barelynangel
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bestheadyet, if you want to lose 100 lbs, then you need to eat MORE, not less. There is a concept your body does that i am sure you have heard of its called starvation mode. Your body will hang on to weight and not let it go if you get into that concept. It needs food, protein, fat, carbs and nutrients. And what many people don't know is it takes fat intake to burn fat already in your body. BUt GOOD fat not crap fat. Good fats like olive oil, nuts, avacado etc.
You are not going to stick with losing weight if you are 1) hungry, 2) your body feels like shit because you aren't eating, 3) if you don't have enough energy to exercise.
Your body also will be burning muscle, not fat if you maintain such a low calorie intake especially with 100 lbs to lose. And you want to KEEP muscle and add more because muscle is what burns calories even when you are at rest, fat does not. So if your body is eating muscle that's less muscle you have to burn fat and well it will take more effort to lose fat.
You don't HAVE to starve yourself to lose that weight, you want to eat so you have energy to burn even MORE calories.
Just out of curiosity, if you don't mind, what ARE you eating? 100 lbs may seem like a lot, but think of it this way, at 4 lbs a week and that's if your body maintains doing that and it won't because of starvation mode, it will take you minimum 25 weeks to lose that 6 months and once you start eating regularly again no matter WHAT you eat, your body will start putting the weight back on. Can you really take being hungry for 6 months, weak of energy, and simply not enjoying yourself because you are hungry for 6 months, a 1/2 plus more of a year?? grins, ya know even sex will be hard cause you won't have any energy to enjoy it, neither will playing because you will be weak.
What you may want to do is train your body to lose the weight and crave the good food, not just crave and beg for food in general.
A friend of mine told me some really good advice once -- since 1 gram of fat is the equivalent of 9 calories, he said to just make sure you burn your fat calories in exercise a day. While its an odd way of looking at it lol it does work when you are gasping wanting to quit and say well hell i just burned another gram of fat!!
You will do what you feel is best for you, and i don't say this often to people -- but i am worried about you. if i can be of any help feel free to message me because i think you will have a discouraging time if you continue with such a low calorie intake.
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< Message edited by barelynangel -- 4/24/2010 8:30:49 PM >
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