Not eaten for four days. No real loss of weight, WTF

[Derek Smith]

I've had some but. Really hit me. I've been in bed for four days. I've not eaten a thing. I've drunk a lot but that's it.

I had a shower just now and put on my clothes. My belt only did up to the normal hole.

I've weighed myself and I'm nearly a pound down.

Fair enough, I didn't get ill with the sole intention of losing weight, but I've been tossing and turning, I've sweated a good deal. But do me a favour. It's been four days without food.

[JimmyConwayNW]

Wait till all the water is out of you then you will drop a belt rung.

[Nik da Greek]

Because your metabolism has gone into "starve" mode and has shut itself down to preserve what calories your body still retains. To lose weight, you need to eat

[bigandclever]

You need your memory testing too

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[mcg_]

bigandclever said:

You need your memory testing too

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

lol

odd

[bigandclever]

It's much more odd that I remembered the post How??

[Derek Smith]

Maybe I was after a second opinion.

I'm sorry for the repost but by way of explanation I've had Aussie flue - still got it - I'd had little sleep, I was a bit delirious and when I posted I was on my fourth day of headache. I don't do headaches and I see now that it is one of my better decisions.

But getting back to no weight loss, it is now day 6 without food apart from a bowl of soup that tasted delicious, but was just tinned Tesco, yet no obvious loss of weight. The idea that my body has shut show is way off. I have three or four periods of the day when I break out in sweat. My temperature goes up and for an hour my wife takes my temp a couple of times to see whether to call an ambulance. At other times of the day I will shiver. A hot water bottle counters that after a while, but not before I've been vigorously shivering for some minutes.

Heart rate and blood pressure varies, worryingly so, sometimes hitting 180:140, but dropping fairly rapidly. Pulse rate is high.

I'm sweating now. So I can't see that my body is shutting down.

I give off a great deal of heat all the time I'm sweating. My wife can feel how hot I am by merely holding a hand near my face. That takes a fair bit of energy. It must be coming from somewhere.

[N Dentressangle]

Derek Smith said:

Maybe I was after a second opinion.

Leftfield, I know, but you could always try your GP?

[hairyben]

"Shutting down" is a bit misleading. Peoples bodies react in different ways, for many if starving themselves the body can go into a famine mode where it become hyper efficient at using what it has, think a V8 with eco mode - cylinder deactivation and reprofiled fuel maps and throttle sensitivity etc

[craigjm]

To lose weight you need fewer calories and activity combined. If you’ve just been in bed barely moving then in hibernation mode your body doesn’t need much to survive and wouldn’t really start burning fat in any great rate. So 1lb or so a week weight loss doesn’t seem unreasonable. Problem is that when your body comes out of that mode whatever you have lost will go straight back.

[Robertj21a]

You may need the GP for the overheating and erratic BP if it doesn't improve, but your weight is unlikely to change much in the short term if you're (sensibly) keeping up the fluid intake, and not taking any exercise.

[Ted2]

Derek Smith said:

Maybe I was after a second opinion.

I'm sorry for the repost but by way of explanation I've had Aussie flue - still got it

If you had 'flu you wouldn't be able to post long stories on the internet. Sounds more like you have common cold to me. Everyone thinks they've got 'flu until the time when they do actually have 'flu and then they realise everything they thought was 'flu in the past was actually just a nasty common cold.

[Yipper]

Forgetfulness, insomnia, overweight, dodgy blood pressure, dodgy heartbeat, frequent serious viral infections, sweats...

Sounds like you're headed for an early grave if you don't get a grip of your health...

[popeyewhite]

Ted2 said:

If you had 'flu you wouldn't be able to post long stories on the internet. Sounds more like you have common cold to me.

Broadly i agree with your comment but delirium and being unable to eat for 6 days sounds a little bit more serious than a common cold don't you think?

[Ted2]

popeyewhite said:

Broadly i agree with your comment but delirium and being unable to eat for 6 days sounds a little bit more serious than a common cold don't you think?

Not really. A nasty cold can make you feel nauseous and off your food for days. Not uncommon. When you have 'flu you can barely move and feel like being dead would be a more comfortable option. I remember someone saying once if you were laid up and suddenly spotted ten grand sitting outside on the window ledge you would just leave it there if you had 'flu. Having had 'flu myself, I can confirm that to be true.

[anonymous-user]

Derek Smith said:

I've had some but. Really hit me. I've been in bed for four days. I've not eaten a thing. I've drunk a lot but that's it.

I had a shower just now and put on my clothes. My belt only did up to the normal hole.

I've weighed myself and I'm nearly a pound down.

Fair enough, I didn't get ill with the sole intention of losing weight, but I've been tossing and turning, I've sweated a good deal. But do me a favour. It's been four days without food.

A pound of body fat is about 4000kcals. So you've burnt off 1000kcals more than you've consumed for 4 days.

Seems perfectly reasonable - what did you expect to lose in 4 days lying in bed doing nothing at all? How do you think the human race got this far?

[popeyewhite]

Ted2 said:

popeyewhite said:

Broadly i agree with your comment but delirium and being unable to eat for 6 days sounds a little bit more serious than a common cold don't you think?

Not really. A nasty cold can make you feel nauseous and off your food for days. Not uncommon.

Okay so that's a common (nasty ) cold... . And delirium? - not uncommon either I suppose? Or perhaps indicative of some other underlying cause?

[227bhp]

You sound like a big girls blouse to me, MTFU.

[Halb]

anonymous said:

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Your body did what it needed to do, might have sidestepped a big issue there.

[Halb]

Twig62 said:

Not really. A nasty cold can make you feel nauseous and off your food for days. Not uncommon.

Unfortunately nothing, not a cold or flu or anything puts me off of food !

Not sure if that was to me, but if it was, yeah, the body tends to do what the body needs to do. If the right thing for the body was to eat, then it would instigate that urge.