<h1>THE STARVATION MODE MYTH DEBUNKED</h1>

You have probably heard of the starvation mode term before.

Usually it means something like this:

When you do not eat enough food, your body thinks it is starving. To conserve energy it will then reduce the body’s metabolic rate and attempt to conserve fat by metabolizing lean body mass instead.

This might seem counter-intuitive. The whole reason your body stores fat is that so it can revert to burning it in times of famine.

In fact, when you eat very little food, what happens is your body starts to burn fat and keeps lean muscle mass, and that is why we lose weight when we diet.

Only if you get to critically low body fat levels and you keep eating too few calories, then your body starts to burn lean muscle mass.

Women reach critically low body fat levels when their fat content makes up about 13% of their total body weight.  This is very low.

Even models do not generally have fat levels that low.  Tests have shown that many models have 16% body fat, and that number has been verified on a DEXA scan.

The message here is that unless you have less body fat than a competitive fitness model, you are unlikely to know what “starvation mode” feels like.  Bear in mind that even if you did have a very low body fat content, you would still have to diet and further reduce your caloric intake for your body to think it was starving.

While it is an acceptable concept the idea of lowering your metabolism and losing lean body mass, women need to enforce an extremely low calorie diet and have very low body fat in order for this to happen.

One thing to consider is the notion of balance.  It is never good to be extreme about anything you do or you will face unpleasant consequences.  You cannot take dieting to an extreme.

For this reason, women should never severely restrict their calories for more than five days in a row and by the sixth day eat the number of calories that you are behind.  This would be an extreme diet.  It is even better to only eat a seriously restricted diet for two days in a row.

The goal is to create some deficit so that your body gets rid of body fat.  After the two days, when you eat a normal healthy diet, you essentially reset your system, restore your hormone levels, feel happier and healthier as well.

For this reason, John Barban from The Venus Factor advises women to severely restrict their calories for no more than five days in a row and by the sixth day eat the number of calories that you are behind.  This would be an extreme diet.  It is even better to only eat a seriously restricted diet for two days in a row.

It’s much better to know that you just have a few days of ‘dieting’ until you get to eat up vs other diets that only get more and more restrictive every day.

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