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Sophie
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Sophie asked in HealthDiet & Fitness · 8 years ago

Extreme weight loss - what rate? (theoretical question!)?

I'm writing a short story which involves imprisonment without food for a very obese male character. I'd like to know how fast weight loss might occur for a very fat person if they didn't eat at all. They would have access to water only.

My idea is to have this happening for several weeks, I don't really mind how long I just want it to be plausible. I'm assuming with sufficient liquids a person could survive for at least a month and maybe up to four months? At what kind of rate would they lose weight - say a stone a week?

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    They would hold on to the weight for quite some time. Only after a few weeks or more, depending on countless factors, would they start to shrink after the body stops putting up a fight. Fat people are often found still fat after more than a week being lost in the wilderness with no food.

    A difference is if they have minimal food after living with abundance. These are the people you see on reality shows who lose 30 pounds in a month from eating bananas and nuts etc while building huts and doing challenges all day. This is after having eating a pot roast and sitting still for 20 years in their real life. It makes sense that they lose weight like that.

    What will not make you lose weight is starvation. Your body holds on to the fat until it basically gives up on you and just gets ready to let you die.

  • 5 years ago

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  • 8 years ago

    With just water, a very obese person could survive for a few weeks [maybe 3 or 4] without food

  • 4 years ago

    Drink green tea green tea can help you lose weight

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  • 5 years ago

    soups can be both filling and comforting try making a garden or bean soup with low salt broth and store in portion sized cups for later

  • 5 years ago

    Practice deep brearhing exercises to reduce the stress hormone cortisol

  • 5 years ago

    milk a cow for 34 minutes

  • 5 years ago

    Eat grapefruit before each meal

  • 5 years ago

    create emergency packs filled with healthy foods such as nuts fruits or sliced vegetables to help you avoid unhealthy temptations

  • 5 years ago

    strap on your 4 inch stilettos and you only have to climb 25 flights

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