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Starvation mode... How does it work? Anonymous
The idea makes no sense to me... How does it supposedly "slow your metabolism down"? What is involved in this? And, I've heard, that in starvation mode, your body supposedly eats muscle... or the proteins in your muscle... what if you ate a bunch of protein? Does it eat the protein, or the synthesized fat/carb/and proten? It still makes little sense to me why your body would eat it's muscle befor eating fat, after all, it's kind of hard to chase down food when you can't walk.
>> Anonymous
>It still makes little sense to me why your body would eat it's muscle befor eating fat

If it was the other way around, everyone on the planet would be ripped out of their minds.

The human body holds onto fat, it's been this way since we were Squatting boulders.. It's how our ancestors survived long winters.

Starving slows your metabolism down because your body can sense it is being starved, and attempts to hold onto every last nutrient.

>what if you ate a bunch of protein?

Then you wouldn't be starving, would you?
>> Anonymous
not OP here,
How long do you faggots think starvation mode takes to set in?
>> Anonymous
check this shit out:
http://www.calorie-count.com/forums/post/28742.html


>Does Starvation mode cause our bodies to catabilize (devour our muscles and other lean mass)? Yes and No.

Lean individuals lost great amounts of fat-free, lean tissue during starvation, but obese individuals lost much more fat tissue. Obese individuals have a mechanism that conserves lean mass and burns fat instead. In the study, an example of a lean subject studied after death from starvation: it can be deduced that loss of body fat accounted for 28-36% of the weight loss and fat-free mass 64-72%. In obese individuals, the proportion of energy derived from protein (Pcal%) is only 6% compared to 21% in the lean individual. More than half the weight loss in the obese is fat, whereas most of the weight loss in the lean individual is fat-free mass.

And the loss of lean mass is not as critical to the obese person as to the lean person simply because an obese person has more lean mass than a person of the same age and height but normal weight.

Grossly obese individuals (FORBES, 1987; JAMES et al., 1978) may have over 30% more fat-free mass than lean individuals of the same height. In the example shown in Figure 3, the obese individual weighting 140 kg has a fat-free mass that is 29% greater than the 70 kg man. Obese individuals appear to have more muscle and bone than lean individuals, and these help support and move the excess body weight. Obese subjects have large vascular volumes and larger hearts, which are necessary to pump more blood around larger bodies, especially during weight-bearing activities. Obese individuals may also have visceromegaly (NAEYE and ROODE, 1970).
>> Yuki Nagato !!icmmwfB7SvI
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>>260311
It is quite simple.

The body burns calories 24 hours a day.
The basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the amount of calories that the body needs to function in a state of complete rest.

For example, if your BMR is 1600 cals, that is how much you would have to ingest daily just to keep your metabolism functioning normally if you stay immobile for 24 hours. Once you add in the caloric expenditure for lifestyle such as walking around school, work, sports, exercise, etc. the daily energy requirements of the body can easily double the BMR.

Technically starvation mode is when the daily caloric intake is 50% or less than what is required to maintain the body in it's current state (body weight) and at the same daily level of activity.

Fat are the bodies last defense against starvation and fat provides double the amount of energy than do proteins and carbohydrates. Long chained fatty acids provide 9 calories per gram and proteins and carbohydrates provide 4 calories per gram. The body does not need much muscle to move, so the body can still function even with drastic muscle loss. So in period of extended starvation there can be drastic decreases in muscle mass and especially when the level of physical exertion is high.
>> Anonymous
Starvation mode isn't a good idea for losing fat. When you do start to eat again your body will store alot more food as fat than it normally would. If you wanted to burn fat i'd recomment 5 small high protein low carb meals a day, mixed in with some HIIT training to increase your metabolic rate.
>> Anonymous
>>260328
actually according to>>260324
starvation mode is a good for dem grossly obese fatty's to start them off.
>> metabolism Anonymous
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the keyword is metabolism. understand this and everything else will make sense. Metabolism is like a fire burning inside you, you can crank up the heat or turn it really low. it is always going. You can't turn it off (you'd be dead). energy is consumed just lying down in bed sleeping, of course more when exerting.
>> Anonymous
"Starvation mode" doesn't exist, it's some myth propagated by a bunch of retards in the fitness industry.

When you go on a diet, your metabolism slows down. This isn't "starvation mode", this is your body adjusting to the decrease in caloric intake so processes like TEF (among other things) are taken down a notch to compensate.

I have never, in all MY years of experimenting with body recomposition/fat loss, seeing others do it and hearing about it, witnessed all this so called extreme amounts of muscle wasting and fat storage that comes out of "starvation mode".

Also, if you will notice, people who have truly starved/wasted away have abs. Horribly underdeveloped ones, but it goes to show that their body burned fat and muscle at the same time.

I've also noticed that once your bodyfat goes below a certain threshold, it becomes suddenly much easier to lose lean muscle mass. This might be what some fitness "experts" refer to when they mention starvation mode. Again, this is in the single digits area, when you're already starting to get pretty ripped anyway, but it doesn't suddenly STOP burning fat, it just burns more muscle along with the fat.