5 Questions about fasting and starvation mode?!
Question: 1) Does a person with a muscular build have an advantage (able to keep weight off after fast) over someone who started a fast who had weight made of water and fat.
2) When the muscular person began to eat normaly again will they gain water weight or fat?
3) How do you keep the body out of starvation mode? I heard exercise.
4) Since muscle weighs more than fat: If a person with a muscle build lost 4 pounds of muscle mass would it look more drastic than 4 pounds of water weight?
5) Would a muscular person have a smaller chance to go into starvation mode (b/c of muscle that burns fat)?
Answers: 1) Does a person with a muscular build have an advantage (able to keep weight off after fast) over someone who started a fast who had weight made of water and fat.
2) When the muscular person began to eat normaly again will they gain water weight or fat?
3) How do you keep the body out of starvation mode? I heard exercise.
4) Since muscle weighs more than fat: If a person with a muscle build lost 4 pounds of muscle mass would it look more drastic than 4 pounds of water weight?
5) Would a muscular person have a smaller chance to go into starvation mode (b/c of muscle that burns fat)?
1) Does a person with a muscular build have an advantage (able to keep weight off after fast) over someone who started a fast who had weight made of water and fat.
A muscular person burns more calories using their muscles
so will more likely keep weight off.
2) When the muscular person began to eat normally again will they gain water weight or fat?
When a muscular person starts eating normally after starvation, they will gain weight quicker than if they had not starved themselves. During starvation, the metabolic rate slows down considerably to conserve energy.
3) How do you keep the body out of starvation mode? I heard exercise.
In order to avoid starvation, the body needs to consume around 800 calories per day. You can kick start your metabolism in the morning by eating breakfast and taking exercise. Supplements such as Caprelli can also help.
4) Since muscle weighs more than fat: If a person with a muscle build lost 4 pounds of muscle mass would it look more drastic than 4 pounds of water weight?
If you lost 4 pounds of body mass you would lose muscle tone and look bigger. Also as muscle is denser than fat, losing the same weight in fat would make you look thinner, as fat takes up more space.
5) Would a muscular person have a smaller chance to go into starvation mode (b/c of muscle that burns fat)?
A muscular person will use the energy available from food intake more quickly because using the muscles requires requires more energy. Therefore a muscular person is likely to enter starvation sooner.
During starvation, muscle is more likely to be lost than fat, because the body can convert muscle in to energy more readily than it can convert fat.
I don't know the answer to your questions regarding a muscular build, but I have had first hand experience with fasting and I am begging you not to do it. When I was 18, I fasted for two weeks. My metabolism became so slow that I was gaining a pound a day after the fast despite eating only 800-900 calories/day. No one should go on a fast.
1) If you fast a great deal of muscle tone will be destroyed so that advantage would be negated.
2) Water weight and fat weight are not two seperate entities. There is water in fat stores and water in muscles, and you would put on fat.
3)You keep the body out of starvation mode by not fasting, but if you choose to fast: exercise, continous hydration or perhaps caffeine(although using drugs such as caffeine to increase your metabolism is not a healthy choice).
4) I'll answer that question like this: Muscle weighs more than fat because muscle is denser that fat. Therefore 4 lbs of fat would show a lot more than 4lbs of muscle.
5)A muscular person would constantly be in more danger of going into starvation mode because their metabolic rate would be higher and would need more food to maintain that an average person. Muscle only stays (without exercise) if it is needed by the body to burn calories.