#metabolism slowing

[futurebird]

Dieting Myth: "if you diet too long your 'metabolism' will slow down"

Now it *is* true that if you go on a diet and lose 30lbs (and don't change your activity level) you'll find you burn fewer calories daily. But, I think people are overlooking the obvious reason why. Imagine carrying a 30 pound weight around all day. That'd be like... well, it's extra exercise.

The main reason you need fewer calories after loosing weight is because you weigh less. But this isn't the only factor at play.

The human body is very adaptable and only maintains just enough muscle mass to accomplish the tasks that you do regularly. "Use it or loose it" is very real.

I learned this lesson the hard way after spending 3 weeks confined to a bed due to a very bad leg fracture two years ago. After just three weeks not using my legs nearly all the muscle was gone. The first time I tried to stand with assistance I passed out! Blacked right out like a 19th century lady on a fainting couch.

I was appalled and impressed at how quickly my body had determined that all my leg muscle wasn't needed. This also happens when you lose weight. If you weigh less you need less muscle to move your body. So your muscle mass will decrease.

The major players that determine how many calories you burn each day are:

weight

muscle mass

activity level

Any diet will reduce the first two if you don't change the last one. That's the main reason people report "metabolism slowing"

There is a fourth effect. But it only applies to extreme diets. If your diet is too strict it will make you tired. You won't want to move very much. You will fidget less, get up less often. All three categories end up decreased. But, a diet so strict it makes you tired probably isn't healthy. Extreme low calories will also starve your brain of sugar, which you need to be able to think. Your thinking will be cloudy and you probably will even lack the energy to think very hard about anything.

You have to still live while you are on a diet. (For those with EDs, this right here could be your "problem" you aren't even eating enough to keep going day to day. And I know just saying it isn't going to cure your ED, but you don't deserve to be treated so badly and should stop treating yourself so badly. Or at least understand the real reason why you can't make the number go down anymore. You are dying. I hope your thinking isn't too cloudy to notice. Seriously.)

There also probably are differences in metabolism related to how the body uses calories, that vary from person to person & can change over your life. This is what most people think "slowed metabolism" means. A change in the fundamental efficiency of the body. But this really isn't the *main* factor in why people who loose weight end up discovering they don't need to eat as much to stay at their new weight. If you run the numbers on muscle mass, weight etc... it tends to explain everything.

Happily, if you have lost weight becoming more active can be easier. (depends on where you start and end, naturally) Really, this is one of the few good reasons to decide to loose weight (provided you can do so safely) IMO.

[omagpies]

i am once again asking you to ponder recovered!curly with me

[aiscapades]

i can't believe i'm doing this instead of sleeping

[letssofia3006]

You know what’s even better than waking up with a certain someone absolutely annihilating your notifications with likes? When they escalate to a full-blown reblog spree.

[froggydrawz]

having a slow metabolism is cool, like tf you mean i survived the last week off of one meal and i still don’t feel hungry?

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[shinyhappysims]

I’m pregnant AGAIN!

This is the QUICKEST I’ve gotten pregnant since Niran and I began quivering. I must be doing something to make God EXTREMELY pleased with me! I’m dressed in athletic clothes because after I finish this post I’m going on a BRISK WALK with my hubby. Too many women use having children as an EXCUSE to let themselves go. Then these women have the AUDACITY to wonder why their husbands may start to look elsewhere. It’s very easy to maintain a trim figure, ladies! Don’t be lazy!

All the best, Jamilah <3

[somecunttookmyurl]

fwiw my physiotherapist told me that people with eds apparently metabolise things faster than other people, so your fast metabolisation of medications/caffeine/etc could be in part linked to that?

yes people with EDS (and other forms of chronic pain) are highly likely to have the abnormal liver enzyme thing

we don't really know *why* but it's just. a thing.

[wakingbreathlessly]

i don’t want to deprive myself of food anymore

[bloo-the-dragon]

@thedenofravenpuff you are correct!

Though he doesn't hunt animals (heck even bugs he'll only eat if they happen to be in very close proximity to him) but he will scavenge any corpses he happens across if he's hungry enough. Otherwise he'll bury them and plant a little seed (usually a tree one) in the mound

[shaibonbon]

Does bon/minibon ever experiences belly aches with how much she eats

Rarely, as much I joke about mini bon eating your entire fridge bc she eats too much, she rarely "overloads". At worst she got tummy ache bc too much chocolate or ice cream 1 or 2 times

[ilikeyoshi]

people who have liked veggies all/most of ur lives how do u do it. i had to wait until i was pushing 30 for my body to decide "hey uh maybe the stuff that makes body work is a good idea" like. im glad it's HAPPENING but goddamn!

[angelicm00n]

I hate people who start showing up going “oh but fast metabolism is so bad you don’t want it” when a person talks about wanting it due to being overweight and insecurities. Like first of all, not everyone with fast metabolism is like that. Second of all, you probably have never experience the genuine feeling of anguish whenever you looked at yourself in a mirror and saw how fat you are. You don’t know what it’s like to eat then feel so horribly sick the point of wanting to puke or stop eating because of your weight. You probably don’t know how badly you wished you looked skinny so that your right clothes would fit better and didn’t highlight every fat that’s hanging off you. You probably never felt wished that you could grab a knife and cut off your own stomach so you could be skinny. You probably have never tried to force yourself into starvation so you could lose some weight.

Stop making it about yourselves. You wouldn’t like it if someone showed up under ur comments saying “oh u don’t want slow metabolism bla bla bla.”

Let us speak about how horrible we feel.

Like unless it’s stated you can talk about your experience, do NOT go under someone’s posts who clearly is insecure with their weight and wished for fast metabolism and say “no u don’t want it” who are you to decide what they want? Please be respectful.

(Some of the things mentioned are coming from experience as a plus size girl with slow metabolism.)

[cuntftmtf]

Stop working out. Stop taking T. Let your body change. Stop fighting it.

the urge to let my cunt win from my brain and finally allow myself to become the soft curvy woman of my dreams is truly too tempting some days ngl

[mossymandibles]

Buncha Genevieve doodles and an obligatory ‘dad taking sleeping kid to bed’ pose of Kraw, even though Gen would normally abhor being held.

[imthebeast]

my megafaunal ass cannot survive on small rations like these

[lezbianz]

what no one tells you about going to the gym if you used to never exercise is that you will become so so hungry all the time. it’s crazy