metabolism slowly. Mostly worry about sarcopenia and osteoporosis now, not fitting into clothes.

Driving out 20 min to see trainer 1 hr workout and driving back that’s almost 2 hours. Who has time to do this 3x/week.