TheMachine1 wrote:
Starbuline wrote:
I'm having a couple hundred calories a day at most.
I would be concern with loosing muscle. Try loosing at a slower rate say 1 pound a week
(500 cal off your normal daily eating). And go by your measurements too and not weight. The goal should be to look thinner not be lighter(muscle is dense).
Aside from the obvious health aspects, eating that little you will actually lose less weight then by other methods after a short time. Your bodies natural metabolism accounts for a significant proportion of your calorific
output and by eating so little, your body will quickly go into starvation mode and your metabolism will slow right down and your muscles may start to atrophy. A lot of the weight loss you do see from starvation will be from muscle atrophy and dehydration. The best way to lose a sensible amount of weight is by combination of exercise and diet control; by diet control alone, you may lose some weight but you will not get into shape. It is also the most efficient way as it speeds up the metabolism and the more active and fit you get, the more fine-tuned your bodies sense of how much nutrition it needs becomes.