Running on a very low calorie diet?

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  • Kinda going round in circles here!

    I'm not naive. I KNOW that this isn't the best way to go about things and I know it isn't the safest. I'm prepared and curious and want to try it.

    If all else fails, I'll look into acquiring dysentery or a sanitized tapeworm or even a place at a POW camp and that should sort me out.

    Lets just put it to bed!
  • I cant see anyone going around in circles.

    You started a thread asking for advice but didnt want to listen because you'd already decided your course of action.......simple as !

    Just out of interest, what were you looking for? For people to tell you its a great idea? To tell you you're inspirational/brave/motivated?

    You've just said that you know :

    1. It isnt the best way to go about things

    2. Its not the safest way to go about things.

    So if you're perfectly willing to overlook those two minor points why did you bother asking for advice? 

  • "Lets just put it to bed!"

    well stop coming back and defending yourself then! you've made your mind up on this matter, others have given their opinions, so let's move on and stop posti....
  • Is dysentry the same as a dodgy kebab if so I can fully endorse this method of rapid weight loss
  • ...until flames start coming out of your rear end!!!
    ...Linda xx
  • Parkrunfan- I wasn't asking for advice on the diet alone. I was looking for advice on exercise/ running along with it. My GP and CDC both said that it should be fine but I thought I would be sensible and look at all sides and ask runners their opinion (or experience) of running on a restrictive diet. I got my answer. I did listen and I'm going to take that advice and refrain from exercise whilst on this extreme diet. I'm taking the advice on this forum very seriously! In fact, more seriously than any other advice I have gotten.

    I already decided on my course of action in terms of this diet, yes, but not what to do about exercise. Like I said, my GP okayed it but I had misgivings and worries that I could end up very ill by exercising on top of severe calorie deprivation. I'm actually taking the advice I've received here more to heart than the advice given to me by my doctor (and CDC). I have listened.
  • Oooo, just think of the chafing. Ouch!image
  • So your GP and CDC (?) both said you could continue to run whilst only taking on 500cals a day?.

    This alone should ring MASSIVE alarm bells, because that advice is totally mental.

  • Swirly Tops you seem set on it but I'd point out two things.

    Restricting yourself to 500 calories a day is going to make you absolutely obsessed with food. You'll probably end up reading recipe books like they're pornography and thinking about what you can't be eating every minute.  This is not going to help your relationship with food and will do nothing to ease your tendency to eat too much. If you're very lucky you might "slip up" and start binging and purging. 

    Practically speaking, I will be amazed if you can remain on 500 calories a day while running. Running makes me insanely hungry. If this is a short term project and weight loss is your primary goal I'd stick to walking for a long time each day, not running. 

  • Sometimes the only thing I think about while running is the big juicy fillet steak that I have waiting for me at home afterwards!

    If it were a cartoon the runner in front would look like a ham.
    ...Linda xx
  • Swirly Tops wrote (see
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    I'm taking the advice on this forum very seriously! In fact, more seriously than any other advice I have gotten. I already decided on my course of action in terms of this diet, yes, but not what to do about exercise.... I'm actually taking the advice I've received here more to heart than the advice given to me by my doctor (and CDC). I have listened.

    I cross-posted with your reply, glad to see you’re not intending to run on this diet. But please don’t say you’ve taken the advice here to heart. Pretty much everybody has said that this is a ridiculous regime.

  • I wish you luck.

    PLEASE come back and keep us posted on how you get on.

  • Jeez talk about vitriolic!

    I appreciate everyone has their own personal opinions and the right to express them but some of the views expressed in this thread are verging closely on the down right nasty [imo] and are uncalled for. Yes it's fustrating when you see someone embarking on a course of action that seems ridiculous to you and yes, it's even more fustrating when someone seems to want to ignore good advice. 

    People come here for advice and reassurance - not everyone gets the answer they want or where looking for but that's life. However by being overly vitrolic in replying to people on matters like this I feel we are running the serious risk of scaring potential posters away, it struck me reading this that if this was the first thread I read on runners world, I'm not sure I'd want to come here for advice! [Again, just my opinion!]

    Swirly top I don't for one moment agree with the way you are doing things but I do feel you should be congratulated on the fact you have had the guts to admit you have a problem and take steps to trying to remedy it, even if those steps are [imo and to a large extent experience] the wrong ones.

  • My sister tried the Lighter Life diet, she thought that taking food out of the equation would be easier for her (I don't know what she weighed, but she was approximately a dress size 20).  She did it for about 4 months or so I think and got down to a size 12.  Then she started eating real food again and is now a dress size 18.

    I do hope this works for you, I agree with Mike above, it would be good to hear how you get on.

  • MrsPenguin wrote (see)

    Jeez talk about vitriolic!

    I appreciate everyone has their own personal opinions and the right to express them but some of the views expressed in this thread are verging closely on the down right nasty [imo] and are uncalled for. Yes it's fustrating when you see someone embarking on a course of action that seems ridiculous to you and yes, it's even more fustrating when someone seems to want to ignore good advice. 

    People come here for advice and reassurance - not everyone gets the answer they want or where looking for but that's life. However by being overly vitrolic in replying to people on matters like this I feel we are running the serious risk of scaring potential posters away, it struck me reading this that if this was the first thread I read on runners world, I'm not sure I'd want to come here for advice! [Again, just my opinion!]

    Swirly top I don't for one moment agree with the way you are doing things but I do feel you should be congratulated on the fact you have had the guts to admit you have a problem and take steps to trying to remedy it, even if those steps are [imo and to a large extent experience] the wrong ones.


    Hmmm, I think the gist of what you're saying is that advice should be more 'fluffy'.

