There are LOTS of people who eat like this.
I don't want to be a scaremonger either, however, I ended up in hospital during a diet myself. I was eating too little (although probably still well over 1000 cals), sleeping too little (about 5 hours a night), and working out too much (it's all relative, but I was also doing a job where I was on my feet all day). I caught every cold/flu going around that spring and eventually ended up with a pleural effusion (about a litre of infected fluid around one lung). The doctor involved said the three things (calories/sleep/exercise) were all contributors and said I was lucky it was so minor. Now, minor included 17 days in the hospital, and a chest tube for months.
But hey, I was on the treadmill up until the Friday before I went into the hospital.
After years, even decades of eating poorly we all seem to want to lose the weight as fast as possible. Hey, I get it, believe me. There's a very popular diet doctor (advertises on here) that had a patient die, and the around 500 calorie diet was deemed a contributing factor. The family settled out of court. I used to occasionally link to the article about it, but I noticed recently that CBC has reorganized their site and I can't find it. I suppose since the guy has more and more clinics that the lawyers convinced them to take it down.
Oh, and I just love this quote from the company:
Quote:
A spokesman for LighterLife said: "We were very sad to hear the news about Samantha. LighterLife is a clinically monitored programme and has helped 150,000 people lose weight effectively and safely during the past 12 years. When she died she was still clinically obese."
So, obviously she died because she was obese. Since we're all dropping like flies. Haven't they heard that they debunked that myth a while ago.