Do you believe you can damage your metabolism by eating too

I do. I don't think it'll happen from a couple of days of light eating, though. It takes awhile of consistently too little. I know of people who lost lots of weight that way, but they have to continue eating too little in order to maintain.

umm then why are there eating disorders? Do you know your brain itself needs a certain amount of calories to even function?

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yes, yes i do. just started a thread about it.

Do you believe you can damage your metabolism by eating too little.

I don't. I don't believe there is anything such thing as 'starvation mode' either.

What thinks all of you?

I don't believe in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny either but people on VLCDs can experience a significant loss of lean muscle mass which in turn lowers their BMR. It's not a matter of faith, it's a fact. It doesn't happen overnight but it does happen.

Do you believe you can damage your metabolism by eating too little.

I don't. I don't believe there is anything such thing as 'starvation mode' either.

What thinks all of you?

I don't believe in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny either but people on VLCDs can experience a significant loss of lean muscle mass which in turn lowers their BMR. It's not a matter of faith, it's a fact. It doesn't happen overnight but it does happen.

^^what he said. it's a FACT!

Oh I am popping the popcorn and getting my seat in the front cause this is going to be good.

there is far too much evidence to suggest otherwise

I believe that it does happen. It's happened to me but it doesn't happen after a few days of light eating.
I became very sick, my worst was 3 weeks when I went on holiday and I was to anxious to eat. I ate an accumulative amount of 500 calories over those 3 weeks and I can definatley tell you that my body believed it would never get food again and every single thing started to slow down because it eeded to preserve every single calorie that I got to keep my heart beating.
Starvation mode is a thing. It is definatley true but I think it's just overused on this site.

I was on a medically supervised VLCD I was between 600 and 800 calories for 15 weeks. After that, the last 6 months I've been trying slowly to increase my calories and I'm in the 1400-1800 range now. Technically I should still be loosing weight, but I've gained back about 10 pounds from my low. My memory, energy level and endurance is still not what it should be. I can feel my metabolism is still not right. I hope it is not permanently damaged, but it is still certainly suppressed.

Do you believe you can damage your metabolism by eating too little.

I don't. I don't believe there is anything such thing as 'starvation mode' either.

What thinks all of you?

I don't believe in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny either but people on VLCDs can experience a significant loss of lean muscle mass which in turn lowers their BMR. It's not a matter of faith, it's a fact. It doesn't happen overnight but it does happen.

Christ on a cracker, THIS. Exactly this.

It's like how people "don't believe" in global warming, or other scientifically based facts.

Math and science are not something you can "choose" to believe in. Really.

Lol, don't get me started on Global Warmig. That's a buttload of political fake.

I was on a medically supervised VLCD I was between 600 and 800 calories for 15 weeks. After that, the last 6 months I've been trying slowly to increase my calories and I'm in the 1400-1800 range now. Technically I should still be loosing weight, but I've gained back about 10 pounds from my low. My memory, energy level and endurance is still not what it should be. I can feel my metabolism is still not right. I hope it is not permanently damaged, but it is still certainly suppressed.

thank you very much for sharing this. It can be restored...it will be restored BUT you have to be willing to increase your calories to true maintenance and gain some weight back, otherwise you'll always be living on 1400-1800 (a weight loss amount for MOST men).

After a bowel operation, I ate liquids for two months. I kept losing weight. And my stomach shrank so even small meals filled me up when I was able to eat solids again. Cheaper than a gastric band, eh?

So, your metabolic rate will slow down but if you remain focused, you will waste away. It's not healthy, of course, but we're talking about starvation mode/metabolism, not a healthy diet or healthy weight loss.

Also consider that anorexics and bulimics are pretty successful at reducing their weight despite starvation mode/metabolic rate drops. Again, not at all healthy but that's not the subject of this thread.

If you want healthy then: eat enough to keep your metabolic rate up, do cardio to increase the metabolic rate and burn calories, lift heavy weights to increase lean muscle mass to further increase the metabolic rate and burn calories.

And no, just being in the same room as a 10kg dumbbell will not turn you into Mr Universe.

Do you believe you can damage your metabolism by eating too little.

I don't. I don't believe there is anything such thing as 'starvation mode' either.

What thinks all of you?

I don't believe in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny either but people on VLCDs can experience a significant loss of lean muscle mass which in turn lowers their BMR. It's not a matter of faith, it's a fact. It doesn't happen overnight but it does happen.

Christ on a cracker, THIS. Exactly this.

It's like how people "don't believe" in global warming, or other scientifically based facts.

Math and science are not something you can "choose" to believe in. Really.

Lol, don't get me started on Global Warmig. That's a buttload of political fake.

I do hope that statement is facetious......:noway:

Nope, but I've read enough on it that I'm fairly confident that it's made up. The "Man Made" warming, that it.

Do you believe you can damage your metabolism by eating too little.

I don't. I don't believe there is anything such thing as 'starvation mode' either.

What thinks all of you?

Given that I have damaged my metabolism and came very close to starving myself, why yes, I DO believe in it. Kind of frustrates me when other people don't because I, like a load of other people on here, are living proof of it.

That said, "starvation mode" as a term to refer to a damaged metabolism really annoys me because, like I said, I was close to starving. Trust me, the scales not moving were the least of my concerns at the time.

Yes, you can. It's a biochemical response. When you aren't getting enough fuel/nutrients your body will start to down-regulate specific functions to conserve energy.

You can continue to lose weight but your body will be eating into lean muscle mass and holding onto adipose tissue because the adipose tissue is there in case of famine. It will conserve that too. Your fat is very, very important to your body.

I use a Body Media Fit. This happened to me last year. I wasn't eating enough because I was trying to battle sugar issues. (IF'ing is the WRONG way to do it). Almost overnight my daily calorie burn dropped. And it wasn't from losing weight. I was maintaining it.

BUT N=1.