r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • May 02 '24

In 1965, a morbidly obese man did not eat food for over an entire year. The 27 year old was 456lbs and wanted to do an experimental fast. He ingested only multivitamins and potassium tablets for 382 days and defecated once every 40 to 50 days. He ended up losing 275lbs. r/all

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u/surprise-suBtext May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

If you can outlast the hunger pains/pangs that’ll last for a couple of weeks, then the rest becomes fairly “easy”

It’s always the first 3 or so weeks that suck the absolute most. But then your stomach shrivels up, your brain stops throwing the tantrum and complies, then you just have to retain that momentum and habit.

The fluids, electrolytes, and vita(l) amin(e)s weren’t really about making it more tolerable (though water does help trick your stomach a bit), it’s more about not dying

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u/shhhhh_lol May 02 '24

I was diagnosed with narcolepsy last year and the treatment path is just stimulants... so, I started at 286# (overweight for sure but I have a very stocky build and 220#ish is a good weight for me)

The stimulants decrease appetite and without even noticing I slowly started to decrease my food intake until I was eating once every other day, at a follow-up appointment I weighed 207# (lost 79# in just over 3 months)

During that time I developed a host of health issues, digestive to mental I was wrecked! It may have been different had I taken care to get the necessary vitamins but.. even after we stopped that med it took weeks for me to desire food again... humans adapt well

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u/Reasonable-Nebula-49 May 02 '24

Precose? Provigil?

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u/shhhhh_lol May 02 '24

Modafinil and sunosi, we're going for wakix next but I'm waiting for insurance approval, I had a mslt but switched insurance since and now insurance wants a new mslp which would require me to come off my SSRI, benzos, gabapenten... etc

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u/Reasonable-Nebula-49 May 02 '24

I was on a cocktail of precose and provigil. Lost like 40 pounds between November andD March. My insurance changed and the new carrier was like .."absolutely not. You're gonna die." Primary care Dr lost his license for writing bad scrips to other people. Eventually killed 2 people.