Well I ain't planning on doing this but say in a day you don't eat much, just like 200 calories. Will that increase your weight loss? Just wondering.

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Not if the next day you end up overeating because you're so hungry from the 200. And if sustained, it wont just be fat you loose, it'll be muscle, and anything your body can break down for food.

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Michelle

"Some people will dream of success... Others will wake up and work hard." -Anon

There is heaps of info here and online about the potential dangers of eating such a low calorie diet. Like a car your body needs fuel to perform, this includes losing weight. 200 calories a day is starvation, plain and simple, and if done long enough you will do very serious damage to yourself and require professional treatment and/or hospitalization.

Many people out there sadly think that starving their bodies means they will burn fat faster. In fact the opposite is true. Once the body begins starving it will slow down the fat burning process or stop it completely in order to keep you alive longer. Instead you begin burning muscle. Then once the hunger kicks in you will end up overeating and gaining back all the weight you lost, plus more. The truly sad part is the weight you put back on is fat, the weight you lost would likely be muscle.

All in all, as has been said so many times, starvation is not the key to success in weight loss. A healthy diet and exercise is the only way to achieve long term success. 200 calories a day is a fools game which not only leads to failure, but could also cost you big bucks in medical treatment later, if not your life.

As a person who has known people personally who havebeen hositalized due to stupidly low calorie diets, believe me, it isn't worth it. Ever.

That aside however, if you are talking doing it one day a week or something like that, I suppose there are many people in the world who also believe fasting one day a week is very healthy for you and does not do permanent damage. I agree with this to a degree. The only problem I see with the "every now and then" 200 calorie a day approach is kind of like drinking. 1 drink every now and then easily turns into more now and less then. If you believe the 1 day a week of fasting (or 200 calories) is helping, it may become too easy to turn that into 2 days, 3 days, then ahh what the hell, all week..... Thats when the trouble starts. For the record, most people fasting 1 day a week are doing so for religious or faith related reasons, not weight loss. Once again the slow and steady method of weight loss is the clear winner. Everytime.

sirant

Thank you for the information. I was just wondering because I didn't eat much today maybe like 200-300 calories becuase i haven't been home all day and havent had time to make some dinner.

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Having an off day every now and then ceratinly wont throw you into metabolic starvation mode or anything like that. When I am sick I find I can barely eat at all. The same holds true for those 3000-4000 calorie days when you go overboard and over eat. Neither is the end of the world and neither will do horrific permanent damage.

However, if you are finding that you are having quite a few busy days where you aren't home and are running low on eating and prep time, it may be worthwhile to do a little advance prep so you have a back up plan. That way on those busy days you aren't uncomfortable from hunger and end up stuffing yourself in a 24 hour McD's or some other fast food joint. Once again, that in itself wouldnt be the end of the world, but best to avoid those situations in the long run.

sirant

Okay, Thank you for your information.

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