Anonymous wrote:Drink more water, yes. What kind of food are you eating? If you cut back the carbs and get protein and healthy fat within your calorie limit, you'll feel better.

I don't think of 1800 calories as a low-calorie diet, unless maybe you're a pro athlete. I have to stick to 1000 or I gain weight, sadly.

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Be careful to drink MORE water than before. Eating less dehydrates you.

Stick to unprocessed fruits and veggies to ward of constipation and get vitamins and fluids, eat lean protein (I'm buying turkey ham with 0 fat right now, there's also tofu and chicken, etc), and nix the starch (rice, pasta, bread). Take a multivitamin, perhaps iron if you have anemic tendencies.

You must be tall. My normal calorie intake is 1400 and my diet one is half that.

Nobody's caloric intake should be 700 calories. Your metabolism must be so jacked up.

Agree. Such terrible advice from the pro-ana crowd here.

OP, your body is just adjusting. It'll take a week or so.

Once again, criticizing people you don't know, whose shape and metabolism you don't know either. Way to go.

I'm a slim and petite Asian. I'm healthy, but thank you very much for judging!

NP here. Why in the world would a slim and petite person of any race come onto a thread about a person dieting to lose weight and gloat about how they subsist on 1400 calories and diet at 700? According to USDA guidelines, the average woman needs 1600-2000 for healthy weight management. You are so small and below the median that your caloric intake cannot possibly be close to average or close to the caloric intake of a person who is heavy and trying to lose weight.

Why in the world would you come here to rub your low caloric intake because of your diminutive size into the face of someone who is heavy and dieting? How could it possibly be pertinent or helpful?

Agreed. How utterly weird and irrelevant. And well below what a normal, healthy, and fit/active adult woman should be eating.

These comments are childishly emotional. You wouldn't react this way if deep down, you weren't jealous, which is unhealthy. Everyone has to feed the body they have, so no one should be jealous of anyone else! Stop criticizing others just because they have different needs.

You're missing the glaring point. Your body has a NEED for food. 700 calories isn't enough to sustain healthy life. Look, I can eat whatever I want and never workout and be a thin but soft 100 lbs. or I can eat healthy, work out 3x a week, and be a trim and lean 100 lbs. I don't have any reason to be jealous of someone who goes through life subsisting on 700 calories a day. How sad and joyless. You must have no energy and constant anxiety over every bite you eat if your ceiling is 700 calories. You really should not be chiming in on weight loss threads because your whole attitude and advice is detrimental and unhealthy.

I am not a previous poster, but I dont' see anything wrong with living on 1400 cal. Some people just don't need a lot of food. I don't like to feel overstuffed, I don't like heavy foods that makes me feel tired and sleepy. I do workout 5 times a week at least and I have tons of energy. I am in my 40s and my weight beign between 115-117 all the time after the last child. I do fast some days (0 calories), so 700 calories could be very fullfilling if it is a nutritious food. For people who eat 2000 calories and saying thay are skinny, I don't believe it. You probably skinny by american standards only.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We're not talking about the same thing. If you're talking about the 'common up and down of the scale,' then I've experienced it too, and that's not what I'm talking about. I'm not a tiny person, but I'm normal weight, fit and strong. And happy. And I drink wine and eat cheese. And you sound miserable.

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Be careful to drink MORE water than before. Eating less dehydrates you.

Stick to unprocessed fruits and veggies to ward of constipation and get vitamins and fluids, eat lean protein (I'm buying turkey ham with 0 fat right now, there's also tofu and chicken, etc), and nix the starch (rice, pasta, bread). Take a multivitamin, perhaps iron if you have anemic tendencies.

You must be tall. My normal calorie intake is 1400 and my diet one is half that.

Nobody's caloric intake should be 700 calories. Your metabolism must be so jacked up.

Agree. Such terrible advice from the pro-ana crowd here.

OP, your body is just adjusting. It'll take a week or so.

Once again, criticizing people you don't know, whose shape and metabolism you don't know either. Way to go.

I'm a slim and petite Asian. I'm healthy, but thank you very much for judging!

