'stavation mode'

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  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    Eating under 800 calories a day (long term) is what people with anorexia do. No wonder they keep it off. Starvation mode slows down the calories burned by making your metabolism more efficient at burning them, but it has its limits. Starving yourself, well, it makes you starve. That's why anorexic people aren't overweight, even though their metabolisms have slowed. They're slowly starving to death, and if you stay at 800 calories long term, you will too.
  • Greenrun99
    Greenrun99 Posts: 2,065 Member
    Hows your BF%? 25%? I love when I read these about eating too little is all bull.. then a week later they are asking for help cause they aren't losing weight anymore.. Or they put on 5 lbs eating a burger. Also hunger pains can be suppressed so just eating when hungry doesn't mean anything.
  • freckletone
    freckletone Posts: 58
    i like the replies to this

    some saying starvation mode should be respected, some saying it's rubbish

    What tickles me is that some people say, "you need to eat when your hungry and stop when you're full. That's the right thing to do." But then when someone like you comes along and says, "well, I do truly do that but I don't hit 1,200. But I feel completely fine." All of a sudden they're telling you to force feed yourself and seek professional help. :laugh:

    LOL
    i didn't see this till just now

    I know. It's probably not something people can understand because you're always told you need to eat this amount because this and this will happen
    studies show this and this

    that's fair enough. i think i'm just one of those ones where i can only eat this many calories to lose weight

    I'd say it was horrible but i'm used to it now. it was horrible to begin with though!
  • krithsai
    krithsai Posts: 668 Member
    i like the replies to this

    some saying starvation mode should be respected, some saying it's rubbish

    What else did you expect?
  • freckletone
    freckletone Posts: 58
    I was going nuts recently though with not losing weight yet eating so healthily and exercising
    I was literally going mental why the scales or tape measure was shwoing nothing after three months

    then i remembered how i had to lose the weigh tlast time. I was just having too many calories

    don't know if height comes into that?? i'm only 4'10. *shrugs*
  • freckletone
    freckletone Posts: 58
    i like the replies to this

    some saying starvation mode should be respected, some saying it's rubbish

    What else did you expect?

    i was execting everyone to tell me i was wrong lol!
  • SoozeE512
    SoozeE512 Posts: 439 Member
    Out of curiosity, how many calories were you consuming when you were gaining weight? You said "too many" but you didn't mention the number.
  • theskinnylist
    theskinnylist Posts: 286 Member
    From what I've read from my own research and threads on here...... women are not in "starvation mode" unless they go under the necessary 10% body fat.
  • stephanj
    stephanj Posts: 898 Member
    Before anyone jumps down her throat, remember she's tiny! I just plugged her numbers into Scoobys Workshop, and her TDEE-20% is 1246 calories.....
    http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

    This is why I have such major issues with the 1200 number for every single person.
  • freckletone
    freckletone Posts: 58
    Out of curiosity, how many calories were you consuming when you were gaining weight? You said "too many" but you didn't mention the number.

    no no, i was eating too many just to try and LOSE weight is what I meant. So when I started back in 2009 when i weighed 10st (154lb) i started by doing 1,200 calories ( i have no idea how many calories i was eat before.. but.. well.. i could eat a how tube of biscuits in one sitting. 4 packets of crisps. 4 sandwiches, etc pretty bad)

    I just kept gaining and gaining
    so i stopped, cut every thing out and was on 1,200 but nothing was happening.
    Well I say nothing.. I lost 4lb in three month. It was just ridiculous and I didn't get it- I even went to the doctor and explained and they didn't get it but they suggested exercise (of course) but as i mentioned i couldn't be arsed with exercise back then
    so i just reduced my calorie intake to 1,100 and i start noticing i was losing slightly more so I went down to 1000 and then settled at 900 which got me losing one pound per week

    then when i got to 112lb i just put my calories back to over 1000 and just stayed there for two years

    but yeah, last year... got back on them biscuits and crap as i broke up with my boyfriend. loll.
  • freckletone
    freckletone Posts: 58
    From what I've read from my own research and threads on here...... women are not in "starvation mode" unless they go under the necessary 10% body fat.

    Yeah. I reckon if you've got enough fat on you, you're fine

    when I was pregnant with my second daughter I had hyper emesis and was very very very sick- I was hospitalized with it cos for weeks i hadn't eaten/kept anything down for WEEKS
    I lost 14lb (but i was still over weight) but the doctors weren't worried about any of the starvation mode thing cos I had enough fat on me to survive for both me and my baby lol

    but was kept on a drip for three days to get all vitamin, levels etc back up to normal.
  • freckletone
    freckletone Posts: 58
    Before anyone jumps down her throat, remember she's tiny! I just plugged her numbers into Scoobys Workshop, and her TDEE-20% is 1246 calories.....
    http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

    This is why I have such major issues with the 1200 number for every single person.

    I probably should've mentioned how small i was when i started this loll

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