Reply to Just started eating 1800 calories a day and feel like crap

Forum Index » Health and Medicine

Reply to "Just started eating 1800 calories a day and feel like crap "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1:22 - Why would anyone be jealous of someone only being able to eat 700 calories a day?  That sounds awful.  That is almost no food. I can easily eat that in a meal. Even a normal meal of 1,400 sounds awful.  If that's gloating, I'm a little sad for the gloater.

Now I can see someone being jealous when I say that at 44, I can eat 2,500 calories a day or more and maintain weight, or cut back to around 2,000 and lose.  That's what years of daily exercise and not jacking up your metabolism can do.  When dieting, it's a good idea to think long-term when it comes to metabolism.[/quote]

I'm in the same boat.  I'm not thin (not overweight either) but a regular eater and hardcore exerciser.  My caloric levels are similar because I've had an eye towards metabolism long-term.[/quote]

Ya know, most of us didn't go out thinking we were going to mess up our metabolisms. But yes, I now realize that as a college athlete when the nutritionist told us to eat as many carbs as we wanted but to watch out fat like a hawk, she was wrong. And I was wrong to follow her advice for the next 15 years. And now here I am, 43, after years of fighting the good fight, and I can eat 1500 to maintain or 1200 to lose. And I work out and yada yada yada. I'm glad you were all-knowing about how not to mess up your metabolism. Frankly, as someone who reads the literature on weight and exercise pretty obsessively, I'm pretty sure the jury is still out on what a metabolism-friendly eating pattern is, exactly.[/quote]

You don't think that eating "regularly" over decades - as in not dieting obsessively or eating an extreme amount - is good for your metabolism?  Better read up some more.  Or maybe you're just hungry.[/quote]

The thing is that people don't agree what "regularly" means, do they? And if you find yourself an overweight active person in your early 20's, as I did, you feel like you do need to lose the weight to set you on the right path for the rest of your life. So you diet. And since something like 99% of people who diet gain back the weight, you gain back the weight. And you try again. The cycle repeats, and you end up with a body that needs many fewer calories than people who were never overweight - see the Biggest Loser study. I am not talking about obsessive dieting but the very common up and down of the scale that many of us experienced. I'll I'm saying is that you can't assume that your path - "regular" healthy eating for a lifetime - works for other people. We don't have time turners. We can't go back and make our parents feed us better, or get tell our 20 year old selves to lay off the pasta and eat more tuna. So many of us must live with our current bodies, which give us the options of eating fewer calories than you see as normal or healthy, and being fat. You don't need to make that harder than it already is by being snotty.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics