500 calories a day diet

In my journey to lose weight I have researched about different diets. I read about the milk diet, cabbage soup diet, maple syrup diet, 500 calories a day diet etc. a lot of people swear by these diets, for example Beyoncé lost a lot of weight just doing the maple syrup diet. I have never tried any of these diets but an opportunity came for me to try out the 500 calorie a day diet.  So a friend asked me to help her out in her project. She is carrying out a 3 weeks research on very low carb
diet and 500 calorie a day diet. So I signed up for it, well let me tell you, this is no joke.
So let me take you through my experience. I didn't sleep well at night thinking how on earth I was going to spend 3 weeks living on 500 calories daily. I signed up for it so I had an obligation to do it. Okay
Day 1 : I had 3 egg whites for breakfast (75 calories), for lunch I had 1 chicken breast (260 cal) and I pita bread (125 cal) so for dinner I had half an apple (40 calories). It was kind of easy at first but I knew the dangers of this diet.
I continued the second and third day but it was difficult because I couldn't concentrate and study, I was angry (well a hungry man is an angry man) and couldn't even do simple workouts. After the 3rd day I quit but I have already lost 1kg. The fact is that a lot of celebrities do this diet and they swear by it but the dangers of this diet outweigh the benefit.

One advice I will give to anyone trying to lose weight with this diet is to stay away from it, it is a plague. Every day, people come up with different diet plan to make money or to make a name. Don’t get me wrong, these diets works like magic but I will tell you why you should avoid it.

Dangers: if you are overweight, the only solution for you is to lose weight. There is no two ways about it but losing weight must be done in a HEALTHY way IF you intend to keep off the weight for life. This simply means that you will be losing weight at the expense of your well-being or health if you decide to use this diet.

500 calories a day is too small for the human body, even if you are 6yrs old or a skinny person or an overweight person. It is advised that to minimize your calorie intake; it should take around 1000 to 1200 calories a day (even for someone trying to lose weight). . In following this diet, you will lose a lot (A LOT) of weight in a short time but very harmful in a long run. This is because it will deprive your body from the necessary nutrients it need to function, it will put your body in a starvation mood, what this means is that the body being smart strongly reserves every fat in your body (because the diet has made your body believe that you will continue feeding it little or no food). This will even make it very hard to continue losing weight. Instead of losing weight, you will end up with fatigue, hunger, anger, hair loss, irregular flow of your monthly period etc.

If you are trying to lose weight, I suggest you do it the healthy way. an exercise with 1000 to 1200 calorie diet plan. The easy way is never the best way.

Like I said, I quit the 500 diet after the 2nd day.