Starvation Mode

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  • fullercorp
    fullercorp Posts: 37 Member
    what if it crashes into a wall? i think mine rolled down a grassy knoll.
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    What I have been reading lately is more about metabolism crashing than starvation mode. Basically track what you are eating for the first week with no changes. Second week trade unhealthy for healthy foods than slowly bring it down to the to the calorie goal by going down a hundred to two hundred a week till you are at your goal. The metabolism crash from dropping so many calorie so quickly and depriving themselves is what can cause binging, extreme feelings of hunger, and make the diet harder to follow.

    Metabolism = "Sum of all the chemical reactions that take place in every cell of a living organism, providing energy for the processes of life and synthesizing new cellular material."

    Metabolism can slow (a tiny bit), but it won't crash.
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  • fullercorp
    fullercorp Posts: 37 Member
    mine? no, i was trying to be lighthearted. I count calories, i am clearly at or around 1200 and i don't lose. And i log my food, that is what this site is FOR. i will weigh my protein bars, but i can't be far off. Let's say i was at 1300-1400, MFP as a rule would tell me i shouldn't have to cut way below that. I don't WANT to cut way below that but i am not hearing differently.
  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
    mine? no, i was trying to be lighthearted. I count calories, i am clearly at or around 1200 and i don't lose. And i log my food, that is what this site is FOR. i will weigh my protein bars, but i can't be far off. Let's say i was at 1300-1400, MFP as a rule would tell me i shouldn't have to cut way below that. I don't WANT to cut way below that but i am not hearing differently.

    That's because you're only hearing what you want to hear.
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  • fullercorp
    fullercorp Posts: 37 Member
    no, i am not arguing. i was told to recheck logging months ago. I drilled down into more specific foods, gave up some trickier 'measurable' foods just to see if that might be the issue. no change.
    I agree that many people - including me- are guilty of inaccurate logging. but if someone says 'i am certain of the numbers', everyone circles back to inaccurate logging. my question is then what? because that seems like an Ouroboros equation.
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  • 6ftamazon
    6ftamazon Posts: 340 Member
    mine? no, i was trying to be lighthearted. I count calories, i am clearly at or around 1200 and i don't lose. And i log my food, that is what this site is FOR. i will weigh my protein bars, but i can't be far off. Let's say i was at 1300-1400, MFP as a rule would tell me i shouldn't have to cut way below that. I don't WANT to cut way below that but i am not hearing differently.

    There are so many mistakes in the mfp database that it's easy to be inaccurate if you don't double check sometimes. Like olive oil has 130 calories and I usually see 90-120. I've scanned food items and the result that popped up was completely inaccurate. Omelettes and meals ranging hundreds of calories (that's why it's always better to log each food item in a meal separately).

    Not to mention your activity level could be way off than what you think. A lot of people overestimate their activity level.

    Then there's water retention.
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    Have you had your resting metabolic rate tested?
    What about your body fat %?

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    I did look through some of your old posts. I see that you are 5'4 (like me) and 160lbs. One thing that stuck out to me though was that you have had an eating disorder before. I think if you cut your calories any lower, you risk potentially falling into another ED behavior.
  • Maleficent0241
    Maleficent0241 Posts: 386 Member
    Is it possible your TDEE isn't what you think it is and thus you are not in the deficit you think you are? The formulas are not accurate for everyone. If your logging is accurate but the number of calories you're aiming for is not, then losing weight may be an issue.
  • nopotofgold
    nopotofgold Posts: 164 Member
    What I have been reading lately is more about metabolism crashing than starvation mode. Basically track what you are eating for the first week with no changes. Second week trade unhealthy for healthy foods than slowly bring it down to the to the calorie goal by going down a hundred to two hundred a week till you are at your goal. The metabolism crash from dropping so many calorie so quickly and depriving themselves is what can cause binging, extreme feelings of hunger, and make the diet harder to follow.
    Your metabolism is not going to crash. I'm not sure but it sounds like you've been reading articles that are telling you what you want to hear.

    Your metabolism is not going to crash. If it did you'd die.
    I think the article was using crash in the context as slowing due to sudden changes in diet. Like dropping over 1500 calories out of your diet which cause people to feel starved until they get use to it. This was just a new way to adjust to a change that can make or break the diet.
    I don't see how that reading just what I want to hear since since I was looking at ways to keep myself from feeling hungry. I think you may just want to tell everyone with a different opinion or information than you think is right that they are wrong.
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