Starving myself FAT
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worldofalice wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »worldofalice wrote: »Starvation mode doesn't mean gaining weight on a low amount. It means your body adapting to maintain on very low amount, then gaining weight very quickly once you up your calories even a moderate amount. So in starvation one could be maintaining on 600-700 a day, then suddenly gain weight when they increase to 1200. Most of that fat would initially be stored around the internal organs. So no, you won't gain weight by the initial over-restriction; you will gain it from restricting for a period of time, then increasing. I'm not sure how well some element of this apply to those who aren't underweight though.
Nope, that's not how it works, either. No one would be able to maintain their weight on 600 - 700 calories a day. Just not physically possible. Unless they were a young child, maybe.
Erm yes I did. It nearly killed me in the end but I did it for a very long time. Then gained on what was initially a very minor increase.
Erm no you didn't. I'm sorry, but you cannot defy the laws of science. It's literally impossible. What you just said is pretty much the same as saying 'I fell off a cliff and floated because gravity doesn't apply to me'.0 -
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strong_curves wrote: »I starved myself fat too. Then I started really logging EVERYTHING I ate or drink for 2 weeks. Turns out I was eating a lot of stuff and forgetting I ate it. Or I was eating food and not realizing how many calories I was actually eating. I wasn't starving myself at all, I was eating way more than I realized hence I was slowly but surely gaining weight.
I used to eat like that too, its almost like I thought I was starving because all I was consuming were carbs, so in turn I wasn't staying full for long. little did I realize that the family size bag chips, along with a huge bag of chocolate meant to share, ontop of a huge set of cupcakes or a cake ext.. was well over 3500 calories alone not counting the actual meals of spaghetti ext I was eating inbetween. lol boy did I learn!0 -
UltimateRBF wrote: »MarziPanda95 wrote: »worldofalice wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »worldofalice wrote: »Starvation mode doesn't mean gaining weight on a low amount. It means your body adapting to maintain on very low amount, then gaining weight very quickly once you up your calories even a moderate amount. So in starvation one could be maintaining on 600-700 a day, then suddenly gain weight when they increase to 1200. Most of that fat would initially be stored around the internal organs. So no, you won't gain weight by the initial over-restriction; you will gain it from restricting for a period of time, then increasing. I'm not sure how well some element of this apply to those who aren't underweight though.
Nope, that's not how it works, either. No one would be able to maintain their weight on 600 - 700 calories a day. Just not physically possible. Unless they were a young child, maybe.
Erm yes I did. It nearly killed me in the end but I did it for a very long time. Then gained on what was initially a very minor increase.
Erm no you didn't. I'm sorry, but you cannot defy the laws of science. It's literally impossible. What you just said is pretty much the same as saying 'I fell off a cliff and floated because gravity doesn't apply to me'.
Maybe she is Wile. E. Coyote
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queenliz99 wrote: »UltimateRBF wrote: »MarziPanda95 wrote: »worldofalice wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »worldofalice wrote: »Starvation mode doesn't mean gaining weight on a low amount. It means your body adapting to maintain on very low amount, then gaining weight very quickly once you up your calories even a moderate amount. So in starvation one could be maintaining on 600-700 a day, then suddenly gain weight when they increase to 1200. Most of that fat would initially be stored around the internal organs. So no, you won't gain weight by the initial over-restriction; you will gain it from restricting for a period of time, then increasing. I'm not sure how well some element of this apply to those who aren't underweight though.
Nope, that's not how it works, either. No one would be able to maintain their weight on 600 - 700 calories a day. Just not physically possible. Unless they were a young child, maybe.
Erm yes I did. It nearly killed me in the end but I did it for a very long time. Then gained on what was initially a very minor increase.
Erm no you didn't. I'm sorry, but you cannot defy the laws of science. It's literally impossible. What you just said is pretty much the same as saying 'I fell off a cliff and floated because gravity doesn't apply to me'.
Maybe she is Wile. E. Coyote
Beep Beep!
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Liftng4Lis wrote: »queenliz99 wrote: »UltimateRBF wrote: »MarziPanda95 wrote: »worldofalice wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »worldofalice wrote: »Starvation mode doesn't mean gaining weight on a low amount. It means your body adapting to maintain on very low amount, then gaining weight very quickly once you up your calories even a moderate amount. So in starvation one could be maintaining on 600-700 a day, then suddenly gain weight when they increase to 1200. Most of that fat would initially be stored around the internal organs. So no, you won't gain weight by the initial over-restriction; you will gain it from restricting for a period of time, then increasing. I'm not sure how well some element of this apply to those who aren't underweight though.
Nope, that's not how it works, either. No one would be able to maintain their weight on 600 - 700 calories a day. Just not physically possible. Unless they were a young child, maybe.
Erm yes I did. It nearly killed me in the end but I did it for a very long time. Then gained on what was initially a very minor increase.
Erm no you didn't. I'm sorry, but you cannot defy the laws of science. It's literally impossible. What you just said is pretty much the same as saying 'I fell off a cliff and floated because gravity doesn't apply to me'.
Maybe she is Wile. E. Coyote
Beep Beep!
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This is comical. I joined my fitness pal hoping for supporters and it started a chain of negativity! Excellent!0
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This is comical. I joined my fitness pal hoping for supporters and it started a chain of negativity! Excellent!
Something you'll learn when you're here a while is that just about every day there is someone new quoting pseudo science or claiming untrue things. Sometimes a shift in your routine can lead to weight loss, but the bottom line is that you can't eat at a true deficit and gain weight because the body just doesn't work like that.
The high volume of posts of this nature lead to some of the comedy around here. People can be supportive, if you take the good advice given and work hard at it.0 -
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This is comical. I joined my fitness pal hoping for supporters and it started a chain of negativity! Excellent!
We support your effort to lose weight, and to that end will provide the right information. Eating less calories than you burn isn't necessarily that sexy - there just aren't that many ways to dress it up, so you'll very commonly see shysters make all kinds of bull shyte up for gullible people. If weight loss is your goal, consume less calories than your body burns and you'll do just fine0 -
Weight loss is very simple (not easy - but simple). Two postulates are necessary to internalize for anyone to be successful - 1) it requires a caloric deficit and 2) our behavior, shaped by hundreds of thousands of years of evolution and any number of famines, is designed to compel us to eat more than we burn whenever possible.
So, people who spend a lot of mental energy trying to explain why they're gaining weight "even when I only eat (insert miniscule number) of calories!" are simply fulfilling their evolutionary / biological mandate to get and stay fat. Evolutionary pressures exert such a strong influence on human behavior, I think it even shows up when we see these interminable posts where people are utterly convinced that stored energy can somehow spontaneously generate in the human body.0 -
Weight loss is very simple (not easy - but simple). Two postulates are necessary to internalize for anyone to be successful - 1) it requires a caloric deficit and 2) our behavior, shaped by hundreds of thousands of years of evolution and any number of famines, is designed to compel us to eat more than we burn whenever possible.
So, people who spend a lot of mental energy trying to explain why they're gaining weight "even when I only eat (insert miniscule number) of calories!" are simply fulfilling their evolutionary / biological mandate to get and stay fat. Evolutionary pressures exert such a strong influence on human behavior, I think it even shows up when we see these interminable posts where people are utterly convinced that stored energy can somehow spontaneously generate in the human body.
^^^ This!
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