NP here. Why in the world would a slim and petite person of any race come onto a thread about a person dieting to lose weight and gloat about how they subsist on 1400 calories and diet at 700? According to USDA guidelines, the average woman needs 1600-2000 for healthy weight management. You are so small and below the median that your caloric intake cannot possibly be close to average or close to the caloric intake of a person who is heavy and trying to lose weight.

Why in the world would you come here to rub your low caloric intake because of your diminutive size into the face of someone who is heavy and dieting? How could it possibly be pertinent or helpful?

Agreed. How utterly weird and irrelevant. And well below what a normal, healthy, and fit/active adult woman should be eating.

These comments are childishly emotional. You wouldn't react this way if deep down, you weren't jealous, which is unhealthy. Everyone has to feed the body they have, so no one should be jealous of anyone else! Stop criticizing others just because they have different needs.

You're missing the glaring point. Your body has a NEED for food. 700 calories isn't enough to sustain healthy life. Look, I can eat whatever I want and never workout and be a thin but soft 100 lbs. or I can eat healthy, work out 3x a week, and be a trim and lean 100 lbs. I don't have any reason to be jealous of someone who goes through life subsisting on 700 calories a day. How sad and joyless. You must have no energy and constant anxiety over every bite you eat if your ceiling is 700 calories. You really should not be chiming in on weight loss threads because your whole attitude and advice is detrimental and unhealthy.

I am not a previous poster, but I dont' see anything wrong with living on 1400 cal. Some people just don't need a lot of food. I don't like to feel overstuffed, I don't like heavy foods that makes me feel tired and sleepy. I do workout 5 times a week at least and I have tons of energy. I am in my 40s and my weight beign between 115-117 all the time after the last child. I do fast some days (0 calories), so 700 calories could be very fullfilling if it is a nutritious food. For people who eat 2000 calories and saying thay are skinny, I don't believe it. You probably skinny by american standards only.

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Be careful to drink MORE water than before. Eating less dehydrates you.

Stick to unprocessed fruits and veggies to ward of constipation and get vitamins and fluids, eat lean protein (I'm buying turkey ham with 0 fat right now, there's also tofu and chicken, etc), and nix the starch (rice, pasta, bread). Take a multivitamin, perhaps iron if you have anemic tendencies.

You must be tall. My normal calorie intake is 1400 and my diet one is half that.

Nobody's caloric intake should be 700 calories. Your metabolism must be so jacked up.

Agree. Such terrible advice from the pro-ana crowd here.

OP, your body is just adjusting. It'll take a week or so.

Once again, criticizing people you don't know, whose shape and metabolism you don't know either. Way to go.

I'm a slim and petite Asian. I'm healthy, but thank you very much for judging!

NP here. Why in the world would a slim and petite person of any race come onto a thread about a person dieting to lose weight and gloat about how they subsist on 1400 calories and diet at 700? According to USDA guidelines, the average woman needs 1600-2000 for healthy weight management. You are so small and below the median that your caloric intake cannot possibly be close to average or close to the caloric intake of a person who is heavy and trying to lose weight.

Why in the world would you come here to rub your low caloric intake because of your diminutive size into the face of someone who is heavy and dieting? How could it possibly be pertinent or helpful?

Agreed. How utterly weird and irrelevant. And well below what a normal, healthy, and fit/active adult woman should be eating.

These comments are childishly emotional. You wouldn't react this way if deep down, you weren't jealous, which is unhealthy. Everyone has to feed the body they have, so no one should be jealous of anyone else! Stop criticizing others just because they have different needs.

You're missing the glaring point. Your body has a NEED for food. 700 calories isn't enough to sustain healthy life. Look, I can eat whatever I want and never workout and be a thin but soft 100 lbs. or I can eat healthy, work out 3x a week, and be a trim and lean 100 lbs. I don't have any reason to be jealous of someone who goes through life subsisting on 700 calories a day. How sad and joyless. You must have no energy and constant anxiety over every bite you eat if your ceiling is 700 calories. You really should not be chiming in on weight loss threads because your whole attitude and advice is detrimental and unhealthy.

I am not a previous poster, but I dont' see anything wrong with living on 1400 cal. Some people just don't need a lot of food. I don't like to feel overstuffed, I don't like heavy foods that makes me feel tired and sleepy. I do workout 5 times a week at least and I have tons of energy. I am in my 40s and my weight beign between 115-117 all the time after the last child. I do fast some days (0 calories), so 700 calories could be very fullfilling if it is a nutritious food. For people who eat 2000 calories and saying thay are skinny, I don't believe it. You probably skinny by american standards only.

