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There are approximately 3500 Calories in a pound. How many pounds you lose by starving yourself depends on your basal metabolic rate, or BMR (how many Calories you burn while at rest) and how many calories you burn through activity. Most people's BMR is somewhere in the neighborhood of 1500 Calories. Add in daily activity and you get your 2000 Calorie-based diet recommended by the USDA, FDA etc. Therefore, it will take most people about 2 days of not eating to lose one pound. Skipping a single meal won't do much for you if weightloss is the ultimate goal. Skipping meals lowers blood sugar and reduces metabolism, which will actually slow down the entire process. In addition, the weight you loose will not all be from fat, but also muscle tissue, skin, blood and even bone matter. This is because of the fact that as your body can't receive the essential nutrients it needs to survive from food, it will extract them wherever it can find them. So be sure to eat! Your body needs protein, starch, fat, calcium, folic acid, vitamins, minerals and much more simply to sustain life. As any one of these becomes depleted from your diet, your body looses some of its functions and, depending on the level of deprivation, you can even die. This is why it is very important to have a balanced, consistant diet with fruits and vegetables.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 14y agoIf you honestly starve yourself, you can lose even too much weight. This may sound tempting, but you are putting your life at risk. If you want to lose a lot of weight; limit your calories, and find a way to burn those calories and a few more and you will lose weight. Cardio exercise is marvellous for burning calories. Just remember this, in order to lose one pound of fat, you need to burn 3500 calories.
It depends how much you weigh. However, your metabolism will slow down and that will make it much harder for you to lose weight in the long term. In addition, you may develop serious health problems. There are much better ways to lose body fat. Start by not having snacks, chips, sweets, sodas, pizzas, and restricting all refined (processed) carbohydrates. In addition, engage in cardio exercise such as cardio walking to lose weight. Cardio exercise is an excellent fat burner.
For a list of refined (processed) carbohydrates, or to learn how to do cardio walking for weight loss, see the page links, further down this page, listed under Related Questions.
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∙ 11y agoNot much, if anything at all. Your body still stores food from the past few days and meals in the liver, and food can take a day or two to even be digested and go out of your system. Also, starving is not a good method of weight loss. It can cause many health side effects and is dangerous.
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∙ 12y agoYou will lose weight, eventually but it is not right and u will eventually die and it will become an obsession with your diet. if u starve yourself you will become anorexic and go to a home to help you with it. you may have heart problems and die!! DONT DO IT!! I am though im fat!!
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∙ 14y agoStarving yourself is never a good way to lose weight. It is very dangerous and can be deadly. Some people can lose considerable amounts of weight by starving, but it also really hurts the body.
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∙ 13y agoIf for one day 5kg.
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Is it harmful to starve yourself to lose weight?
Yes, very much...
How much weight will you lose if you starve for one month?
I doubt that you can starve yourself for a month as your body will not allow it. It all depends on how much you weigh now and how active you are.
Im a 16 year old 5'3'' female that weighs 155 if i starve yourself for a week how much weight can i lose?
The answer to this is that if you do starve yourself you'll GAIN WEIGHT! Just eat healthy and excersize.
You want to lose 6 kg in one week?
You can't - even if you starve yourself (which is dangerous) you could not lose that much weight in 7 days.
How much weight can you lose if you starve yourself for 2 weeks?
Starvation is not the answer to achieving weight loss ... exercise is ... lots of exercise. Food is an essential to survival.
You want to lose about 15 kgs in 2 weeks how can you achieve this?
You can't - even if you starve yourself (which is dangerous) you could not lose that much weight in 14 days.
If you are a 230 pound 13-year-old and you starve yourself for 10 days how much weight will you lose - or is there a much better and safer way to lose weight?
Starving yourself is a rediculous and extremely unhealthy way of losing weight. Your body needs vitamins and minerals in order to lose weight in a healthy way. No matter how much you eat, (to a certain extent) if you eat healthy and you excercise consistantly, you will lose weight.
How much weight can you lose starve for month?
OH MY GOSH!! Don't ever starve yourself! It is so unbelievably bad I can't explain. Try exercising for and get on a HEALTHY diet plan instead.
How much weight can you lose on a water diet?
You can lose a lot of weight very quickly. But there's a catch. Once you start putting foods in your body you will put on the weight you lost... and then some. Starving yourself is a truly terrible idea. And if you try to starve for too long, you will start bingeing when your body/brain override your desire to starve yourself and lose weight. My recommendation: eat healthy and work out many times a week. It might not be as fast, but you will have lasting results.
How much weight can you lose when you starve yourself?
Well, first you lose whatever muscle you have, so you're REALLY flabby. Then, after awhile, you're body will slowy eat the fat until you die.
How many pounds will you lose in a week if you starve yourself and exercise?
If you starve yourself and exercise for a week, you could probably lose anywhere from 5 to 10 lbs. But, that will mostly be water weight and not the weight from fat that you are hoping to lose. When you starve yourself, your body goes in "starvation mode," meaning that everything you eat is stored directly as fat because the body conserves as much energy as possible to keep you alive because it thinks you are starving to death. Therefore, it would take you longer to lose that ten pounds of by fasting rather than eating healthy and exercising.
How do you lose 30 pounds in 30 days?
Really it` s probably not possible to lose that much, but you can lose alot by just cutting your food back, and if you starve yourself you will just be skinnier until you eat or drink anything so its not good to strve yourself. And first if you want to lose weight it has to be in your mind before you can do it.
