How could your metabolism slow down if you don't eat enough

WishfulShrinking331
WishfulShrinking331 Posts: 244 Member
edited November 10 in Health and Weight Loss
yet anorexics still lose weight and they don't eat anything?
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  • engineman312
    engineman312 Posts: 3,450 Member
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  • BarbWhite09
    BarbWhite09 Posts: 1,128 Member
    Oh...boy.
  • EatClenTrenHard
    EatClenTrenHard Posts: 339 Member
    yet anorexics still lose weight and they don't eat anything?

    it slows down 10%. as per peer reviewed research medical article...
  • Anomalia
    Anomalia Posts: 506 Member
    .sigh.
  • luvmycandies
    luvmycandies Posts: 489 Member
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    OMG, this is my favorite show and he is awesome!! Good response.
  • EatClenTrenHard
    EatClenTrenHard Posts: 339 Member
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  • Mynue_Jeens
    Mynue_Jeens Posts: 98 Member
    It slows down to a point in order to preserve the body tissue you currently have, but at some point it has to use something for fuel and begins to consume muscle, and then fat until there is nothing left to consume. Next organ failure, etc and death.
  • ger53
    ger53 Posts: 35
    yet anorexics still lose weight and they don't eat anything?

    They are burning the muscle in their bodies, that is why they look like skin and bones.
  • WishfulShrinking331
    WishfulShrinking331 Posts: 244 Member
    I just don't understand why MFP yells at me that I'm eating too few calories if the weight I will b in 5 weeks is lower what does it matter if my metabolism slows down? Won't I still achieve the same results?
  • vjrose
    vjrose Posts: 809 Member
    Wow, this concept just won't die. Lol, healthy weight loss or anorexia type weight loss, not all weight loss is equal, but whatever.
  • kristi_asco
    kristi_asco Posts: 183
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    hahahaaha omg i just laughed so hard
  • Jorra
    Jorra Posts: 3,338 Member
    If you don't give your body enough energy to work the way it's used to working, it will slow down to try to adapt so it doesn't have to resort to feeding off itself.

    Eventually anorexics get to the point where their body has no other choice but to feed off itself because it just can't slow itself down any more to adapt. It's a survival mechanism.

    This is important because if your body slows down and you start giving it more food again, it will suddenly have too much energy and will more easily store it as fat. It's a lot harder to speed back up after you've slowed down.
  • stefv86
    stefv86 Posts: 60
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    I laughed SO HARD.
    I love that guy.
  • cherrytulips
    cherrytulips Posts: 109
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  • Kori18
    Kori18 Posts: 48
    Say a typical anorexic eats: an apple for breakfast, dry salad for lunch, and dry cereal at dinner or maybe a can of tuna for dinner coming up to no more than 350 calories a day, with verrrry little fat.

    Say you don't eat much: You grab mcds bfast sandwhich, soup for lunch, and noodles for dinner your around 800 calories.

    But the anorexic is eating little with almost no fats and greases so the body doesn't have fat to cling too.
    When you eat very little but still manage to eat enough calories to slow the body with unhealthy grease and fats it clings to them longer.
  • BeautyFromPain
    BeautyFromPain Posts: 4,952 Member
    I just don't understand why MFP yells at me that I'm eating too few calories if the weight I will b in 5 weeks is lower what does it matter if my metabolism slows down? Won't I still achieve the same results?

    No? Because you won't be able to burn the same amount of calories whilst at rest.
  • Kori18
    Kori18 Posts: 48
    Also trying to develop a mental illness won't last.. you will become malnourished and give in and binge unlike the anorexic who is compulsive with what they are doing.
  • premiumchilenita
    premiumchilenita Posts: 600 Member
    Anorexia is your body shutting down and killing itself.......


    It tries to survive by doing all the other things that everyone else has send but eventually it shuts down your organs and dies. If you don't want to go that far.

    The more you starve yourself for a while, you rebel against yourself, eat like a horse, then put all of the weight back because your body hasn't realised you are feeding it. and keeps trying to store. Hence if you eat more you will gain, if you have been doing that for a while. but if you do it healthily and incorporate exercise as well, you will see better results and have a lot more energy.

    Just remember also, MFP+the computer = calculations, it's not your body and will calculate what you put in to it as fact, but fact is your own body and what you do to it
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    I just don't understand why MFP yells at me that I'm eating too few calories if the weight I will b in 5 weeks is lower what does it matter if my metabolism slows down? Won't I still achieve the same results?