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Be careful to drink MORE water than before. Eating less dehydrates you.

Stick to unprocessed fruits and veggies to ward of constipation and get vitamins and fluids, eat lean protein (I'm buying turkey ham with 0 fat right now, there's also tofu and chicken, etc), and nix the starch (rice, pasta, bread). Take a multivitamin, perhaps iron if you have anemic tendencies.

You must be tall. My normal calorie intake is 1400 and my diet one is half that.

Nobody's caloric intake should be 700 calories. Your metabolism must be so jacked up.

Agree. Such terrible advice from the pro-ana crowd here.

OP, your body is just adjusting. It'll take a week or so.

Once again, criticizing people you don't know, whose shape and metabolism you don't know either. Way to go.

I'm a slim and petite Asian. I'm healthy, but thank you very much for judging!

NP here. Why in the world would a slim and petite person of any race come onto a thread about a person dieting to lose weight and gloat about how they subsist on 1400 calories and diet at 700? According to USDA guidelines, the average woman needs 1600-2000 for healthy weight management. You are so small and below the median that your caloric intake cannot possibly be close to average or close to the caloric intake of a person who is heavy and trying to lose weight.

Why in the world would you come here to rub your low caloric intake because of your diminutive size into the face of someone who is heavy and dieting? How could it possibly be pertinent or helpful?

Agreed. How utterly weird and irrelevant. And well below what a normal, healthy, and fit/active adult woman should be eating.

These comments are childishly emotional. You wouldn't react this way if deep down, you weren't jealous, which is unhealthy. Everyone has to feed the body they have, so no one should be jealous of anyone else! Stop criticizing others just because they have different needs.

You're missing the glaring point. Your body has a NEED for food. 700 calories isn't enough to sustain healthy life. Look, I can eat whatever I want and never workout and be a thin but soft 100 lbs. or I can eat healthy, work out 3x a week, and be a trim and lean 100 lbs. I don't have any reason to be jealous of someone who goes through life subsisting on 700 calories a day. How sad and joyless. You must have no energy and constant anxiety over every bite you eat if your ceiling is 700 calories. You really should not be chiming in on weight loss threads because your whole attitude and advice is detrimental and unhealthy.

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Anonymous wrote:I compete in a weight class sport and have to lose 6 pounds in the next month. I have cut down to 1800 calories this week. Here was my intake yesterday:

Breakfast:
Coffee with chocolate toffee truffle creamer
Strawberry greek yogurt with blueberries and cacao nibs
Half an avocado
Fresh mozzarella
34g carb/32g fat/30g protein

Lunch:
Chicken breast
Barilla protein pasta
Butter
Fresh basil
38g carb/8g fat/36g protein

Dinner:
Sirloin
Butter
Half an Avocado
Asparagus
Parmesan cheese
12g carb/33g fat/51g protein

Snacks:
3 oatmeal cookies dipped in peanut butter and chocolate Jif whips
1 piece of dark chocolate
35g carb/18g fat/5g protein

Total:124g carb/91g fat/121g protein

A high fat diet works better for me, keeps my hormones stable, keeps me full, and prevents migraines. I cut weight 4 times a year to get from training weight to competition weight. When I'm just in a training cycle, I bump up my carb intake to about 200g for the extra energy. I train 5 days a week, 2 hours per session. My training weight is 134lbs at 5'6" and my competition weight is 127.9lb.

That doesn't seem like enough vegetables or fiber for me?

Agreed. Not a bad diet, but I would replace the oatmeal cookies with sweet potatoes. Also vegetables like spinach and kale are pretty much freebies.

