Weight-Loss The Human Body on The History Channel

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KingJabrone

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I was watching this show, it's a show about the amazing things the human body does and can do. Anyway, dude falls into a cave and has ZERO chance of getting out. They say his body automatically goes into survival mode and for three weeks it eats fat and then has no other alternative but to start eating muscle and if pushed, eat organs like the lining of the heart for to stay alive.

He was finally found 35 days later and has lost a total of 40 pounds of fat and muscle. If at three weeks it had been eating fat couldnt one just starve themselves for that long, then do a SUPER gradual re entry into eating but with an exercise regimen? You know, like eat and apple a day at first and workout then maybe after a week, eat some protein, maybe 200 calories. etc.

I ask because they all say that you WILL gain the weight back NO MATTER WHAT once you start eating again. I tend to lean toward what the History Channel tells me than some random ranter on a website. You know what I mean? I don't mean you guys, I trust what you guys think else I wouldnt ask it here. But some of those guys out there sheesh. Because when the guy was interviewed later he didnt seem super fat or anything, he just looked normal.

I am NOT trying to be a smart ass about this, I am just wondering.

Thanks.
 
No one should ever do that to their body. The only reason he did, was because he had no alternative. In no way can that guy say it was easy to do that. Losing weight is supposed to be done a healthy way so i would say no. I bet if you asked this guy how he felt every day in that cave, it would be beyond words.
 
Not to mention he's doing fuck all but sitting in a cave; you have to cope with everyday life with virtually no energy. Your body will consume a bunch of other useful stuff before it goes onto fat, and it definitely isn't recommended at all.

However, while we're on the subject, many top athletes train to swim the English channel (that wonderful bit of water that separates France from England). They gain something like 16 lbs of pure fat and burn it off all in one day, but then again they've been training rigorously for it and it isn't just a simple get-fit-quick plan.

P.S. How the hell didn't he die of thirst? :ack2:
 
"P.S. How the hell didn't he die of thirst? "

I was wondering the same thing. I'm guessing he was just stuck but with no broken bones. Maybe dew and rain water?
 
Yeah, he tried to "spellunk" the cave and find a way out but couldn't and they found him. Along the way there was rainwater or whatever dripping here and there and he got that.....

I'll tell you all a little something about myself. I am mental health and while that is nothing to be proud of, it's and issue that I deal with and I do consistently attend counseling for it. I enjoy pain a great deal.

I see something like that and I think to myself, I can do that.....what would that feel like? I bet I could do it.

I read a bunch on Christian Bale and his thing that he did for the machinist and then to Batman, you know lose 62 lbs in 4 months, to become 121 lbs, then pack on 100 pounds of mostly muscle for his immediate next movie Batman in 5 months. The only problem there is I am not a multi-million dollar actor who can afford the best of the best training and fitness direction. Starving your self seems like no big deal.

Anyway. So well this sucks, looks like I have to go the route of just eating right and working out again. I did it once before but I busted my shoulder and was out for 8 months. I gained 60 pounds and I hate it. I just want it to be gone, but I realize its not that easy.

Thanks.
 
I have tried a little bit of starvation and honestly for me it doesn't work. I lost about 5 pounds real quick but felt so miserable. Then I realized that I wasn't losing as fast, I think I was at about 700 cals a day. I was always thirsty and hungry. Then I binged for a weekend and went back to my old diet. Now I'm down to where I was after the starvation and feel perfectly fine. Now I figure having patience is way better than feeling miserable.
 
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