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Is 1200 calories too few for my weight loss regimen?

I’ve started a new diet, and originally was planning to hover at around 1000 calories, but I read somewhere that 1200 was the minimum necessary for the average woman to function normally. I need to lose a lot of weight, so I figured the less calories I eat, the better, but I want to be smart about it.

I’ve been exercising more – taking the stairs instead of the elevator (I live on the fifth floor, and most of my classes are on the third or fourth floors of their buildings), and a few light things in the morning like crunches and weights. I’m planning to start doing two mile power walks in the mornings, too.

My typical diet already supplements the “healthy” alternative – I don’t drink sodas, I only drink skim milk, I only eat 12 grain or wheat breads, and the like. My primary problem is that I eat a lot more than I should, and eat way too many snacks and sweets.

Basically, should I be eating closer to 1500 calories, or is 1200 okay?

What everyone above me said is correct. The reason they say to eat from 1200 – 1500 calories a day as a bare minimum is that if you eat under this ammount your body will behave as it is starving and it will slow it’s metabolism down in order to save itself from dying. When your betabolism is slowed down your body will burn off calories at a much slower rate.

Thats why if you want to lose weight and burn calories you will have to eat over 1200 – 1500 calories a day so that your body doesn’t go into starvation mode and slow down it’s metabolism.