Is complete starvation the fastest way to lose weight?

Question

I mean no food and only water for however long it takes. If you starved for a month would you survive everyday life. How much would you lose???

Answer 1

No, its the most dangerous way to lose weight.
If you don't eat anything or very small quantities for little while, your body would try to keep the fat in order to "fuel" its basic operations. The only things you would lose are muscle fibers.

Answer 2

Yes starvation is the fastest way to lose weight, but you'd gain it all back. You can't survive a month on just water. If you have enough will power to withstand the pain of starving though, I'd recommend doing it the right way. Its easier and more permanant.

Answer 3

yes you can lose craploads like that - i've done it before but i have to admit that although i felt sexy and in control i also felt sick most of the time and nearly fainted on several occasion, also you get bad breath form the acid in your stomach. You can get loads of future health problems and if you do start eating again you'll pile the pounds back on.
Can i suggest that you go on a homemade soup diet? For instance, if you have in the hot weather cold carrot soup (which is really yummy) for lunch and dinner then you can lose at least 2lbs a day.
To make a good soup is easy, you don't have to use fat, just boil up veggies and blend them or mash them with the water you boiled them in, maybe add a little low fat milk. The trick to making it taste great is in the seasoning.
The first week is the hardest as your stomach has to shrink and your body craves all the fat you're depriving it of!
Good Luck!

Answer 4

No you couldn't live with out food for a month!!! Just watch what you eat & exercise! A friend of mine that is in the military said that eating 5 or 6 small meals a day keeps your metabolism constantly going...
DO NOT starve yourself... Eat atleast 3 meals a day!
I wanted to loose weight & ate only once a day & I wandered why I wasn't loosing much of anything... ?? Well pretty much my body thought I was starving it & held on to the calories that I did consume!!! It sucks cuz when I decided to start eating normal again I gained some weight until my body knew I wasn't starving it to death!!!!!! Then my matabolism decided to start working again & burning off calories!!!

Answer 5

Sure it's the fastest way. Its also the LEAST effective and most dangerous way. DONT try it. And if you starved yourself for a month you would probably die within the week. Food is your fuel and without it you have no energy. you NEED energy to breathe, to think, to move, to get up in the morning, for EVERYTHING you do. The first few days that you eat nothing your body will start burning up the excess sugar in your body, that is to say, your glycogen in the liver and the fat deposits around your muscles, around your kidneys and in your abdominal area (tummy). Yes, you'll lose weight. But shortly after that your body's defense system will slow your metabolism down so that you lose as LITTLE weight as possible. This the body does to ensure that you don't DIE. If you continue the starvation, your body will have to start breaking down muscles and tissues for energy. This is disastrous for you. Starvation could lead to malnutrition (anorexia is no joke) and various deficiency diseases from lack of vitamins, eg. anaemia (too little or no iron prevents your blood from carrying oxygen molecules around the body and you can't do anything without oxygen). Honestly, if you lose weight this way you will gain it very quickly afterwards, I know 'cause it happened to a friend of mine. After her crazy diet she ended up even fatter than how she began. If you want to lose weight just cut down on your portions little by little and exercise. Better yet, go to a dietologist.
ps: fat may make us a little plump but it is absolutely necessary for energy, for protecting organs from physical damage, for enabling vitamins to do their job, and for insulation (warmth). Just eat it in reasonable quantities. No food group is dispensable. You need a bit of everything so the homemade soup diet sounds risky, because it's just veggies and water.

Answer 6

Hi
That would be highly extreme,instead try this simple plan so here goes,
If you are serious about losing weight, the calories in the food you eat should be less than the energy you use. You will have to increase your metabolic rate now, and plan your diet carefully.
Formulate your own weight loss plan and you will lose weight faster. More details available at http://tinyurl.com/m7ckx

Good luck

Answer 7

You could end up doing serious damage to you organs by doing that kind of thing, it's not worth it for that and many other reasons. Learn how to feed your body and do regular exercise by reading Bill Phillips book Body For Life and check out his website bodyforlife.com. If you are serious about getting healthy and changing your lifestyle who cares what people think of the way you look right now,there's no need to potentially hurt yourself by trying to starve the weight off. Let them see you now and then see the results of your hard work 3 months after taking the Body For Life challenge. Good luck and good health.

Answer 8

You would loose some weight, but you'll also put yourself at risk of health problems.

When you chane your diet extremely, the lack of nutrients could trigger an imbalance which releases a dangerous amount of toxins into your body.

People have been known of having gall blader problems from weight fluctuations

Answer 9

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Answer 10

(starving youself tends to bring more weight) Known Fact. Eat less breads and have small meals which include all the food groups you need