So, I was kind of wondering about this concept a few weeks ago. On the 19th of November I had a small stroke and was in the hospital for 3 days. While there, for the first 40 hours I was not allowed to eat or drink due to them not knowing if my ability to swallow had been effected. I need to get and eval form Physical Therapy first. In that 40 hours I lost nearly 12 lbs. I’ve always been a pretty big guy, was up to 468 lbs in 2019, but have since lost quite a bit and upon admission was down to 291. Since getting out and coming home, I’ve started intermittent fasting, which will help with what caused the stroke as well (diabetes). Now if I can just figure out how to pay this $200,000 hospital bill. lol.
I knew a guy who had bariatric surgery, and his doctor told him that he had enough fat stored to live an entire year without eating a single thing.
That’s not how that works. You still need nutrients, fat is energy but you will die in 30 days if you don’t eat.
That is exactly how it works, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri's_fast
I mean, that guy was eating vitamins and yeast, which sounds like exactly the kind of thing the previous commenter was suggesting you’d need to eat, so maybe they had a point.
