and FYI, eating under 1000kcalories/day is a really bad idea and does actually kill your metabolism. My first two years of college I was really depressed and I would only take in 400-700kcalories a day. I almost killed myself doing that, my fucking heart got infected. yes. infected. with strep bacteria. That, kids, is why you shouldn’t stick your fingers down your throat.

I got down to a BMI of 18.5 and then my weight started creeping up. I gained >20lbs in the space of 6 months on about 600kcalories/day. I was even taking phentermine- it didn’t help me lose or even just maintain my weight.

Anyhow, I guess the point of that story is that if you want to lose weight, extreme measures only work for so long. If you aim for health, you WILL lose weight. Just listen to what your body is telling you, and when you sit down and eat- focus only on the food and how it makes you feel.

and if you do decide to count kcalories, I suggest going with 1,500kcalories a day and getting plenty of exercise- both cardio and resistance training. and don’t cut out any food groups.

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The point is to eat what you need and not much more than what you need. Who says Madonna practices this diet for extended periods of time? Who says she did not start small? One can FAST (no food, just water) for more than two weeks at a time and still be healthy. Man has been doing this for years, animals do it instinctively when they are ill, and fasting has the ability to cure almost any ailment and many diseases (obesity included.).

It is quite possible, and very likely, that the diet shown above is her training diet. For example, my friend and personal trainer diets almost exactly like this for short periods of time as she needs to look/be her fittest.

Basically, if Madonna practices this very low calorie diet for more than 3 months, she can be doing a lot of damage to her body.
BUT (and this is a huge American BUTT), if she’s doing it with the help of a nutritionist, trainer and doctor (which, come-on, is so freaking likely), she is perfectly within health standards of doing so. And that being said, on my last trip back to the states, I saw that many-a-MANY Americans would be benefitted in restricting their calories as well.

Lastly, people rave about how good Madonna looks, and not even “for her age” kind of raving. She is fit and being that she is on stage, television and in magazines constantly (obviously on blogs such as yours as well), she has chosen to be apart of an elite group of people to which we, the public, hold ridiculously high standards. If she were to gain 5 lbs, all of us in the peanut gallery would be bitching about how she has “let herself go”.
There is a reason Madonna is quite possibly the most successful woman in the music business– she pushes herself to every limit possible and does so for our enjoyment.

All this and I am not even a fan of hers…

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Hasn’t anyone heard the health benefits of intermittent fasting and caloric restriction???
(http://thehealthblogger.com/intermittent-fasting-and-caloric-restriction-eat-what-you-want/)
READ IT!
As per the aforementioned article:
Studies have shown that if one’s caloric intake were lessened by 30%, we could extend our lives 30-50%.

Good for Madonna!! Not only is lowering one’s caloric intake GOOD FOR YOU, it just looks better. Period.

PS- what’s wrong with feeling hungry? I’d rather feel hungry than feel my thighs touch in the middle when I walk

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