I don’t believe this nick
Humans don’t hibernate.
When your weight loss is the result of starvation, or some other unsustainable sort of diet regimen, one runs the risk of a Boomerang Affect, where all the weight lost comes back, plus a little bit more. I know this from experience.
Once still needs to eat sensibly, practice good breathing and move around some, but it’s often best to accept the natural weight your body seems to ‘want to’ settle at.
I thought it was not possible to go more than 40 days without food.
Something about the body reaching a tipping point, a point of no return where even if you ate, you would not survive.
I tried finding information about it on the internet and could not find it.
I read, a long time ago, that if you did not poop for several weeks, your bunghole would fuse shut. Prolly not true though .....
It is well known that after 3 or 4 days of fasting (totally - only water), you lose your appetite and all desire to eat.
The roughest part is the first 3 or 4 days.
Did 2 - 2 week fasts many years ago.......about a year apart......
I’ve been saying for a while now that Americans aren’t fat; we’re famine prepared. We are the best in the world at prepping for potential famines, and getting better every day.
What? No before and after pics?
I don’t believe the stuff about the illness but i DO beleive she had a video screen on her lectern because I SAW her reading it.
Here’s a nutrition prof that lost almost 30 pounds eating junk food!
Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/
It’s all about the calories you take in versus you expend.
Assuming that the report is accurate (i.e., just the part from the medical community, discounting what he claims), his weight loss timeline almost precisely matches the 0.7 lb/day of fat that a body needs to burn to keep running.
I fast on a regular basis for weight control (only ‘diet’ that works for me), with 9 days being the longest, but I’ll likely go to 14 days soon. As others noted, it’s not bad after several days, you body adjusts (slows down a bit) and you live in that state without a overwhelming hunger (much easier than trying to live on a low-calorie diet).
I know it’s very hard for the medical community to accept anything they’re not taught (heck, my doctor was just trying to get me on Statins, idiot). So if I said to him I was on a fasting diet, most likely I would have left his office in a straight-jacket.
But sometimes it makes sense to look back a bit further. Why do we create and store body fat in the first place, when we always have 3 well-balanced meals (LOL)? I think we all agree that it dates back many moons ago, back to bad times, when it could be weeks between mastodons. Based on that, it would only make sense that fat contains everything needed to survive, as I doubt they had many Rite-Aid Pharmacies back then. And that is the case, as this guy and many others have shown.
So my advice is not to be afraid to try living as humans have 99+% of their existence on this planet. If you’re otherwise healthy and have the extra fat on you, it may be worth trying...of course don’t overdue it, because there is a point where you body runs out of fat...so don’t even cut it too close.