Yeah, starvation mode, which happens at the lower limit (or if you cut too much, too fast). Your body thinks there's a food shortage and starts conserving calories by lowering your functionality. Good point, but I was giving a general overview.

Lemonjello! You are blowing up my notifications....and I kinda like it!

Well, I'm glad we were mostly on the same page, but have I also been mis-informed about over-eating? My understanding was that any unhealthy relationship with food is considered disordered eating and that people who massively overeat often are kinda lumped psychologically in the group as people with anorexia and…

Of course. Especially amongst women, I think. Veering far from very thin seems to have this subtext of being totally worthless as human, and is just piled in shame, which is redonk. Even as "thin" person, I get flack for being too "buff". Apparently physically strong girls look manly, but I'm down with my broad…

Did me straightening out my flub about the exact mechanics of the stomach straighten us out, or is it still going to be an insult war where you throw out perfectly reasonable dietary guidelines with a dismissive sigh of "clearly you are anorexic"?

Ah, sorry for the confusion. If I had 1800 calorie days I'd sure be in trouble though!

Citations? Because calorie in vs calorie out is basic physics as well as well circulated in health circles.

Ahem. I inexactly remembered the mechanism of how stomachs work. But the size of a relaxed stomach still stands, as does the idea that a person used to over-eating will still feel hungry when eating proper portion sizes because their stomach is used to being more fully expanded, which is why filling up on fiber and…

Availability is a problem. In another post I mentioned food deserts. Being poor means committing to a less varied diet in general, healthy or not. Aside from those two situations though, I only listed foods I personally find delicious, and it was a long list. There's a huge variety of healthy, quality nutrition foods…

Well, I don't know why I'm rehashing this, but my target is 1300 +/- 100 calories a day. 6 meal days hover in the 200 calorie a meal range. Which for my height/age/activity level maintains a healthy body weight.

Yeah, starvation mode. At that point your body actually is squirrelling away for a long winter. It went back to normal once you were getting enough food again though, right? Scary. I know it's possible to eat well as a vegetarian, but that seems like a battle. I have enough of a time while still eating chicken and…

Oh, and hey lady, keep at it! I'm a bit lucky living in a granola town where there's a variety of crazy healthy foods available, but even without them, I've gotten so accustomed to the fresh fruit and veggies/ no baked goods lifestyle that the "junk food" I used to love tastes too sweet and rich and weird. I hear…

Maybe it's just the stressing over it that caused you to think more about food that caused you to eat more?

Girl, you just keep living in your little bubble of ignorant superiority, and I'll just keep living over here in the world of science-based healthy living. We'll see who lives longer, k?

Like I said, it's pretty clear you haven't read anything about this or even paid attention to what I've said: I eat 6-8 100-200 calorie meals a day. The little meals that I described go to show that yeah, by noon, it's not that hard to be full and still under your caloric goals. One can restrict calories and still be…

No, I'm suggesting some basic, middle-school health class shit that we all collectively forget when we grow up, and combining with slightly more sophisticated than middle school food science. Middle school: a healthy adult stomach ~ the size of a fist~the size of an apple. Middle school: try to drink 64 oz of water…

No problem, yo!

Past 10 years? Editing sucks with Kinja. You have to go to your own profile and then click on your post from there, and THEN when you click on the upper right-hand corner of the comment you'll get the edit post button.

No, I know what I'm talking about. I've put a lot of research into this. I'm 110 pounds and I eat 6-8 small meals a day. Maybe you eat 2-3 big ones. That would mean your stomach would have to be stretched larger than default size to accommodate for that much food at once. A lot of people's stomachs are because of…

It might be that your stomach needs some time to get down to "apple" size. They get used to being filled a certain amount and then get grouchy about changes to that:) That's where hydrating well helps too.