It's not a myth exactly but like most things to do with diet, there's a lot of people who don't know what the fuck they are talking about when it comes to the subject.
If you consume less than 1200 calories a day, and don't eat enough protein and vitamins, your body will consume its own muscle mass to get the protein it needs.
The less muscle mass you have, the lower your base metabolic rate is. That is, the less calories you consume during the day just by being you.
When the person on the low calorie diet goes back to eating normally (as they so often do) this is what leads to them putting on more weight than they started with, because they don't burn off as many calories as they used to.
Starvation Mode is a myth. If your 'normal' eating habits is more calories in than calories out, you will gain weight, because you're consuming more than your're burning. The goal in losing weight is to make a complete lifestyle change where your calories in = calories out.
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You're likely to end in a hospital bed with heart problems, decalcification, avitaminosis and worse. Brain development will halt. Breasts will become empty socks.
Don't stress. If you go into starvation mode you'll feel it. Watch an episode of Naked and Afraid.
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