2468

I thought staying around 1,000 a day was good. Well after calculating my BMI and BMR, I need to keep it lower. And after reading up it seems like most people who are trying to be skinny don't eat much at all. In fact it's all about the 2-4-6-8 diet where you eat 200 calories the first day and so on. At first I thought it was ludicrous but it's all about creative thinking!

There are a ton of super low cal foods. You can actually eat a ton esp. on an 800 calorie day. I really wouldn't recommend restricting long term though, it's truly not healthy. I guess I'm being a hypocrite because it's unhealthy to go under 1200 calories a day and here I am trying to stay under 800. Oh well like my journal says...I'm desperate to be skinny.

PLAN: You eat 200 calories on day 1, 400 calories on day 2, 600 calories on day 3, 800 calories on day 4 then on day 5 you start again with 200 calories. Some people like to change it up a bit...as long as you are shocking your body from the day before it will still work. This Diet keeps you from plateauing on your weight loss because it keeps your metabolism working. Your metabolism rate bases itself off of what you ate the day BEFORE, not what you are eating today or what you are going to eat tomorrow. Therefore when you drop from 800 calories on day 4 to 200 calories on day 5 you burn up 600 calories (the difference between days 4 and 5) more than you are eating.

Does that make sense? Since I've been used to eating so much I'm starting a bit higher and will work my way down to 200 and try it.