Rooted in Resilience You're Not Fat You're Starving | Kathleen Stewart
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May 22, 2024 Kathleen Stewart discusses The Minnesota Starvation Experiment revealing impacts of low energy availability like edema, weight swings, cravings, fear of weight gain, challenges of low calorie diet, long-term effects, slow approach importance, and physical changes during refeeding.
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Malnourished Despite Body Size
- Low energy availability (LEA) can occur at any body size and mimics famine physiology in modern dieters.
- You can be overweight yet malnourished because chronic calorie restriction triggers starvation adaptations.
Build Maintenance Before Dieting
- Slowly increase to maintenance calories and stay there long enough to stabilize before attempting another diet.
- Aim to rebuild maintenance over months so cuts later are easier and less damaging.
Cat-Loafing And Losing Spatial Sense
- Kathleen described leaning and 'cat loafing' as energy-saving behavior during severe LEA.
- She also recounted bumping into walls and losing spatial awareness from deficiency-related brain effects.