Eating 500 calories a day?
Ok eating 500 and burning 600 you'll lose at LEAST 1 pound a day. My guess is 7-10 pounds a week. the less you weigh the slower it will come off. So maybe 7-10 the first week then 5-8 then 4-7 so on and so fourth. once you hit 120 your weight will be much slower. why 120? becasue that's the correct weight for someone or your height. after that it will be 2 maybe 3 pounds a week even with a starvation diet. Oh and "i will eat healthy again once i lose 10 or 15 pounds and diet normally from then." Only if you plan on gaining most of it back.
I'm only consuming 500 calories a day?
Lately I haven't been eating much. I used to binge eat - A lot. It got to the stage that over Christmas I weighed 171 lbs. (78 kgs.) I was shocked n horrified.. So I decided to go on a diet. My Aunty had hit 105kgs, and went to see a dietitian, who put her on OptiSlim. I've been doing OptiSlim for a week now, and at the end of day four is like 2 kgs. I am extremely particular about this, I have three choc shakes - breakfast, lunch and dinner, each have 150 calories exacally, which equals to 450 calories and 2 carrots, which brings it to roughly 510 calories. Seeing as we are on break at the moment, I went to my friends place, where all I ate all day was a chip sammich (they had no healthy food.), day 2 there all I ate was a veggie delite Subway sub on whole grain, with only lettuce, tomato and cucumber on it, so I don't know how many calories was on that. Today I went home and mum forced me to eat two of the optifast bars, these have about 209 calories, bringing my calorie intake to roughly 450 for today.. But when I eat more than 2 mouth fils of anything it fills me up for the entire day..? I do next to no exercise because I'm a paranoid Schitzophrenia sufferer.. At eating say.. 550 calories a day how long will it take for me to drop roughly.. 20 kgs? (50lbs)? Idk.. Am I anorexic or something? I'm literally just not hungry at all..?
What happens if you only consume 500 calories a day for a month?
Why not eat healthy, balanced meals using only food from nature? Your body will find its natural weight. When you dramatically decrease food your body goes into emergency mode and holds onto everything because it thinks it’s being starved. This is the opposite approach you want to use. Be kind to your body, you only have one to serve you all your life.
What happens if you only eat 500 calories a day and your 14?
If you do it for too long, you die. You die a slow, excruciating death - while your family watches you waste away, with nothing they can do to help you.If you do it for a shorter time, you only damage yourself instead. You stop your body’s growth and maturation process along the way, so even if you mostly recover in all other ways, you’ll live the rest of your life with a body and brain that never reach their full potential. You’ll effectively have the physical and maybe also the intellectual/emotional maturity of a 14-year-old, forever.If you do it for a day, nothing much happens.
If I only eat 500 calories a day and loose 1000 calories a day how much will I loose in a week?
you will do damage to your metabolism so when you out the 1000 back your body will equate it with 2000 instead, it is never good to go this low in calories. Stick to 1500 minimum and 1200 with a doctors advice.
What if I only eat 300-500 calories a day a few months?
You won't make it for a few months. I have experience with this but nevermind that. The other answers are correct; they describe ketosis. But what you feel? The awful hunger is more than you might think. It's literally all-consuming, and it will keep you from sleeping until you get so tired you oversleep, like hibernate. That's what you will be craving because being awake is painful. 300-500? That's about what I had to go on. What little money I had would go to what I saw as the highest nutritive benefit per moneys: my daily diet would be something like 1 Powerbar and 1 nectarine. I decided that those senior drinks for people who are allergic to chewing, like Boost or Ensure, was better than a Powerbar, and the amount either fills you up is small enough that it doesn't matter.Later I could eat both lunch and dinner at the shelter. So we might be having 1000 calories a day, and I'm describing that, and that's twice as much as you are asking about! And the dinner wasn't guaranteed, so all this is in that calorie range.So, I described the gnawing hunger. After a while, your brain slows down. Your neurons don't fire as much as they used to, and you think "slower." you get confused and distracted and can't concentrate on one damn thing.You'll get constant headaches. When they are low-level it's tolerable, but they can be pounding.Your stomach will rebel. You won't be able to keep anything down. If you take pills, you'll puke them up. It's nausea, but not the type everyone thinks defines nausea--it's not queasiness. Instead, your gag reflex doesn't really stop. You will take a pill then feel that gag-reflex sensation for a few hours. You'll regurgitate your coffee. The pain in your stomach will "physicalize" and make you cry, so you'll become histrionic and cry a lot. Stomach hurt? Cry. Think of something sad? Cry. Get mad? Cry. Miss your bus? Cry. Can't do your homework? Cry.So yeah, you keep up like that, and your body will start to consume itself. That's why we have fat reserves, and you don't want to start dipping into those. I can only imagine the agony of people in famine.
