Calorie controlled diets- does your body get used to it?

Pentacle Queen--




This statement is essentially correct, but vastly simplified.

The key word here is "major". A normal person's diet fluctuates around a median point. Suppose you need 2000 calories a day to maintain weight.

On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday you eat 2200 calories. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday you eat 1800 calories. On Sunday you eat 2000 calories.

Through the week you've neither gained nor lost.

Now if you go from 2000 calories a day to 1000 calories a day, your body will go into famine mode. Your metabolism will slow down and you'll burn fewer calories.

Now if you eat only 1750 calories a day for a week, your body thinks all is usual and you'll lose almost a half a pound. If you burn an extra 250 a day, you'll lose about a pound a week.

You didn't put your weight on by eating 3000 calories a day--it crept up on you. You have to lose it the way you gained it--slowly.

Thanks noddy-
In september I lost a lot of weight by dropping down from about 2000 to 1300 callories a day (roughly)
I put it all back on over a couple of months, and now I eat about 1600-1800 a day, but I'm trying to loose weight, so should I go back to eating 1300 a day?
I was also thinking about doing a bit more exercise and only having carbs for breakfast and lunch.

To maintain body weight the average person needs 15 calories a pound.

If you weigh 200 pounds, you need 3000 a day.

Each pound of fat has 3500 calories.

Therefore if your two hundred pound man cut back 250 calories and excercised and burned 250 calories at the end of a week he'd have lost a pound.

I'm not a great believer in eliminating carbs from the diet, but it works for some people.

In this case I think exercise seems to be the best way of lossing weight. I think that I will just try and eat healthilly, and do more exercise.
Thanks Noddy!

I have to disagree. Exercise is good and fine but without calorie control you might never lose much weight. My calorie controlled diet works a treat, and I love doing it, the web resources are useful and it's changed my eating a lot. I used to eat healthily, but too many calories. Now I don't.

Here is a diet plan I think I might try for a week to see what happens:
I think it combines the eating less callories diet, with eating less carbs and combination diet.

morning:
bannana, plus wheat cerial/ porridge with soya milk (I can't eat dairy)

lunch:
vegetable ommlet or
salad with chicken/fish

tea:
vegetables with chicken or fish.

snacks: fruit

that looks fine, but check the calories on that breakfast... the amount you eat is important. I eat more bread now I'm calorie controlled, but have substituted Nimble for other.. and medium eggs for large etc.
And there's nothing like Belgian Chocolate Options for a fairly low calorie treat when you just need that chocobuzz.