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do you gain weight
do you gain weight from not eating. because my friend is trying to gain weight & she said her mom told her if she don't eat she'll gain weight. is that true ?
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Yes, that's completely true, but it's a bad way to go about gaining weight. If you don't eat/don't eat enough, your body will go into starvation mode, where it stores everything you put into it because it doesn't know when it's going to get food again. Or, at the very least, you won't gain and you won't lose (that happened to me)
If your friend wants to gain weight, she should increase her calorie intake to somewhere between 2500 (which is about normal) and 3000 (which is higher than normal...she wants to aim for 3000) a day and exercise - working out (if you do it right) builds lean muscle, which weighs more than fat.
Or, she can go to a GNC store (or something like it) and buy weight gainer...though, if you buy that, you HAVE to work out, otherwise it just turns into fat, which is the wrong kind of weight. Your friend wouldn't be happy with that.
Do you mean that she wants to get bigger, or that she just wants to weigh more?
If she wants to get bigger she'll need some kind of weight gainer. If the number on the scale is the issue, get her to start working out.
Good luck!
-Siren =)
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no u actully loose weight when you dont eat its not true.
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Wow.
This is common sense right here. Mass = weight. If you don't eat, therefore not consume mass, you don't gain weight.
If you don't eat, you lose weight. BUT by not eating, it screws up your metabolism so that when you do it, later, you will gain a whole lot of weight. Of course, starving yourself in the long run will still make you lose more weight, it'll also completely screw up your metabolism.
I wouldn't try it if i were you
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yepp. when you don't eat, your body goes "oh crap. we are running out of food. well, better save it up." meaning that every little bit of food will be stockpiled. and when your body stockpiles food, you gain weight!
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It is indeed. Your body will go into starvation mode, and when you DO eat, because sometime you WILL eventually have to eat-- your body will store all the stuff [effectively making you gain weight] so that when you don't eat again, your body can live off of the fat. [stored up stuff]
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