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How do I know when my body is in starvation mode?

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  • kalynn06
    kalynn06 Posts: 368 Member
    Starvation mode has been pretty well hashed out, but if you're worried, you might consider adding more strength training and upping your calories to a number based on looking at your BMR and TDEE. Putting on more lean muscle will do better things for your metabolism in the long run than eating at such a large deficit. I'd be more worried about losing muscle than anything else when eating that low.
  • secretlobster
    secretlobster Posts: 3,566 Member
    Simply put - Your weight loss stalls, and you may retain water, making you feel bloated or giving you diarrhea.

    The body does not use stored fat as a primary source of energy - We are not tadpoles. That stored fat is slowly burned up when the body regularly doesn't get enough calories to maintain its current MASS.
  • username_1998
    username_1998 Posts: 2
    Your body will enter starvation mode if you reduce your calories to lower then 50% of what your body normally needs to function.
    Eg; He/she may need 2000 cals/day, they eat 1000 cals or less and there body is at a greater risk of entering starvation mode if lowered intake is continued for longer then a few days.
    Even if you do enter starvation mode you will not stop losing weight, you just might not lose it as fast.
    Hope this helped :laugh: :happy: :wink:
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