Diet...

[yessy21]

I started this Diet that my boyfriends aunt gave me. shes a dietitian. its an 800 calorie diet. ive been doing it for 4 weeks 15 sit ups daily. my goal is to loose 60 pounds. ive already lost 7.... but here comes the problem.

after loosing the 7 pounds... the first two weeks... i went back the third week to weight myself again and now im back up 3 pounds and i havent moved since. without even cheating on my dieta. I KNOW RIGHT! she says i cant work out.. im taking my vitamins like she tells me. she says that it takes time. Its a fairly easy diet. but why the standstill? is it my body? and another thing is i get full off of two bites of food.

example of my daily routine:

 

7:30am 2 melva toasts 1 glass of water, Vitamins.

10:30 am 1 orange, 5 strawberries, 1 apple

1:00pm 3.5 ounces of chicken, or 1 tilapia/ (i can have veggies, i just choose not too)

3:30pm 1 orange, 5 strawberries, 1 apple

6:00 pm chicken or tilapia.

[setsenia]

I think the reason the weight is coming back so easily is that 800 calories I think would be considered crash dieting. You need to be able to stick to a more realistic diet. Chicken or fish twice a day and just fruit the rest? Try it this way: figure out the calories you need to consume by determining how many calories to consume to reach your ideal weight, how many calories you need to reduce weight and so on. My recommendation is -500 calories per day. For every 3500 calories, you've lost a pound. Estimate how many calories you consumed on average before your diet. The secret to long term weight loss is sticking to a diet you can maintain throughout life. Unless you can eat that same food the rest of your life, it's not going to stay off. Say I have a 2000 calorie diet. I want to lose 20 pounds, so I cut my calories down to 1500, which is about a pound per week. It doesn't seem like a lot, but it's more likely to stay off in the long run.

 

This should help:

 

http://weightloss.about.com/od/eatsmart/a/blcalintake.htm

[FitChick]

That type of diet is one you should only stay on for a week because it is too extreme. I agree with the previous poster that you need to eat more. Your body thinks it is starving to death, which in a sense it is, so it is hanging onto every ounce of fat you have. At some point you will start bingeing and regain even more weight.

 

If you eat more the weight will come off. Stay away from bread, grains, pasta and sweets and add more protein -- eggs, meat, chicken, fish -- and as many vegetables as you like. Add an ounce of cheese or small handful of nuts when you have fruit as a snack. Drink lots of herbal teas if you like them. A cup of tea or coffee in the morning won't hurt either.

[Exit]

Weight can fluctuate 3-5lbs a day just depending on water intake, sodium, hormones, etc.

 

I'm not gonna get into a debate in this thread but I actually don't go along with the whole crash-dieting-is-dangerous thing, I don't think severe calorie restrictions are always a bad idea. By the way people talk about "Starvation mode" and all those myths you would think people who got locked up in concentration/labor camps would have been fat blobs instead of turning into skeletons because they were so malnourished and "their body knew it was in a crisis and started holding onto fat!" Body fat is where excess caloric energy is stored. We've all known that for years. It's there so when you are lacking food/caloric intake, your body has some source of energy. Where all this paranoia started about cutting your calories = your body is going to hang on to, or create even more fat, I have no idea.

 

15 situps isn't much of a workout, start going for walks if you can or follow a simple workout video. Don't have to do anything too extreme when your calories are that low, but 15 situps is hardly exercise. 15 body weight squats would be more of a workout than laying on the floor to do 15 core exercises.

 

If she's a dietician you should try to get some answers from her.

[FitChick]

You seemed to have missed the part about this dietician being in ESTONIA. Not exactly a hotbed of up to the minute nutritional and medical information.