Still confused a little bit. Humor me please

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  • SueInAz
    SueInAz Posts: 6,592 Member
    Are you losing weight consistently? Do you have enough energy throughout the day and for your exercise? Do you feel you can keep this up long term? You may not have a problem. You might feel hunger kick in down the line, though, in which case you know you've got wiggle room to up your calories significantly without detracting from ongoing weight loss.
    This is the most important part. If you're losing weight and don't feel hungry, there's nothing wrong with continuing the way you are. Your body will let you know when you're not eating enough. At that point, you can play around with how many more calories you can eat and still maintain weight loss.

    Starvation mode is mostly myth. People who get themselves into a position where their metabolism slows down due to undereating are hungry while they are doing it but they choose not to eat more. Your body will let you know when you're underfeeding it.
  • beertrollruss
    beertrollruss Posts: 276 Member
    I sure wouldn't mind being able to exercise for hours and not be hungry afterwards.
  • AliceDark
    AliceDark Posts: 3,886 Member
    The concept is pretty simple and makes a lot of sense if you think about it -- when you are more active and exercise more, you need to eat more. MFP gives you a way to quantify that, because most people are really bad at estimating what "more" is, but people do it intuitively too. Think back to when people manually worked their own farms. You don't think your great-grandpa ate more on days when he was out working from sunup to sundown vs. those days when he was resting? Of course he did, because some days he needed more fuel than others.
  • LazerMole
    LazerMole Posts: 99 Member

    Starvation mode is mostly myth. People who get themselves into a position where their metabolism slows down due to undereating are hungry while they are doing it but they choose not to eat more. Your body will let you know when you're underfeeding it.

    I agree with you here. The "starvation mode" myth needs to die.

    Starvation mode only occurs if you are at the "essential fat" stage of BF%.

    What people generally experience and ascribe to "starvation mode" is actually just them failing to adjust their intake after significant weight loss, or logging incorrectly (either food intake, or exercise output).

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