Tue, Jun-18-02, 08:57
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Plan: IF +LC
Stats: 287/165/165
BF:
Progress: 100%
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"Starvation Mode"
Starvation mode wont happen overnight, Chocolate. It takes weeks (like many weeks) of consistently eating too little to get there. However, after a few weeks of too little food things start to happen; your body stops burning fat, it holds onto water, it hold onto the fat, in preparation for the impending famine it thinks is around the corner. Muscle is burned in the place of fat when there is insufficient protein consumed, muscle is easier to break down than fat.
The Fat Fast should not be done for more than 5 days - I frankly don't know how anyone can do it for more than one. Yes, it's 1000 calories and it's mostly fat, and if you did it consisently for a long period of time you'd end up in 'stavation mode'-land. The Fat Fast is metabolic starvation at it's finest - with mostly just fat coming in and having calories limited to 1000 you force your body to turn to fat stores for energy. You also tend to ingest very little sodium during a fat fast (little food, little sodium) and this helps to flush out your fat cells.
Since the Fat Fast is designed for the metabolically resistant - and to break a stall, it's something you tend to use after you've been LCing for a while. When you do the Fat Fast most of what you lose is water (the water your body has been holding onto to keep it's fat cells plumped up - you alreayd lost the fat). Generally, of the weight you lose Fat Fasting, some comes back. But the goal is acheived - ketosis and flushed out fat cells.
A few days of Fat Fasting won't put you into starvation mode - just like a few lower calorie days wont to it. The key, just like the key to fat loss, is consistency.
HTH
Nat
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