Yup agreed, this was basically what I was saying, although far more informative about the details. She was claiming "starvation mode" to be a situation where she was operating at a severe caloric deficit, and still GAINING weight. Which could be explained by fat magically materializing from the autism plane of existence (unlikely), water weight (possible, although short term and on a comparatively small scale), OR just lying about caloric intake (seems most likely).
This is where I'll probably sound like a conspiracy theorist, but fuck it, I'll do it anyways.
To a degree, she could be doing it to herself. she clearly has some degree of attachment to looking like grendel's mother (otherwise she'd... y'know, put some effort into self care, I may be screaming at shadows with this, but anyone who operates by the spoon theory is looking for an excuse to be lazy, you can push yourself to do fucking insane things under the right circumstances) so there's a chance her body could very well be sabotaging her initial attempts to diet. the placebo effect is a very poorly understood, incredibly powerful thing, and there's a small chance that her line of thinking basically boils down to the following"
"If I go on a diet, then I'll have to actually put effort into working out and not stuff myself full of garbage, but I don't want to put that effort in, and it'll be useless if I just end up gaining weight, so if that happens, I won't do it"
So, it doesn't happen. the body has all sorts of ways to jump up weight on a short notice, it's possible for someone to gain a good 5% of their lean body mass in water weight due to the kerfuckus that is the body's healing process, in addition to something like a GI tract slowdown... how the fuck would that even work with a fucking feeding tube
her body would just slough off the weight it emergency gained when she's not being monitored. that, in short, is my theory on how tumblrites defy thermodynamics.
Okay, full stop, she's lying. like, fucking hardcore bullshitting, and let me tell you why
Have you ever tasted a protien shake before?
it tastes like giving a rimjob to one of the mascot M&Ms. dirty, vaguely chocolate flavored, with an aftertaste of what I can only describe as "confused dissatisfaction". maybe that's just the stuff I'm drinking, I don't know
and yet, people force themselves to drink them every single day. why? because after a while, they stop tasting like dirty M&M asshole, and start tasting like getting open-mouthed stares from your friends when you take your shirt off because it got wet. they start tasting like getting handed a fucking phonebook at the beach. go to any fitness site, and you'll see people praying to Zyzz there was a way to cut out the middle man and just inject this shit straight into your stomach.
she has this fucking option
she has a feeding tube, she doesn't need to worry about the food having to go through her mouth and be bland, all she has to worry about is quite literally raw numbers. somewhere, a dietician, doctor, fucking somebody has to have told her what the shit a macronutrient is. if she did some first grade math and even a quarter of a fuck left to give, she could look like a runway model. it doesn't even cost her extra money! watering something like a protein shake down is only a bad idea for when you have to try and get it past your tastebuds like some theif in the night. for her, feeling more full is as simple as just
adding water
bottom line, she is either quite honestly mentally retarded to the point that the farms shouldn't even have a thread on her because she has the mental acuity of a toddler, or, for whatever reason, she wants to look like this.
Good Gods after writing that I felt like I had to double check my driver's license to make sure my last name hadn't spontaneously changed itself to Logatto.
TL;DR: The placebo effect may be a thing, but she's more likely than not just a git. also I await your Alog ratings.
by definition?
