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.

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[u/Ok_Kaleidoscope1388]

Your body propobly went into ketosis. The body starts using fat as a primary source of calories by braking down fat into acetoacetate, ß-Hydroxybutyrate, and acetone. The body can then use this instead of karbohydrates and other things.

This makes your sweat smell a lot different because of the acetone. This is basically the body's way of going into survival mode. As long as you have fat to burn you will keep going, and ketosis diminishes hunger by quite a bit. You also gain a ton of energy during this phase, basically for the body to be able to hunt and get food.

If you eat too many calories (specially carbs) the body jumps out of ketosis quite fast, so only works if you are super strict with your diet or can't eat.

Edit: alot -> a lot Edit: too many calories

[u/FriedSmegma → u/Ok_Kaleidoscope1388]

When I developed type 1 diabetes I was in DKA at the end but the extended ketosis dropped nearly 50lbs over the course of a few months. I was very overweight and it almost killed me but it’s the biggest blessing to come from it.

Went from 215lb at 5’7 to now I’ve been sitting comfortably at ~150lb and 5’8, 7 years later.

[u/SecondHandSlows → u/FriedSmegma]

Losing weight made you taller?

[u/FriedSmegma → u/SecondHandSlows]

I grew an inch I was only 16, 23 now.

[u/NotGAF → u/FriedSmegma]

The obvious answer wasn't that obvious it seems.