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ih8diets

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Well. Im 19 now and I used to be 15st or so. Im around 13st now and i'm a lot happier but i still need to lose more. I seem to be stuck now at my current weight. I think recently i went into starvation mode and that saw my weight drop to 12st 13. I did not want to be in starvation mode so i started eating more but eating healthy things, fruit etc. My weight has shot up to 13st 4 in a day or two! How can this be?

I dont know what to do... Continue eating enough and eating healthily or eating a lot more. Im very confused
 
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You probably gained realy fast after that because your body was not sure when you would eat again. When you starve yourself your metabolism drops and preserves everything that you eat. Basically, your body stops trusting that you will feed it and retains everything. You have to build up your bodies trust buy feeding it regularly. Many small meals a day helps to raise your metabolism along with physical activity.
 
ih8diets said:
Well. Im 19 now and I used to be 15st or so. Im around 13st now and i'm a lot happier but i still need to lose more. I seem to be stuck now at my current weight. I think recently i went into starvation mode and that saw my weight drop to 12st 13. I did not want to be in starvation mode so i started eating more but eating healthy things, fruit etc. My weight has shot up to 13st 4 in a day or two! How can this be?

I dont know what to do... Continue eating enough and eating healthily or eating a lot more. Im very confused
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Why don't we start with what you are eating.

Have you ever used anything like
 
nol3afclover said:
I thought eating frequently keeps your metabolism working and prevents it from slowing down completely?

Why else would you eat all the time?
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Small frequent feeding does not speed up your metabolism. There are certainly benefits associated with it. Control cravings, insulin regulation, nutrient utilization, etc.

Increased metabolic rate though, I don't think so.

If there is an increase, it's negligible. I've gotten just as lean eating 3 meals as I did 7.

In addition to the empirical evidence, the scientific evidence would agree.
 
butterflyaway said:
I have also read in many health magazine to eat 5to 6 small meals a day.
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1. I would never use "health magazine" as my source of information.

2. I was not arguing against the efficacy of eating small, numerous meals.

3. I was simply stating that eating small, numerous meals does not increase metabolic rate.
 
He's right. While there's alot of advice out there about eating several small meals to curb cravings, this will not change your metabolism.
 
Yes Actually it DOES!

The reason why it is said that eating many small meals a day raises your metabolism is because your body burns calories just digesting food so eating many small meals a day causes your body to be burning calories all day without eating too much. Also, when you eat large meals, whatever you do not eat gets stored as fat. If you only eat small meals then you are more likely to use everything in the meal that you have eaten without having it stored in your body.

Eating three meals may certainly work for you but that does not mean that it works for everyone. I was in the military as a hospital corpsman. I worked with doctors who were extremely fit including the coach of the Naval Academy Bike team and I know what I am talking about.

And, when you go into starvation mode, your body metabolism DOES slow down. That is why it if never recomended to eat less than 1200 calories because less than 1200 is considered starving and below this level, your metabolism decreases because there is not enough fuel coming in.
 
I would suggest that you start doing saome resaerch on what is the best weight for you accroding to your height, size and age and then research how many caories a day you need to be eating to either maintain or lose weight and what kinds of foods and how much of each food group you need to eat to achieve a healthy and stable weight for your body. So that you can avoid the starvation and yo-yo diets which as you have experienced do not work and affect your metabolism in a negative way in the longterm.

Become your own expert - find out the healthy facts and then formulate a plan that will work for you or as in my past experience, you wil be on a rollercoaster ride of fad and yo-yo diets for too much of your life.

Take the time to get to know what you want to know now to avoiud longer term problems and lots of diappointments.

All the best

Kim
 
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Jenayab3 said:
The reason why it is said that eating many small meals a day raises your metabolism is because your body burns calories just digesting food so eating many small meals a day causes your body to be burning calories all day without eating too much.
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Look.

It's cool if you want to believe the things you read in today's popular media. But don't come at me with the hype. And definitely don't go around spewing misinformation to the masses about something you are obviously not qualified to discuss.

There's no need to even get into this, however, eating 6 small meals compared to 3 larger isn't going to affect your metabolic rate. Sure, with the fewer, larger meals, food may be sitting in your GI tract longer.... but the food will still be digested nonetheless.











Also, when you eat large meals, whatever you do not eat gets stored as fat.
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No. It doesn't. A caloric deficit is a caloric deficit. So you are telling me that if you have a giant meal of 700 calories, yet, that's all you eat for the day.... you'll gain fat?

Again, gross misunderstanding of how the human body works. ;)

Eating three meals may certainly work for you but that does not mean that it works for everyone. I was in the military as a hospital corpsman. I worked with doctors who were extremely fit including the coach of the Naval Academy Bike team and I know what I am talking about.
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No you don't.

Appeals to authority will get you nowhere with me. And trust me, you don't want to play that game with me anyhow.

I'm sure I sound like an arrogant prick by this point... however, I have a huge issue with individuals putting themselves out there as authorities on a subject they obviously aren't educated in. It does nothing but hurt the industry.

And, when you go into starvation mode, your body metabolism DOES slow down.
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Hahahahaha.

Who suggested otherwise?

And the starvation mode is not an event. It's a process. Since you "know what you are talking about" and all, why don't you explain your understanding of the starvation mode to me?

That is why it if never recomended to eat less than 1200 calories because less than 1200 is considered starving and below this level, your metabolism decreases because there is not enough fuel coming in.
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Any caloric deficit will invoke the "starvation mode." The deeper you go into a deficit, energetically speaking, the *harder* or quicker the process will occur.

There is not a specific point of energy deficit that triggers the starvation mode. Again, it's not an event. It's a process.
 
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