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Hoarding Calories

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  • totem12
    totem12 Posts: 194 Member
    This is a blog, not a journal, but it seems to summarise pretty well what I always thought to be correct about starvation mode:

    http://labcoatsunbuttoned.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/the-food-series-1-these-starvation.html
  • Joehenny
    Joehenny Posts: 1,222 Member
    Yes and no. The starvation mode that most mfp obsess over is a myth. Now metabolic damage due to prolonged periods of dieting is real.

    My rate has slowed drastically but thankfully no where near as slow as it was around Feb. Cutting too long is bad on hormones.

    Layne Norton on Metabolic Damage:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHHzie6XRGk
  • Joehenny
    Joehenny Posts: 1,222 Member
    Reading the title made me think this was going to be a thread about people who save all their calories throughout the day for one big splurge. Oh, how wrong I was.

    That is what I thought...

    That's what I came for...IF crew checking in.
  • snoopycool
    snoopycool Posts: 37
    Reading the title made me think this was going to be a thread about people who save all their calories throughout the day for one big splurge. Oh, how wrong I was.

    Ha! Me, too.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    Case in point, I had my sigmoid colon removed. I didn't eat for 6 days. Guess how much weight I lost? Zip, nada, zilch. I actually gained a couple pounds.

    See, when I had my appendix removed, I lost over 12 lbs in the week I was in hospital (I was not given any food for five of those days).

    It would take 7000 calories above TDEE in 6 days to gain 2 lbs of fat. That's pretty much impossible without eating. Water weight is very common with gut problems.
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