Can someone tell me if this is sustainable?

[Osmosis]

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[Breaking Limitations]

In the past five weeks, I've really been on my grind. I've only been doing cardio but i've been getting some relatively fast results. I started off running the treadmill daily, about three miles a day (sometimes more, sometimes less) but the last two weeks I've been walking/running four-five miles at a walking trail in my park, and I started playing basketball again. Since I started exercising I've lost ten pounds and I've adjusted quite well to this lifestyle. I actually look forward to running as a stress reliever.

My issue is my diet. For some reason, my metabolism works in a way where I can't completely give up junk food but I can live off a very low calorie day. I haven't eaten more than 1,300 calories a day since I started exercising, and I have plenty of sub 1000 calorie day (some days as low as 500). The problem is I still eat Mcdonalds, Pizza, Chick-Fil-A, etc. Just yesterday I ate one meal the entire day, it was a Mcdonalds meal that tallied at 870 calories. Is this type of diet sustainable and is it even effective?

No a male shouldn't drop his calories so low you should google the effects a low calorie diet has long term it is not healthy at all

 

[Osmosis]

No a male shouldn't drop his calories so low you should google the effects a low calorie diet has long term it is not healthy at all

How many calories per day do you recommend? Is 1500 healthy or should I go up to 2000?

 

[HHR]

In the past five weeks, I've really been on my grind. I've only been doing cardio but i've been getting some relatively fast results. I started off running the treadmill daily, about three miles a day (sometimes more, sometimes less) but the last two weeks I've been walking/running four-five miles at a walking trail in my park, and I started playing basketball again. Since I started exercising I've lost ten pounds and I've adjusted quite well to this lifestyle. I actually look forward to running as a stress reliever.

My issue is my diet. For some reason, my metabolism works in a way where I can't completely give up junk food but I can live off a very low calorie day. I haven't eaten more than 1,300 calories a day since I started exercising, and I have plenty of sub 1000 calorie day (some days as low as 500). The problem is I still eat Mcdonalds, Pizza, Chick-Fil-A, etc. Just yesterday I ate one meal the entire day, it was a Mcdonalds meal that tallied at 870 calories. Is this type of diet sustainable and is it even effective?

 

[Osmosis]

lol I know that sounds completely idiotic. Let me rephrase that, I haven't given up junk food (I don't eat it on a daily basis but once or twice a week, i just have occasional cravings) but I haven't been eating too many calories per day.

 

[HHR]

lol I know that sounds completely idiotic. Let me rephrase that, I haven't given up junk food (I don't eat it on a daily basis but once or twice a week, i just have occasional cravings) but I haven't been eating too many calories per day.

Sounds pretty damn unhealthy to me.

And no, that's not sustainable.

I was 240 and cut to 185 last summer. At the end I was down to 1700 calories and that was pushing it, for me.

 

[MMS]

what ur saying is this:

1) You dont really cook
2) You aint lifting
3) Its currently working

my advice, figure how much you need to cut and eat that as opposed to just some arbitrary number(IE say you need 1700, just eat that everyday)

start lifting, even if its only 2 days a week. Some weight training is crucial. When i first lost weight i was cardio heavy up until month 2, but losing the amount of weight that i did in those 2 months caused me more work down the road.

 

[The ADD]

Big picture doesn't sound like a good move at all.

What's the goal here?

Congrats on the progress

 

[Osmosis]

Big picture doesn't sound like a good move at all.

What's the goal here?

Congrats on the progress

I'm trying to drop twenty five pounds altogether before the start of the summer. That's why I've been taking some extreme measures. Long term what's the negative effects of a temporary low calorie diet?

 

[The ADD]

I'm trying to drop twenty five pounds altogether before the start of the summer. That's why I've been taking some extreme measures. Long term what's the negative effects of a temporary low calorie diet?

You could damage your hormones pretty bad.

Honestly you are going to be subject a bad rebound and weight gain.

 

[Breaking Limitations]

How many calories per day do you recommend? Is 1500 healthy or should I go up to 2000?

2000 and just be active

 

[Breaking Limitations]

In the past five weeks, I've really been on my grind. I've only been doing cardio but i've been getting some relatively fast results. I started off running the treadmill daily, about three miles a day (sometimes more, sometimes less) but the last two weeks I've been walking/running four-five miles at a walking trail in my park, and I started playing basketball again. Since I started exercising I've lost ten pounds and I've adjusted quite well to this lifestyle. I actually look forward to running as a stress reliever.

My issue is my diet. For some reason, my metabolism works in a way where I can't completely give up junk food but I can live off a very low calorie day. I haven't eaten more than 1,300 calories a day since I started exercising, and I have plenty of sub 1000 calorie day (some days as low as 500). The problem is I still eat Mcdonalds, Pizza, Chick-Fil-A, etc. Just yesterday I ate one meal the entire day, it was a Mcdonalds meal that tallied at 870 calories. Is this type of diet sustainable and is it even effective?

You should incorporate weight training as well

 

[HHR]

I'm trying to drop twenty five pounds altogether before the start of the summer. That's why I've been taking some extreme measures. Long term what's the negative effects of a temporary low calorie diet?

That's a terrible idea.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Low calorie diets are actually pretty good, I saw a documentary on it. Just say goodbye to any semblance of muscle tine and resign to always looking starved. Not for me but if you eat healthy it should be ok

 

[Dray]

In the past five weeks, I've really been on my grind. I've only been doing cardio but i've been getting some relatively fast results. I started off running the treadmill daily, about three miles a day (sometimes more, sometimes less) but the last two weeks I've been walking/running four-five miles at a walking trail in my park, and I started playing basketball again. Since I started exercising I've lost ten pounds and I've adjusted quite well to this lifestyle. I actually look forward to running as a stress reliever.

My issue is my diet. For some reason, my metabolism works in a way where I can't completely give up junk food but I can live off a very low calorie day. I haven't eaten more than 1,300 calories a day since I started exercising, and I have plenty of sub 1000 calorie day (some days as low as 500). The problem is I still eat Mcdonalds, Pizza, Chick-Fil-A, etc. Just yesterday I ate one meal the entire day, it was a Mcdonalds meal that tallied at 870 calories. Is this type of diet sustainable and is it even effective?

While it isn't healthy, strictly speaking, to cut calories and exercise, especially doing intensive cardio. Doing cardio is almost a liberty to eat what you please, but its definitely true: you are what you eat. Maybe not while you're young, but sooner or later it'll catch up. I take it you are one of those naturally skinny, probably lanky, people? [ectomorphs] If so you are lucky, (in a way) but shouldn't undereat as you haven't got the stores an endomorph like me, for instance, has at his disposal. You should eat at least 2000 calories a day, minimum, with your kind of lifestyle.