You may be suffering from depression or side effects of nutritional starvation, or both because, unless you are an extremely short sedentary person 1500 calories is way too little. If you blow this off because you are defiantly insisting on being thin or living 20 percent longer you might have depression or an emotional illness. 1500 calories is almost a concentration camp diet. It could easily cause sleep problems, fatigue, mental and emotional illness etc. If you are you are under 25 you need even more calories. I am not saying don’t be disciplined in diet. I am saying overdoing almost anything is harmful.

This total calorie calculator is helpful.

http://www.hpathy.com/healthtools/calories-need.asp

Sugar, depression and fatigue and autumn

Here’s my story and what helped me. I don’t insist it will help you. Try it on if you like. I agree calories should be nutritional. I have found that sugar especially makes me depressed and that fall is the worst time for depression for me and others. I love sweets but they were killing me with depression. So I have to be extra careful to get enough sleep and avoid all sweets with glucose or fructose except freshfruits. And I do pretty good with honey for some reason.. Even too much splenda which is made from sugar can trigger depression in me. Also I love chocolate. I can eat no chocolate from September to March, and very little the rest of the year. Chocolate and sugar are extra bad for me. Ocassionally I can tolerate chocolate sweetened by sugar alcholhols like malitol or sorbital but they can cause gas in in some people. I use beano for that.

Christmas with all it’s temptations is difficult for me but God has blessed me to be pretty disciplined. If sugar or chocolate or any other food (eliminate suspected foods one at a time for seven days to test adverse effects of different foods on your health mental and physical.) is a problem for you I think your low cal diet prooves you have discipline to deal with that..

Every body has an optimum weight that you cannot escape and be healthy. If you are geneticall chunky for example your body will do everything it can to be chunky. If you are genetically thin it’s almost impossible not to be on the thin side. Generally people can only increase or decrease 10 or 15 pounds from there genetically determined weight through out their life. Not socially or will power determined weight. If you violate that your body will suffer in all sorts of ways from depression, disease, mental and emotional illness, in women pregnancy be difficult, you name it. Work with your body type and it will usually work with you.

Please, don’t get bent out of shape if you are thinking, “this person knows nothing about me”. I am not just writing to you only but others in your situation who found their way to this website. The truth will set you free. If anything I say here is untrue then ignore it. But, don’t decieve your self. Look as candidly as you can at your self, your decisions. And get the counsel of trusted friends and family. No person can adequately run there life entirely by theirself. We all need help occasionally. We are often our own worst enemy. If anything fits you here think about it and even pray about it.

I always start from the assumption. I’ve been wrong before. Hope this helps dadob