Before you guys misconstrue the question, I mean, what happens when a person is anorexic? My understanding is that when one starves themselves is, by going to an extreme deficit of calories the body goes into what is called a starvation mode.
That is a natural technique to adapt to the environment because your body thinks that there is no food around you.
As a result, your body slows down its metabolism to preserve fat storages to keep you alive. Since obese people have much more fat in their body it will take a while longer until they are deprived of the nutrients to keep then alive.
How come this would lead to muscle-loss as well as fat-loss if the body is living off the fat storages?
Thanks, isn’t protein the last source the body would use though? Carbohydrates are depleted first, then fat, then protein.
Thanks guys, I just asked my mom about that, she has a PhD in chemistry and biology, I understand how that would work now. The carbohydrates are first depleted and when that happens, the muscles and fat are used for energy due to lack of carbohydrates.
