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2500 calories per day for men and 2000 for women is now not a realistic measurement of most peoples average calorie usage during a twenty four hour period. Add to this that a lot of us don't have any idea of how many calories we are eating at any time and you have a recipe for weight gain that has made the United States the most overweight nation on the face of the Earth.

For every food there is an approximate calorific and nutritional value and the 1000 calorie per day diet is as simple as counting out what you eat every day to make sure you aren't overeating and limiting yourself to a set limit that you can burn off. As simple as this is it is not easy to stick to and many foods that we might take for granted these days contain over 1000 calories in a single meal.

The main problem with the 1000-calorie per day diet is that it is in effect imposing malnourishment on yourself to lose weight. This may be is fine in the short term to use but is unsustainable for long periods of time and will eventually lead to you losing muscle as well as fat which is never a healthy thing to do. As any health expert will also tell you, the key to a successful diet change is that you include exercise along with it as well, which with this diet is pretty much impossible to do at all without serious risk.

When you consider the fact that someone can burn over 1000 calories in a good workout in a gym, perhaps followed by another 500 or so swimming afterward, and another 1500 during the day doing everyday activities. Then they have used up 3 days worth of allocated calories and doing this can eventually make you very ill and perpetually to tired for any form of exercise.

The major boost that exercise gives any diet aside from being healthy and burning more calories is that it increases muscle mass and density, meaning that even when you are resting you are burning more calories than normal because more energy is needed to use larger or stronger muscles. Obviously it is very hard to build muscle with this kind of diet however, because you need to consume a lot of protein and eventually extra calories, which you can then burn off.

A strength based athlete such as a weightlifter or linebacker as an extreme example will consume upwards of 10,000 calories per day because of the amount they burn, just to stay as large and muscular as they are. The 1000 calorie diet however will leave you getting smaller not just from the loss of fats but at the loss of muscle, endurance and strength as well,

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