Grrrrr, these stupid cunts!  Actual starvation mode is real and it's incredibly dangerous. It's just completely unrelated to the fantasy "starvation mode" that the fats have latched onto! I'm fed via a tube in my small intestine due to a paralysed digestive system. Even with the tube and special, liquid, medical feed, I can only absorb about half of the calories I take in. I often end up being unable to run my feeding pump for days at a time which, because I'm actually starving, becomes even more dangerous when I start my feed again as I'm at risk of refeeding syndrome! Having the tube fitted just slowed down the amount of time it will take me to starve to the point of organ failure (something I'm obviously fighting to avoid!), it doesn't magically make me create (and store!) fat out of fucking nowhere! In starvation mode your body is constantly exhausted and it does everything it can to limit your activity (which does include lowering your metabolism) so it can hoard as much of your intake as possible.  This is where fatties go wrong though, that "hoard" is still a ridiculously tiny amount!! It's nowhere near enough to stop me from losing weight and it's certainly not enough to cause me to gain weight. If that was the case then I'd be the fattest woman on earth by now and being studied by science regarding my magical ability to break the laws of thermodynamics!! It just means that my body stores the miniscule amount it can save as fat, rather than using the energy repairing my damaged muscles, skin, organs etc... Hence why I'll more than likely die of organ failure at some point. Also, the body is incredibly resilient and it takes prolonged malnutrition and real starvation before the body will resort to such dangerous measures as "starvation mode". You will almost certainly start breaking down your own heart (and other muscles) for energy long before you hit what could be termed starvation mode! A couple of days of pretending to only eat 500kcal isn't going to fucking cut it!! *punches every fat fuck in sight* I really fucking despise these disgusting, stupid blubberbarges!!