re: losing weight. It makes sense to me that a 300 lb man exercising and dieting would have an easier time losing weight than someone half his size. He has so much more to lose.
Eating 1000 calories a day cannot be healthy. Do any health professionals actually advise doing that? I would say eat more fruits and vegetables and exercise more.
Everything that I've read and learned is that an average person shouldn't eat
less than 1000 calories a day, not specifically
only 1000 calories a day. To maintain a person's current weight, a man should eat about 12 calories per pound of weight per day for the weight that he wants to maintain. A woman should eat 10 calories per pound of weight per day. So, a person who weighs 300 pounds should, of course, eat fewer calories than what they've been eating that has maintained their weight, or they can add exercise to counteract that, or both. When I was losing weight with a weight-loss program 16 years ago, I averaged about 1200 calories a day and at first I did easily lose 5 pounds per week for quite a while.
