Am I starving myself without knowing it?

caminoslo
caminoslo Posts: 239 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I eat until I'm satisfied and log it in. But I notice I don't eat enough calories but I'm not hungry. What's your thoughts or facts

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  • jwdieter
    jwdieter Posts: 2,582 Member
    I reckon you'd know if you were starving.
  • caminoslo
    caminoslo Posts: 239 Member
    I reckon you'd know if you were starving.

    So the calories I need on mfp are misleading
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    You've given absolutely no information on how many calories you're eating and have a locked diary. You're probably not starving. You may or may not be eating enough.
  • toaster6
    toaster6 Posts: 703 Member
    No. If you were starving, you would most certainly feel it. Make sure your calorie measurements are accurate-- no guessing.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Your diary isn't open so no one can comment.
  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    Depends on how much of a deficit you're talking about. If you get in the habit of not eating much, you can get to the point where you're just not hungry even though you need more food.
  • TarynAngeline
    TarynAngeline Posts: 95 Member
    Depends on how much of a deficit you're talking about. If you get in the habit of not eating much, you can get to the point where you're just not hungry even though you need more food.

    Yes, I've experienced this. You don't go into "starvation mode" unless you are truly starving but you certainly adjust to eating less long term.
  • Phoenix_Warrior
    Phoenix_Warrior Posts: 1,633 Member
    No. If you were starving, you would most certainly feel it. Make sure your calorie measurements are accurate-- no guessing.

    This isn't necessarily true. Long periods of vlcd can cause the bodys hunger receptors to not work. It's why anorexics can claim to be stuffed and eat next to nothing.

    OP, as pp stated. Your diary is closed so we don't know what you're eating or how much. It is important to fuel the body, so if you really are under eating, I suggest incorporating more calorie dense foods into your diet to meet your dietary needs
  • jwdieter
    jwdieter Posts: 2,582 Member
    I reckon you'd know if you were starving.

    So the calories I need on mfp are misleading

    Starvation has symptoms. MFP does not provide a "starvation limit", so it's not misleading you.

    If you're not eating 1200, you probably should be eating at least that much if you're a normal sized person.
  • toaster6
    toaster6 Posts: 703 Member
    No. If you were starving, you would most certainly feel it. Make sure your calorie measurements are accurate-- no guessing.

    This isn't necessarily true. Long periods of vlcd can cause the bodys hunger receptors to not work. It's why anorexics can claim to be stuffed and eat next to nothing.

    OP, as pp stated. Your diary is closed so we don't know what you're eating or how much. It is important to fuel the body, so if you really are under eating, I suggest incorporating more calorie dense foods into your diet to meet your dietary needs

    I assumed we were talking about actual starvation-- whether you feel hungry or not, if you were starving, your body would experience extreme hunger pains, you'd lose hair, have no energy to do anything, and basically cease to have proper bodily function.
  • VelvetMorning
    VelvetMorning Posts: 398 Member
    At the risk of releasing a thread riot, I'm 5'3, 100-105 pounds, VERY small frame, no exercise and can feel completely fine with no adverse effects with 1,000 calories or so a day. The problem? I'll binge about once a week on 3,000 calories, so my daily intake is more like ~1,300 a day, which just so happens to be perfect for me! I dunno, I believe in calories over short time frames than per day, but that's just me. If you're "starving" on some days and over doing it on others, your weekly average is probably higher than you'd think and you're not really starving at all.
  • Phoenix_Warrior
    Phoenix_Warrior Posts: 1,633 Member
    No. If you were starving, you would most certainly feel it. Make sure your calorie measurements are accurate-- no guessing.

    This isn't necessarily true. Long periods of vlcd can cause the bodys hunger receptors to not work. It's why anorexics can claim to be stuffed and eat next to nothing.

    OP, as pp stated. Your diary is closed so we don't know what you're eating or how much. It is important to fuel the body, so if you really are under eating, I suggest incorporating more calorie dense foods into your diet to meet your dietary needs

    I assumed we were talking about actual starvation-- whether you feel hungry or not, if you were starving, your body would experience extreme hunger pains, you'd lose hair, have no energy to do anything, and basically cease to have proper bodily function.

