How many calories should I eat for extreme weightloss?

[Anonymous]

1,000? or should I go under?

[zeitgeist057]

If your goal is to lose weight and keep it off, "extreme weight loss" is not a good idea. At least if what you mean by "extreme" is rapid loss of substantial weight.

It's not just unhealthy, it's a poor strategy because your body responds to these starvation tactics by slowing down your metabolism. What that means is your body adapts to do more with less. So if you ever start to eat a normal amount of food again, you will gain even more weight with your new, slower metabolism. Your body will decide it needs to keep even more extra fat around in case you try to starve it again.

A healthy and reasonable goal is to lose appx 1 kg (2lb)/week, or 4kg (9lb) a month. Doing this results in a loss of around 108 lbs/year, which is MUCH better than losing 15-20 lbs in a month, then gaining 30 lbs over the next 2 months.

In addition to slowing down your metabolism, you will likely suffer from malnutrition of not having enough vitamins and minerals, electrolytes, &c. These things don't provide calories, but they are essential for optimal health.

If you really want to lose weight in a sustainable manner, the strategy is simple. Get proper rest (8-10 hours for a 18-24F), hydration (around 35 mL/kg/day) , exercise that raises your heart rate for 30-60 minutes at least once per day (220 minus your age for max heartrate), and choose unprocessed foods in a roughly 20/30/50 (%) split of fat, protein, and carbohydrates.

Read labels and stay tf away from foods with corn syrup, cane sugar, partially and fully hydrogenated oils. That eliminates about 60% of the food you'll find at the grocer, and leave you with single ingredient foods that don't come with a label, like fruits, vegetables, meats, and some dairy and grains. If you want to take it to the next level, you'll start to get picky about grains as well.

You could literally eat all the food in the picture above over a week, even double the fruits and vegetables, and be losing weight.

If you want to ignore all that and fuck up your metabolism, then you'll want to eat less than 500 calories a day, binge and purge (a disorder known as bulimia), or just don't eat at all (a disorder known as anorexia). Those are some of the best ways to really mess your body and mind up with a bad dietary habit.

If you want to talk more about planning a healthy diet and weight reduction, I'd be happy to help you discuss some options and make a plan.

[JacobJordan]

The amount of calories you eat will not matter. You need to be in a deficit. Meaning you need to burn more calories than you consume. You could eat 10k calories and if you are burning 12k you will lose weight. Not a common fact but a fact nonetheless you burn nearly all the calories from everything you eat just to process what you ate to begin with. So rather than worry about what you eat and potentially harm yourself via starvation or whatever. Eat normally and just go for a walk, run, bike ride, swimming, utilize some form of physical exercise for 30 minutes-1hr (or 2) every day and you will lose the weight you are wanting to lose without creating any dangerous problems for yourself

[IslaTheWitch]

Any calorie deficit creates a weight loss. The greater the weight loss in a short time, the greater the cost for your body. It's a myth we lose fat at first. If you don't deliver the needed amount of protein, you will lose muscles first, and muscles create the most significant calories burn in your body.

Weight loss is mainly a change of habits, and it happens over time.

[Cynicaldreamer]

I'm gonna tell you the same thing my personal trainer told me-

Starving yourself or undereating won't make you lose weight. All you're losing is muscle and/water weight. It's not long term or sustainable.

Eat around 1200-1500 calories a day; any less and it won't do you any good. Believe it or not, you can actually GAIN weight or plateau if you undereat- your body tried to retain fat as a defense mechanism.

Focus on high protein foods that fill you up and healthy carbs. I'm not going to go into exercise because I'm not sure how active you are, but working out will also help with weight loss.

[Anonymous]

I saw a girl on YouTube lose 100lbs in 4 months by eating 500cals a day and kept it off so it's possible to lose a significant amount in a short amount of time. It's not recommended but I am eating under 1000cals a day, probably averaging 590-600cals and I've lost 17lbs in 13 days. Granted most of it is water weight but it's still weight loss nevertheless.

And I know it will probably slow down but the goal is 25 to 30 this month.

[Asker]

omg can u send the link!

[Opinion Owner]

https://youtu.be/d8nWswZFcIM?si=32Ls_UYGKGrBscv5

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

To lose one pound of weight per week, you should consume approximately 1,500 calories per day. Active women who walk for over 3 miles per day need to consume at least 2,200 calories to maintain their weight. To lose one pound of weight per week, you should consume approximately 1,700 calories per day. Never go strict because I did so and to this day I am paying for it, so eat sensible but eat healthy foods. I went on a strict diet when I was a teen, and now I am paying for it, so just be careful and also drink plenty of water.

[OddBeMe]

Doesn’t matter. Only matters in relation to how much you expend.

And ironically, when you workout your body will need more protein and nutrients to feed your muscle mass. So you , any gain a little weight as muscles weigh more than fat.

But starvation diet isn’t healthy and won’t lead to longterm success.

[pascal_climbs]

Impossible. The body will go into starvation mode to protect itself and you will not loose weight. Only a consistent meal plan some 200-400 cal below your BMR x activity level will give a long lasting weight loss.

[Fireguy17]

males are 1,800 per day, females are 1,200 per day.
That is for good healthy low carb high protein foods.
Not high sugar, high fat junk/fast foods.
So eat less but healthier and move more.
That is the best and easiest diet plan there is.

[SotiCoto]

If you're going that way you might as well just not eat at all. Death is pretty good for losing weight.

[sushienjoyer]

never go under your bmr (basal metabolic rate). it's how many calories a day your body needs to function. you can calculate it here, it's pretty accurate:

you also have to keep in mind that weightloss isn't all about the amount of calories you ingest, it's more about the macronutrients.

[sushienjoyer]

it didn't include the link? lol. well, it's:
www calculator net/bmr-calculator html (put dots instead of the spaces, i don't have a high enough level to send link yet apparently? hahah)

[Sonorous]

Find out what your maintenance caloric intake is and reduce your total daily caloric intake by no more than 500 calories per day. Oh, and be sure to up your protein. 💪

[mattissebfan5]

Food and Exercise work together because even eating 500 calories if you don't do exercise that burns more than 500 then you won't lose the weight

[Anonymous]

They say with a 20% calorie deficit you will live 30% longer.

[Lokiion]

Go to tdeecaculator and find your maintenance then reduce the calories in by 500

[jahaims]

You don't want more than a 1,300 calorie deficit daily

[Roudyrebel8]

Be careful I know you want to loose weight but be smart about it and take care of your body while doing it

[Anonymous]

You've asked 1,000 times take your ass to the gym Jesus christ airhead

[Asker]

literally my first time, i do gym regularly but I want quick results - no one asked for u to comment if ur gonna be a prick

[Anonymous]

I don't know, but do not do extreme weight loss without consulting a doctor.

[Anonymous]

Probably but you’ll probably have no energy and maybe lose muscle

[Anonymous]

Don't go under 1200 and extreme weight loss is very unhealthy and not good for you...

[shortster]

1000 calories is a bit extreme.