>Weight loss is largely a matter of reducing calories and increasing activity. So if 500 fewer calories a day than you need to maintain is good, 2000 less is better, right? Not really. Because below a certain threshold, your body thinks you are one of those starving refugees on TV, and does a bunch of things that hurt your long-term weight loss.
>Read that again: starving is a bad way to lose weight.
>Why this is so:
>Your metabolism slows down. Your body will burn fewer calories to maintain itself, and you will feel awful. This is bad for weight loss because as soon as you quit starving yourself, you'll gain weight fast because your metabolism has bottomed out. >You will tend to lose muscle more than fat. Your body will naturally try to conserve fat and cannibalize muscle if it thinks it is outright starving. This is bad because your real goal is FAT loss, not weight loss. This is how you have people who lose 100 pounds and reach their "ideal" weight, but still look amazingly flabby. Also, losing muscle slows your metabolism down even further, amplifying the giant horrible rebound effect once you quit starving yourself. >Your life will be a living hell. You'll eventually feel horrible, the diet will fail, and you'll binge eat and regain everything you lost, plus interest.
I would eat a minimal amount if I could, but even then, I don't know what to eat to get the best combination of nutrients.
Jason Flores
there's gotta be a better way than literally throwing good food away. what a shamefully wasteful option. I hope you are haunted by the reproachful ghosts of your depression-era ancestors.
James Cook
>Is there anywhere I can order readymade salads/vegetables? Absolutely. There's an entire industry based around this shit to take advantage of rich people trying to eat healthy. The food court at Whole Foods is loaded with shit like kale and ancient grain salads. So do other upscale supermarkets, and some restaurants. Should be easy to find if you live in or near a wealthy neighborhood. But you will pay a very high premium for being too lazy to make this stuff yourself.
Ayden Barnes
Okay I guess I'm lazy, but I don't want to fuck it up by making it myself.
Isaiah White
that's just something fat people made up to justify not dieting
it does happen, but only when you're literally starving
Lincoln Murphy
That doesn't mean you'll gain weight, Idiot. It means that if you go on a crash diet then go back to eating the same way you were before you can gain even more weight. If you feel satisfied on 1500 calories or whatever just keep eating 1500 calories forever.
Hudson Baker
You can't hit 2000 calories a day? Jesus.
I'm underweight and struggle to eat over 1500 a day.
Fat ass.
Jayden Martinez
>apparently not eating enough calories makes you gain weight the metabolism meme is not real the less calories you eat the more weight you lose
Colton Sullivan
nowhere in there does it say that not eating enough makes you directly gain weight.
the important things to take away from that are: if you're eating so little that you feel crappy, tired, and sick, then you need to eat more. if you still want to lose weight, then you have to find a happy medium where you're eating enough not to go into starvation mode, but still keeping it low enough that you're losing weight.
it is true that if you don't eat enough, you'll stop losing weight, and if you start to eat more, you may gain back some. but that is not the same as gaining weight by not eating enough.
