Not to argue, but sweating and burning calories are not the same thing- nor is sweat an indication of workout intensity. The body produces sweat to cool down. Working out in a hot environment does not change the calories burned, it just changed how much water your body needs compared with a normal temperature workout. Think about it - if sweating burned more calories then we would just sit in saunas all day to lose fat not water.
90 min of this type of yoga for my body (anout174lbs) burns at most about 550 calories and has been validated by fit bit and body bug activity tracker. So I'm curious what you are doing to burn so many more calories in the same timespan.
Sounds like 1500 calories /day is safely above a 'starvation mode' threshold
Hey guys, I decided to stop by here because this thread looked interesting. I've been thinking that I had hit a plateau, but after reading I am thinking that maybe my body has gone into starvation mode? I only lost 8 pounds before my weight loss stopped. I had a drastic drop the first two weeks, and then for the last three I have had zero weight loss. My eating wasn't on a schedule at first because of my work schedule, and often I would be starved by the time I got dinner. I know I wasn't eating enough calories each day, only 1200-1300 while I should be taking in between 1400 and 1700 those first two weeks. I upped my calorie intake, but still not on a regular eating schedule, and it didn't help. I told myself that it was because I was eating too much, so I was planning to drop my calories again. I am just so confused what to do and what my body needs. I don't want to give up, but I am just at a loss for how to continue on with my weight loss... any help is greatly appreciated.
Oh, and for exercise I walk between 6 and 8 miles each week. I'm 5'6, 222 pounds. I'm a cashier, so I move a lot at work, and I work between 4-6 hours, 5 days a week. Anything else to factor in? haha..
unfortunately i don't have the patience to sit here and explain my choice of exercise as i have many times before, some people condone, and others do not.
clearly it's working so my so called "theory" cannot be all wrong.
Well lots of reputable places have documented a starvation mode where your metabolic processes slow down in response to starving so I think there's some truth to it and that it's not all myth. I can't out-credential the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition or rebuff the Annual Review of Physiology so I'll assume their research is solid. BUT I don't think this "starvation mode" is what many consider it to be. Your body must go through some drastic starving to get there. It think that people assume that if they are eating within a calorie allotment that they assume is low and working out but haven't lost weight that they've reached this mode while they are only *at most* a plateau. Truth is, you could very well lose 2 pounds in fat but also be retaining 2 pounds of water(easily) and just not see the loss, which means there isn't even truly a plateau, just that loss isn't showing.
Metabolic damage is just one danger of yo-yo dieting. This "mode" is accompanied by other symptoms like fatigue, hormone imbalance, depression/anxiety, food obsession, etc....that would all take time to happen and would likely be the result of starving for an extended period of time like famine or anorexia. I've spent a month on a very low cal diet and did experience fatigue but I didn't experience a plateau or loss of metabolic rate but I don't think I was on it long enough to cause muscle loss or the other issues that would truly cause the change in metabolism. So does it exist scientifically, yes. Would an average dieter plateau from this "starvation mode" eating moderately while even doing a lot of exercise? I doubt it. I think people worry about this too much and the term gets used incorrectly.
I think that people tend to get a little obsessive about weight loss which makes them jump on the plateau and starvation mode worry-bandwagon. It just takes time to see results with something like weight loss and it just can't be rushed.
Plateaus seem to be more common but from what I've read around here they don't last for long, just a few weeks and they are usually followed by some good losses. Coming from someone who bloats 2X a month (ovulation and menstration) and up to 8 lbs, it can be tricky to determine even true plateaus...but everyone seems to say the same thing. If your diet is reasonable and you're getting decent exercise, don't worry about it, the math will work out in time.
