Is this starvation mode? Help!

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  • Mommy2Avaj
    Mommy2Avaj Posts: 140 Member
    Ok, I'm not a nutritionist, but I have done a lot of research into weight loss. In my opinion, you need to eat a base of 1200 calories a day. I don't always eat back all of my exercise calories, most of the time Ill only ear about half of my workpit calories back. I jes listen to my body. It tells me when its really hungry, and when I need to eat.
  • MsMargie1116
    MsMargie1116 Posts: 323 Member
    OK, I'm no nutritionist, or some physical education specialist, but I will tell you what I do and what works for me:

    I started out this year at 332. Was logging faithfully and losing weight doing it. I'd eat some of my exercise calories back, but not many. Finally, I decided to give it a try and eat as many of my exercise calories back as possible. I also spread my calories out throughout the day in 6 meals a day, and lost 5 lbs that week!!! So I have continued doing this and am down over 55lbs since the first of the year.

    Not really sure any of us would know what starvation mode really is, I personally don't like the term and feel like it's being overused. I read a blog on here that helped get me to my "AHA" moment. When your body is getting enough to eat, it is more willing to let go of the fat it's holding on to. :wink:

    LIke I said, I'm no dieitian nor am I some exercise guru, but this is what works for me... :smile:
  • Allihexen
    Allihexen Posts: 111 Member
    http://caloriecount.about.com/forums/weight-loss/truth-starvation-mode
  • BlueDahlia77
    BlueDahlia77 Posts: 77
    Starvation mode is a term made up to scare you into eating more...if your losing your not stalling out.
    Google Starvation mode and read both sides then make up your own mind on if it exists or not.

    Starvation mode is very real. It's when your metabolism slows down to the point where your body will begin storing energy (food) as fat because it doesn't know when the next meal is coming. This is a physiological condition that dates back to the earliest days of human evolution because we had to hunt and forrage for food.
  • MsMargie1116
    MsMargie1116 Posts: 323 Member
    So say I have my breakfast cereal, a jacket potato and filling for lunch, some chicken and broccoli for dinner, a coffee, some water, an apple during the day...

    If this isn't reaching my 1200 cals, then what should I be eating? Trying to find foods that are maybe higher in cals - to get me to my cals target - but lower in sugar and fat, so I don't go over on those. I think thats what I'm trying to say!

    I think I focussed on things that were low fat and sugar... but they were also low in cals so that's why I ended under for the past week.

    Based on your diary, you can afford some more carbohydrates and certainly some healhy fats. Your proteins are high, which is good, but you need to bring the other two up.

    I'm thinking nuts, maybe some extra virgin olive oil, a little good quality bread, and a small amount of cheese (which, by the way, would make an awesome meal).

    WOW, now I'm wanting to go home and make me a grilled cheese sandwich!!! :wink:

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