Is it healthy to starve so you can maintain a 6 pak as a female?

Alright Guys, about to hit the grocery store within the next couple of days to get my raw food life started! I need tips, experiences you guys had first starting out and what you learned, food ideas, suggestions, ANYTHING! What to expect, etc etc

Also, where can I figure out the appropriate amount of cals to take in to avoid weight gain? I have worked HARD for these abs and would like to keep them! Haha no but seriously...

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Permalink Reply by TheBananaGirl on October 30, 2010 at 4:24pm

Hey thanks Harls ;-) I had fun making that.

Hi Maya I got my watch, yesterday I did a half marathon in training because I've got so much energy but it isn't typical of me to do this.

Going backwards from yesterday....
Friday: 1249 cals
Wed: 565 cals
Mon: 1095 cals
Sun: 588 cals

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Permalink Reply by Maya Papaya on October 30, 2010 at 4:34pm

Go mama - then you better be smashin' at least 3k cals!

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Permalink Reply by TheBananaGirl on October 30, 2010 at 4:43pm

haha I am most days, it does vary, sometimes it's 2500 but honestly even after years of being on this lifestyle I still feel best on 3000 or more.

Oh and to add - the rest of the time I'm either sitting in a chair or lying on the bed almost completely motionless lol.

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Permalink Reply by lovelowfat on October 30, 2010 at 3:29pm

Freelee thank you for sharing these insights, very valuable!
I would be depressed eating that little and not exercising.

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Permalink Reply by Raw on October 30, 2010 at 3:35pm

Good stuff Free. You are the one looking swank and staying raw so people should be heeding your advice. Particularly the ladies. This thread has dragged on, get some fruit into you Courtney and ignore the low calorie lazy talk.

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Permalink Reply by TheBananaGirl on October 30, 2010 at 4:25pm

Thanks so much Raw and lovelowfat :-) The feedback is appreciated!

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Permalink Reply by cbs on October 30, 2010 at 3:15pm

Thanks for posting this! I think this is a pretty good guideline. This comes out to what works for me actually on this diet, pretty close usually. Right now I am not very active at all and seem to be maintaining on twice my BMR right now but I think my body is needing extra for the time being. I think normally I would maintain on this (2xBMR) only if I were actually fairly active.

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Permalink Reply by DURIANRIDER on October 30, 2010 at 3:48pm

Remember cbs, if you use your brain often, have kids/partner/work/business etc then we are still burning MASSIVE glycogen stores and will ONLY be able to live passionately if we have enough carbs to replenish our glycogen stores sufficiently.

This explains why a lot of fit looking people are so dead pan and enervated outside of training life cos they only eat enough for sport and not much for real life where it really counts!

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Permalink Reply by Derek on October 30, 2010 at 11:34pm

I've read DR that 60% of calories consumed are burned by our metabolism and 40% by what we do.

Do these ratios change or are they different for us? Does our metabolism speed up as we eat more fruit? Do we burn more calories in other areas such as our body heat?

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Permalink Reply by Courtney Yancey on November 1, 2010 at 6:35am

Haven't gained anything. Haven't neccesarily been eating 3k cals a day but, I have been eating a good bit of fruit. It's like a magical food, haha. No matter how much I eat, I'm not storing fat. Not so far at least, but it's only been a few days