How do anorexics...?

Question

Lose so much weight from not eating and keep it off? Everywhere you go, people say not eating causes the body to store fat, and therefore put on weight, not lose it. How can that be true when anorexics can do it?

Answer 1

are you completly stupid?

Answer 2

Anorexic starve themselves for long periods of time, firstly the metabolism slows (this is why they would store fat) however you can only store fat if you eat something with fat in it. The body goes into panic mode and trys to reserve fat levels by burning muscle instead, it then uses the fat reserves as a last resort. Then the body eventually slowly starts shutting down all the organs. Then you would naturally starve to death. if you or someone you know have anorexia or starve themselves contact a doctor asap

Answer 3

anorexics get so unwell if untreated the body starts to consume its own organs because its starving. not eatting very much causes the body to go into survival mode and think their is a famine so stores fat . but this doesnt last long you can get past this point after awhile and be in danger of starving to death.
most yo yo dieters or people who regularly skips meals will have seen the effects of the body storing fat. anorexics and people in very poor parts of africa go beyond this stage and die with out aid

Answer 4

At first the body will use muscle for energy, then after a long time with no food the body will then start to use the stored fat.
Even through they are really thin, they are very far from happy or healthy.

Answer 5

The body needs so much food in order to maintain itself. when you don't eat much at first the body stores some using its only source of food to survive. but as they keep it up by eating very little the body is forced to then take from stored fat around the body in order to survive and this causes weight loss.

Answer 6

Because your body can only protect itself for so long before you starve. Storing fat is a survival tactic but if it were absolute then nobody would ever starve to death. If you do not eat enough your body will slow your metabolism to make its stores of energy last longer. Anorexics do dreadful harm to their body.

Answer 7

Because they dont eat anything at all. Their body will start to eat its muscle tissue first (as well as some fat)and then resort to the remaining fat. By this time however, the person would most likely be seriously ill.

Answer 8

Because people that just try to not eat for a while do end up eating again... and it's usually junk. Anorexics know how to control what they eat so that it isn't stored.

Answer 9

People with Anorexia have gone beyond the stage where the body stores fat and actually starts to absorb muscle and tissue

Answer 10

Anorexics....this is like a disease, where the body loses its apettite which leads them to eat less...anorexic people sometimes fear becoming fat, so they work out a lot to keep skinny, this explains your idea.

Answer 11

because they are technically starving. you can' t store fat if you don't eat. anorexia is very dangerous, since it lowers cholesterol to unheathly levels and could cause a heart attack in a young person who is obsessed with weight.

8 million girls in the USA suffer from eating disorders.