If someone starves themselves, not eating but drinking, how long is it before they start to lose weight?

Question

I just want to add that this is a general question and I am not planning to do anything like this!

Answer 1

Like the others have said, the drink diet is not the way to lose weight. You want to lose fat, not water, not muscle.

Avoiding fatty food is good. But avoiding will only prevent you from getting bigger -and not make you slimmer; unless you count the muscle and water you lose (which is unhealthy).

You want to burn off fat, right? Only cardiovascular exercise would do the trick. Even walking is effective, long walks, that is. If you want fast results, be prepared for physical pain! Three months of military-type exercises can do wonders to weight loss, as I have seen. Choose your diet and exercise wisely - and above all, choose something you can enjoy!

Answer 2

It will be a day, then you start drinking again since your body was starve it will store more than required so you will gain more weight than you had before. It is not a cool way of looking weight rather I would advocate you watch what you eat but better still you exercise

Answer 3

Starving yourself does have a short term effect on your weight loss, but a long term damage on your health. You are better off being on detox for a month, then healthy diet and exercise, you'll see great results in about 3-4 months.

Do not starve yourself, because whatever you will loose you'll put on 2x more when you start eating again.

Good luck whatever you decide.

Answer 4

If someone starves themself their body goes into starvation mode and bodily functions are slower as is the metabolism...you will lose weight but in the most health damaging way possible. When you start to eat normally all the weight pus more is gained back because the body over compensates. Not a good idea..starving!

Answer 5

Firstly if you starve yourself you would actually put on weight, as your body goes into famine mode.

If you want to loose weight do not starve your self, and nobody is going to talk you out of it, eat smaller portions, because quite honeslty we dont need half the amount we eat, and drink water before a meal, not after as this dilutes your stomach acids and slows digestion. An hour after you eat, drink a detox tea. Eat lots of cirtus fruits such as oranges, and grapefruit. And drink lot of water throughout the day. You will feel healthier too.

Dont bother with fad diets as you only loose water, not fat.

Answer 6

Starving yourself to lose weight is never the right way to go about it. the best way to start "dropping pounds" is to eat small amounts of food every 2 or 3 hours. By doing this it will help the metabolism to speed up and start the losing process. Fluids will fill you up for a short time but will make you feel bloated. Eat healthy and exercise

Answer 7

After about two weeks it will be noticeable, but their whole system will start to shut down and they will do themselves alot of damage your hair will fall out, your periods will stop, your skin will go all leathery, your nails will split. Once they start eating agian they will gain weight quicker than they would normally as the body is not used to eating and will store everything incase it doesnt get food again. So not a good idea to starve yourself.

Answer 8

this is a stupid and dangerous way to lose weight, I am not gonna give you any positive ideas about it, your body starts eating itself, and you will die. If you need to lose weight, do it the right way and diet and exercise properly and under the supervision of experts, you will lose weight quickly and tone up your body, it will look and feel better and you will be healthy. To starve yourself is a road to a long slow and painful death.

Answer 9

Are you seriously considering this? Won't be long before you hit Crazyville thats for sure. Try excercise and healthy eating, or are you too lazy for this? What a stupid thing to do, you might lose weight but you will put your mind and body at serious risk.

Answer 10

I hope that you do your research before you would do a stupid thing like that. True you would lose weight but it would be your muscle that you would be losing not your fat. If you body does not receive enough protein and fat during a day it will start shutting down. When your body starts shutting down you have a chance of dying. So please if you are trying to lose weight do it the healthy way.