Starvation and Muscle loss/gain

[WillBrink]

So the average Joe with 140lbs LBM who enters starvation and does not damage his systems will essentially return to 140lbs LBM once he regains a proper healthy diet and works his normal routine?

Answer is "maybe." Human biology often does not work in such a linear fashion and there are many possible variables to the above not accounted for to give any "yes" "no" answers.

[BrianS]

Some pictures of 50 cent were in the news recently, apparently he had starved himself for a role as a cancer patient and included were pictures of him on tour just a few weeks after up to nearly the same size.

[tampam4]

Some pictures of 50 cent were in the news recently, apparently he had starved himself for a role as a cancer patient and included were pictures of him on tour just a few weeks after up to nearly the same size.

Something similar here. Christian Bale lost an insane amount of weight for The Machinist, and about half a year later was buffed up quite a bit for Batman.