Is it ok to starve yourself when you're fat?

No! It's not the way to go. When you stop eating like that your body goes into alarm mode that there is no food to eat and conserves as much fat as it can. Then when you do eat again your body will immediately turn anything you eat into fat for emergencies. You need to cut the amount that you eat slowly and start if you haven't already an exercise program. Generally speaking, your body only burns so many calories a day, so if you are eating more calories than you burn, the extra ones are stored in your fat cells. Losing weight is tough but if you are committed you will succeed. Good luck!

Maybe eating healthy and plenty of excersize would be a better option...

No. Besides it won't help. It will slow down your metabolism and make processing the food you do eat more difficult and as a result you will eat less and gain weight anyway. If it doesn't kill you first.

A common problem is people believe they will lose weight by starving themselves. It is a temporary 'solution' if you consider it such, but what happens is your body loses some of it's ability to process the food you eat later on, and less of it's fatty content will be 'used', if you will. Metabolism is something that will disappear when not used...thus, starving yourself will actually make things worse later on.

If you plan on just not eating a meal, that should be fine...but going an entire day or more will have unwelcome side-effects. You're best option is to avoid, at all costs, trans-fat.

No, is it not OK because loosing weight has nothing to do with starving. It is a common belief that in order to loose weight you must not eat. This is wrong, you should know what you eat, control it and eat as you should eat, not kill yourself. On the contrary, when you start eating again, you gain more weight. You eat the correct amount of proteins, carbohydrates, and others, and do exercises and you´ll live healthy.

not if you want to live.

No thats very bad for your body.

That is not ok. You need food for energy and such.
You should concentrate on losing weight by dieting and exercising.

If your aim is to keep the fat gone forever or at least for a long period of time, no. It won't work. Losing weight by not eating makes your body hold on tight to the fat and let's you lose muscle and fluids you need. You don't have enough energy to lose the right kind of weight. It's like starving a fire of dry wood. It just can't burn those calories. Plus you aren't learning any new habits. You will have to learn to deal with food at some point if you want the weight to stay off. SO learn a new way of eating before the diet or during. Why don't you read the book The False Fat Diet by Elson M. Haas and learn about which foods are probably responsible for making you the way you are and how to get healthier.

That would not be the best choice.
The best thing to do would be to join a weight-loss program or find a better diet.

no dont do that. just eat different kinds of food, and in different amounts.

try going for a walk or maybe go to the beach or something, little things help

No!No!No! And definitely NO! Don't ever starve youself. You're depriving yourself of nutrition. Always eat; there are options to lose weight by eating healthy. I've tried this kind of diet that helps with acne. Sad thing is I lossed weight, which wasn't my intentions. I'm skinny enough as it is. Nevertheless, the diet has worked and made me thinner altogether. The thing is to eat healthy and different kinds moderately. Don't over eat accept for greens and lettuce. Trust me. Eating healthy doesn't make you hungry; eating unhealthy makes you more hungry. I love eating; eating is my passion. Yes, I'm those kind of person who eats and hardly ever gain weight. What you eat is what you are- with the exception of genetics. This diet magically makes me really full. if your hungry, hungry, eat coconut oil. Those things are beneficially healthy. They have fat because of the fact that their oil, but that doesn't necessarily mean its bad. They are the good kinds of fat. Have you heard of omega 3 fats? Ever since I eat those kind of things, I see all those kind of products sparking up. Try eating those. When cooking, use walnut, extra virgin olive oil, or unrefined oil. Don't use typical conventional oil like canola oil. Again, eat everthing moderately; don't overdose. You can learn from a lady who died from an overdosage of water even if it seems healthy. Eat foods with a lot of fiber and other nutritions. Cut back a lot from processed food even if they have health claims. When there is health claims, there's bound to be cons and downsides of the product. Never ever eat diet foods like diet coke. They are just substance that taste like what they are supposed to be and have absolutely no nutrition whatsover. Also cut back on cow products and more eating of the organics. I don't care what food inspectors or nutritionist say! Organics are far better compared to processed and conventional products. In mornings and nights, eat lightly. Eat heavier during lunch; that's when nutritions absorb the best. Try to eat three meals a day. Eat simple like back then in the past. It all goes back to mother nature and simplicity. Eat fruits seperately. don't eat them at the same time with other foods; it might upset your stomach. They'll digest faster eating alone. Drink tea and herbal teas. Don't eat foods with tons of sugars. If you do, then eat a lot of fibers to balance it out. Just make eating simple and use common sense to what's healthy and what's not. If you're so eager to lose weight, this diet is more preferable than starvation. Sorry if this is information over load, but commitment takes a lot to get through a goal of losing weight.

Actually, you can get fatter doing that. Your body, when starved, goes into a "shut down" mode, and your matabalism slows, conserving the fat storage to ensure survival. When you starve, you may lose water, which wieghs a good bit in and of itself, but when you break the starve mode, your metabolism takes time to go back, and your calorie intake is not burned as efficiantly for a couple of days.

I dont think it is too bad to starve your self, as long as you drink juices. I had starved myself for about 3 weeks and just drank v8 juice and a cracker a day along with exercise tho. I only got sick once during the whole time, although i had only lost 7 pounds doing this, which came right back as soon as i started eating. my advice is eat fruit and drink v8 or green tea nothing else, you'll lose about 25 pounds, my mother did it.

Definitely not. There are quick ways to lose weight that are healthier than starving yourself. Try doing the Master Cleanse. I recomend doing research about it and buying the book. Its not expensive but without the info that the book has to give you may mess it up and get no results. Its a 10 day cleanse that detoxes your body and helps you lose weight fast. Also check out www.therawfoodsite.com Its a support group for those on the Master Cleanse.

no, just eat less and exurise

If you starve yourself you will actually slow down your metabolism and cause your body to store fat.

