Starvation Mode?

Hi Everyone!!!! Quick ?, My calorie intake a day of 1200. My BMR is 1700 a day the BMR calculator and my work out burns around 500 calories a day. With this set up at the end of the day I am in the negative of 1000 calories. I have only lost 2 lbs. The ? is did I put my body in starvation mode by having a calorie deficiency of 1000? O and I am a year out!!!

Hi Bosslady

I am about a year out and had a like situation. I went back to the basics if you will. More protein and less carbs. My program stresses volumn. 5 to 6 fluid ounces....which ain't much. Good luck to you.

I think most online calculators overestimate our BMRs and our calories burned. I never eat back my exercise calories or even believe the number given for calories burned.

What is a typical day diet-wise for you? I find that it isn't only calories but the source of calories that matter.  I also think it is very easy to have portion creep.

How much have you lost and how much more are you trying to lose? My last 20 pounds came off at the speed of slug.

I am convinced that  "starvation mode" is a myth made up by fatties to justify eating more.  Click the link to some proof I am right.  Ever wonder why there weren't any chubby Jewish concentration camp victims in pictures?  

I lost 159 lbs and my goal weight is 190! I started at 388 lbs. My protein level a day is around 75 to 80 a day. I work out 5 days a week and I just don't want the weight loss to end now!!

I don't know why but the post keeps cutting off.  Editing to try again: 

I am not sure where the whole 'starvation mode' thing came from -- I don't think you stop losing weight because you are not eating enough....but I do know that it is not merely a matter of calories in vs calories out.  I can burn 1500 calories on a workout (90 min of high intensity at the gym followed by 5-mile run), eat

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...eat under 1000 high protein, low carb calories daily, drink 80plus oz water, week in and week out and not see a loss.  But there may be something to the whole set-point thing as I have been plateaued here going on 9 months now...and I know it's a set point for me because I always got to but not below this weight when I lost before.

Hang in there, change/increase your exercise especially weight training and cardio, watch those sneaky carbs and track your food, drink a LOT of water and take your vitamins.  You ARE seeing the scale move, albeit slowly.  Keep on keeping on, as they say it's persistence not perfection that gets you to goal.  Good luck!  :o) 

Thanks so much will do!!!

Starvation mode isn't a complete myth! Its just misinterpreted just google adaptive thermogenesis and metabolic adaption/damage and leptin.