750 calories a day

my friend is insisting on extreme dieting - she says she has been restricting her daily calorie intake to 750 calories for the past two weeks but says she doesnt feel she has lost any weight - but she must have right?!
she hasnt got round to weighing herself but its gotta be a pretty sure bet that she will have lost some weight right?
thanks x

Reply 1

Enchanté

14

of course she has , shes probably lost a little bit but how much does she weigh i may be able to work it out for you?? xxx

Reply 2

*starry_eyed_*

14

thats not a healthy way of losing weight. sorry to state the obvious :redface:

Reply 3

luckylaura05

OP

1

not sure how much she weighs - how do you work it out?

Reply 4

xXMessedUpXx

15

well considering the recoomened intake is um..1000?? Wait it may be more..3000? ah nevermind i'm stuck...

Reply 5

Elusive Moose

1

The thing is, once she's taken off all the weight, if she goes off this diet (which she should- only eating 750 calories a day is ridiculously unhealthy) then she'll put all the weight back on again.

If she really wants to lose weight then she needs to control WHAT she's eating, WHEN she's eating it and should do a good amount of exercise. It's a much safer way of losing weight and will last longer too. By only eating 750 calories a day, the body isn't getting nearly enough of what it needs...

In other words, what starry_eyed said...

Reply 6

Leigh

15

You burn more than 750 calories in your sleep don't you? Really doesn't sound very healthy at all, if she hasn't lost any weight, I'd want to know where she managed to find energy to even wake up!

May be me poking my nose in where it's not wanted, but I'd keep an eye on her, make sure it is just a diet she's trying and it doesn't develop into something more serious.

Reply 7

jameso88

1

that is awfully low, but it depends how much she weighs in the first place to put it in perspective, she probably won't stick to it for long and she may not have a great amount of vits in that.

Reply 8

Happy1

14

maybe you should talk to her family and tell them that youre worried and get them to ask her to seek help... or you culd tell her, but she wont thank you for it

It sounds like she has an easting disorder to me.

Reply 9

wednesburywench

2

thats bad tell her to stop right now

Reply 10

gas_panic!

12

xXMessedUpXx

well considering the recoomened intake is um..1000?? Wait it may be more..3000? ah nevermind i'm stuck...

2000 for girlies. :smile:

Reply 11

Supa)-(

mayb shes trying to fit into a lil balck dress for a special occasion and she wants it to be a LIL blakc dress people over react with out knowing the full facts i practically fasted for nearly three weeks to lose a stoopid amount of weight! only ate fruit! and only ate when i needed too!

Reply 12

Barryisland

750! damn right shes lost weight, the daily minimum is 2000!

Reply 13

President_Ben

15

Hitcher

750! damn right shes lost weight, the daily minimum is 2000!

Actually, it's the intake minimum suitable for 2 standard deviations of people of normal weight, height and metabolic rate (ie. 97.72% of them)

Anyway, 750, not wise.

You'd lose that amount in just 8 hours being awake or about 13 hours of sleep. None the less, per day, there ought to be a massive amount more being used than going in... weight should be practically flying off and ill health setting on quite soon, especially with the seasonal diseases...

Reply 14

Lush Law

15

If you're trying to lose weight you should aim to roughly half your normal calorie intake.

Don't let it slip below 1000 calories a day. I usually consume around 1500 I think, but then some days more, depends if we get take away! :frown:

Reply 15

Elusive Moose

1

Supa)-(

mayb shes trying to fit into a lil balck dress for a special occasion and she wants it to be a LIL blakc dress people over react with out knowing the full facts i practically fasted for nearly three weeks to lose a stoopid amount of weight! only ate fruit! and only ate when i needed too!

And you think that was sensible? Just because you were eating supposedly healthy foods, that doesn't mean you were eating healthily. Eating a balanced diet and at regular intervals is one of the best things anyone can do to lose weight (and exercise, obviously), especially if they want to maintain the loss. "Only fat people skip breakfast," after all. (It's a phrase!)

Reply 16

hanadeka2002

Not healthy.If you're going to diet keep your intake above 1000 but below around 12-1300.

Eating no more than 750 cals is ridiculous.

Reply 17

hannahbanna

how does she even know how many calories she's eating? how do you count cos only foods like crisps etc and processed meals actually say accurately on the pack?

Reply 18

Supa)-(

im 5ft 10 weigh 10 1/2 stone and have a body fat percentage of 7.8% i've not eaten breakfast for about 3 years! also i do high intensity excercise everyday! monday gym! 1 hr solid cardio work tuesday football training 1:30 hrs of continuos excercise tuwednesday thursday friday gym saturday football match and gym if im not feeling tired sunday 5-aside football and gym. so its not as if by not eating i ran out of energy! people who dont really have any ideas of their bodies limitations shouldnt really lecture others about it!

Reply 19

Helenia

20

Supa)-(

im 5ft 10 weigh 10 1/2 stone and have a body fat percentage of 7.8% i've not eaten breakfast for about 3 years! also i do high intensity excercise everyday! monday gym! 1 hr solid cardio work tuesday football training 1:30 hrs of continuos excercise tuwednesday thursday friday gym saturday football match and gym if im not feeling tired sunday 5-aside football and gym. so its not as if by not eating i ran out of energy! people who dont really have any ideas of their bodies limitations shouldnt really lecture others about it!

And what do you eat the rest of the time? :rolleyes:

750 calories a day

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