I've managed to cut calories to under 1000 but how do i add calories without gaining weight now?!?

Question

I manage to do about 1000 a day but then have days where i binge and go way over, but how can i adjust to go back to eating 1500 without putting weight on? Will my metabolism freak out?!

Answer 1

I have read a lot about diets and experienced some of them.
Hereafter the best advices to loose weight that I have put together myself and that I experience mostly every day. It’s more than a diet; it’s a manner to live and to appreciate tasty, healthy meals preferring quality to quantity.
This diet is long lasting, not annoying, not too difficult and without negative effects. It helps you as well to stabilize your weight than to loose weight, which is of course more difficult.

First your normal weight (not the ideal weight) following to the BMI.
Body-Mass-Index = weight
height x height
The Body-Mass-Index increases with the age.
19-24 years:19- 24/ 25-34 y: 20-25/ 35-44 y: 21-26/
45-54 years: 22-27/ 55-64 y: 23-28/ 64 years and more: 24-29
An example: You are 1,74 m tall (5’7”) and you weight 83 kg (183 lbs).
Ft = 30,48 cm/ Inch = 2,5 cm/ Pound = 453,59 g = 0,45359 kg.
BMI: 83/ 1,74x1,74 = 27,41 (183/ 5’7“ x 5’7“) = 27,41
It’s ok when you are 64 years old and more. It’s not ok from 19 to 54 years.
Ideal weight: 174 cm – 100 = 74 kg. It is tolerable if you have 10% more or less. More than 20% more or less is considered as problematical. But this scale is very rough and ignores important points as sexual characteristics, little stature.
1. Eat what is at your taste. Have excellent meals with several dishes.
2. Choose what is healthy for you.
3. Try to find out by what dishes you loose weight and by what dishes you put on. People are different in all, what makes put on weight the one, doesn’t necessarily put on flesh to the other one.
4. Don’t eat more than 1500 to 1800 kcal per day. It depends on your objective. If you want to loose about 5 kg (2,265 lbs) in a week, eat only 1200 calories.
An adult woman needs about 2100 kcal a day.
An adult man needs about 2600 kcal a day.
The best is to eat 5 small meals during well dispersed all over the day. But many people lack of opportunities to do so. And many others fail because they are hungry, as they eat less. So they haven’t often enough willpower not to stay to their calories-limit.
5. Try to get a table of food-calories by downloading it out of the Internet, for instance.
6. Fix a maximum of weight you will absolutely not pass beyond. Weigh you every day, the best in the morning. So you can easily find out what makes you gain weight or loose weight. It’s much easier than counting calories every day. And the result is the same if you weigh you every day.
7. Eat slowly and without stress. Let smelt tasty dishes on the tongue. Remember that you eat too much and without control under stress.
8. Do prefer good tasting dishes with few calories to dishes with many calories: fruit, vegetables, meager meats, meager fish, sweets with less sugar or sweetening or sugar mixed with sweetening 1:1. For myself I prefer good savory meats and fish and then I eat less or I eat several dishes.
9. Before breakfast, start with a cup of lukewarm water. Then eat what you like.
10. At least an hour before the main meal, start with fruits of the season. Or eat a salad an hour before the real meal. So you will be less hungry before the meal. It is much healthier than taking powders diluted in water to fill the stomach up.
By the way fruits taste better if you put half a strawberry on a slice of a nectarine on a slice of an apple. Half a berry of a grape on a slice of a pear on a slice of a peach. Or make a salad of fresh fruit.
An example of several dishes prepared very quickly: Fruit / smoked salmon with salad/ main dish/ dessert.
Prefer fresh fruit and fresh vegetables, or frozen vegetables, to fruits and vegetables in cans and glasses.
11. Drink at least 2 liters of beverage without calories. Water / Water with lemon juice and sweetening / Water with fresh fruit juice and sweetening / Water with a spoonful of apple vinegar, or apple cider vinegar.
After getting up drink a glass of warm water.
Drink sometimes water with a spoon of apple vinegar.
12. If you discover in the morning that you have put on weight stop eating the same day five hours before going to bed.
13. Don’t eat much at the evening. Or dishes with few calories: salads, soup of vegetables without butter or cream, prefer milk.
14. Prefer fat and oil made out of vegetables: olive oil and colza oil. Do not heat over 100°, then it is not healthy anymore. So it is not good for roasting, grilling...
Sunflower oil is good for everything, because healthy and neutral of taste.
Restrict fat made out of cream and extracted out of animal protein.
ATTENTION:
15. At evening before TV. When the gustatory papilla’s are excited by some food even of very few calories it becomes difficult to retain the desire to eat something else. The best is to drink water or tea (peppermint, chamomile etc.) without sugar or sweetening.
- If you can control your envy anymore, than do any activity, the best outside or wherever there is no food.
16. Mental preparation is important too: be proud that you eat now very controlled, that you prefer quality to quantity, that you make a healthy and a tasty choice of dishes, that you eat like people who know much about good food, that you are self-controlled and have got a strong will to do right, that you have made new experiences and that you know more than many others about good food, that you can share your experiences with others and give them good advices.
17. Mostly all diets have negative and only short effects.
18. Make sports, I mean physical exercises, which make you transpire.
Fact is, that if you are able to make sports during three hours a day, you loose mostly water, you build up muscles and you loose more or less 1000 gr. One hour of exercises is a loss of 300-400 gr.
Be aware, that the higher you’re overweight, the more you are able to loose weight at the beginning of the diet.
Don’t get disappointed when you find out that there are days you haven’t lost weight, despise of your efforts. It’s quite normal because men don’t make progress continuously but by steps. After some days of stagnation you will go on loosing weight at the condition that you won’t have lost your courage and your will.
19. Tips for dishes:
- Buy vanilla ice cream, mix fruit (strawberries or mangos or kiwis or.) in a mixer, freeze it, and mix the half frozen fruit with the ice cream 1:1. And you will get an ice-cream, better than those you can buy, with half fewer fat and half fewer sugar, and very easy to prepare.
- Mix fresh fruit; add low fat yogurt and sweetening. Mix all.
- Eat whole grain bread and rice. If you ask me on this side, I will give you an excellent recipe for whole grain bread easily to bake.
- Eat only chocolate of more than 75% cacao.

