Not Hungry

Yes, you should eat more. If you are not hunger or regularly have a hard time eating enough, change what you are eating and eat more calorie dense foods

Try having nuts, seeds, and/or dehydrated fruit as a snack. Add olive oil to soups, sauces, and/or salads. Add avocado to salads or sandwiches. Have a glass of juice in place of a glass of water. Drink more of your calories. add nut butters to existing snacks. Eat full fat versions of foods including milk products, salad dressings and avoid lite, and diet foods.

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Yes, you should eat more. If you are not hunger or regularly have a hard time eating enough, change what you are eating and eat more calorie dense foods

Try having nuts, seeds, and/or dehydrated fruit as a snack. Add olive oil to soups, sauces, and/or salads. Add avocado to salads or sandwiches. Have a glass of juice in place of a glass of water. Drink more of your calories. add nut butters to existing snacks. Eat full fat versions of foods including milk products, salad dressings and avoid lite, and diet foods.

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Listen to this wise person and these two wise kittehs.

Eat.

I went into starvation mode because I wasn't eating enough and it is hard to break out of without suddenly adding 20 pounds. For sure Juices are an easy way to up the calories and still drink something natural especially fresh squeezed juices. Mix it up with some veggie juices to cut down on the sugar content of the fruit juices...

Also peanut butter/ almond butter/ sunflower butter good food with non animal fats- high protein and they taste good. Two normal table spoon fulls is around 180-200 calories. eat it right off the spoon. MMM MMM good

Beware of walnuts. They are really calorie dense.

I need to do some research and find real facts on starvation mode. Seems like that terms gets used an awful lot, but it doesn't seem to occur in a medical setting (like when someone has had gastric bypass surgery).

Doing a cursory search for it comes up with tons of links, but all seem to be from average people, not medical experts, writing blogs or articles. I can't seem to find anything beyond anecdotal evidence that supports and denies the fact or myth of starvation mode.

If it's real, how do the folks on shows like Biggest Loser lose 5-10+ pounds in a single week? From my completely non-medical point of view, it seems to me that physiologically, it can't happen until the body has depleted itself of all the fat stores it has, ie. an overweight or obese person cannot experience starvation mode because their body still has plenty of fuel stores to subsist on.

Must look into things further. I'd love to find a medical study done by doctors/researchers that sheds more light on things.

i'm in the normal BMI range and my body struggles if I have a deficit that exceeds 500 from my maintenance calories. From my experience, a 300 calorie deficit has been working well. I've done tons of research on this to try and fix it so if you have further questions, let me know!

But that's what I'm thinking, that it is possible for those with a normal BMI to experience starvation mode, since their bodies don't have the adequate fat stores to support a huge caloric deficit. But those who are overweight/obese do have those fat stores, and aren't as likely to hit a starvation mode wall.

I remember seeing a study where they fed rats 1/3 of the calories of what a rat should eat and they lived a lot longer. Then the scientist tried doing it as well, but i don't think he lasted long. The study basically said that severe caloric restrictions = longer life. I know it's irrelevant to the post but I thought it was interesting.