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    Barbells & Beakers: "If you eat below your caloric needs, your body goes into starvation mode and it clings to fat!"

    fitnerd:

    cleaningout:

    Oh, starvation mode: how I loathe thee! What does starvation mode even mean? I googled it. Wikipedia says it’s the body responding to long periods of low energy intake. So what is a “long period”? During the fasting study from before we found that it took more than three days of ZERO food for…

    Excellent post as always. You guys are all following her, right? If not, now is a great time to start.

    BUT if you don’t eat enough, you could deprive yourself of the nutrients you need. And I, personally, could not go on 800 calories a day and be able to do my workouts.

    This post is kind of tricky…great in theory, but near a slippery slope. Like ice on the edge of a freaking cliff slippery.

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