    Oh. So anorexics aren't actually starving? I dont quite understand what you're implying by "assumed we were talking about actual starvation". That is actual starvation...
  • JTick
    JTick Posts: 2,131 Member
    What's your thoughts or facts

    My thoughts are that I didn't get fat because I "wasn't hungry". If you are here to lose weight, believe me, you can eat enough to meet your MFP requirement.
  • emmanap91
    emmanap91 Posts: 300 Member
    No. If you were starving, you would most certainly feel it. Make sure your calorie measurements are accurate-- no guessing.

    This isn't necessarily true. Long periods of vlcd can cause the bodys hunger receptors to not work. It's why anorexics can claim to be stuffed and eat next to nothing.

    OP, as pp stated. Your diary is closed so we don't know what you're eating or how much. It is important to fuel the body, so if you really are under eating, I suggest incorporating more calorie dense foods into your diet to meet your dietary needs

    I assumed we were talking about actual starvation-- whether you feel hungry or not, if you were starving, your body would experience extreme hunger pains, you'd lose hair, have no energy to do anything, and basically cease to have proper bodily function.

    Oh. So anorexics aren't actually starving? I dont quite understand what you're implying by "assumed we were talking about actual starvation". That is actual starvation...

    quoted this for truth.
  • FerretBuellerr
    FerretBuellerr Posts: 468 Member
    OP, could you just open your diary so we can really help give a good opinion instead of argue about what starvation means? :flowerforyou:
  • Holly_Roman_Empire
    Holly_Roman_Empire Posts: 4,440 Member
    What's your thoughts or facts

    My thoughts are that I didn't get fat because I "wasn't hungry". If you are here to lose weight, believe me, you can eat enough to meet your MFP requirement.

    Exactly this. These threads never cease to amaze me.
  • a_stronger_me13
    a_stronger_me13 Posts: 812 Member
    Starving is a pretty over/inappropriately used term.

    OP, if you want some help determining your calorie goals you'll have to post some more information like your body stats and activity level. And calorie goals/tracking is worthless without measuring... READ AS WEIGHING... everything you eat or at least as much as you can. People often underestimate how much they eat especially with the eye ball method and overestimate how much they burn when exercising.

    www.fitnessfrog.com has some helpful calculators for determining how much your body needs for maintaining your weight and an estimate of how much you can eat while losing weight.
  • GingerLolita
    GingerLolita Posts: 738 Member
    I have days when I don't really get hungry, but I've feel tired/weak and that's how I know my body needs some more fuel. Use other cues than stomach hunger pain to determine if you need food.
  • red_road
    red_road Posts: 761 Member
    not enough info
  • caminoslo
    caminoslo Posts: 239 Member
    Your diary isn't open so no one can comment.



    Diary is open
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    You definitely need to eat more. I don't know how you're not hungry - you barely eat and when you do it's not the best choices. Most days I saw were in the 500-800 calorie range.
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    If weight isn't melting off of you, you aren't starving yourself.
  • DavidSTC
    DavidSTC Posts: 173 Member
    Are you logging all of your food? Don't know how you could eat that way. I'd gnaw off my hand.
  • Phoenix_Warrior
    Phoenix_Warrior Posts: 1,633 Member
    How are you choosing your diary entries? Do you weigh and measure your food? I see like 2 oz of meat and generic "medium bananas". At first glance, it seems like not much but it depends on how accurately you log. Do you log everything?
  • Just_Scott
    Just_Scott Posts: 1,766 Member
    " no exercise and can feel completely fine with no adverse effects with 1,000 calories or so a day. The problem? I'll binge about once a week on 3,000 calories, so my daily intake is more like ~1,300 a day, " Quote from a post above...

    This sounds like a new diet 3 in 1 and 1 for 6 simple numbers really....and your closer to 1400 per day :)

    Maybe get a sign that says 3116 and hold it up at NFL games down by the goal stand and grow some fuzzy freaky hair...who knows? It's been done before...yes this post was made drug and alcohol free....
  • caminoslo
    caminoslo Posts: 239 Member
    Are you logging all of your food? Don't know how you could eat that way. I'd gnaw off my hand.


    Well dinner was skipped cause I didn't have access to my fitness pal at home until recently amazing me not log in everything but undid eat dinner. And I normally long in everything for breakfast since am too lazy to look it up again
  • QuietBloom
    QuietBloom Posts: 5,413 Member
    Probably not.

    Get a food scale, so you have a better idea of how many calories you are consuming. I only saw a couple of low days, but you might not be hungry because you are under estimating calories consumed.

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