starvation mode
Body conserves energy
Starvation mode is a supposed metabolic state where the body, deprived of sufficient calories, drastically slows its metabolism and clings to fat stores, making weight loss difficult or impossible.
The concept is popular in diet culture but oversimplified—while metabolic adaptation to reduced intake is real, the dramatic "mode" is largely myth: I'm not losing weight because my body's in starvation mode.
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- crash dietDrastic short-term weight-loss regimen
- calorie deficitIntake below expenditure
- metabolismCellular nutrient conversion
- metabolic rateBody's energy consumption pace
set point · survival · survival instinct · calories · hunger · deprivation · plateau · dieting · yo-yo dieting · hoarding · fat · lean muscle · reserves · stored energy · body fat · scarcity · famine · slow
- fitness mythsspot reduction, no pain no gain
- metabolismcatabolism, anabolism, metabolism, glycolysis, metabolic rate
nutritional status
starvation modesatiety
State of being full
overfeeding · nourishment · repletion · overnutrition · satiation