Posted by Racer on February 6, 2005, at 9:36:21
In reply to Re: sudden dramatic weight gain... explanations? » rainbowbrite, posted by CareBear04 on February 4, 2005, at 14:10:59
First of all, if you're not eating enough to sustain the level of exercise you're engaging in, it will not lead to stronger muscles. Only to breaking down your body for the energy it takes to exercise.
Secondly, what you're describing eating won't sustain you, you need a balance of protein, fat, and carbohydrates to function optimally. If you're not getting them all, you'll run into things like blood sugar instability, which you don't want.
And lastly -- when you've been restricting for a long time, and your body is starving, it will do its best to hang on to every nutrient you give it. Your metabolism will slow down to a snail's pace, in order to sustain your life until the famine ends. The only way to improve your metabolism is to eat more.
What's more, when you first start gaining weight after an extended period of starvation, the first place you'll put weight on is your internal organs -- because your body has been cannabilising them to survive -- and then the rest will hit you in your abdomen. That abdomenal fat will eventually redistribute, but it takes a while -- six to twelve months, they tell me.
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