How do anorexic people lose weight?!


Question: How do anorexic people lose weight?
Everyone always says "You can't lose weight if you stop eating because your body goes into survival mode and stores all the fat"... so how do these anorexic girls get so skinny? Just wondering...

Answers:

All too often, people will just repeat what they heard without knowing the exact mechanics behind the weight loss.

Anorexics lose weight by calorie deficit. When you consume less than you burn you lose weight period. Survival mode is what the weight loss is. When you consume less than you burn, this means you go into survival mode or the famine response. You start to use body reserves to maintain normal body function, with about 80% from fat and 20% from muscle.

What everyone refers to as the a stunted metabolism is actually the muscle loss. Anorexics tend to restrict and binge, so each time they restrict, they lose fat and muscle, but every time they binge, they gain just fat. This leads to slowly getting a higher and higher body fat percentage. This makes losing or even maintaining weight more difficult each time. This is because muscle is the main component of the body that effects metabolism. As we lose muscle, we lower our metabolism (muscle burns a tremendous amount of calories at rest).

The same yoyo effect happens with fad diets and for the same reason.



These people forget about the fact that the body still burns energy by simply being alive. While a person's metabolism will lower because of the loss of muscle, there still will be a metabolism. If the body is still burning 1000 calories everyday by simply being alive and the person is only eating 300 calories, obviously fat is going to be lost. Energy cannot come from nothing.



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If they're not eating enough to nourish the body, it will burn fat, regardless, even in "survival" mode, and they'll lose weight.



They lose all their muscle.

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