Not eating enough calories

Yeah I am having the same problem. What I do is if for one day I don't eat enough calories I eat my calorie intake the next day

TamikaJames wrote: »

Does anyone else have that problem? I don't eat enough calories during the day so my body seems to think I'm in starvation mode(As if) and holds on to my fat. Is anyone else having this issue

Starvation mode really doesn't work like that and especially not in the short term. If you're not losing weight, it's far more likely to be from water weight or underestimating your intake. How far under your calories are you and how long since you last saw a drop on the scale?

callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »

starvation mode is a myth and if you cant eat enough calories, how did you get to the point where you need to LOSE weight?

I know how I got fat! Lol

chantelp0508 wrote: »

It's a lot easier to eat 2000 calories in McDonald than 2000 in cleaner eating.

But I still wouldn't say eating 2,000 in "cleaner foods" (whatever those are) is a "problem."

If someone is logging accurately and still failing to meet goals, they can add calorie dense foods to their diet. I think "clean eaters" still have access to those.

chantelp0508 wrote: »

It's a lot easier to eat 2000 calories in McDonald than 2000 in cleaner eating.

2000 calories is still 2000 calories. If your TDEE is 1500 and you eat 2000 calories a day, you'll gain a pound a week no matter how "clean" your diet is.

If you're eating too few calories and still not losing weight, the problem is elsewhere. For example, sugars, sodium, etc all contribute heavily to how your body reacts to either water or fat burning.

I've spent the last year pretty much on near "too-few" calories (1200-1500 or so) with a very low sodium content and nearly no sugars and weight has plummeted with almost calculated precision. I don't believe that there is a starvation mode, just a pseudo-mental reaction to too few calories and people rebounding into sugars/salts which cause your body to not use up the reserves (fat) you really want to lose.

And no I'm not pointing fingers here, just what I've observed.

Exercise is a very important part of that too. Get your heart rate up for an hour and sweat -- how you do it is up to you.

TamikaJames wrote: »

Does anyone else have that problem? I don't eat enough calories during the day so my body seems to think I'm in starvation mode(As if) and holds on to my fat. Is anyone else having this issue

Starvation mode is a myth to the common dieter. If you don't eat enough calories you lose weight not hold onto fat.

If you are not eating enough you are unintentionally eating too much.

purplebuttersunflower wrote: »

I went ahead & increased my calories anyway to try it out & ended up losing 2.7kgs in a week! Happy about the loss but even happier that I proved a few people wrong.

I hope you saved the data because you also proved physics wrong.

rainbowbow wrote: »

janejellyroll wrote: »

purplebuttersunflower wrote: »

I went ahead & increased my calories anyway to try it out & ended up losing 2.7kgs in a week! Happy about the loss but even happier that I proved a few people wrong.

I hope you saved the data because you also proved physics wrong.

nah, she probably started tracking accurately.

Yeah that must be it

TamikaJames wrote: »

Does anyone else have that problem? I don't eat enough calories during the day so my body seems to think I'm in starvation mode(As if) and holds on to my fat. Is anyone else having this issue

So your not eating enopugh calories so you can lose weight? Care to open your diary, this sounds awful.

TamikaJames wrote: »

ummmm wow. Okay. I know for a fact I'm not eating too much. I barely eat as it is during the day(hence the not eating enough calories) I'm generally under by about 2-300 calories. Yes I'm logging my food correctly although I just started on myfitness. I'm not sure why it's being said that it's a myth. Even when I am under my calories on MFP they give me a red notice(I've gotten them twice in 5 days)

Are you using a food scale to measure you solids/semi-solids (like peanut butter)?

~Lyssa

Who flagged the gifs?

And BTW OP, starvation mode is not what it is called.

TamikaJames wrote: »

Does anyone else have that problem? I don't eat enough calories during the day so my body seems to think I'm in starvation mode(As if) and holds on to my fat. Is anyone else having this issue

How do you know this?
Subjective things like how you feel are important.
But you also need to measure things....with a tape measure, measure your body in several places and keep track of changes weekly.
Measure your bodyfat%, weight, blood sugar fasting and 2hours post meal, your BMR, log your food intake, weigh your food, track your calorie expenditure over a 24hr period using a fitbit or similar.
Track other things you might think of and be concerned about, like how well you are sleeping....this definitely affects your metabolism and how your body responds to your program.
Track all the changes in these measurements regularly so that you can see how your body responds to what you are doing.
You are drawing a conclusion, but I don't know what data you are using.

What do you mean when you say starvation mode...what are you referring to?
Starvation is so extreme, and it would literally take weeks to months w/o food to get to that point, depending on how much bodyfat you have.

Do you mean that you are concerned about your metabolism? This is a legitimate concern, but you can only know if you are negatively affecting your metabolism by MEASURING things, including blood tests of all your sex hormones....which is a very good thing to measure BTW. Go to the doctor and have blood tests ordered so that you can know where you stand and have peace of mind.