And the other option is eating yourself to death

no

No, my S/O tells me that when you starve yourself that your body thinks it is actually being starved and starts to conserve energy by burning muscles not fat. he says that its better to eat a lot more little meals (that add up) then to eat three meals. I can tel you that it works for me!

If you drop below 1500 calories a day, your body thinks food is scarce, and actually starts to hang on to fat reserves for future use.

If you drop fat too fast, it will come back with a vengance.

Calculate your BRM (Daily metabolism, how many calories you burn just keeping your heart beating and lungs breathing), then add in exercise. This will tell you how many calories you burn during the day.

The subtract 500. That's how many calories you want to eat daily. If you burn 500 calories a day, in a week, you've burned 3500, which is one pound of fat.

Watch your carbs late in the afternoon/evening, take protein before cardio and weightlifting, and cut down on fried and sweet foods.

Too easy, fatty.

there's wide line between starving and dieting. try eating healthier and exercising fairly regularly, its much better for you

No. All it accomplishes is to make your body into a more efficient converter of food to energy. When you begin to eat again, your body strives to utilize everything you eat in an effort to overcome the starvation diet.

No.
I did it...
when I began eating again, I gained all the weight back, plus more.
I now weigh 30 pounds more then I did before I started restricting at all.
It's not worth it.

NEVER EVER EVER EVER starve yourself!!! it puts your body into starvation mode, and anythin you DO eat your bady takes it and turns it to fat, its like survival mode... and your body will deteriorate, instead eat healthy, lots of veggies, chicken meat, (not skin) ICE WATER!!! your body burns LOTS of calories trying to bring it to body temp, you lose lots of weight with ice water!!

No when you starve your body it stores any food you eat into fat as an emergancy precedure so when you do eat it goes all back on!!!

Absolubtly not, you will put the weight back on as soon as you start to eat again. My friend went on a "fast" ( don't eat at all not even when the sun is around) for 2 weeks, lost 9 pounds. She broke her "fast" by eating one meal and gained 11 pounds 3 days after.

you should definitely not starve yourself. there are other ways such as exercise to help one lose weight.

No, it's never ok.

if you wanns die and im close i have anorexia and im 26 years old and im at 71 lbs because
staving your self can becom an addiction,and for me it became not only an addiction as well as starving my self was a matter of control and it was the only thing in my life that i could was what i ate well now i wish i never would have started this starving my self because its going to cost me my life.

No, starvation is not the answer.

Get to the root of the reason you are overweight and fix that. Then you can lose weight effectively.

If you are genetically larger, try to make sure you stay healthy and LOVE YOU!

It is counter productive. The body needs nutrition to produce energy. It needs energy to burn calories. If you starve yourself, your metabolism will never work in your favor to help you take off the pounds appropriately.

Starvation is literally the body digesting its own muscles. That is not something that any of us want :)

depends on your definition of ok and your goals. If your goal is to loose body fat then this is a stupid way to go about doing this... when you starve yourself your body starts absorbing like its going into hibernation and stores higher-calorie substances so even though you eat less fat your body retains a higher count

Well, the problem is that your body will go into a shock type mode and will not allow you to really loose weight. You should eat a little under a normal calorie level and work out so your body can work off the fat naturally

Hell no! A change of diet seems more appropriate and healthier :)

No matter what size you are you should never starve yourself, because if you are trying to lose weight thats the improper way to do it you need to make sure you eat your right amount of meals just less calories and more excercise hey! it helped me or go to www.webmd.com for more info.

By asking this question you are assuming its ok to be fat. It is not ok to be fat if you are fat for any other reason than medical/genetics problems. Any other reason is laziness and lack of respect for yourself.

It's never ok to starve yourself

Nope. You just need to accept how you look and start being active. Get involved with something and a group of people. Weight watchers is a great program for cutting calories and starting to eat healthy.

Is it o.k. to be anorexic? 0_0

No just cut back on the amount of food you munch on and walk. Everytime you get the urge to eat, walk and in a few months you will see the difference.

No it's not, your body will go into starvation mode and will start eating up your muscle to protect itself. Then when you do eat again, you will gain back twice the weight. It is best to exercise and eat healthy. It will come off. You need to remember it didn't get tehre over night, and you can't expect it to go away overnight! Be patient and give yourself realistic goals. : O )
Hope this helps!

no...you lose muscle which is something you need...you'll lose wieght but its not the healthy way to do it and when you do start eating...you'll gain the wieght back quickly...

it's never okay to starve yourself - the lowest you can do is take your usual calorie intake in half - so if you eat 2000 (womens guide) 1000 is the lowest you should consume. if you eat 4000 2000 is the lowes you should eat, otherwise its too much for your body

its never a good idea to starve because the wieght lost will come back anyways so whats the point?
cutting back calories in a healthy reasonable way it ideal. But talk to a doctor.

Its never ok.

Definitely not. Even if you are fat you still need to eat and if you try and starve yourself you will make yourself ill. You will also slow down your metabolism. So when you go back to eating normally again, you will put back any weight you may have lost.

If you eat 3 healthy well balanced meals at regular times during the day, dont eat between meals and take some simple exercises, you will lose weight.

That will backfire on you.Try cutting back on what you eat and exercise daily.It will help you to get a book about nutrition and exercise.

Its never OK to starve yourself. You need to consume enough daily calories to sustain bodily functions just eat a little less and exercise more to lose weight.

Absolutely not.

Rather, change what you eat and how much. There is no excuse to keep yourself from food unless you are fasting for a specific medical or spiritual purpose.

Changing your 'diet' completely (not going on a diet but changing your lifestyle) is the best way to lose weight, not starving yourself.