did i do damage to myself with my crash diet?

[tempest818]

Hi guys, sincen the start of summer i did an extreeeemely aggressive cut at 1600 cals a day starting at 260 lbs. Im 185 now and my frame is looking frail, and my parents keep saying im getting smallrr n smaller every week they see me, since i go to school n come back weekends. Even given my crap eating habits i still seem to wake up every morning feeling dry and cut.

Im worried this crash diet and excessive 3 hour exercising regiment has screwed something up. My recent general bloodwork about 2 months ago showed normal levels except my TSH was.on the lowest end of what is considered normal. Could i have screwed something up hormonally? Or am i just sounding.ridiculous. my dad keeps saying i should go get checked but idk...i have decent leanness and i am happy with it.

What would i even ask the doctor lol.

[tarmyg]

Look into reverse dieting, you sound like a perfect candidate.

[Splifton]

You're wondering if irreversible metabolic alterations have occurred from your aggressively structured dieting protocol? Eh no. I wouldn't be worrying about lasting metabolic dysfunctions unless you are someone who also has anorexia nervosa..etc. Only thing I can pull off the top of my head is the observations that can be seen in females who were anorexic, but since achieved remission and yet endocrinological functionality never regressed back to it's former self.

Now if you continue using this diet will you develop a metabolic dysfunction that cannot be reversed? Ehhh... I doubt it unless you unknowingly have Type I Diabetes or in the early developing stages of Type II Diabetes, which then will usually result in disruptions to metabolic efficiency (leptin, ghrelin, adiponectin...)

You really have to go balls to the walls to create a physiological response so strong that it irreversibly alters your biological nature in a negative manner. For instance, I was a methamphetamine addict off and on in my teens for about 3-4 years and yet after being free from that demonizing prison for a quite a while I show no signs of metabolic irregularities as far as I've looked. I wouldn't eat for 5-6 days on end and then when I would crash I would eat for 10 hours straight then sleep for 70+ hours.

Now if you were to have inadvertently disrupted your metabolic equilibrium it would most likely be some form of desensitization to leptin, insulin, or disrupted how ghrelin and adiponectin function in the metabolic system as a whole. Typically that doesn't occur in a quick timeframe and I'd doubt the average person would do that much punishment on their body in a year or so to elicit a symptom that gives reason to believe otherwise.

We as a species do not give our body enough credit for it's ability to constantly interpret and respond to the forever changing environment. If we were that susceptible to deleterious metabolic functions from improper eating practices then I wouldn't know how we survived through the years of famine and disease that plaque our past.