Starvation Mode
By: Briauna Y.
Tags: Bodybuilding, Body Positive, Stress Management, Body Image, Anorexia

Its not uncommon for the body to feel hungry, parched, or unsatisfied. Your body starts to crave something to fulfill it. Most people tend to go into hunger mode.

Hunger stems from the brain just like any other desire you have. The brain tells the body what to do. But does the brain send messages to other parts of the brain?

When your body hits starvation mode, the individual is hungry, but that signal to tell your body to go eat isn’t connecting with the signal sent from your brain that your hungry. Once this brain feels this battle that it doesn’t want to face, it lets other obligations get in the way.

You start to think of the activities you have to do and the work you haven’t done. Those signals start sending to the body before the go eat signal sends because it just makes the brain work less. Who doesn’t want to do less work?

Exactly.

You don’t even realize your body is in starvation mode initially because that signal has been blocked out by everything else. Might feel like you have terrible spasms in your stomach. Sort of like a common stomach ache. Only when the signal has lasted a few days or more. Think of starvation mode as just not eating for more than 6 hours.

HEY! IT HAPPENS!

Some go as far as not even caring about the pain, which leads to disease. But for someone whose not into random uncomfortable pain, you’ll notice quickly that something is not right.

Now it is time to put in the work and start a form of discipline that most people find unfair.

You have to eat.

Yes that’s right, you have to eat.

Please understand that anyone can get this feeling, especially college students, parents, or just people who experience stress often. Maybe things get in the way that you forget to pack a lunch with you for 4 days in a row. Maybe a break up or the kids are not behaving well this week. Things are just simply going out of control. Any experience of stress could turn this bodily mode, on.

NOW PAY ATTENTION!!!

It’s now 2020 and we want you to have a clear 20/20 visual of your world. So it’s time to put that starvation mode light …

How to stop Starvation Mode?

Alarms are the best at getting a signal across. Use your phone as a way to remind you to eat. Set it for a breakfast time, lunch time, & dinner.

7:00 am — Breakfast and wake up

12:00 pm — Lunch/Break

4:00pm — Dinner

We recommend approaching it slowly, especially if you are starving to the point that your body is looking different.

Aiming for the 3 main courses an individual needs to eat, is a calm bodily initiative. You will notice how your body feels once it has be fulfilled and when it hasn’t. In other words, if you haven’t noticed before the feeling your body expresses when the INSIDE is bothering you, you will now. Feeling full of feeling empty, is a great start to listening to your body since you can NOT visually see what’s inside. We know, it’s messing up your 20/20 vision goals. But we not letting that stop us 🙅🏾‍♀️.

Listening to your body reduces all kinds of issues and listening early doesn’t hurt. So try your best to pay attention. That fruit salad with whip cream is calling your name!