Are people really eating this little?

[ABugWife]

Thread after thread after thread I see on here of people posting tiny amounts of food that they eat, or fasting most of the day. 1200 calories, 800 calories, bananas are bad for you, don't eat any carbs, no sugar ever, it goes on and on.

I am short 5'2 and fairly light at the top end of 8 stone so by these threads I should be eating barley anything but I eat every two hours pretty much, I snack all the time, I eat cheese and crisps and sweeties and cakes, sometimes I gain weight, sometimes I lose weight but it's quite steady between 8st 10 and 8st 13

I really find it hard to believe that people are eating such tiny amounts of food and not losing weight.

Does everyone here have a massive drink problem they don't include in their calories or are people lying perfectly still in bed all day long.

Where are the people that eat a normal, mostly healthy but sometimes shit diet.

Brilliant. Please point me to the research where 2 bowls of vegetables a day is healthy eating. Jesus Christ this thread. Some of you should be ashamed of yourselves.

I will stand by the fact that eating 2 bowls of vegetables a day is a faddy diet and it’s very unhealthy.

Oh and judging by your posts you are a prime example that it didn’t work. As you couldn’t stick to it and put the weight back on. Therefore it’s not sustainable is it? Or a long term solution. Back to yo yo dieting which is not good for us…

But, but,. but Tom Cruise only eat 1200 cals 😂
Sorry @Delatron people like calorie counting so much that they will do it 126 times in their lifetime.

I get where you are coming from, but many people don't want to eat healthily, they are only concerned about weight. Society has taught them this and it will not be easy to change.

Thank you for trying. As another post menopausal lady who has had to put a bit of effort into it (thank you allergies).

Yeah you are right!

It will take a big shift in thinking for people to stop being so obsessed by calories. For what it’s worth I couldn’t tell you how many calories are in anything. I can tell you how much protein there is in many things as I’m
making sure I get enough.

I give up. But my tip is fuel the body with healthy food, move lots. Think fuelling rather than restriction. Find a way of healthy eating that works for you and that is sustainable long term.

Why are you blathering on about 2 bowls of vegetables? Maybe you should be talking to a whoever posted that's what they live on?

It was me that said that…

Give it a rest. You’re a prime example that faddy diets and huge calorie restrictions don’t work long term. As you didn’t stick to it and you put the weight back on.

But you carry on..

We did reply to the 2 bowls of vegetable poster and explained why that wasn’t healthy and was a faddy diet and she seemed to understand why then you @chaosmaker decided to chip in in support of 800 calorie diets.

800 calories?!

I can’t even imagine having so little food. How would you function on that? I can’t imagine running around after my children, doing housework and doing my job on only 800 calories?

I’d be in a heap.

At the minute I’m sticking to 1200 calories and I’m only doing ok on that because I’m off work at the moment so my body isn’t having to use much energy.

As well as restricting my calorie intake to 1200 (or as close to as a I can) I do an hours brisk walk every day and a 40 minute work-out at home, and together this seems to be doing the job.

As I said before - read the science it's based on the Newcastle diet by Prof Roy Taylor which was created to reverse type 2 diabetes. Which itself was based on the diet given after bariatric surgery. The Blood Sugar Diet has the calories upped to 800 a day. It came out after the Fast 800.

@Delatron as I said it is medical and supersedes all the old dietary advice like low fat etc.

Yes the Newcastle diet has been the basis of many of the medical approaches that people on MN just wouldnt understand (and argue against)

Go for it.

Like I said - and you’ve proved. Diets don’t work.

I’ve had 800 calories by about 11am. Healthy eating, lots of protein, no restrictions.

My weight doesn’t vary by a couple of pounds. No yo yo dieting.

@bellac11 I can see that, repeatedly!