Thinking About Using The 1000 Calorie Diet? Take Care!

There is a craze right now for using the 1000 calorie diet to lose weight quickly, but there are many warnings that go along with this diet. First of all it should be noted that 1,000 calories are not many for someone to live off, and even a small framed woman would struggle at this level if she were even just a little active. This means that if you do consider restricting your diet to so few a number of calories, and this is not recommended, then it should only be for a couple of days, and never longer than five days.

One of the problems with consuming so few calories is that your body decides it is in starvation mode, which it is, and starts to save as much energy as possible, which cuts down on the amount of weight that can be lost. It is best to vary the number of calories, so that your metabolism does not get stuck at any one level.

The 1000 calorie diet has very small portions for three meals and two small snacks a day - not recommended

It is recommended by many in the weight loss world that you only lose a pound or two a week, so that you have the energy to stay active, and your body doesn’t think it is being starved. Weight which is lost gradually has more chance of staying off too than weight which is dropped quickly. Trying to stay on a calorie reduced diet can be just too drastic for your body to cope with, as it is difficult to get the nutrients your body needs with only 1,000 calories a day.

However, should you decide to take this drastic action, then remember to make sure that your 1000 calories have nutrition in them, and are not empty calories, and also remember to drink lots of water too. By eating so few calories in a day, it is generally accepted that these will be spread out during the day, with three small meals and a couple of very small snacks, and the total number of calories consumed in a day being around the 1000 mark.

Depending how many calories you normally eat in a day, this diet plan could have you feeling exceptionally hungry, and grumpy too, and can easily result in binge eating, which is damaging in more than one way. Not only does it mean you are not stocking to the diet plan that you have chosen, but the chances are very high that you will end up gaining weight, and if by some chance you manage to stay the same or lose a little, by not sticking to the plan, you will probably not be feeling very good about yourself, and poor self esteem is not a good thing to have.

Naturally you should talk to your healthcare professional before you consider any diet plan or weight loss program, whether it is the extreme 1000 calorie diet, the water diet, the juice diet, or any other diet plan. After all, these professionals are supposed to know what is good for us.