Some of these meals under 500 calories got an automatic double-thumbs up, while others required quick, easy and so-worth-it tweaks. Related: 14 Blue Zone Diet Recipes To Help You Live Longer and ...

a caloric-deficit diet would have you eating less than 2,000 calories," he says. "The exact calorie intake will typically be around 1,500 to 1,700 calories per day, so the deficit would be 500 to ...

"The worst part of my diet was breakfast consisting of Red Bull ... "Now each day I have three 500-calorie meals and a 200-calorie snack," he added. "I'll have a bowl of Weetabix or porridge ...

However, 500 calories may be too many for someone ... kind of food you're eating rather than how many calories. "A low-calorie diet is wrongly promoted," Gomez says. "It works for a short time ...

and any diet that is so low in calories will promote weight loss." The diet is a 500-calorie diet, far below the level that most experts prescribe, as discussed in another recent CNNHealth article.