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Blinky is right. The more you weigh, the more weight you lose at a time. At 300 pounds or more, losing 8 pounds a week is reasonable. At 250, four to five is more to be expected. At 200, figure two to four. At your weight, it would be far more reasonable to expect to lose two, MAYBE three pounds per week, for the first month and then one to two pounds a week after that.
Also, you're going to do yourself a grave disservice by eating so little. When you eat too much and exercise too little, you gain weight. You know that already. What you probably haven't been told is that eating too little will also cause weight gain or weight retention. See, your body was designed over a long period of time in which the world wasn't filled with fast-food joints. People had to work their rear ends off to get a little nourishment. So the body is optimally designed to eat a certain amount of food, with a little bit of variation, each day. When you eat less, the body thinks, "Oh, it's famine time. Better save some of this for later." Then, instead of burning up the calories you eat, it saves them and stores them as fat.
So, ideally, you should eat at least two servings of fruit and five servings of vegetables every day (vegetables excluding potatoes, corn, and beans -- those count as starches/breads instead of vegetables because of nutritional content). Then you should get two servings of starch: potatoes, corn, beans, whole-grain pasta, or brown rice. Also, two to four servings of protein -- eggs, meat, fowl, fish, nonfat cheese, or a meat substitute such as tempeh or tofu. You also need two teaspoons of one of the Five Healthy Oils -- olive, canola, sunflower, safflower, or flaxseed. Round it out with two servings of low-fat or non-fat dairy products each day -- milk, soymilk, fat-free yogurt, fat-free cheese. Finally, you need at least 64 ounces of water every single day, which can include ANY LIQUID that doesn't contain alcohol or caffeine -- tea, milk, juice (limit to one per day), diet caffeine-free sodas... And drink more if it's very hot or very cold outside, if you exercise, or if the air is very dry.
Eating these things will keep you nutritionally satisfied, give you a certain amount of food bulk which you crave, make you slimmer, and take you out of starvation/famine/fat-storing mode. Plus, you'll be able to live with it a lot longer. Those binge diets are guaranteed to do only one thing: make you want to go off of them and pig out as soon as possible. When you do, you'll wind up heavier and feeling like a failure, when it's the diet's fault and not yours.
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