starvation mode?

ucalegon

via reddit.com/r/loseit:

People concerned with starvation mode are concerned that, by lowering their calorie intake drastically, their body’s metabolism will lower dramatically to compensate. Starvation mode is a myth. It was popularised due to the Minnesota Starvation Experiment in which subjects were given 50% of their daily calorie intake for months. The result being that they lost weight until they had almost no weight left to lose and their bodies simply could not get the calories anywhere. Concisely put: starvation mode happens when you are, quite literally, wasting away and not when you have a simple caloric deficit. Your body will make up for it with fat stores, which is what they're there for.

Matt_Wild

Starvation Mode:

A state your body goes into when you do no consume enough calories to support everyday activities + exercise!
Each time you DO consume calories....your body immediately stores it as fat.....since it does not know when it will have more fuel provided. The fat, however, DOES NOT get burned as calories do. Hence the reason for weight loss difficulties!

No, it doesn't.

Well...it did with me.

Thus proving that it will with everyone.

Who knows? Everyone is different. I just know what I have been through.

I know because I understand the human body.

Check out leptin and triiodothyronine and the metabolism, you'll start understanding a lot more.

Simply because you were hypoglycemic, doesn't mean you stop being human, not for one second. Unless you are a little green woman (i.e. not human)? That is simply to do with a totally abnormal level of blood glucose circulating in the blood (11.1 mmol/l). This is nothing to do with a starvation mode. It's to do with how your body handles blood glucose and insulin, something completely different.

watboy

I agree with Devahol and Matt_Wild. According to this starvation mode theory I've been on it for 3 /12 so years.... My Dr seems to think i'm pretty healthy. I think it's a term that confuses people and its used waaaaaaay to much. I can't say what my metabolism is but I've had no problem maintaining my weight except for when we get busy at my job I eat crap and gain some weight. Just avoid people telling you that you are starving yourself because you didn't eat those extra 600 calories give or take,. This doesn't mean don't eat , eat the amount you physically feel comfortble eating. check this out http://fitnessblackbook.com/main/starvation-mode-why-you-probably-never-need-to-worry-about-it/

Char_marcus

People sometimes get to fixated on ''Studies'', but what people tend to forget is that these studies are usually based on a certain number of people or type of build, person, age range, race, gender and cannot as a whole represent the whole population at all.

There are Facts such as if you starve yourself you will lose weight as your body has to get fuel from somewhere i.e stored fat, but also you are minimising the intake of essential nutrients your body needs and then you end up looking worse for the weight loss.

714rah714

NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooo, not again

watboy

I just joined, Well i've had this app for a while but just started using it recently . I'm finding out quickly there is no shortage of opinions. Lol. I lost weight without counting calories, just did the ole eat less crap, eat better food and excercise it worked. whatever science went into that who truly knows. All I know I eat when I'm hungry I take my vitamins have a protein shake in the morning and after my workout and I've been fine so far. Maybe one day I won't be, But I'm def not starving lol.

runmypretties

Wouldn't it be nice if during starvation mode the body would go and use some of the reserves it has been storing up all these years!

HAHA YES!!!! what the hell does it think its playing at!?! my thighs have enough fat to get me through a rough patch!! :P

alexbusnello

I'm in starvation mode right now and have gotten fatter even from a few weeks ago.....I don't know what to do.......please help : ( not only that, but my muscles are much much smaller and weaker and softer than before when my metabolism was higher....I need help.

samanthagardner75

i am also confused especially with all these conflicting views. in my case, who could explain why I am gaining weight slowly even though I exercise at least 3 times per week ( was doing 40 min HIIT now I do 20 min cardio followed by weight training) and I eat usually way under my 1200 calorie mark, I don't know why but Im just not hungry. and no its not muscle weight because my pants are getting tighter and my body fat is 19%. im assuming that my rmr has dropped quite a bit due to poor diet..??