    Um, no. Once your metabolism slows down you will basically have to eat like you're on a diet for the rest of your life, or you will end up gaining all the weight back, plus extra.
  • WishfulShrinking331
    WishfulShrinking331 Posts: 244 Member
    Never was trying to develop a mental illness I was just asking a question
  • GreyhoundGuru
    GreyhoundGuru Posts: 91 Member
    I wish there was a "LIKE" button on each message...as I've really liked some of these responses :-)
  • Kassieisproud
    Kassieisproud Posts: 149
    Keep in mind that MFP is only an estimate based on your weight It doesnt know how much muscle mass You have Muscle burns more calories at rest If you dont eat enough you lose muscle mass which means you lose weight slower You also become whats called "Skinny fat" Which means you have a low weight but still have trouble areas No one wants that If you want to look good work out and eat enough Its just that simple
  • LilRedRooster
    LilRedRooster Posts: 1,421 Member
    Resting metabolic rate is the amount of energy your body requires to just get through the day and survive. You have a set number of cells in your body, including muscle tissue, lymphatic tissue, cardiac muscles, and basically every single other cell in your body. Every cell requires energy to function; that energy must come from outside the body, because otherwise, constant consumption of energy within the body destroys the organism, because the energy doesn't appear out of nowhere; it must be recycled from energy that exists already in the environment.

    So say an anorexic stops eating. Their metabolism stays the same for a while, and they'll lose weight. But the problem comes in where they're losing weight, because your body will be pretty indiscriminate when it comes to energy consumption. As less and less energy comes from outside sources, the body is forced to consume its stores: Proteins in muscles, lipids in fat. As more of those cells are consumed, less of those cells require the same amount of energy to function overall in the body, lowering the resting metabolic rate. Healthy weight loss will actually increase muscle cell size, because they body can build tissue, and support growth, and it will increase the metabolic rate, because those cells require energy to function. Unhealthy weight loss will result in tissue lost, and breakdown of body functions, which lowers the metabolic rate, because there are fewer cells to support with outside energy.

    So anorexics lose weight, but they're also lowering their metabolism, and destroying healthy tissue, which ultimately will have a negative impact on their health. Which shows that focusing on numbers on the scale is a ridiculous thing, because it doesn't reflect anything else about overall body health.
  • Anomalia
    Anomalia Posts: 506 Member
    Also trying to develop a mental illness won't last.. you will become malnourished and give in and binge unlike the anorexic who is compulsive with what they are doing.

    Death is also a side effect of anorexia nervosa.
  • plushkitten
    plushkitten Posts: 547 Member
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    OMG, this is my favorite show and he is awesome!! Good response.

    Ahahahahahah omg nice. I love that show.
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    godricshollow Posts: 274 Member
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    Oh my god... flawless response. :flowerforyou:
  • SergeantSunshine_reused
    SergeantSunshine_reused Posts: 5,382 Member
    I just don't understand why MFP yells at me that I'm eating too few calories if the weight I will b in 5 weeks is lower what does it matter if my metabolism slows down? Won't I still achieve the same results?

    Um, no. Once your metabolism slows down you will basically have to eat like you're on a diet for the rest of your life, or you will end up gaining all the weight back, plus extra.

    Exactly. Either eat that little forever, or gain it all back. And when you gain it back it would probably be more because of the loss of muscle.

    Eat at a healthy deficit and take your time. Why rush
  • capnwo85
    capnwo85 Posts: 1,103 Member
    I just don't understand why MFP yells at me that I'm eating too few calories if the weight I will b in 5 weeks is lower what does it matter if my metabolism slows down? Won't I still achieve the same results?

    Um, no. Once your metabolism slows down you will basically have to eat like you're on a diet for the rest of your life, or you will end up gaining all the weight back, plus extra.

    Exactly. Either eat that little forever, or gain it all back. And when you gain it back it would probably be more because of the loss of muscle.

    ^Exactly. I think under 1000 calories day for anyone is just wrong.
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    Eat at a healthy deficit and take your time. Why rush
  • Nopedotjpeg
    Nopedotjpeg Posts: 1,805 Member
    Are you still in high school or something? The logic and picture backdrop seem like it.
  • jennifershoo
    jennifershoo Posts: 3,198 Member

    it slows down 10%. as per peer reviewed research medical article...

    10% is huge.
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