    Dont you think that that is a little patronising?

    Why is it a problem for people to state their views in a clear and concise manner? Far better than the woolly, touchy feely stuff you often see which leaves you none the wiser as to what is actually being advised.

    To disagree with someone doesnt make the comment 'nasty' or 'uncalled for'. 

  • I agree with Parkrunfan.

    'Nasty'? 'vitriolic'?

    bwahahaha! 

    Get real, Penguin. image

  • There's an echo in here!
    ...Linda xx
  • Sorry to but in on this but Swirly Top have you ever considered that you might have an Eating Disorder (Binge Eating disorder) and need possibly to speak to your doctor about getting proper treatment as opposed to going on a strict diet.  I suffer from anorexia and am trying hard to put weight on - I now eat between 1500 and 2000 clas a day and though i will noyl eat that because i know i can run, I really wouldn't recommend you run on any less.  When i was at my lowest I was consuming around 800 cals a day and had to give up runningfor a year because of the lack of energy - you also need to take into account any other damage that you might do

     Sorry if i sound like I'm preaching but if you're relationship with food is so bad then that needs to be addressed, low cal diets are no quick fix.  Sorry as well if anyone else has already said this, haven't had chance to read all the way through the thread x

  • No, you're not preaching Kaz-Annie and I guess you would know more about the dangers of very low calorie intake than most of us.

    Congrats on your recovery, I can't imagine that it has been easy - hope you manage to keep it up.

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    Shame that the OP probably won't take any notice of you - and your very real words of advice.

    Mrs Penguin, sorry, but if you think that this is vitriolic, then I think that you had better check out some of the other threads...image  and then perhaps quietly tiptoe away to where it's safer.

  • Posting in stereoimage.

    Again.

    Again.

  • Sorry I haven't replied sooner, I've been crying in the loo's all afternoon coz someone disagreed with me, bad nasty people. And I've run out of kleenex. I'm currently feeling very sorry for my fluffy wuffy self.

    Perhaps I should have worded it better [actually no perhaps about it but I did state it was an opinion, serves me right for using emotive language!] but yeh, some of the answers in this thread struck me as a vitriolic but that is my interpretation, which is kind of one of my points really, we all take things different ways. Clear and concise is one thing, but tough love doesn't always work [and can sometimes make the situation worse]  

    In addition, I don't recall saying that disagreeing with someone makes them bad and nasty just that in my opinion some of comments verged on such and to the outside reader [who maybe isn't used to the forum] they could be interpreted as such.

    It's obvious this is a fairly robust forum and maybe you do need to be a little thicker skinned to post here, but I've recieved plenty of clear concise advice here that hasn't made me wince and think 'ouch' upon reading it.

    And yeh, what's with the stereo posting? Bizarre image

  • I lost 2 stone on the cambridge diet and still ran 3 times a week, running half marathons every 4 weeks or so.  The way I did it was by eating fruit, yoghurt and 1 proper meal a day that contained lots of carbs along with the 3 cambridge meals a day.image

  • "obesity is much more dangerous than any diet"

    Believe me, starvation kills you just as dead.

  • I say keep on with the running it will help you feel a lot better about yourself and appreciate what your body can do. A lot of people don,t have the choice.
  • I'd much rather run than do faddy diets. This is runners world -so we know more about running than dieting. Is there a Dieters world website ?

    But I'd take the CD's peoples advice with a pinch of salt - after all - they get money from you doing it. Hardly gonna be impartial.
  • Is it even possible to run on 500 cals per day? 

    I burn between 600-800 calories during a club road session, and just slightly less than that for a track session.

    The minimum someone with a sedentary lifestyle on a low calorie diet should be eating is something around 1200 cals.  If you throw exercise into the mix you really have to be looking at a minimum of the average daily intake for a non-active person and continue to lose weight as an active person i.e 2000 for women or 2500 for men.

    My BMI was just under 36 when I started exercising, and I lost weight at around 2lbs a week on around 1800 calories per day.  I upped the calories when I started running more.

    I know for a fact I couldn't operate on 500 calories now, I prolly have that for my breakfast alone.

    Personally I think you're crazy for trying it, but whatever floats your boat - I'm expecting (if you do come back with an update) that you'll experience lethargy, headaches and light headedness, not to mention the long term effects on your body which needs a lot more that a few chemically enhanced foods which make you feel full but don't provide anything of nutritional value.  I'd suggest trying a different GP or asking for a second opinion at the practice before you embark on an exercise program.

    You're far better off trying something like Alli, which you take with a normal healthy balanced diet and stops your body absorbing some of the fat from your food.  This accelerates weightloss, but not to the point of being totally unhealthy - it'd be a much better use of your money.

    Let us know how you get on though, and indeed if you can run on such a rediculously small amount of food.  I can't see it doing any good in the long run, but maybe it'll give you the kick start you need to return to a sensible diet, and do some proper long term weight loss.  

  • Vicki: Graceless Whippet wrote (see)

    You're far better off trying something like Alli, which you take with a normal healthy balanced diet and stops your body absorbing some of the fat from your food. 

    Am I right in thinking Alli is just a tradename for Orlistat?.

    If so, I'd recommend anyone give it a WIDE berth, its (IMO) a terrible drug with terrible side effects, I'd rather be obese than taking that awfull drug again.

  • I'm pretty sure it's a much milder version of orlistat,  my ex had terrible side effects with orlistat when it first came out, my hubby has taken Alli with no side effects at all.

    I guess it may be down to the individual, but Alli is available over the counter, whereas orlistat had to be perscribed

  • Don't take that as fact btw - it's just from my own experience
  • Fair enough, I had BIG issues with Orlistat, nasty stuff LOL
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