Why can't I just barely eat (or not eat)? I have enough fat to literally hibernate through the winter...?

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When I put my stats into online weightless calculators it's almost horrifying just how long it'll take me to lose the ~75lbs that I'm trying to. Even when I drop my calories down to zero (in the calculator) just to see how long I could live off my fat, it still would take months and months before I even get into the "normal" BMI range.

I guess that got me thinking.... why can't I just not eat? Or barely eat? Clearly I have ample reserves in my body to keep me functioning, so why couldn't I eat, say... 150 calories a day, at least just until I get to a normal BMI, and then keep losing like a normal person until I reach my UGW?

There just seems to be so little research/articles/advice out there, when it seems logically(?) that obviously I have the fat for energy, so why can't I live off off my "savings" so to speak. I have a time-consuming office job, so I'm mostly sedentary, so it's not as if I'm running marathons or anything. I'd assume my fat could give me more than enough energy to just do daily tasks.

I understand the need for vitamins and protein and sodium/electrolytes, but if I took daily pills for those things and ate just a little bit everyday in things like plain lettuce, spinach, cucumbers, low-cal broth, and low-cal fruits to keep my digestive system functioning (totaling nothing more than 150 cal/day), then why couldn't I do that?

I know it would take an immense amount of will-power to do this for several months at end, but I've done a 30 day water fast in the past, so I have that drive within me.

I guess I just don't know if there's something I'm missing....? What if I went and got my blood tested monthly to make sure I wasn't deficient on anything? I guess I just feel like I'm torturing myself with any sort of diet/deficit, I might as well at least make the process speed up- so at least the "torture" is over faster and I can go to maintenance quicker.

Can anyone enlighten me? Sorry if this question has been asked before!

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