''I can't be the only one who saw requiem for a dream...''
Thats a very sad film!
Regarding starving yourself, its not a good way to go about things at all, your training your body here and if you starve yourself the next time you eat something your body will store that as fat thinking the food will be scarce, and if you keep starving yourself your body will eat away at any muscle you have, its all about quality of food and not quantity!
Alot of people are overfed and undernourished, you can actually lose alot of weight be eating alot of the right foods, RAW foods are the best nutritious foods you can get by far. Enzymes are what make our body tick...
*Enzymes are proteins. Like other proteins, enzymes consist of long chains of amino acids held together by peptide bonds. They are present in all living cells, where they perform a vital function by controlling the metabolic processes whereby nutrients are converted into energy and fresh cell material. Furthermore, enzymes take part in the breakdown of food materials into simpler compounds. They break down your food and convert it into energy, with these this can be done without these your body will store what it cant burn off as fat, now heres something you didnt know, 100% of all cooked food contains 0% enzymes, only raw uncooked food has enzymes! So eat plenty of fruit! or uncooked veg.
If you want a good read get any superfood book by david wolfe, he is a bit of a hippy but he knows what he is talking about when it comes to nutrition.