20. Last and efficient advice, try this:
Fix your objective and limit the amount of calories per day according to it. Don’t forget to take in consideration the 19 points described above.
Eat what you want in the morning and at noon.
But in the evening eat fruits, or vegetables, or vegetable soup, or salad, or meat, or fish.
Don’t eat at your last meal milk products, or sweets, or food made out of flour, or potatoes, or rice, or nuts, and I guess you will loose weight rapidly.

Don’t ever forget that people are different. No diet and no advices are necessarily adapted to you.
So every diet has to be adapted to the patient, and not the patient to the diet. That’s what I would like to write on the door of every school: The pedagogical principals must be adapted to the different pupils and not the pupils to the pedagogical principles.

Best wishes, good will and good results.

P. s: It exists a variation. Eat as described above the first day, but stop eating at 16 hours. The second day eat only vegetable soup. And go on like this as long as you want. This is also a perfectly healthy and efficient diet.

Answer 2

You already freaked your metabolism out by going down to 1000 calories.

The only way to get rich so it lasts is to get rich slowly.
The only way to lose weight and keep it off is to lose it slowly.

I would suggest trying Weight Watchers online for a few months and they can let you know exactly how much you should be eating. It's easy to track on line. My husband and I lost a lot of weight that way. I don't know how much you have to lose but this is a sensible way to do it. I loved it and there was NOTHING that was really off limits....I could eat anything as long as I counted the points and stayed within my daily totals. Very effective.

