Everyone says that when u dont eat ur body stores..?
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Energy can neither be created nor destroyed if you eat so little that you loose weight by starving, not only do you loose fat, but you loose muscle as well. This can include heart muscle! In case you didn't know anorexia can be fatal!
because they lose muscle
wich is why a lot of anorexics still have love handles or tiny but flabby legs!
anorexics lose everything else too.. muscle, bone mass.. which is why its so unhealthy. plus eating like that is only really temporary weight loss unless you do it forever b/c once you start eating again the weight comes right back
Anorexics manage it because they are also addicted to exercise. WHen you don't eat, your body will slowly digest excess fat to lose weight. It will do it slowly because it doesn't know when it will get its next meal. With Anorexics, they constantly exercise, so they are burning fat, while their body is using the fat to survive. Once their body uses up the excess fat, it will then attack muscle and use it to survive (yes, that does include the heart, because the heart is a muscle).
What they mean is, yes your body stores any fat it can and starts to burn muscle instead, keeping any fat it can in reserve. As anorexics don't eat and make themselves vomit when they do eat, then the body is getting no nutrition at all, so when the body has burned as much muscle as it can then it has to start on the fat.
If this were totally true, we would never have to eat, would we? The difference between someone like me who does intermittent fasting and an anorexoc is- I eat. I use my feeding period to fully nourish my body. I allow myself to not only enjoy healthy foods such as a pork chop and collard greens and raspberry parfaits for dessert. An anorexic who refuses food, starves their body. The body will reserve fat stores but it is temporary. If you starve yourself the body will do all that it can to survive. If it gets no nourishment...period, it will begin to eat itself. It will eventualy eat its fat stores and muscle stores if you are not feeding it. The heart is a muscle and it will eventually be devoured if the body is being starved. Anorexics have very little if any body fat. This is why anorexics are endangering their lives if they don't seek psych and medical help with the quickness. If you don't believe this, ask Karen Carpenter's brother Richard. You can't ask Karen because she died of anorexia, so I don't understand the idea that anorexics manage much of anything.
Anarexics have no muscle mass because their bodies burn not just fat, but muscle for energy. They are very unhealthy because of this and ruin their metobolism which is why they gain weight so easily when they do eat.
Eat a healthy diet of at least 1200 calories a day and get plenty of protein to protect your muscles (and metabolism).
it not healthy to be anorexic bones body metabolism organs everythimg incl mental wellbeing suffers. anorexics deprive themselves of nutrients for long time days without any food. and then when they eat they sometimes vomit it up. making it worse. anorexics think they can survive on 400 calories a day instead of 2000 women are supposed to have. over a long time, insufficient calories mean our bodies start eating itself causing HARM. don't go there. been there. doing that...
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