How to starve in style.....kind of

[Mortblanc]

Once again you fellows are allowing your fanatical antifanaticism to derail an informative thread.

Almost all religions have accounts of long fasts, that is not unusual or unexpected.

We also have the documented accounts of fasts in the historical context, both voluntary and involuntary,

Gahandi endured at least one 21 day fast in protest of British policy.

Several of the IRA prisoners have fasted unto death in the past 50 years.

During WW2 the Jewish doctors kept records for use against their tormentors at war's end.

By all scientific accounts the body shuts down and goes into starvation mode after only a few days, conserving calories and operating my effeciently on the calories it has. All modern diets warn of this characteristic.

Just keep in mind that most of us are overweight. At 3500 calories per pound of fat, with our bodies needing 2,000 calories per day to sustain, we will not achieve "normal body weight" until 15 days into the fast!

Possibly longer if our bodies have gone into starvation mode and are workign more efficiently

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That takes into account starting at ten pounds over recommended weight.

The heavier one is the longer they will last.

That is why it is easy to put on and hard to take off! Our bodies are designed for these "feast and famine cycles". Modern men simply have more feast than famine to endure.

It is a simple math calculation to find how long one would last before the body fat index started leaching brain tissue for nutrition!

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One is in the "danger zone" at 2-5% body fat.

Figure how many calories one would have to shed before reaching that level and do the math.

Adding back in calories extends the process, naturally.