<p>I eat around 1600 calories a day but i also burn around 700 calories with sports, work and exercise.</p>
<p>question 1: am i setting my self up for a bad health choice?</p>
<p>question 2: when you burn calories are you burning them for just the food ate today or overall?</p>
<p>i really confused</p>
<p>I believe it's just food eaten that day because food from earlier has probably already passed through your system.</p>
<p>Either way, what you're doing doesn't sound healthy...I think you should be eating more.</p>
<p>q1: no your doing ok...the less you eat,the healthier you are.. as long as you eat 3meals every day...eating 3meals regulary is important!!..</p>
<p>q2:dont kno...</p>
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the less you eat,the healthier you are.. as long as you eat 3meals every day...eating 3meals regulary is important!!..
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<p>Really?</p>
<p>Bulimics eat 3 meals a day too...</p>
<p>The average person burns 2000 calories a day just existing, and that's why people who eat 2000 cals a day (an "average" diet) more or less maintain their body weight. </p>
<p>Anyway, you're burning a lot more cals because of sports and consuming a little bit less. You can keep this up without any detrimental effects (just weight loss, but whether that's detrimental or not is relative). </p>
<p>What does matter is that you're giving your body the nutrition that it needs. Get on a multivitamin and make sure you're eating enough protein. Also, you're bound to lose some muscle mass.</p>
<p>Actually your body through exercise is burning carbohydrates, so it depends on what the 1600 calories you are taking in are. Carbs are the "gasoline" for energy, when you don't have those, your body starts eating its own "fat" for fuel. Therefore, exercising without adaquite carbs could be quite bad, so just make sure carbs/protien are both included in you 1600.</p>
<p>eh...I would eat a little bit more if I were you. Make sure you're getting lots of healthy carbs and protein.</p>
<p>jadbd is right you are bound to lose muscle mass when you lose weight. you should also as advised take vitamin and protein pills like centrum and stuff. protein shakes are good too and they taste really good.. i was on a diet and i advice from a mistake last year that you eat 3 decent sized meals up to 1500-2000 calories. dont do a diet w/o eating because when you get out of a diet then you will eat soooo much that you gain all the weight back. drink alot of water when your hungry because it makes you full and hydrated. </p>
<p>dont eat:
pizza, pasta(even though alot of carbs, its fattening; eat once in a while if your a pasta lover), if your asian then eat brown rice instead of white since white rice is fattening. basically more veggies also and get a good portion of meat since the proteins are needed from natural foods. the key though is WATER</p>
<p>pasta and rice themselves actually aren't all that bad. It's all in how you prepare them.</p>
<p>Like instead of drowning white rice in soy sauce, just put a little tiny bit.</p>
<p>Guys our age should be getting like 2300 calories a day; girls like 2000.</p>
<p>eat more more frequently..you arent eating enough. eat 6 meals a day, avoid white breads and go for whole wheat everything, eat lots of fruits and veggies every meal (carry around some fruit and eat it during class or passing periods), eat tons of healthy protein (avoid red meat and eat baked or grilled chicken and fish and eggs) also carry around protein shakes during school. Two or three times a week eat whatever you feel like from wherever you want. If you dont eat enough muscle goes before fat..you might become thinner but you are losing muscle instead of fat.
Remember to eat a big breakfast (hence the name)-alot of teenagers skip the most important meal of the day.
Learn how to homecook everything so you know exactly what goes into everything you are making.
The key to sucess is not eating less, it's eating less crap.
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<p>It's not HOW MUCH you eat...it's WHAT you eat. Two people could both eat the same amount of calories but one could be less healthier than the other by the different types of nutrients they consume. As long as your getting the right amount of carbs, protein, calcium, iron and staying satisfied (note not full or starving) then you're good. 1600 calories is a little on the low side though, add some extra fruit or a whole wheat bagle to your breakfast, and you're good. The extra food will actually make burning those sports calories a lot easier with the energy!</p>
<p>Go talk to a doctor instead of weighing the advice of people on a message board who may (or may not) know what exactly they're talking about (no offense to any of you all, but health is more serious than whether or not someone should take the SATs again).</p>
<p>^ I don't think that's offensive, that's what doctors are there for. :)</p>
<p>Listen up, if you're lifting or doing cardio regularly. you need to complete your RDA by eating every three hours or so. That way the metabolism never slows down. Also emphasize on proteins. More weight and less reps. Also don't break for more than 75 sec betweeen a set. keeps the lactic acid going and also take in a good amt of protein within 2-3 hrs of exercise to help muscle repair.
Hope this helps but subscribe to mens health for random **** about how to excercise.</p>
<p>^ I hate mens health...I've been doing sh/<em>kdk</em>/ from that for so long and I still don't have the "sexy abs" or the "body women will drool over"....</p>
<p>Um that **** actually true working for me and my dad says it's ok and he's a doctor so I believe him.</p>
<p>A note on not eating: it's not that once you do start eating again you'll be hungrier and you'll eat more, it's that when you stop eating your body transitions into a sort of "starvation mode" which can likely be attributed to evolution. When your body enters this "starvation mode" it processes food differently; it holds on to each individual calorie you eat and stores it all as fat and your metabolism slows down.</p>
<p>If you're trying to lose weight then instead of eating three big meals a day, eat six small ones. It keeps your metabolism going at a steadier rate. and yeah, eat healthy.</p>
<p>exactly what I said. Its like the body starts preparing for you to be without food. A primevial hibernation mode maybe.</p>
<p>lol i eat at least 3600 calories a day, but i'm actually losing a little bit of weight. It depends on your size and activity level.</p>