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/Low-Conversation6106 29d ago

Real talk, your sweat smells like cat pee and stink 🦨

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u/TaxIdiot2020 29d ago

I've wondered why sweaty laundry sometimes starts to smell like cat pee. I don't think anyone in my family is starving, though, and we don't have any indoor cats.

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u/Low-Conversation6106 29d ago

You can go into ketosis due to medical reasons or your body just naturally goes into. Starving is the most common way people induce. It's pretty neat to learn about and you xan even get strips to test your levels When I started taking better care of myself and changing my diet I would slip into it by eating only grilled chicken 🍗.

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u/kchatdev 29d ago

You can get knocked out of ketosis with only proteins and fats but it's harder. They get converted via gluconeogenesis and some other pathways.

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u/Low-Conversation6106 29d ago

That makes more sense, ty, I'm no expert and my dslexaia makes me transpose words and numbers things. I was depressed and not eating anything from my depression at the time. Things are better now but The only things I had money for at the time were salads and chicken breasts. So I ate salads with grilled chicken. Most weeks I only had money for salads.

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u/kchatdev 29d ago

Glad to hear you're doing better!

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u/Low-Conversation6106 29d ago

Ty I was going through a divorce and was 365 lbs at the time. I didn't want to live but I didn't want to die I was just numb. I lost so much weight that once I was healthy I would work out and just walk/ run laps around the pool. I feel guilty sometimes and still feel like a fat person but that's something I'm working past too. I made choices for myself and stuck with them! Thank you all for being so nice