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Is it possible for your body to go into starvation mode from too much exercise?
Alright so I completely flipped a switch. I went from not working out and eating crap to taking up running and completely changing my diet. Was running a 5k three days a week and doing weights and lost like 9 lbs in a week or so. But then all of sudden I started climbing back up, feel like it was as soon as I had my one cheat a week.
Soo my question is, if I went from eating say 5000 calories a day with no exercise then suddenly went to eating 3000 calories a day while burning another 1000.... Would that drastic change put my body into starvation mode? Even though I'm still eating, feeling full, and working out?
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- 7 years ago
no that would equal 2000 calories a day after the deficit, which is not close to starvation mode, this is optimal to lose about a pound each week, starvation mode would require your basal metabolic rate ( the calories you burn doing absolutely nothing) to exceed the number of calories you are taking in on a daily basis.
