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Calorie Help, Please
by Jamie1985, Mar 25, 2008 07:31PM
Hello!
I posted something yesterday on another forum here, but found this today which more closely represents what I'm trying to do.
I'm a 22 year old male, about 6'1 and I weigh approximately 280lbs. I've been over weight all my life and I've tried several different dieting tactics, but nothing really had much of an effect on me. At this point, I'm extremely determined to fix me and I've already begun, but I could really use some assistance from people that have knowledge and experience in this area.
My goal is 500 calories a day. I have the resolve the maintain this sort of thing, but where I need help is types of foods and pacing for a diet such as this. As everyone knows, it's really easy to blow 500 on a single meal. 1000 wouldn't be any sort of stretch. I'm an extremely picky eater, so this kind of complicates things for me. With each meal, I take a multivitamin to compensate for anything I'm not getting from the food.
1. I'm trying to maintain a 500 calorie diet. Can I reduce this further without any sort of health risk? What's the lowest I can drop this and not literally die of starvation?
2. So long as I maintain a 500 calorie daily diet, is it better to spread this total amount over 3 meals or 3 meals and 2 snacks? My goal is to lose weight and nothing else matters, so with that in mind what's my best option? If I can successfully do away with the snacks entirely, I'd prefer that, but what kind of effect would this have on my metabolism?
3. Is it possible to survive off nutrition bars? Things such as PowerBars or Cliff Bars. Eating one such bar for breakfast, lunch and dinner, would this be sufficient daily food consumption?
4. I get poor exercise. The nature of my job demands that I sit in front of a computer for massive amounts of time. I don't have the self esteem to join a gym or run around the block. I don't have the funding immediately to purchase an exercise machine. If I could get myself down to a point where I'm happy (not perfect), I'd be okay with a gym. Is it even possible to lose weight at a noticeable pace without exercise?
5. I only drink about 48-72 ounces of water a day. I'm not a thirsty person. Do I need to drink more? How much will this help me lose weight?
I understand that a lot of diets are built around bypassing the nagging hunger people face when reducing the amount of food they eat. For example, rewarding literal brownie points for doing well, etc. Assume that I don't have such a hunger. To me, losing weight is really the only objective and if that means not eating at all, well, I'm almost at that point.
I really do appreciate any advice or insight that can be given.
I posted something yesterday on another forum here, but found this today which more closely represents what I'm trying to do.
I'm a 22 year old male, about 6'1 and I weigh approximately 280lbs. I've been over weight all my life and I've tried several different dieting tactics, but nothing really had much of an effect on me. At this point, I'm extremely determined to fix me and I've already begun, but I could really use some assistance from people that have knowledge and experience in this area.
My goal is 500 calories a day. I have the resolve the maintain this sort of thing, but where I need help is types of foods and pacing for a diet such as this. As everyone knows, it's really easy to blow 500 on a single meal. 1000 wouldn't be any sort of stretch. I'm an extremely picky eater, so this kind of complicates things for me. With each meal, I take a multivitamin to compensate for anything I'm not getting from the food.
1. I'm trying to maintain a 500 calorie diet. Can I reduce this further without any sort of health risk? What's the lowest I can drop this and not literally die of starvation?
2. So long as I maintain a 500 calorie daily diet, is it better to spread this total amount over 3 meals or 3 meals and 2 snacks? My goal is to lose weight and nothing else matters, so with that in mind what's my best option? If I can successfully do away with the snacks entirely, I'd prefer that, but what kind of effect would this have on my metabolism?
3. Is it possible to survive off nutrition bars? Things such as PowerBars or Cliff Bars. Eating one such bar for breakfast, lunch and dinner, would this be sufficient daily food consumption?
4. I get poor exercise. The nature of my job demands that I sit in front of a computer for massive amounts of time. I don't have the self esteem to join a gym or run around the block. I don't have the funding immediately to purchase an exercise machine. If I could get myself down to a point where I'm happy (not perfect), I'd be okay with a gym. Is it even possible to lose weight at a noticeable pace without exercise?
5. I only drink about 48-72 ounces of water a day. I'm not a thirsty person. Do I need to drink more? How much will this help me lose weight?
I understand that a lot of diets are built around bypassing the nagging hunger people face when reducing the amount of food they eat. For example, rewarding literal brownie points for doing well, etc. Assume that I don't have such a hunger. To me, losing weight is really the only objective and if that means not eating at all, well, I'm almost at that point.
I really do appreciate any advice or insight that can be given.
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It is not possible to survive for long on the bars/supplements that you mention. Multivitamins are not meal replacements, either.
I'm sorry I can't give you any advice beyond a caution that what you are proposing could be extremely damaging to your health, and you won't be able to live on 500 cals/day for long anyway.
If you try a reasonable diet approach, you will suceed if you follow it. There are many very affordable, easy to follow weight loss approaches available. Do not embark on the plan you are considering. Its foolish and dangerous.