Why anorexics dont gain weight

Question
I need to ask this because I believe there is a contradiction.  I read that when you starve yourself to lose weight, your body senses a famine and it stocks up on fat reserves.  Thus, you would gain weight because fat is being stocked
up in your body.  If this is the case, then why is it that anorexics lose weight instead of gaining more weight?  Aren't their bodies stocking
up on fat reserves when they are starving themselves?  Do you see the contradiction?  

Answer
Because anorexics are way beyond that point.  Their body has stocked the fat reserves and then used those up too!  When they say that is what happens in "starvation mode" that still means the person is eating, but just not eating enough!  With anorexics they really eat very, very little so there is nothing there to even turn into fat to use as a reserve.  So, no their bodies really are not stocking up on fat reserves because they are not taking in fuel to use as fat reserves.  To store fat you have to feeding your body something.
Hope that helps,
Kim Tessmer, RD LD

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