3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community - What do you think of this advice?

I second if you can lose on 1,400, why go through the extra effort? I only stay around 1200 because I wasn't losing on more. It depends... I think you kinda can get a pretty good diet on 1000-1200. I see some diet plans that include alot of junk, like low cal jellos, bread, pretzels..where if they were cut out of the diet it would easily drop below 1200.

People tend to drop calories so low as a quick fix and then go back to their old eating habits, but I think if you continue calorie counting and slowly raise back to maintenance then you won't regain.

When going that low you want to make sure you are eating a good amount of protein (it's supposed to be 1gram for each pound of lean body mass), vegetables and some healthy fats.

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Originally Posted by Rosinante (Post 3535171)

While not advocating it, I don't have any medical expertise, "in the olden days", when I first lost a lot of weight, 1,000 calorie diets were just the norm. They were advocated by slimming clubs, they were just what we did.
I lost about 60lbs, and I don't remember having great long stalls in it. And the fact that I've still got 2lbs to go this year to even get to that startweight isn't the fault of that 30 year-old diet, it's the fault of having eaten like a famished garbage-disposal since.

I don't consider 1,000 calories to be vlcd; on the other hand, if I can lose at a goodly rate on 1,400, why put myself to the extra effort?

I remember when 1,000 calories was the norm. I'd read a magazine and it would say not to go below 1,000! It seems to have changed to 1200 the last 10-15 or so years.