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Starvation mode is not really a thing. At worst, your daily caloric output will drop by a hundred or two hundred calories. It's not going to drop by a thousand
by hasenj 10y ago
Starvation mode is not really a thing. At worst, your daily caloric output will drop by a hundred or two hundred calories. It's not going to drop by a thousand calories.
Obese people have specially high caloric requirements per day. A normal size person might require 2000 calories a day to maintain weight, but an obese person could require 3500 per day (or even more).
Limiting your daily intake to 1600 calories as an obese person absolutely will cause your body to burn fat.
Consistently so.
All you have to do is endure the hunger.
- AstralStorm 10y agoEver tried enduring hunger on a starvation level diet? If not, please do not say "all you have to do", because you have no idea how impossible it is. CR people who are reducing calories count to what you propose from healthy levels almost never go to maximum restriction immediately exactly because of this problem. And those diets are extremely precise and meticulous. A minor deviation is enough to cause long term health problems. And even at 50% caloric restriction it will take years to lose a large amount of weight.