500 calories a day will make me faint?
Go get something to eat while you read my answer. It's good for you, I promise. The reason you start fainting after a long period of not eating (I think less than 500 calories a day actually constitutes as 'starvation') is because your body has already used up most of its reserves and is now running on empty. What happens to a car when it's out of gas? It stops running, and the same thing happens to our bodies. Right now, your body is probably using up it's reserve fuel (any sort of fat reserve, breaking down muscle, etc) to try to keep up maintenence. Since you're getting so little intake though, that reserve is going to run out fast and eventually your body is going to start shutting down, just to keep you alive. If it's any incentive at all to eat, you're going to stunt your growth by eating so little. Your hair, teeth, and skin are going to take the brunt of it too. Breast development is going to go down, you'll likely lose your period (not something to be excited about, actually). I typed your numbers into a caloric calculator and for 'somewhat active' it says you need at least 1700 calories a day just to LIVE. (although I did bump your age to 18, so it'd go through) Have a look: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/calorie...
Is 500 calories a day good for a 14 year-old?
No. It really isn't. It's probably best to talk to a doctor, especially if you're trying to lose weight. But understand that calories are energy and your body needs them to survive. Given your height, your weight, and your age, you should consume 2136 calories per day to maintain your current weight. To lose weight, you need at least 1708. AT VERY MINIMUM, 1383. If you are trying to lose weight, then consider this: getting only 500 calories per day, especially if you're active, will have extremely negative effects on your body and put your body into starvation mode. In starvation mode, your body will store ALL of the calories that you do eat as fat so while you may lose weight, it's not going to last. Seriously, please read this: http://www.livestrong.com/article/247609-the-effects-of-a-500-calorie-per-day-diet/
Eat 500 calories, burn 500 calories?
So the net calorie per day would be 0. Technically if you only burned 500 and only ate 500, you wouldn't lose any weight. There has to be a DEFICIT (meaning negative) amount of calorie intake in order to lose weight. HOWEVER, you would lose more calories than 500 just by sitting around. Edit: If your BMR is about 1500 and you ate 500 calories a day, and burned 500 calories, your deficit would be 1500 calories per day. A pound of fat is approximately 3500 calories. So assuming you had -1500 calories per day, it would be 7*1500 = -10500 calories in a week. You will lose about 3 pounds per week.
If I ate an excess of 500 calories a day, would I continue to gain 1 pound per week for the rest of my life? Or are there other metabolic factors?
Several but none as important as your misunderstanding of nutrition.Almost every human eats substantially more than 500 calories per day. Indeed NEEDS to eat substantially more just to stay alive.Typically a human diet of an average person might consist of 2000 to 2500 calories per day. NEEDS to consist of that much to stay alive, support their daily activities and maintain their weight. Each person has their own number based on their size, age, gender, activity level etc.If an individual deviates from his number by 500 calories per day for a sequence of days, they will deviate from their current weight by about one pound per week. Increasing consumption causes increase in weight while decrease in consumption causes decrease in weight.Now to your question. Since increase in consumption causes increases in weight AND increases in weight causes a change in the special ‘balance’ number that each individual has, the increasing weight will force a a decline in the change effect of the extra consumption and the individual will eventually find the increased consumption no longer causes as much effect. Eventually the extra 500 calories no longer cause any change. The person has gotten fat and gets no fatter at that new balance number.In brief, You eat too much, you add weight which requires you to eat more to maintain that weight. If you continue to eat too much, you continue to add weight which requires you to eat more just to maintain and even more to add weight which in turn would add even more weight and around it goes with the typical person getting fatter with age. Adding about 1 pound for each decade of life.BTW, it doesn’t require an extra 500 calories per day to do this. Less than 100 calories per day will do a fine job.