You know how they say that eating too few calories (less than 1000) burns muscle and not fat? ?

Question

I've heard everybody say that eating too little will actually prevent weight loss. Then how do people with anorexia get skinny?

Answer 1

i dont have an answer but i have the same question so...i'll be waiting for an answer to this...right now im eating 1000 calories a day and i havent dropped a pound...im really frustrated...

Answer 2

Because they are burning up all their muscle.  Their bodies are destroying all kinds of muscle because of starvation, so they get deathly skinny, death being the operative word here.

Answer 3

Your body will try to hold on to any fat that it has in reserves and you will not see any weight loss at first. Weight loss begins when your body eats all of the fat, all the while delving into your muscles for nutrition as well. Its a bad combo and can become a very hard disease to break