i do this thing where i eat two meals a day (50calories each) and i am getting enough food because i dont get hungry til right before the meal. people consider that starving themselvs but i truley dont believe i am becuase im not that hungry. so what is starving yourself? is that not eating at all?
2006-12-20 08:03:49 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
The way I learned it in a College Nutrition course is your body needs 10 calories per pound that you weigh to maintain the muscle that you currently have. If you do not consume enough calories your body will begin to break down muscle to gain energy through the protein within the muscle. The big problem here is that your heart is a muscle and your body does not differentiate between vital muscle and any other muscle tissue. At 10 calories per pound most people will fall in the category of needing at least 1000 calories per day.
2006-12-20 08:15:46 · answer #1 · answered by Jacy 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When you eat less your metabolism slows down. So many people are fat that they consider it BAD. It is bad for fat people who eat too much. Americans eat 10 times the food they need to. But for you it is better to have a slow metabolism since you need to eat less.
So now you have more time and money for other things. A slow metabolism is like a car getting 200 miles a gallon. So your body is more effecient and healthier since all research shows that consuming less food causes you to live longer. See site below how before you can BEGIN to starve, you have to fast around 40 days. So you are way ahead of fat people and thin people who eat a lot.
Note it is not healthy for people to force themselves to eat less since the stress of doing it is worse than the benefits. See home page on site below for losing weight.
I assume that 50 calories per meal is wrong since I am sure that your meal is not half a banana or one quarter of an avocado or 2 figs or a third of an apple-- all which have over 50 calories each. Maybe you mean 500.
http://www.phifoundation.org/fast.html
2006-12-20 08:24:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
i would say that is starving yourself. If you are trying to lose weight you would probably need at least 1000-1500 calories a day. By losing this way you will only gain it all back when you start eating right again. I would see a dr and a therapist. You need help. This is not healthy. You feel full because you have srunk your stomach and you are starving yourself. Get some help.
2006-12-20 08:12:59 · answer #3 · answered by mktk401 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'll try not to judge and just give info. As you have asked, "starving yourself" is not technically a mental state and has nothing to do with feeling hungry. It is when there is not enough calories consumed to sustain essential physiological processes, and forces the body to sacrifice less essential tissue (like skeletal muscle) to maintain more essential tissue (like the brain). With a properly functioning system, starvation triggers hunger, but hunger can be suppressed by many things, such as psychological impairments or chemical and hormonal imbalances.
2006-12-20 08:41:16 · answer #4 · answered by FZO 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Just because you aren't hungry doesn't mean you aren't starving yourself! If you've shrunk your stomach to where it feels as if it requires less food, you won't get constant hunger pains - it does not mean you are giving your body the nutrients, vitamins, and other vital things it needs to survive.
Calories alone are not going to keep you alive - your body needs countless things that it gets from food to keep your body functioning normally; what you are doing is very, very dangerous.
Please see a doctor and starting eating more - you are doing severe damage to your body and could die if you continue on this way.
2006-12-20 08:13:21 · answer #5 · answered by skatoolaki 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thats a good size for a 13 year old. I was like that exactly. I was until was maybe 16, then i grew and now and 110. But yes depending on what you eat in a day will depend on if your 101 or 98... Usually morning weigh ins will be your truw weight and night is just from what you ate that way.
2016-05-23 01:37:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The UN standard for famine is when someone is consuming less than 1600 calories a day. Obviously, starvation is different and it probably requires very significant and unhealthy weight loss before someone can be said to be starved.
2006-12-20 08:11:04 · answer #7 · answered by Ivar 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What you are doing is starving yourself. Starving is restricting food in a manner that does not allow your body to function normally. It doesn't matter if you are hungry, even if you are a small, small girl you need over 1000 calories a day for your body to take care of itself. Please eat.
2006-12-20 08:06:51 · answer #8 · answered by duritzgirl4 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is not giving your body the proper nutrition it needs to function properly. If you only eat two meals a day at 50 calories each, then you aren't getting the proper nutrients your body needs. You must sleep alot.
2006-12-20 08:06:31 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
500 calories or less- what you are doing is very unhealthy in the long run, your metabolism needs more than this a day to operate and if you starve it your vital body functions will shut down(your organs, your nervous system, your immune system)
- you cannot function on this amount in the long run, knock it off or seek help before you develop a serious eating disorder.
2006-12-20 08:08:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