In another surgery, the stomach is attached to the middle of the small intestine. This bypasses a large part of the small intestine and reducing the amount of calories and nutrients absorbed into the body. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) involves stapling the stomach to create a small pouch. The smaller stomach is attached directly to the middle of the small intestine. This allows food to bypass much of the stomach and the first section of the small intestine. It limits the amount of food that you can eat and reduces the amount of calories and nutrients that are absorbed into the body. Previous.
I've seen male competitors eat fewer than 1,800 calories trying to reduce their body fat. This is not the way to get shredded. If you cut your calories this much, you will end up losing significant lean muscle mass and severely damaging your metabolism.
Eat fewer calories. There's no way around the fact that burning fat means eating fewer calories than you burn. This puts the body in a catabolic, or fat-burning, state. It is essential to avoid starvation, as this actually lowers metabolism and causes the body to retain fat and burn muscle.