Answer 3

Hun, 1000 calories is very low unless you have been living a sedentary life, As long as you exercise and health healthy you shouldn't have any problems, just make sure to get exercise and you can go up to 1800 a day if you eat all healthy. At 1000 cal/ a day you have shut off your metabolism and turned into fat storage mode. Slowly bring up your intake to re-activate it. Also do some strength training.
- have an omelet for breakfast instead of sugar laden cereals
- fruit with a tbsp of light whipped cream instead of ice cream
- no potatoe chips, crackers, cookies, cakes
- if you have a baked potato only eat half of it(you don't want to eat starches)
- if you have rice with dinner eat only a half a cup of it
- try to eat whole wheat, instead of regular white bread
- eat more protein(it helps build muscles, which in turn help burn more calories)
- cut out all sodas from your diet(even diet sodas are bad for you...actually worse than regular soda), if you feel like a sweet drink, have an un-sweetened ice tea with 1 packet of sweet and low mixed in (the pre-sweetened drinks have way too much sugars in it)...Cristal light is also a good option
- if you have a bad chocolate tooth, only buy gourmet Belgian dark chocolate such as Amber Lyn Chocolates which you can buy at Costco or at www.amberlynchocolates.com believe me these are amazing chocolates that taste better than anything available at the grocery store checkout line...and cheaper....great for diabetics also
for more tips of living a healthy life without feeling like you are missing out(which ends up in binges)...msg me anytime...xoxo

Answer 4

In this situation I would just increase my daily physical activity levels to balance out the caloric increase. Make sure the foods are healthy, low carb, low sodium, low sugar, and low fat - nothing processed, no junk food. Drink green tea - one cup of green tea burns 50 calories because it speeds up your metabolism. Type "foods that speed up metabolism" into any search engine and you will find a whole list of foods that do that, so incorporate them into your diet. Also type in "negative calorie foods" - these are foods which take up more calories to be digested by your body than the calories that they contain. Onion and celery are two examples of that, for instance. So, with incorporating negative calorie foods, foods that speed up your metabilism, and physical activity, technically you would not gain any weight, and maybe even lose some more. Good luck.

Answer 5

Yep. It sucks. I was just there like four months ago. I started working out. I eat like 2300 a day now, i am loosing weight, gaining muscle, feel way better, never depressed or morbid, never concerned about food intake in fact i am full all the time, and i have way more energy.

1000 a day is tough, i did it for like 5 and a half months with bi weakly lapses and ended up just hating on myself and stuff, what a head game.

Good luck. My advice is make the exercise primary and diet secondary focus. it is sooooo much easier that way.

Cheers.

Answer 6

You do need to eat more. How about adding more fruits. They have a good amount of calories but are filled with healthy vitamins and antioxidants. Also, make your serving sizes a little bigger. Eat a little more of whatever you were eating. Cut yourself a little more meat, make your salad bigger, serve yourself a bigger heap of spaghetti. Do it gradually. You might gain a couple pounds, but if you exercise, your metabolism should keep off extra weight. I bet your metabolism is actually slow right now since you need food to regulate it. More food could actually be a good thing.
Good luck.

Answer 7

Hi! You can put more calories but you must burn them so you will not gain weight. Your metabolism will not freak out. Plus drink water. Great job on cutting the calories, its hard to do.

Answer 8

well the avreage living human need's atleast 1200 calories so if your diet is really under 1000 calories then you are not eating right so just eat all of your meals and youl be fine *FACT* a big mac from mcdonalds carries 2 times the calories the avrage human needs now what is stores inside the freaking tasty meat

Answer 9

Add healthier opinons gradualy, Like a tuna wrap, and get plenty of excersise @ least 30 min a day, go for a bike ride! Your weight is going to fluxuate, don't look at the scales just get out there, and have fun. Remember to reward yourself with a diet ice cream cone, or a slim fast meal bar. I'm struggling with it too, and Iv'e tried so many diets, this works! If you need support e-mail me, keep moving :-).

Answer 10

If you add healthy, balanced items back into your diet, your metabolism should be able to absorb it without you gaining weight. Just take it easy on the sugar, fats, and alcohol.

Best wishes.

Answer 11

Just remember you only need to eat more than 2500 calories to gain 1 pound. So just use your common sense when eating and exercise regularly.