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Starvation Mode...
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I often hear that it is better for you to eat 5 small meals a day instead of 3 main ones.
I also heard that you should never get to the point of desperate hunger/starvation as this means your body has gone into 'starvation mode' and starts to preserve food and turn it into fat so it is stored. So eating little and often keep the body out of this mode and fat doesn't stick around!
Is this true?
I also heard that you should never get to the point of desperate hunger/starvation as this means your body has gone into 'starvation mode' and starts to preserve food and turn it into fat so it is stored. So eating little and often keep the body out of this mode and fat doesn't stick around!
Is this true?
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Pants.
Not only am I very compentent at health and fitness issues, I am also a survival specialist!!!!
Regarding your calorie intake (say 2500 for men 2000 for birds each day) it makes no difference if you eat 5 or 10 meals per day or one box of chocolates in one sitting.
You may be getting confused with what dieters argue insofaras if you eat little and often, your natural thermagenics (body heat) is kept up, thus burning more calories. But for mere survival it makes no odds. Also eating 5 meals a day will be psychologically telling you, you are full. Thus eating less and not picking between meals. Yes, I agree, therefore it may work if dieting.
As for Goody saying we can not cope with more thaan 500 calories at a time. That means every meal I eat my body is sufferring?? Pants. Lord knows where you read that from, I strongly imagine it is American or sponsered by a diet company, specialising in low cal meals!!!
As for starvation mode, the average body will survive about 7 weeks without food. Not a healthy option, but tried and tested.
First it will burn carbs (sugars), then some fat. When the body realises it is starving, it will store the remainder of fats and eat away at protein (muscle). Then when proteinous energy has gone whilst still maintaining fuctionality, the last of the fat will burn up.
Not only am I very compentent at health and fitness issues, I am also a survival specialist!!!!
Regarding your calorie intake (say 2500 for men 2000 for birds each day) it makes no difference if you eat 5 or 10 meals per day or one box of chocolates in one sitting.
You may be getting confused with what dieters argue insofaras if you eat little and often, your natural thermagenics (body heat) is kept up, thus burning more calories. But for mere survival it makes no odds. Also eating 5 meals a day will be psychologically telling you, you are full. Thus eating less and not picking between meals. Yes, I agree, therefore it may work if dieting.
As for Goody saying we can not cope with more thaan 500 calories at a time. That means every meal I eat my body is sufferring?? Pants. Lord knows where you read that from, I strongly imagine it is American or sponsered by a diet company, specialising in low cal meals!!!
As for starvation mode, the average body will survive about 7 weeks without food. Not a healthy option, but tried and tested.
First it will burn carbs (sugars), then some fat. When the body realises it is starving, it will store the remainder of fats and eat away at protein (muscle). Then when proteinous energy has gone whilst still maintaining fuctionality, the last of the fat will burn up.
No, im not saying that but unless you are working out you are becoming a tubby tubby lard arse. Ruby would have much more success if she ate smaller meals, its true.
Your insulin receptors CANNOT deal with more than 500 calories, its a scientific fact. If you continued to abuse your body with such hihgh intakes of sugar in one go you could well find yourself on your way to insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes.
I lost **** loads of weight and this was the biggest thing I kept in mind.
Your insulin receptors CANNOT deal with more than 500 calories, its a scientific fact. If you continued to abuse your body with such hihgh intakes of sugar in one go you could well find yourself on your way to insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes.
I lost **** loads of weight and this was the biggest thing I kept in mind.
Mmmmmmm, just had a breast of chicken, two rashers of bacon and a jacket potatoe and two pints of milk. Probably about 1400 calories. Apart from a tiny bit of lactose in the milk and some very complex carbohydrates in the spud, where preytell has my body not coped after consuning so much?
My body is a "scientific fact" and my body tells me it wants more!!! Thats why I am about to prepare a delicious fruit salad with tonnes of fructose!!!
scientific smmmmenific.
My body is a "scientific fact" and my body tells me it wants more!!! Thats why I am about to prepare a delicious fruit salad with tonnes of fructose!!!
scientific smmmmenific.
Its busy turning the extra calories into fat stores but Im sure you going to be heading out for a good old bit of hill running later on.
Fructose is still a sugar and not very good for you. I would also have thought that with your high contact of milk (and you have mentioned that you drink full fat before) that your arteries must be loving that.
Of course if you ate 2000 calories just once a day you would get fat. The problem is that the body only has storage for about 2500 calories worth of glycogen providing your stores were totally empty (which is impossible). Most people only have room to store about 500 calories of glycogen from any given meal. After these storage areas become full, insulin pushes the remaining sugar into the other infinite storage area, FAT STORAGE.
You can consider yourself a health and fitness exopert Joe but if you have never had a weight problem then you know jack about what makes you put on weight. I know that watermelon must be sugary because it will make me put on weight,
Fructose is still a sugar and not very good for you. I would also have thought that with your high contact of milk (and you have mentioned that you drink full fat before) that your arteries must be loving that.
Of course if you ate 2000 calories just once a day you would get fat. The problem is that the body only has storage for about 2500 calories worth of glycogen providing your stores were totally empty (which is impossible). Most people only have room to store about 500 calories of glycogen from any given meal. After these storage areas become full, insulin pushes the remaining sugar into the other infinite storage area, FAT STORAGE.
You can consider yourself a health and fitness exopert Joe but if you have never had a weight problem then you know jack about what makes you put on weight. I know that watermelon must be sugary because it will make me put on weight,
I have always erred on the large side, not fat just large.
Modern theory dictates that, as I have said, it makes no difference if youeat all your daily claories in one go.
Many city workers for example, skip brekkie, skip lunch and have a hearty dinner and thats it. (Their subsequent ulcers are more to do with Gordon Brown's old fiscal policy than diet!!)
I do my running in the morning. However, may have a few lenghts later if the weather clears up.
What makes you put on weight is not burning up what you eat. It really is as simple as that. That extra can come from lettuce, pork pies, apples or West Country F4ggots. A calorie is a calorie. Yes there are healthy calories such as olive oil as opposed to lard, but a calorie is still a calorie.
That is why I am so vehemently against calorie counting and diets.
Eat less, burn off more. Hardly Carol Vorderman is it?
Besides, I like a bird with meat on her bones. Can't abide all these skinny bints with knobbly knees and daylight through their thighs. Yuk!!!
Modern theory dictates that, as I have said, it makes no difference if youeat all your daily claories in one go.
Many city workers for example, skip brekkie, skip lunch and have a hearty dinner and thats it. (Their subsequent ulcers are more to do with Gordon Brown's old fiscal policy than diet!!)
I do my running in the morning. However, may have a few lenghts later if the weather clears up.
What makes you put on weight is not burning up what you eat. It really is as simple as that. That extra can come from lettuce, pork pies, apples or West Country F4ggots. A calorie is a calorie. Yes there are healthy calories such as olive oil as opposed to lard, but a calorie is still a calorie.
That is why I am so vehemently against calorie counting and diets.
Eat less, burn off more. Hardly Carol Vorderman is it?
Besides, I like a bird with meat on her bones. Can't abide all these skinny bints with knobbly knees and daylight through their thighs. Yuk!!!
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