RL Story of "starvation mode"

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/07/23/fn.karen.daniel.catchingup/index.html?hpt=Sbin

Last year, Karen Daniel was feeling great about her weight. She had gone from 375 pounds to 200 in 24 months

Daniel started feeling bad after a trip to New York. She had a sinus infection, upper respiratory infection and bronchitis, she said recently from her home in Arizona. She started feeling better, but then got sick again. And healthy again. And sick again.

She went to two doctors who told her that her body was in "starvation mode," she said.

"I went way under on calories, and I got really sick," she said. "I went to under 1,000 calories a day, and I was working out between two and three hours a day. It was not a smart decision."

She felt like she was eating right, but she was gaining weight.

"It really is awful when you are doing everything you can and your body isn't cooperating," she said.

She now eats about 1,500 calories a day, more if she's had a hard workout. She decided to drop her trainer, and now she works out with her friends at a new gym. And she adds in new types of exercise, escaping the rut of cardio and lifting weights she felt that she was in, thanks to her workout buddies.