can you gain weight on 300kcal perday?

Question

If i am only eating a very small amount and someday nothing is it possible my metabolism slow down so much that with only 300 kcal in a day i could gain weight.. would i be better off having nothing ( if having more isn't in the equation)?

Answer 1

300 calories a day is next to nothing. It may keep you alive another day, but that's not a guarantee. My sister was eating about 200 calories a day before her heart finally gave out and she died. (She was anorexic.) Your body needs more than 300 calories a day just to operate your vital organs.

If you are in this same boat as my sister, then you need serious help. I agree with the person who said increase your food intake incrementally so you don't shock your system. I don't know if 15 calories a day is the right number. TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR! You need professional help right now.

The thing is that even as you gain weight, the issues that got you into this situation remain unless you deal with them properly. Your chances of relapse are pretty high. So please seek professional help. In the meantime, increase your food intake slowly. But by all means INCREASE IT!

I'm proud of you for taking this first step. Good luck to you in your journey and God bless.

Answer 2

Miss. I do hope you realize what youre doing is dangerous. I think you can see your school doctor for advise. Starvation is a bad idea. 300 kcal would be a better target to how much you should deduct from your energy totals. You can eat that less an amount each day. Or work it off via exercise. Another idea would be to do pilates, alexander technique and the like. This work out aside from burning calories have an added benefit of reshaping your body. So you might not be losing weight but you are looking better. Anyway most important would be to go see a medical professional, a dietician or a doctor.

Answer 3

I made the mistatke of eaating a small candy every hour all day and lost ten pounds! I was thrilled but the next day I went to school without breakfast and fainted while waiting for the school bell. They force fed me eggs in the nurses office which I HATE, but worse is I was on the floor for like 30mins without any one really knowing why (they thought I "fell asleep") PS I messed up my system by not eating enough and gained weight later.

Your body is very good at storing energy, that is what it is made to do. If you continue to "starve" as you're body thinks it is, it doesn't just go 'ok let me eat the fat.'I

nstead of losing fat you'll lose muscle, then it will appear to you on the scale that you have lost weight because muscle weights more, but you'll be less toned and more jiggly and feel more fat.

Believe it or not you need to EAT MORE not just anything mind you (not junk food) otherwise you stay in starvation mode and gain MORE weight.

Wrestlers trick there body very well by eating little bits over hours at a time, they do lose weight rapidly (yes I know they exercise but they too Plataea and their bodies are begging to be feed so if they was to drop weight for the scale they have to trick it)

If you insist on eating so little you need to eat more frequently ie spread it out. But the problem is you can live like that forever and quickly if you change your eating habits you'll quickly gain fat (not muscle) and be worse off.

So eat more but don't eat it all at once, when you eat is important as what you eat. You can choose what works for you some go by the 3 hour diet but if you want to spread it out More you can make it 1-2 hours (presuming you're not stuffing yourself each time)

Of course you need 20-30 minutes of exercise a day.

OH AND SLEEP yes you will get fat if you don't sleep enough,like 8 hours for some people more.

Stress + no sleep =FAT

Answer 4

Well i hope you realize that 300 kcal is the same as 300 Calories (notice the uppercase C). And no, you can't gain weight on 300 Calories. In fact, you'd probably die of starvation within a week and a half.

Answer 5

This is wrong you can't do it. You will not lose weight your body will starve and eat your muscles. You need to find a healthy balance of exercise and food energy in vs energy out. This is how you become anorexic and that's ugly!

If you want to do this it is for life so you need to totally change your way of eating and exercising. This is not a diet rather than a healthy eating plan for life. So no more talking diet cause it means time limit.

Here are the golden rules:
Initially cut down to 1200 calories women & 1500 men
Exercise 6 times per week for 1 hours a day. Do three weight sessions and three cardio sessions. No gym involved.
Don't eat carbs after 4pm, never eat carbs within 2 hours of exercise or within 1 hour of exercise.
Drink 3 litres of water per day. You can have a green tea at the end of the day.
Limit your fruit in take to 2 pieces per day.
Never eat dinner after 6pm.
Adopt of low GI eating plan this is sustainable for life!
Make low fat dairy choices
All food choices need to be low fat
Don't make food a big deal and don't socialise using food

Follow this menu plan as a suggestion:
Breakfast 7am - 1 cup hot water w lemon
20 minutes later have a bowel of oats w water (no honey) OR
fruit salad w low GI soy yogurt
Snack 10am - pear or apple (both low GI)
Lunch 12.30pm - multigrain sandwich w 50g tuna/lean meat & salad (no butter)
Snack 3pm - low GI yogurt OR skim berry smoothie (no honey or banana) plenty of ice, 1/2 cup skim milk & 1/4 cup yogurt
Dinner 5.30pm - 120g-150g grilled lean meat/fish/prawns/tofu patties (not fried) w spinach salad & mixed vegies (no whites, carbs) OR 3 egg white/soy omlette with ham, cheese and tomato
Snack - 1 scoop of low cal low fat ice cream (if hungry)

Exercise is must be intense. Refer to www.bodybuilding.com for your weights routine. Never do weights two consecutive days have a cardio day in between.

Cardio needs to include running, go hard up stair wells and cycling. You get the most benefits from exercise when your body is totally fatigued and this is when you see changes.

To maintain you can increase calories to 1500 women & 1800 men and reduce exercise sessions to 3-4 times per week. If weight creeps up again due to holiday period etc.. go back to 1200 cal and 6 sessions again.

Good luck it worked for me it can work for anyone.

Answer 6

Yes.. your metabolism has slowed down.. thats why starvation diets don't work,

Start eating more, but add about 15 calories a day. i.e. 300/315/330/345

You don't want to shock your system. consult a doctor, as shocking the system may lead to heart failure.