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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1700 calories is too low???? eh.

The number of calories any of us can consume and still maintain some kind of "optimal" weight level varies dramatically. I'm 5'2. I had been limiting myself to about 1500 calories for almost a year. But I was still overweight! Not morbidly obese, but yes overweight. And that number of the scale was NOT budging. I lost about 5 pounds in that total amount of time, which frankly isn't a lot of progress. Obviously, then, I was still eating too much. A Dr finally told me that a good guide for a woman to find the number of calories you can consume in order to maintain your optimal weight is to take your optimal weight and times it by ten. If I want to weigh 120, in other words, I should be fairly consistently trying to eat around 1200 calories a day. If I want to weigh 130, eat 1300.  There was something to this, because as soon as I started to consume 1200-1300 calories a day, the pounds started dropping off me. And again--let me be perfectly clear. I'm not stick thin. I'm  a curvy size 6. The truth is, Americans eat too much. Far too much. Of everything. And we're particularly bad with amounts of sugar and white flour. We lead the world in obesity. Stop telling people that consuming 2000 calories a day is healthy for everyone--because it absolutely isn't. Being overweight, with belly fat, is unhealthy and if it takes a 1200-1300 calorie diet to avoid that, than that's what is "healthy" for that person.

OP--the advice is fewer calories. But, of course, you need to try to make your body "happy" with that. The best advice is time; you need to continue to decrease consumption slowly and steadily and allow your body time to adjust. Because your body DOES adjust to it. But it doesn't happen overnight. Also, there's been a lot of good advice posted about using those calories wisely--proteins and FATS are your friend! Good fats. Like nuts and avocado. Fills you up and provides energy to your body. As everyone else has said--the less "sweet" you can consume, the better. Not just sugar, but the diet sodas and crap have to go too. And my dr told me to avoid snacking. I was doing the "several small meals a day" kind of thing because that's the trend now. Plus I thought it was what I needed to get through the day. But dr told me to eat 3 times a day--that's it. No snacking in between. Eat good solid meals. And he's been right--at least for me. I end up eating the biggest meal of the day midday. The least amount at breakfast.

GOOD LUCK[/quote]

Yup, I'm 5'4", 39, very small frame.  1400-1500 is maintenance for me.  1200 is a deficit.  And my metabolism isn't messed up because of restrictive eating/constant dieting.  I was eating 1600-1700 for more than a few years trying to gain muscle while lifting, and I probably did, but I gained a lot of fat as well.  Now eating at 1200 and the fat is slowly coming off. [/quote]

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