500 Calorie Diet Results: For 5 Days My Family Ate 500 Calories, Here’s What Happened…

A 500 calorie diet is a very low-calorie diet. For 5 days my family ate 500 calories a day. The three of us lost a combined total of 17 pounds in just 5 days. But this was not easy.

Editorial Update: We ate low-fat for the experiment but would change that in the future. While dietary fat has more calories, it also decreases hunger. Alternating between low and high-calorie days would have benefitted our metabolisms. Below is an account of our 5-day, 500 calorie diet experiment.

500 Calorie Diet -Our Plan of Action


  1. Focus on nutrient-dense foods.
  2. Make non-starchy vegetables a top food choice
  3. Avoid sugar and processed foods
  4. Limit our eating occasions during the day to pack in more volume per meal
  5. Have our plan ready and prepare our meals at the beginning of the week

Let’s Begin…

Misery loves company, so I recruited two family members to join me in eating only 500 calories a day for 5 days.

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