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Anonymous
Hey /fit/
I've been eating less for about two weeks now. An apple during breakfast (about 100 calories). Nong Shim Bowl Noodle Soup Kimchi flavored (about 400 calories) for lunch. And 2 bowls of Raisin Bran cereal for dinner with 2% milk (around 600 calories?). I drink nothing but water. I no longer care about dieting, seeing how I work in a job where I constantly have to be on the move, I am burning more calories than I am eating. Since I am eating mostly carbs and fiber, is this healthy? I am not feeling any side effects, in fact I feel better than ever (and whenever I get hungry after "dinner", I usually drink a bottle of water).

tl;dr: I am eating about 1100 calories a day, and have been for 2 weeks, I do not feel weak etc. I workout a lot and do SQUATZ. Should I worry about what I eat?

Picture related, me working out.
>> Anonymous
Not healthy. Enjoy your body converting muscle into fat and eventually turning skinnyfat no matter what. Diet matters THAT much.
>> Anonymous
>>237484
I work out enough, I'm curling some 120 lbs and benching 255 lbs, I'm not seeing any difference in how much I lift. either way, this would be probably considered my "cutting phase"

and just to let you know, I lost almost 3% body fat in a month and a half by working out, and now that I am watching what I eat, I am expecting to lose more.
>> Anonymous
Your metabolism is in starvation mode, you will not lose weight, but gain weight. The less you eat and the more energy you exert the more your body tries to cope by storing energy. Enjoy your useless workouts
>> Anonymous
>>237642
cool story bro. while you are on your computer, trying to feed me some bullshit answer that you've read in a pamphlet, I'll be losing weight.
>> Anonymous
>>237627
I don't know, recently I've been seeing either a bunch of trolling. Do whatever you feel is right, its your life, live it the way you feel is best. Don't take advice from halfassed retards who do nothing but sit on /fit/ and yet never do diets or workouts. Trust me, you'll be losing weight, but it will take time, don't think it will happen over night.
>> Anonymous
Everyone's gonna quote venuto and tell you that you're doing it wrong, but its true. Eating so little will slow down your metabolism considerably and you'll gain significant weight when you start eating more.
>> Anonymous
>>237668
But the thing is, I have no desire to eat more. I am no longer craving for sweets, soda and other food. In fact I stopped eating out all together (for financial situations and health reasons). I buy my food in bulk, which lasts me a fucklong time, and I get full off of it easy. Thanks anyways /fit/. I'll keep that in mind, but for the time being, I am not going to worry too much about eating too healthy (I used to eat salad, but that shit lasts about 2 days before it goes bad), and much rather not keep track about what I eat. I hate having to chose the food I eat as some sort of chore, which I have to keep track of. I am going to continue my "diet".

Oh and by the way, I've read Venuto before, I understand where he is coming from, but I really have no money or time in buying salads or eating fresh meat. That book isn't for me.
>> Anonymous
Son, you are in denial. I was in denial for two years on the same shit too. I lifted biweekly, I ran almost every day (and it made me less hungry too!), and I did a martial art biweekly. I never felt like eating much at all! I had allll the energy in the world and imagined eating 1000 cal a day would suffice.

But really, you're content with it because you have no metabolism. When your body gets enough food, it doesn't think twice about using up bodyfat. I did this starvation mode BS for 2 months initially to drop 50 lb and yes it WORKED, but after that point, sadly for two years battling it out, I got no where. I got fatter, less muscular. I wrote off Venuto because my earlier method seemed to kick his ass. But boy was I wrong. You're getting the extra calories from your own glycogen stores in your muscles, catabolizing them--and you know why? So your body can hold onto every last bit of fat it has left. It'll seem like you're getting smaller, but in reality that's just the muscle getting smaller and the surrounding fat getting tucked in.

A month ago I read Venuto again and played by his rules. In a month of my old exercising except with a healthy staggered diet (wtf I don't even do salads, you didn't read it properly), I've come further than any time in the past two years. Fat is being steadily replaced by muscle and in two months when I go back to school, I'll look like a new man for sure.

As for you, drop your pride and get off your high horse, because you're just in denial and afraid of putting food in yourself because you know you'll be bloated instead of feeling--but what you don't know is that while you're feeling full and bloated and well all the time, your muscles are being nourished and your bodyfat knows its time to go.
>> Anonymous
>>237879
+1
>> Anonymous
>>237879
+2
>> Anonymous
You're eating one apple for breakfast.

>Is this healthy?
No.
>> Anonymous
>>237892
>>237948
I'll +1/2 myself instead because of my typo near the end:

"you'll be bloated instead of feeling * thin and small when you suck in your deflated organs--"
>> Anonymous
>>237680
Coming from a person who was in a similar financial situation.

Eggs mother fucker. Cheap as fuck, eat 'em for breakfast and snacks. Fuck the motherfuckers who say yolks are bad. You' need those extra calories if you're poor. Switch to oatmeal instead of raisen bran, costs less if you buy in bulk and is better for you.

Lunch/Dinner: Market cut ground beef and chicken thighs. Both are fattier then breasts/lean ground beef, but they're ussually half as expensive. Run water through the ground beef and drain the pan. Chicken thighs, well. . . just deal with it until you can afford breasts. Get some spice rubs and shit so you can eat it. Make homemade burgers, spagetti, taco's. You get the idea. Look for sales on canned tuna and chicken, if you find one of those 4 for 4 dollars, fucking load up. Delicious and cheap.

Snacks: Whole wheat bread and bagels. Buy the store brand rather then a name brand, it's much cheaper. Buy some peanut butter as well. Banana's are cheap and so are the apples you're eating.

Vegetables: Frozen peas and carrots are astonishingly cheap, as is canned corn and beans and lentils. NOM NOM NOM. A huge bag of peas will run you 5$ and last you two weeks.

Working off 200$ for food a month for two people, and eating healthy. This is what I learned.