Starvation mode

Hi Everyone: I know I have asked this question before, but I still don't understand this. From what I have read, if you don't eat enough calories your body goes into starvation mode. Furthermore, if you had a low BMI to start with, you will lose slower. If that is true, how do people on Survivor and those in impoverished countries and anorexics ever lose any weight? The correlation does not seem to make sense. I am trying to understand this because my weight loss has been slow regardless of how many calories I am eating. Can anyone help?

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