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Starvation Mode

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  • jayrudq
    jayrudq Posts: 475 Member
    Personally, I think you will be just fine. There is nothing wrong with shaking things up a bit and it sounds unlikely that you

    1. Will continue with 750 calories a day

    2. The short amount of time you do under-eat your calories you will stall

    3. And even if you did, once you returned to your normal amount your loss should continue.

    I think you may be pleasantly surprised and see a greater drop in weight. I personally respond better to a variety of approaches and find that NOT doing the same thing day in and day out is actually quite effective.

    Good luck and I hope it cools off.
  • BarackMeLikeAHurricane
    BarackMeLikeAHurricane Posts: 3,400 Member
    There are documented instances of obese humans undergoing medically supervised fasting for over a month with only water and multivitamins being consumed. Take from that what you will.
    Here's a 382 day fast: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2495396/?page=1
  • razz02
    razz02 Posts: 36 Member
    There are documented instances of obese humans undergoing medically supervised fasting for over a month with only water and multivitamins being consumed. Take from that what you will.
    Here's a 382 day fast: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2495396/?page=1

    I read about the 382 day fast many years ago, since then I abandoned the idea of the body retaining calories when fasted. Metabolic rate will alter beacause one doesn´t consume any food hence the bodytemperature will get lower hence less energy will be consumed. Lower bodyweight will consume less energy than a higher one. That is all.

    Starvation mode is the food industry´s way of keeping the consumption up. The fatter we get the more money they earn and then we go out and buy their weightloss products.Nothing wrong with that just a way of keeping the economies going.

    So please proceed with the big starvation mode scare- it keeps the economy going around the globe.

    Keep on eating and feeding. I certainly don´t buy into it.
  • CaitAdkins
    CaitAdkins Posts: 1
    So this is my first reply and post ever! Go me!

    Anyways, I think a lot of people posting on this had a really dysfunctional reaction to terms used and didn't really offer much help to this probably, very nice person, who had a simple question. So maybe instead of arguing over terms used, you take it with a grain of salt and help her out!

    Of course 750 calories is way too little to take in and I found myself having the same problem earlier this month. I was exercising and burning like 500-600 calories and this caused me to have a net calorie total (on average) of 900 to 1000. Even then, I felt like I was eating in excess ( 1600 calories, all healthy however so many fruits, vegetable, and chicken = always so full all the time). I step on the scale two days ago and I've lost about 5lbs (which isn't that bad), however it's nothing like the weight loss I've previously experienced in my life. So I looked at what I was doing, asked for advice from those around me, and read some great articles on "starvation mode or whatever you like to call it" and what I could do to help boost my metabolism.

    I think a big thing that wasn't mentioned here was eating small meals throughout the day, instead of larger ones. Someone mentioned snacks and the like, however I think the "big" meals are what you are talking about, I'm like you with that. I hate eating "meals" like lunch or dinner during the summer. Very recently though, I figured out if I ate 200-300 calorie "snack" meals once every 2-3 hours, I could easily maintain the amount of calories I needed and increase my metabolism to boot!

    I personally cut back to a 30 minute all inclusive body workout as well so I wasn't needing to eat so much all the time. Jillian Michael's 30 day shred was really great, I lost a lot of inches. This gave me a little bit of time to retrain my body and digestive system into processing healthier foods. It's all about not overwhelming yourself.

    Every couple hours, just eat like a cup of fruit and some nuts, or even half a chicken wrap. You can also make frozen yogurt drops (look on pinterest, they're awesome!) if you want something cold. If the water thing is overwhelming as well, maybe you a glass every hour, and then do 2 full ones 10-15 minutes before you workout.

    This is what I've been doing the last week and honestly, I feel so much better for it.
  • 1Larken
    1Larken Posts: 8
    I don't think that that person meany any harm. I think they just didn't explain how they came to that conclusion. Everyone that responded explained that when you have higher % of bf that it takes longer for your body to into starvation mode and that person just didn't explain themselves. So don't worry, I don't think anyone was making a fat joke. We are all on here to reach a goal. You're beautiful! :-)

    Have a good week and let's all keep making progress. :-)
  • tanyalevan
    tanyalevan Posts: 182
    Why not eat foods that are high in water content? Such as pears, spinach, watermelon...Just to keep you hydrated with the heat?
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