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. 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'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.
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?
Mark & Steven Bornfeld - 11 Dec 2007 00:16 GMT
> 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
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> 1000 calories per day by doing things like going to a fast food
> resteraunt or ordering a pizza. So am I doing something wrong?
Other than being sedentary, no. Oh, I'd probably find a different
protein source than hot dogs. ;-) Some fresh fruit would be nice.
Maybe some legumes. Hey, I assume you're giving me examples of, and not
your total diet. I'm assuming you want to lose the weight.
Steve

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Jeff - 11 Dec 2007 01:03 GMT
> 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
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> 1000 calories per day by doing things like going to a fast food
> resteraunt or ordering a pizza. So am I doing something wrong?
It's great that you lost 60 pounds. You must be so proud of yourself!
You lost a lot of weight in a short period of time.
If you are a grad student, you should be able to find good information
at your school. For example, many schools have a center for health and
well-being. The information that you get from the health center, from
people who can see you, examine you and get a great medical history
would be the best place to start.
When I was a grad student, not that far from your school, I played
volleyball, soccer, racketball and basketball and swam. While I think
that your weight loss is great, I do think that you would benefit from
having more physical activity, whether it is doing the things that I
enjoyed or other things, like running, dancing or SCUBA diving in the
Chesapeake. I think that would help you both physically and mentally. So
you should also ask the people at the health center about this as well
as other good sources of information.
Jeff