What is this insanity?

[Suzr]

I just read an article about Jenny Worth. In the article it says that "Despite the enormous number of calories she burns with her strenuous training schedule, Worth says she has a hard time getting in contest shape because of genetics and a sluggish thyroid. When training for a competition she often consumes no more than 500 calories a day."
Could this possible be true? Has she shot her metabolism so badly from dieting that she has to consume this little? I think this is truely shocking and sad, but maybe I am naive.

 

[lexi]

500 calories a day?????? Isn't that practically starving yourself????

 

[anthrax]

they forgot a "0"

 

[SheHuLK]

thats gotta be some sort of mistake, i think. i dont think she would have the kind of body she does if she were eating 500 calories a day, even if only for contest. thats just my opinion.

 

[starfish]

According to articles, her stats are 5' 1 inches tall and between 107 and 120 pounds.

Surely she eats more than 500 calories... Good Grief, that is how tall I am- but maybe that's my problem


I don't see how she could have any energy with 500 calories, but you never know.

 

[Debu]

I saw her too! It amazes me how "muscular" they look in the mags being so lean and to see them in person soooo tiny.

 

[Ceebs]

Could this possible be true? Has she shot her metabolism so badly from dieting that she has to consume this little? I think this is truely shocking and sad, but maybe I am naive.

Depends on what you mean by "dieting" - your body can recover from being extremely hypocaloric for long periods of time, but abuse of T3 can impair one's thyroid function for life. Methinks the latter is the power at work here, assuming the 500 calorie figure wasn't simply a misprint. I find it very hard to believe that anyone could train AND maintain the muscle mass that Jenny has on 500 calories per day for the length of a standard cutting cycle.

 

[Temple]

I would more likely think the number should have read 1500. Even that would be low for someone who does the kind of training those girls do.

 

[Arioch]

Wow. She is slightly larger than my wife, who cuts to make weight on three times that.

 

[muskles]

How many weeks out does she start her cutting diet? I could see going that low for a VERY short period of time, or if she were on an anabolic to counteract the insanely low cals (assuming she would be tested, though, and not on).