Is it possible for a person who is vastly overweight to starve themselves to death and still be fat??

Question

Just one of my burning questions...................................

Answer 1

Yes it is, and while you may become thinner when you starve yourself you are actually depriving you body of nutrients needed for it to function.

Think of it as like filling up your gas tank, if you do not continue to put gas in the tank, eventually your car will stop running. It's the same thing with your body. Only you would be doing it at such a rate that you wouldn't lose all the weight.

Answer 2

It happens to me sometimes. I have a problem with starve-and-binge cycles, and I might go through a period where I tell myself I'm too fat to eat. So I starve myself. After a while I build up so much hunger I'll eat everything that doesn't eat me first. But by that time, my body has gone into starvation mode, and it hangs onto every calorie it can get. In summary, over a period of, say, several months, I might actually eat less than the average person but still be gaining weight. The solution, and I am losing weight now, has been to not let myself starve, so that I don't get that blasted hungry.

Answer 3

what literally ?then yes, if you don't eat after a point you will pop your clogs but if you are on a diet and restricting your food intake vastly then your metabolism will slow down dramatically, your fat cells with start to protect themselves but multiplying ( in other words storing everything as fat ) and you will start to lose muscle instead , all in all,try to go on a calorie controlled diet, still eat your carbs but a little less and if you can avoid it not just before you go to bed and in any one sitting try to only eat 4oz of protein as the body can only digest that amount, the rest will be stored as fat.

Answer 4

No. The human body is programmed for survival and so it would use up all the fat stores and eventually cannibalize muscle tissue in order to keep going. They might die from lack of nutrients or water first though.

Answer 5

YES.
I watched a documentary about a bulimic who weighed 80lbs but was technically obese because she was over 30% body fat. She had severe muscle wasting. Because your body will attack the muscle before the fat if you do not consume enough protein.

Now you know!

Answer 6

Yes. When you don't eat your body will go in shock and anything that is taken in, no matter how little, will be stored no matter how fat the person is.

Answer 7

I don't think so because the body will start to eat it's own fat for fuel.

Answer 8

yeah obesity can come out of DISEASES too...not necessarily eating

Answer 9

Yes it is.

Answer 10

No, I do not think it is.