is my body in starvation mode ?

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  • Leslie1124
    Leslie1124 Posts: 143 Member
    no you are not in starvation mode...

    you cannot be eating every day and be in starvation mode.

    you can only go into starvation mode if you do not eat anything for 72+ hours ...

    what are you using to calculate your buns, and what kind of exercise are you doing? According to your post you are average a 1500 a day calorie burn which I find pretty hard to believe. My highest intensity lifting session only burns about 500 calories and I have a body fit media to track that..

    if you are using MFP database or the exercise machine then this burn count is probably flawed...

    This is incorrect. you CAN be eating everyday and your body be in starvation mode. If you are eating too few calories your body goes into "starvation mode" and it slows your metabolism and stores everything you eat to survive and therefore no weightless.
  • michelle7673
    michelle7673 Posts: 370 Member
    I think people get wrapped around the axel about the word "starvation"....it seems perfectly reasonable to me that the human body would downshift the metabolism if faced with consistent deep deficits. Would it keep you from losing weight altogether, long term? No...but why slow the engine down, especially if you can lose well at a higher number anyway?
    But my guess, truly, is that you are seeing the lagging effects of your holiday, maybe in water retention. That said, I think eating back most of your exercise calories is a good idea.
  • WhaddoWino
    WhaddoWino Posts: 146 Member
    You're working out a lot? Perhaps you are gaining muscle as you lose your fat?
    it's like this...
    Muscle-vs-Fat_zpsb21df6aa.jpg
  • shanehen
    shanehen Posts: 11
    love the pictures
  • 55in13
    55in13 Posts: 1,091 Member
    Also how much do you currently weigh what is your BF percentage. From what ive read you dont even need to worry about the so called starvation mode until you hit about 10 percent BF. I burned about average 1000 a day or more and had a intake of about 1600 and I did not have any issues of course I had about 35 percent BF ratio if not more.,

    And from the data I have seen, a meaningful effect from that mode isn't likely until your BF% is around 5. There has never been any medically sound study that showed a point at which consuming fewer calories resulted in a smaller calorie deficit. NEVER - not once. At some point the body starts to react and you might increase your deficit by only 60 by decreasing intake by 100 but a decrease in calories ALWAYS results in an increase in the calorie deficit.

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