Diet Advice
 

54yr old male

I have been on a 500-600 calorie a day diet. I'm tracking my foods on FitDay and the mix proteins, vegetables and some fruit. My nutritional mix is 60g + protein, and keeping my fats and carbs under 20g each. I also workout daily.

My issue is in the course of two weeks I have only loss 3lbs in weight. I feel good and my cloths are fitting better but I feel I should be down more in weight then I am.

All comments and suggestions are welcome.

Rick

Rick, what are your stats? You should be dropping weight like nobody's business. I'm not a big believer in the old "starvation mode" business so (IMHO) it must be something else. How much water are you drinking? What's your workout? Give us some more details to work with.

Regards,
Michael

First I am taking HCG along with the low calorie high protine diet. I work out daily but it changes from hot yoga, cardio at the gym and kettle bell at home in between. Not much cheating and when I do it's maybe 3oz of vodka a week and no mixers. Oh, my starting wieght was 204 and I am currently at 199 with a goal of 175.

I am suprised as well which is why I posted the question.

Thanks,

Given the amount of exercise you're doing, 500-600 cals per day just sounds too low. I'm not big on the techy details, but your body may be stuck in "famine mode" where it's very reluctant to burn fat because it thinks it needs to hold on to it. MeoCompo says he's not big on that concept, but it makes sense to me.

As an example, my trainer did some calculations and reckoned that I need about 90g of protein per day, and I'm 41, male, 5'3 and 161 lb. So if I need 90, how much should an active 200lb man need? Not 60g, I'll wager.

As another example, the average healthy male is widely thought to need about 2000 calories per day. Your 600 calories is less than a third of that.

As perverse as it sounds, you could try eating more. I think you could even double your intake to 1200 calories without any adverse effects and that would still give you a substantial calorie deficit for your weight loss goals.

I stake no claim to any expertise, so feel free to ignore me. ;)

When it comes to how to losing weight and getting tight abdominals many people are not bothered about seeking a natural way to fat. Most will do anything to remove unsightly fat, from surgery to slimming pills.and its very harmful to their health so i prefered workout to do the thing.and i also suggest you to be stay away from this. and most thing the diet plan.you have to be carefull about your diet plan.you have to eat acoording to your diet plan.The word diet doesn't just refer to a reduction in eating. It also means adjusting your diet to include more of the things you need and less of the things you don't. A balanced diet is going to be key in order to losing stomach fat. Your body stores energy in two ways: glycogen and fat. Glycogen is stored in your muscles and liver.

All the HCG stuff aside, are you weighing and measuring your food very carefully?

I can tell you from my experience that you need to eat more.

I was working out 5-6 days hard and started adjusting my diet. Looked at what my basal needs were and then knocked off 500 cals. I dropped 15 pounds in a month. I had trouble believing it. I kept blaming it on water weight. I even had total strangers commenting on it at the gym. Fitday tells you how many calories you need a day to do what you are doing. You are not eating enough to get you through a day of laying in bed.

I think you need to eat more.
I am a female 127 pounds and can't survived on a 1200 cals a day ( I was too hungry). I don't know how could 200 pounds man would live only 600 cals. and work out.
You may find out that eat more and lose more.
good luck.
Mai

I agree with all that has been said. However I would be very accurate in weighing the food and count also the calories in the vodka and the minimal cheating you said you do. I've been on a 500-800-cal a day diet for 8 days and I've lost 5 lb (female, 178lb), so your 3lb in 2-wk sounds kinda low for 500-600 cal.
Definitely though, eat more, especially if you work out. I'd aim to a net 1000 cal (intake-workout).
Keep us posted!

You should probably jump on one of the HCG threads.

Wow....I don't know you or your situation, however, you should be eating a lot more calories than you are. Fitday offers recommendations on the amount of calories you need to eat daily to achieve your goal weight. Have you check it out? How are your energy levels?

there is your problem. You are not following the HGC diet to the "T". You should not be cheating at all, and follow the HCG diet. IMO nobody should do HCG if they don't plan on following it to the "T". I would get off the drops or shot, which ever you are doing, until you are ready to commit to it 110%.

Believe it or not, he's shouldn't be eating more calories with HCG. He should limit to 500 cals, and eat/drink ONLY what's allowed. I know plenty of people that did HCG with great success but they followed the plan and didn't deviate any.

That diet sounds extremely dubious to me, and a quick google found reputable articles confirming my suspicions. It's not done at all well in research, the FDA doesn't like it, and it can cause delightful problems such as gallstones. By the way, I'm 4'11, 135 lb and extremely sedentary, and I'm eating twice as many calories as you are. For someone of my height, that's a relatively conservative approach to calorie restriction. I've known a number of people try extreme dieting, and they tend to get one of the following results:

1) Weight loss followed by weight gain, typically more weight than they lost. My mother did this for her wedding, looked a bit slimmer on the day, and a lot heavier than before not long afterwards.

2) No appreciable weight loss but a severely messed up psyche and eating routine ("if I'm eating this little and not losing weight, I must be doing something wrong!"). This happened to me accidentally a few years back when I was too ill to cook, largely bedbound due to disability, and not at that time getting any help from social services. I ended up putting on weight despite not eating remotely enough, getting very ill indeed, and being told by my GP that it had messed up my metabolism.

3) Anorexia or bulumia. A friend's flatmate has been in and out of hospital for anorexia recently and we don't think she has long left to live. Another friend has had anorexia since childhood, he was hospitalised for it at the age of eight, and he is a very unwell chap.

I realise that you're very anxious to lose weight, but there are no quick fixes which really work long term, and there's a reason why diet forums are full of people aiming for 1-2lb per week chanting, "Slow and steady wins the race".

Best of luck, it sounds like a very frustrating situation.

HGC seems to be a hot button topic so I'm no longer discussing it.

Personally, I'll continue to eat 1500 to 1700 (mostly) good calories a day, do a modest amount of exercise and track it all on FitDay and keep losing weight (144 documented pounds off since June 19th) w/o any "diet". :D

Regards,
Michael

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To loose weight it is very much important to do exercise daily it will burn your fat from our body and bring your body in a shape. The best is to do yoga daily it will surely give you positive results.

i agree 500 calaries is way low

im 238 pounds and currently av 1600 calories a day - weighing everything very acuratley - running 30 minutes every morning 5 days and dumbells for 30 minutes 3 days weeks - (decided on low reps heavy weights as this seems to make me sweat more and works me harder)

i feel very week on 1600 cal and am unsure should i be having more god knows how you exercise the way you do on 500 cals