How To Repair A Damaged Metabolism - Stavation Mode

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  • odyssey1013
    odyssey1013 Posts: 4
    thanks for posting
  • Cyn_125
    Cyn_125 Posts: 21 Member
    Bump
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,409 Member
    bump
  • mericksmom
    mericksmom Posts: 222 Member
    LOVE thanks
  • Pebble321
    Pebble321 Posts: 6,423 Member
    This is great info, thanks for posting.

    Like many women I've dieted on and off for much of my adult life and have never got into the right habits to keep my weight at a healthy level, and don't really think I have a clue about what my body actually needs.l
    One of the things that I really like about MFP is that it feels as though I'm retraining my body and mind to know how much food is the right amount. I can see that when I lower my cals by 100 a week (to 1500) I lose faster, at 1600 I can still lose, just slower - but under 1400 I get grumpy and hungry and can't keep it up. Logging and monitoring is really useful to be able to put some of the pieces together - looking at calorie amounts, hormonal cycle, exercise etc.

    Thanks again.
  • ladybugss
    ladybugss Posts: 135 Member
    bump for later
  • LisaKyle11
    LisaKyle11 Posts: 662 Member
    BIG bump!
  • carmenstop1
    carmenstop1 Posts: 210 Member
    Bump from me too~:tongue:
  • mericksmom
    mericksmom Posts: 222 Member
    Thanks for the info.....I am trying to fix the damage I have done with under eating so this is really helpful.
  • LisaKyle11
    LisaKyle11 Posts: 662 Member
    The idea of easing back into eating more calories gradually by 100 or so a week is what I had to do. I was down to eating like 500 a day when I had disordered eating and have now increased it to a healthy amount and continued losing weight. (:

    wow...increasing by only a 100 a week? that is a slow process. so glad to hear that you are losing now!
  • DBabbit
    DBabbit Posts: 173 Member
    Bump. Thanks. I needed to read this!
  • QueenHanifa
    QueenHanifa Posts: 180 Member
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  • mvln
    mvln Posts: 96 Member
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  • chrisdavey
    chrisdavey Posts: 9,834 Member
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  • mheightchew
    mheightchew Posts: 334
    I reall needed this reminder today. Thanks!
  • dad106
    dad106 Posts: 4,868 Member
    Awesome post.. This is me for sure. I've been eating low cal- think anywhere between 800-1300 calories a day and have now increased to 1500-1600 hundred and packed on two pounds. Good to know that it will come back off eventually.
  • robin52077
    robin52077 Posts: 4,383 Member
    I have been trying to tell these things to people who are doing it wrong.
    Bump so I can just link to this post!
  • stormieweather
    stormieweather Posts: 2,549 Member
    This is what I've been doing. It helps me to stick to the plan (not cheat) because I know maintenance week is coming, and it resets my leptin levels. My last maintenance week was April 1 and my next maintenance week is July 1. It's working great!
    Take Diet breaks: Avoid prolonged periods in aggressive caloric deficits. If you have a lot of fat to lose and it’s going to take more than 3 months to hit your long term fat loss goal, don’t do it all in one stretch. Take a week at maintenance calories after 12 weeks of restricted dieting. This – raising your calories - is the most counter-intuitive of all the metabolism-rebuilding strategies but it’s one of the most important.
  • ChChCharlie
    ChChCharlie Posts: 67
    Bump

    Thank you!
  • SunLovin1
    SunLovin1 Posts: 682 Member
    Thanks Rick! I was doing the over cardio thing for awhile and it definitely wasn't working for me. I cut back on my exercise and it's really helped. Totally agree about weight lifting. Best change I ever made.
  • robinaddison
    robinaddison Posts: 232 Member
    Thanks for this!
  • QueenofCups
    QueenofCups Posts: 365 Member
    thank you! what a good read!
  • mmnichol
    mmnichol Posts: 208 Member
    bump
  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member
    I like Venuto and his writings a lot, but, at the risk of being nit picky, I think he goes a little into "fear factor" mode here. First I think he is using extreme examples that overstate the "danger" of "metabolic damage". It almost sounds like this is an older article written in response to very low calorie "liquid protein" type diets that were more popular 15 years ago.

    When I started my program, I read a lot of research on the topic of metabolic changes and caloric restriction. The effect of lowered metabolism was definitely shown with very low calorie diets, but the changes reversed once normal feeding resumed. There was no long-term "damage".

    He also mentions "adaptive thermogenesis". This is a real effect, but it is not necessarily related to "starvation mode". The studies I have seen suggest that It may be an effect of large amounts of weight lost, by whatever reason. It's one of the things that predisposes people who have achieved a large weight loss to future regaining of the weight and it is one of the reasons why an aggressive exercise program is crucial to long-term maintenance of weight loss.

    There are definitely adverse reactions to very low calorie diets. I just feel that using simplistic and alarmist language does more to obscure the real issues rather than clarify. There are too many variables involved to make such absolutist statements.
  • Yori1
    Yori1 Posts: 142
    Thanks - bump.
  • gp79
    gp79 Posts: 1,799 Member
    Tag
  • emmalene1984
    emmalene1984 Posts: 137 Member
    some great points to remember, thanks :-)
  • thebutteredtoast
    thebutteredtoast Posts: 141
    very interesting. thanks!
  • MissMaggie3
    MissMaggie3 Posts: 2,464 Member
    Bump for me too; thank you.
  • AlwaysWanderer
    AlwaysWanderer Posts: 641 Member
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