Would I lose weight if I did this?

[Anonymous]

Burn 1500 calories Per day for three days and only eat 800 calories max. I usually have weekends off so I'm going to start doing that. Then the days I work eat 400 calories only and burn it all off

[Smokewithashes]

Don't do this! I've done crazy diets like this, and while you lose the weight fast, it comes back but with interest once you mess up.

If you ate at least a 1200 calorie diet and then burned 200 to 300 calories with some cardio, sit ups, Russian twists, planks and simple stretches, you could probably lose 2 pounds a week, keep that weight off and look SO good. With crazy diets you'll look 'skinny fat' instead of thin, lean, healthy and toned.

Besides, you want to keep the weight off so don't do nearly impossible diets just to lose the weight quickly. You'll destroy your muscles doing that and will also harm your bone density. Too many health risks, it'll be hard to maintain, and you will gain the weight back when you eat normally and skip a day or two of exercising.

[chloed11]

That would be no good, in my eyes that is classed as an eating disorder. Stick to your calorie limit:
Female: 1800-200
Male: 2400-2600
(obviously depending on your age and how active you are, you can google it)

By eating less all it causes you to do is get a smaller stomach, sounds good but when you are back to eating the normal amount of calories... healthy amount, then your stomach will just get big again

The BEST way to loose weight is my exercising and eating the RIGHT amount of calories, meaning you can literally eat as much as you want if you exercise

By what you are doing now, in my eyes is starting to become an eating disorder, you might not even realise. Contact your GP please to get help...

[Asker]

Im at a "healthy weight" but I still feel fat

I do not like how my body looks

[MoshingExec]

You cannot eat as much as you want just because you exercise.

[Asker]

I want to only eat 500 calories no matter what

[MoshingExec]

How do you expect to burn 1500 calories per day? Unless you mean via your basal metabolic rate. You would have to do HUGE amounts of exercise to burn 1500 cal/day more than you naturally burn. With your weight you are looking at running about 17 miles a day to burn 1500 cal.

[Asker]

I run a lot

[MoshingExec]

I doubt you run 17 miles per day. Even those training for marathons don't do that.

[bryon]

If you are not careful you will do more damage than good. If your calorie intake doesn't support muscle growth you can also loose muscle mass as it will be being starved for nutrients. Consult a work out specialist for more info

[GiniViv]

Dont eat so little. Thats crazy. Eat around 1400 calories per day. Mo less otherwise you will go into starvation mode and as soon as you start eating more again you will put all the weight back on if not more!
Just eat healthy and workout and you will get results :-)

[Asker]

I'm so unhappy with my body

[GiniViv]

Doing it the unhealthy way... might get you there quicker but only for a short amount of time... you will gain it all back. Trust me. Picture youself in a few monts-6 months-year... think about the long term. In order to get that body you have to work for it but its will gradually get there. Just eat healthy and workout and you WILL see a difference. You dont have to deprive yourself of food. :)

[BellePepper]

I wouldn't be surprised if you gained weight on that kind of crazy diet. Your body will know it's starving and try to store calories.

Please try for small practical changes that you can maintain over the long term. That will help you take off and keep off weight.

[Asker]

Alright thanks

[523206720]

Its not as simple as calories. your better off eating lots of tomatoes then you are burning calories in the gym as tomatoes quench your liver and your liver needs liquid to burn fat. tomatoes are actually more effective then water at quenching thirst but you also need to drink water.

[Kiwedin]

Research The Great Starvation Experiment on youtube so you don't have to read the actual book. It explains how you'll lose weight, but it also explains the down side of starving yourself and how you're damaging your metabolism. This isn't healthy, there are other ways you can lose weight that won't cost you your sanity and health in the meantime.

[Braveheart4321]

That sounds like you're going to starve yourself, and while yes you are likely to loose weight, it's also going to potentially harm your health. At the very least make sure that you get al the non-caloric nutrition you need while doing this. All that said, I am not a nutritionist and carry have not researched the matter.

[I_am_repulsive]

That seems like you're over exercising. It should be well balanced, I ran in a treadmill/epileptic exercise machine for about 30-45 minutes and I lose anywhere from 350 calories to 500 calories, just from that alone. Then I lift some weights and other means and usually lose a total of about 800 - 1000 calories all together. I eat whatever I like since I usually turn that fat into muscle any how, and I drink some protein shakes of some sort as well.

[Asker]

Well you're a man and want to be big
I'm a girl and want to be skinny lol
Just saying

[I_am_repulsive]

I get that, but you shouldn't starve yourself because there is always a proper diet. Like I said, you can already lost about 500 calories just from running, and you can work on the rest, which is completely up to you. No such things as boundaries really, but you shouldn't over work yourself out. I only see a few muscular guys working to burn that much calories in one day and they spend most of their times at the gym.

[PhiOmega]

She can burn most of that just by living,

My bmr is around 3,000

[I_am_repulsive]

@PhiOmega I have hypothyroidism and therefore it's harder for me to lose weight. I don't ever take any thyroid pills though. I've always been jealous of my sisters since they have a really fast metabolism and I have a really slow one.

[PhiOmega]

Yea, i have a friend who thinks she might have a thyroid problem

[PhiOmega]

That just sounds horrible, normally I'd ask ht n wt, but that sounds like a bad plan for almost any one

[Asker]

I'm 5'4 123 pounds
I have a huge stomach :(

[PhiOmega]

A huge stomach isn't a good excuse for dangerous diets, and that's not how fat loss works

Is not like the more extreme the diet the more weight u lose, UR BODY can only lose the fat at a certain rate, I'm not saying u shouldn't see results but u can't speed things beyond whats healthy

[Zendrya]

That sounds almost anorexic...

[Asker]

How? I'm 122 pounds

[Zendrya]

You don't have to be extremely skinny to be anorexic you know. But an emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat is the definition. Even though you are still eating some but because you will be getting so little nutrients you might as well be eating nothing at all. If you don't get any exercise, you need 1,800 to 2,000 calories a day. If you get some exercise, the equivalent of walking 1.5 to 3 miles a day at an easy pace, you need 2,000 to 2,200 calories a day. If you work out a little more heavily, equivalent to walking more than 3 miles a day, you need 2,400 calories a day.

[Asker]

I truly don't care tho

[Zendrya]

You should go to a doctor and a psychiatrist. You can get over this.

[Asker]

I don't want to see a doctor

[Zendrya]

Then you aren't going to get better.

[Dakota_The_Rota]

That doesn't sound healthy.