Is "starvation mode" a myth or real??

Hi all i was just reading up on this and noticed that different people say different things about it ranging from IT DOESN'T EXST to DIETING FOR LONG PERIOD OF TIME INDUCES IT.
Just want any1 knowledgeable to help me undertand it more and stuff much apreciated

 

Not sure exactly what you're referring to, but what it sounds like you're talking about is the process of the body holding onto stored fat and energy longer due to a lack of intake. That certainly happens.

 

Im refering to your metabolism slowing down maing you store fat and start eating muscle as fuel

 

I'm certainly no nutritional expert or in the medical profession, but I've always been under the assumption from what I've seen and read that the body uses available fat to exist on in hard times and once that is gone, it uses muscle mass.

As an example, look at fighters or bodybuilders that are ripped and cut at the time of competition. They are showing signs of very little body fat and water retention to make weight or to appear as cut as they can be for the competition, but still carry muscle mass and tone.

I'm siding with the fat is the first to go.

 

Yeah thats normal weightloss but theres a theory (not proven or disproven) That states if you consume to little calories the opposite will occur and your weight loss will stop but your body fat will be stored same with the fat you consume and muscle mass will be lost.

 

The Nutrition Course I'm about to complete supports this theory. It stores the fat first, but I think the muscles don't start to get broken down until the fat's gone too. Could be mistaken. It's just not good for you.

 

Klkl does your course use the same studies that shows a weekly cheat day helps avoid starvation mode? Or not

 

What's more important for your survival, large muscles or fat stores for energy?

 

Faaaaaaaaaaaaaat.

 

No. The body doesn't work like that. For most people the body will only enter catabolic states during intense periods of long exercise or possibly mal-nutrition where the body has to get it's energy source from elsewhere. The body optimally does not use muscle as fuel.

 

Hence it being called starvation mode. And im not saying it does im researching it and dfferent people say different things

 

It is real, it's called the body maintaining homeostasis. If you don't give your body what it needs it finds other ways, it eats itself.

 

It's probably not something that many people will ever experience.

 

After four days of not eating the body starts trying to actually try and preserve muscle.