Is "starvation mode" the same for everyone?

amonkey9
amonkey9 Posts: 94 Member
edited October 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I keep hearing about starvation mode this and that. Can it really be so cut and dry? I thought we were all different so wouldn't starvation mode affect people differently at a certain point. I understand that I am still eating too little, but other posters keep warning me of the awful effects, that yes I know are true, are the effects really going to be the same for EVERYONE?? Can peoples bodies handle different things?

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  • Seminolegirl97
    Seminolegirl97 Posts: 306 Member
    Your body need X amount of calories just to survive on a daily basis. It needs these calories for your heart to pump, your liver to process, your kidneys to filter, your RBC to be produced and your brain needs food. Your body is a machine much like your car. It need fuel to function. If it is not getting that correct amount of fuel it is going to hang on to every bit it has and rely on itself to survive. An average calorie need for a woman is 1200 just to survive. If you deplete that to 900 your body isn't getting enought fuel and is in starvation mode. Everyone has a different BMR.

    You use energy no matter what you're doing, even when sleeping. The BMR Calculator will calculate your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR); the number of calories you'd burn if you stayed in bed all day.

    http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/

    This website should help you and explain more to you. Yes, everyone is different, however, our brain needs fuel to function as well as our other organs. Go find out your individual numbers. This should help. MFP has this done for you as well. Good Luck.
  • Gshields42
    Gshields42 Posts: 69 Member
    Everyone is different, and it will presumably have different effects on you. May eat more bone mass as opposed to muscle, or you may feel weaker as opposed to so hungry. At a certain point, though, a bad thing is a bad thing, and no matter in what order or way a bad thing happens, it is still bad.

    Or, as they say in The Man of La Mancha, "Whether the rock hits the pitcher, or the pitcher hits the rock, it always ends up badly for the pitcher."
  • jennajava
    jennajava Posts: 2,176 Member
    If you don't eat every 3 hours, you will go into starvation mode and die.
  • Gshields42
    Gshields42 Posts: 69 Member
    If you don't eat every 3 hours, you will go into starvation mode and die.

    That seems a bit over the top...
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