400 calorie in take?

Question

if im eating 374 claories a day because i want to losw weight. how much do you think its possible to lose in 2 months

Answer 1

you will kill your self

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Answer 2

Never go below 1200 calories a day. The net results of 400 kcals per day is rebound weight loss as your body goes into starvation mode.

It is tempting to think that you can solve a problem quick and easy by severe limitations. Your body is smarter than you. In a matter of days, it will cut down your metabolism so that you can survive on much less food. That means you will lose much less weight than you think you will be. The majority of weight loss will be water.

As soon as you do eat again, you will put on weight. It will be in the form of fat. Muscle in your body uses fat, while fat survives on nothing. The net result: you will get fat faster. And you will have more trouble losing in the future.

Try eating 1100 to 1200 a day. Make it high protein, no processed foods. Drink lots of water and get at least 30 minutes of exercise a day. You will get thin. And in 2 months you can expect about 15 lbs of weight loss. Maybe more, depending on your age and activity level.

Be smart. Weight loss isn't easy. IF it was, everyone would be thin. Currently 30% of Americans are overweight. Break the bad habits and take care of yourself in the long run.

Answer 3

That's way too low, even for a Very Low Calorie Diet (or VLCD). It's dangerous too. Your body couldn't possibly be receiving it's daily nutrition. Keep this up and you'll be very very sick. If you want to go on a super low calorie diet in a healthy way try the Cambridge Diet or one of those type diets. They cost very little and have you eating under 500 calories a day but with 100% of your daily nutrition included so you lose weight, protect your lean muscle mass and stay healthy.

Answer 4

Not only will that mess up your metabolism, that's the kind of diet tha can lead to an eating disorder, buddy.

It isn't recommended to go below 1200 calories a day for weight loss. Get off your lazy bum and excersize a bit. Your body needs nutrients though- don't deprive it of a healthy amount of food.

Answer 5

Your metabolism will slow down when you eat that little. So even if you lose weight you will gain it back fast and more. The jiggly kind since you will lose muscle as well as fat. Just eat 1200ish calories a day (lots of lean protein) and exercise. Not only will you lose weight but it will stay off.

Answer 6

Well seeing as you'll be dead in two months, maybe you should eat about 1200 and just work out more. Your body will go into starvation mode and you won't lose fat. Instead, you'll start losing muscle and other vital tissues and your body will begin to shut down.

Answer 7

hon, dont do it! whether you know it or not, thats anorexia. anorexia isnt when you completely stop eating like some people think. daily intake for a teen girl should be about 2300 calories or something! if you keep doing this, you'll be seriously ill! dont fall for what society tells you to do! its gonna hurt you! you can overcome it.

god bless!

Answer 8

need more info but the standard caloric intake recommendation is 2000 calories it depends on more than just the calories the fat sugar carbs and all that figures in with it if you don't eat enough your body will store fat and make it harder for you to loose.

Answer 9

you should increase your calories to like 1000 but just spread them out over the day...use meal replacement bars. My weight just started to fall off!

Answer 10

What you are suggesting isn't a healthy way to lose weight. Here are some aggressive but realistic suggestions.

On Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common question amounts to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?" I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get "It works!" emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)... so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.

Don't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful.

There is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below.

The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode.

Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.

To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.

For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet.

Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.

There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.

If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.


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