that is called starvation. I weigh 120 and eat 1900 calories a day and I don't gain an ounce. If you are working out hard, you need to feed your muscles. Less than 1100 calories and your body goes into starvation mode and holds onto fat.

that is called starvation. I weigh 120 and eat 1900 calories a day and I don't gain an ounce. If you are working out hard, you need to feed your muscles. Less than 1100 calories and your body goes into starvation mode and holds onto fat.

I eat 2100 calories / day and do not gain any weight...this considering I weight train and have an active lifestyle

eating 1100 calories a day when weighing 125 is not only extremely hard, but very unhealthy and dangerous. You would be putting your body in danger. Keeping the calories that low, is way below maintenance which means you are putting your metabolism in starvation mode which will actually make you gain weight instead of lose it. If you are at that low number, you might want to try reverse dieting. I weigh 123lb and even when i was cutting i was eating around 1600 calories a day, with one refeed day every 10 days. And yes, protein is in fact essential when trying to build muscle.

For those who failed to see my point here, let me restate it again for ya! Latona came out with this meal plan above and claimed she weighed 125lbs while eating that many calories. I said: Impossible!!! - My point is that the meal plan above is unrealistic. Yes and it is true that in order to maintain a weight of 125 lbs one would have to intake way under 2000 calories a day. And my mention of the 1100 calories was made to allow you to see the invalidity of the claim- The protein insight I gave you was also taken lightly. But in fact if you eat too much protein, more than your body needs even if you are training, your liver will turn the surplus of protein into fat. Yes protein is the building block of life - but there is a very tricky and difficult median to reach between maintaining the proper nutrient intake and your overall body weight. Nutrition is key and it takes time to achieve this balance by trial and error. My point exactly."Bollondawg", thank you for stimulating the topic for more insight.