My teacher always said "starving yourself won't lose weight"

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IceBergSLiM

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water weight. It will go back on as fast as it was lost. Not to mention you aren't losing fat you are likely losing muscle. so your still a soft body fat ass. just 6 pounds lighter.
 
NuclearNed

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I've been told that starving yourself will slow down your metabolism, making it even more difficult to lose weight in the long run.
 
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Firebot

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Originally posted by: NuclearNed
I've been told that starving yourself will slow down your metabolism, making it even more difficult to lose weight in the long run.
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Yep. This is why fatties are always astonished that they gain their weight back and then some when they go on some fad diet without doing any exercise.
 
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Your body is going to burn more muscle than fat because it is preparing itself for starvation. During the starvation phase, your body keeps fat, which has a higher per pound nutrition value. It will burn enough muscle till you feel very lethargic and the fat will start coming off. Once you start eating again, the body will build the fat first before any muscle is regained. It will make the process of getting healthy even harder later.
 
JohnOfSheffield

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Originally posted by: Jugernot
Your body is going to burn more muscle than fat because it is preparing itself for starvation. During the starvation phase, your body keeps fat, which has a higher per pound nutrition value. It will burn enough muscle till you feel very lethargic and the fat will start coming off. Once you start eating again, the body will build the fat first before any muscle is regained. It will make the process of getting healthy even harder later.
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Actually, this would depend on his level of activity, your body ALWAYS burn fat as it's primary source during inactivity.

Breaking down muscle tissue and then converting that into ketones to use for fuel is a hell of a lot harder for the body to do than to break down readily available ketones stored in your liver at first and then from fat.

It is true that your body reacts a certain way to starvation though and it's also true that any diet that is not sustainable with a few upshifts to bulk and downshifts to cut isn't a good diet.

If you are considering a diet, you should be prepared to live on it for the rest of your life and only upshift or downshift the nutrients. Find a baseline diet and go from there, if you need to cut a few pounds then downshift the carbs for a couple of weeks/months/what you need.

There really isn't another way that works.
 
Kadarin

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Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield
Originally posted by: Jugernot
Your body is going to burn more muscle than fat because it is preparing itself for starvation. During the starvation phase, your body keeps fat, which has a higher per pound nutrition value. It will burn enough muscle till you feel very lethargic and the fat will start coming off. Once you start eating again, the body will build the fat first before any muscle is regained. It will make the process of getting healthy even harder later.
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Actually, this would depend on his level of activity, your body ALWAYS burn fat as it's primary source during inactivity.

Breaking down muscle tissue and then converting that into ketones to use for fuel is a hell of a lot harder for the body to do than to break down readily available ketones stored in your liver at first and then from fat.

It is true that your body reacts a certain way to starvation though and it's also true that any diet that is not sustainable with a few upshifts to bulk and downshifts to cut isn't a good diet.

If you are considering a diet, you should be prepared to live on it for the rest of your life and only upshift or downshift the nutrients. Find a baseline diet and go from there, if you need to cut a few pounds then downshift the carbs for a couple of weeks/months/what you need.

There really isn't another way that works.
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Sad to say, but I think the OP has no intention of adopting a healthy lifestyle.
 
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V00DOO

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I think your teacher meant losing weight in the long run. Of course if you don't eat or eat less, you'll loose weigh but eventually you'll gain all the weight back once you began eating normal again.
 
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lyssword

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All foods have large % of them as water. So you are dehydrated by 6lb, that's how fighers/boxers cut weight.
 
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torpid

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Muscle has weight. Therefore burning muscle = losing weight. Just not the way you want to if you are fat.
 
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lyssword

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Originally posted by: torpid
Muscle has weight. Therefore burning muscle = losing weight. Just not the way you want to if you are fat.
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You can't "burn" muscle. Totally different tissue from fat. It either grows or shrinks depending how much you use it, but it never goes away. Everyone always has same amount of muscle "fiber", just some people make those filaments (or whatever it's called) larger :) And like everyone is saying, your body will only start consuming proteins from muscle after all bodyfat is gone.
 
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