Starvation mode is a myth

how original. a simple search of prior threads would give you everything you're looking for and more. /thread.

I think i will stick with what my DR, Dietary Nurse and Diabetes Nurse have told me. Anything less than 1200 cals a day and your body is not getting the nutrients you need. Regardless of loosing weight...it should be about being healthy.

I agree...

The topic may be over worked but I still have not seen any scientific proof of it - it is just anecdotal at best or an old wives tale at worst

I agree with this. People even get mad at me on here for bringing it up but I've STILL never seen actual proof of it.

I don't restrict below 1000 calories, I eat usually from 1300 to 1500 but that's simply because if I forced myself to go lower, I'd probably feel irritable or binge eat. I don't really think going below that would cause me to lose fat slower though, I really don't. There are people who literally fast, with juice, water, or otherwise, for 30 straight days and lose tremendous amounts of weight. They've clearly not entered starvation mode yet.

Literal starvation and a HUGE deficit are slightly different --in the absence of calories your body has NO CHOICE but to use it's fat stores. That doesn't mean your weight loss is as great as one would predict based on your estimated deficit--it usually isn't. That's adaptive thermogenesis for you. I'll be damned if I endure the agony of such a low calorie diet only for a nominal increase in my rate of weight loss--that's just silly.

I think i will stick with what my DR, Dietary Nurse and Diabetes Nurse have told me. Anything less than 1200 cals a day and your body is not getting the nutrients you need. Regardless of loosing weight...it should be about being healthy.

I agree...

Many people eat 3000 calories a day and still dont get the nutrients they need. More calories does not equal more essential vitamins/minerals/nutrients!

Doesn't necessarily mean more nutrients but the odds of getting more nutrients while eating 3000 calories is SIGNIFICANTLY greater than the odds of getting enough while eating less than 1200 calories.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/3047-700-calories-a-day-and-not-losing

Please go and read this - and then search the seven million times this topic has been beaten to death on the site......:sick: :noway:

Who is the author of this article? Anecdotal at best & premised on a sample of 1 with absolutely no data to back it up. (But I do agree, the topic has been done to death.....)

Word^. agree with OP....

Nutrition, nutrition and nutrition is VERY important all of one's life and is especially important in seniors. Many older people unconsciously adopt a "starvation mode" diet because they get in a vicious cycle of eating less because of poor appetite, which cuts their energy levels and makes them eat even less. They lose their muscle mass as their bodies, starved for nutrients, begin to catabolize their muscles (called sarcopenia) which often leads to falls and bone breakage, which in turn, can be so debilitating, in the case of a broken hip, that they succumb to their injuries. Nutrition and exercise are especially important for seniors as a way of staying reasonably healthy until their bodies just quit. Studies have shown that seniors who are well-nourished and maintain an active lifestyle do not die a lot later than their poorly-nourished and sedentary age-mates. They just spend a lot less time being debilitated.

There are people dying from anorexia on a fairly regular basis. Super low calorie is not the way to go.

Wow anorexia is a mental disorder. Not a diet.

Where did the poster said anorexia is a diet?

There are people dying from anorexia on a fairly regular basis. Super low calorie is not the way to go.

Wow anorexia is a mental disorder. Not a diet.

It's a mental disorder that makes you restrict food intake to dangerous levels. Stop being so intentionally ignorant.

Doesn't exist. Your metabolism slows down due to leptin and thyroid hormones but it doesn't stop. Most people who starve often binge once in a while. If you are hyper dieted your body hyper compensates. For instance, after a body building comp due to water, salt and calories consumed I can put on 28lb in 4 days...

Doesn't exist. Your metabolism slows down due to leptin and thyroid hormones but it doesn't stop. Most people who starve often binge once in a while. If you are hyper dieted your body hyper compensates. For instance, after a body building comp due to water, salt and calories consumed I can put on 28lb in 4 days...