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Anonymous wrote:I compete in a weight class sport and have to lose 6 pounds in the next month. I have cut down to 1800 calories this week. Here was my intake yesterday:

Breakfast:
Coffee with chocolate toffee truffle creamer
Strawberry greek yogurt with blueberries and cacao nibs
Half an avocado
Fresh mozzarella
34g carb/32g fat/30g protein

Lunch:
Chicken breast
Barilla protein pasta
Butter
Fresh basil
38g carb/8g fat/36g protein

Dinner:
Sirloin
Butter
Half an Avocado
Asparagus
Parmesan cheese
12g carb/33g fat/51g protein

Snacks:
3 oatmeal cookies dipped in peanut butter and chocolate Jif whips
1 piece of dark chocolate
35g carb/18g fat/5g protein

Total:124g carb/91g fat/121g protein

A high fat diet works better for me, keeps my hormones stable, keeps me full, and prevents migraines. I cut weight 4 times a year to get from training weight to competition weight. When I'm just in a training cycle, I bump up my carb intake to about 200g for the extra energy. I train 5 days a week, 2 hours per session. My training weight is 134lbs at 5'6" and my competition weight is 127.9lb.

That doesn't seem like enough vegetables or fiber for me?

Anonymous wrote:I compete in a weight class sport and have to lose 6 pounds in the next month. I have cut down to 1800 calories this week. Here was my intake yesterday:

Breakfast:
Coffee with chocolate toffee truffle creamer
Strawberry greek yogurt with blueberries and cacao nibs
Half an avocado
Fresh mozzarella
34g carb/32g fat/30g protein

Lunch:
Chicken breast
Barilla protein pasta
Butter
Fresh basil
38g carb/8g fat/36g protein

Dinner:
Sirloin
Butter
Half an Avocado
Asparagus
Parmesan cheese
12g carb/33g fat/51g protein

Snacks:
3 oatmeal cookies dipped in peanut butter and chocolate Jif whips
1 piece of dark chocolate
35g carb/18g fat/5g protein

Total:124g carb/91g fat/121g protein

A high fat diet works better for me, keeps my hormones stable, keeps me full, and prevents migraines. I cut weight 4 times a year to get from training weight to competition weight. When I'm just in a training cycle, I bump up my carb intake to about 200g for the extra energy. I train 5 days a week, 2 hours per session. My training weight is 134lbs at 5'6" and my competition weight is 127.9lb.

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Be careful to drink MORE water than before. Eating less dehydrates you.

Stick to unprocessed fruits and veggies to ward of constipation and get vitamins and fluids, eat lean protein (I'm buying turkey ham with 0 fat right now, there's also tofu and chicken, etc), and nix the starch (rice, pasta, bread). Take a multivitamin, perhaps iron if you have anemic tendencies.

You must be tall. My normal calorie intake is 1400 and my diet one is half that.

Nobody's caloric intake should be 700 calories. Your metabolism must be so jacked up.

Agree. Such terrible advice from the pro-ana crowd here.

OP, your body is just adjusting. It'll take a week or so.

Once again, criticizing people you don't know, whose shape and metabolism you don't know either. Way to go.

I'm a slim and petite Asian. I'm healthy, but thank you very much for judging!

NP here. Why in the world would a slim and petite person of any race come onto a thread about a person dieting to lose weight and gloat about how they subsist on 1400 calories and diet at 700? According to USDA guidelines, the average woman needs 1600-2000 for healthy weight management. You are so small and below the median that your caloric intake cannot possibly be close to average or close to the caloric intake of a person who is heavy and trying to lose weight.

Why in the world would you come here to rub your low caloric intake because of your diminutive size into the face of someone who is heavy and dieting? How could it possibly be pertinent or helpful?

Agreed. How utterly weird and irrelevant. And well below what a normal, healthy, and fit/active adult woman should be eating.

These comments are childishly emotional. You wouldn't react this way if deep down, you weren't jealous, which is unhealthy. Everyone has to feed the body they have, so no one should be jealous of anyone else! Stop criticizing others just because they have different needs.

You're missing the glaring point. Your body has a NEED for food. 700 calories isn't enough to sustain healthy life. Look, I can eat whatever I want and never workout and be a thin but soft 100 lbs. or I can eat healthy, work out 3x a week, and be a trim and lean 100 lbs. I don't have any reason to be jealous of someone who goes through life subsisting on 700 calories a day. How sad and joyless. You must have no energy and constant anxiety over every bite you eat if your ceiling is 700 calories. You really should not be chiming in on weight loss threads because your whole attitude and advice is detrimental and unhealthy.

Anonymous wrote:It might be sugar withdrawal. If you've cut out caffeine as well that could be causing your symptoms.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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.

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.