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Of course.

Your body stores fat because it does not need it, when you get hungry your body uses the fat cells to power it.

Also if you're considering going anorexic please don't, all the guys I know barf at the fact that someone could get so skinny.

Once your body has eaten all your fat it starts to eat your muscles leaving you week and vulnerable.Eventually your body will have eaten all it can from your muscles then next go to your heart which at this stage if you do not start to put on weight will event in death.

Here are some links that might help if this did not:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa

http://www.mamashealth.com/anorexia.asp

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first fat, then muscle both- lack of protein causes muscle depletion

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Yes. The body "eats" itself to get the nutrients it needs, and muscles are a great source of protein.

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