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I think the rationale has, until recently been that a person needed to eat as few calories as they could tolerate, in order to lose weight the fastest. If you were "really good" you could eat 500 - 800 calories. If you had to eat
more than 1200 calories, you were weak and lazy and worthless.
If someone were just starting out at running, we wouldn't start them with a
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marathon. Or start a first time hiker out on Mt Everest.
Whenever dealing with almost anything except weight loss, we expect people to start small and simple and work their way up to the more difficult, complicated components of the task. But with weight loss, we're supposed to start out at 1000 calories and a mile on the treadmill every day? And then we wonder why the failure rate for weight loss is so high.
Who would ever learn to play piano, if they had to start with Rachmaninoff's 3rd piano concerto, instead of Mary Had a Little Lamb?
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That is SOOOOO true! That's why I'm doing SBD part of the week, and cal counting/low fat and taking in about 1800-2000. It's all about learning my body and what works, and enjoying the food I eat!
