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Originally Posted by potter
Lots of bad advice in here. I saw a professional nutritionist.
A basic easy to follow rule, and a good diet to go on. 1,000 calories per day.
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I realize I'm by no means a professional nutritionist, but if 1,000 calories is under your RMR (which it probably is - you'd have to be pretty small for that to be your RMR), then you're not feeding your muscles enough energy and you'll lose muscle from what I recall. which is fine if you want to simply weigh less, but not if you want to be in shape. In some cases, it can get in the way due to your body feeling like it's starving due to not getting enough energy to run itself. I know for me, whenever I've ever tried a diet lower in calories than my RMR (around 1,800 - 2,000 cals if I recall correctly), I've had a much bigger tendency to go on a ridiculous binge at some point, and this was with very well-rounded diets too. Most people's problem is not that they should be eating 1,000 cals a day but that they shouldn't be eating 2,500+ cals every day, eating too few times per day with well over 500 cals per meal when 500 should be around the max they should have in 1 sitting and/or not exercising at all.