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If you eat too little, your body is starving for food, and it will start to immediately convert the food you eat into fat to store it. Eating too little is counterproductive. The key is to eat enough so that your body isn't trying to store fat but not to eat so much that you are taking in more than you are burning. It is really a fine line to. On Weight Watcher's I have averaged 1.5-2 lbs a week in weight loss (total of about 77 lbs now). However I have gone from losing up to 4 lbs in a week to losing nothing. I haven't gained a single week since June, 2003. The only times I have been very hungry on this diet were in the first 6 weeks when my body was getting used to the lower food intake. I'll sometimes be a little hungry when I go to bed but a little water intake cures that. I'm around 2000 cals a day, and I exercise enough to burn around 300 cals a day. Also, I'm not 100% consistent in this 2000 cals/day. On Saturdays, we go out for a family dinner, and I'm probably taking in around 2800 cals. The next day though I'm not nearly as hungry, so I end up eating around 1800 cals for the next couple of days to take out the excess. It seems to have worked out alright.
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