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I never really sought help for my issues with food specifically, but I was an undiagnosed EDNOS sufferer for a number of years in my early twenties. It was a period of intense medical issues for me (other than ED) and it was a coping mechanism for the loss of control I felt over my own body.

I had periods of restricting to 500kcal/day, which is somewhat shameful to think about now.

I'm lucky, in that I realized what I was doing to myself was very harmful and that I was losing more control than I was gaining before I did any permanent harm to myself. I began eating better and exercising more, and these days I'm at quite a healthy, normal weight and vastly improved general fitness.

...Honestly, if you think no one cares about a fat girl not eating, you're very wrong. There are so many healthier and safer ways to accomplish your goals, and you clearly have the willpower to get where you want to be. If you can't find it within yourself to realize that what you're doing is hurting you, consider this: you will never be able to keep off any weight that you lose by starving yourself past your BMR. That starvation mode only means your body will compensate by reducing your metabolic rate to insanely low levels to compensate for the caloric intake it is used to. You will gain the weight back, and more.

Talk to your doctor and come up with a safe plan for weight loss that includes light-moderate exercise. Healthy and energetic is a much better feeling than thin and exhausted, trust me.

Except "starvation mode" doesn't actually exist if you have a high enough body fat percentage. Adaptive thermogenesis will slow your metabolic rate down some, but you'll still lose weight if you're eating at a caloric deficit. It won't stop altogether, and you definitely won't gain weight. If that was true, you'd see a bunch of overweight concentration camp survivors.

I almost don't even want to dignify this with an answer, but.

Obviously I mean once said person stops eating at a deficit. FFS.

And yes, starvation mode exists regardless of body fat percentage. It's a biochemical function of glycolysis inducing the Kreb Cycle generate ketones in times of insufficient glucose intake (ie. ketosis). Insufficient calories to sustain basic metabolic requirements (which is a function of what your typical caloric intake is rather than a set value per weight/height) allow fat stores to be released, yes, but this doesn't actually result in meeting optimal glucose requirements. Gluconeogenesis just isn't energy efficient enough to provide the ATP requirement to sustain itself and to sustain all organ functioning at optimal rates. Hence why the term "starvation" even exists.

You can be as fat as you want and still be starving, and your body will react accordingly.

Well, yes, obviously you won't be functioning at an optimum rate. If you mean starving as in not having the nutrition you need, then yes. But if a fat person doesn't eat they're going to burn excess fat before they die from lack of food. In my personal experience that's what people usually mean when they talk about starvation mode ("I must eat every 3 hours or my body will go into starvation mode and I'll die!"), but that's obviously not what you're talking about.

It's really not, no. I'm talking about it in the medical sense, both metabolic changes that occur and endocrine changes that follow.

The post-game scenario - in the broadest of terms - is that as soon as the caloric deficit is decreased (ie. you stop restricting calories to 1000kcal/day) the compensation measures that the body has been taking result in disproportionate weight gain to what would normally be seen with an equal caloric intake in a person whose body had normal metabolic functioning.

Hence the term "yo-yo dieting". Only, in OP's case it's even more extreme and more damaging.

Hell, I've lived through that. It was only after I adopted changes to my exercise regime and started eating consistently that I finally started to get healthy again.

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