In order to lose weight, many people often do not eat and drink all day, which is extremely harmful to health, and the effect of weight loss is not very good, the following to understand how many pounds can lose a day without food? And what are the hazards to the body.
How much can lose a day without eating
Weight loss of 2-3 pounds.
People should eat about 3-5 pounds of food a day, part of it will be digested and absorbed by the body, and the other part will be turned into poo and discharged, not eating for a whole day, the stomach and intestines will be emptied, theoretically you can lose 3-5 pounds. But people will drink water, and the poo may not be clean, so generally only 2-3 pounds of weight loss.
The real fat loss is only 0.5 pounds.
The basic metabolic calories of a day is 1500-2000 calories, a kilogram of fat can provide 7700 calories, which means that a day without eating or drinking actually only really need to consume 0.38-0.51 pounds of fat, the rest is the body dehydration or hangover reduction caused by weight loss.
What happens when you don't eat or drink for a day
Dry mouth and tongue
People need 2500 ml of water a day, a day without water will be dry mouth, feel the mouth saliva sticky, very uncomfortable. A person can live up to one month without eating, relying only on the nutrients stored in their own body or consuming their own tissues. But if one does not drink water, it is difficult to live even for a week. The loss of 10% of water in the body is a threat to health, such as water loss of 20%, there will be life-threatening, which shows the importance of water to life.
Metabolism slowed down
Water is involved in all metabolic activities, lack of water metabolism will slow down, affecting the pigment and body waste discharge. For example, people who usually do not like to drink water have constipation and pigmentation.
Hyponatremia
The loss of sodium and potassium in the body without eating or drinking for a day is serious and can easily cause hyponatremia. Patients often manifest as lethargy, apathy, indifference, easy to faint when getting up, and in severe cases, nausea, vomiting, and a sharp drop in blood pressure.
Hypoglycemia
A day without food and drink fasting for too long, blood sugar will drop sharply, the autonomic sympathetic nerves are overexcited, there will be sweating, panic, trembling, pale face, etc..
Due to the lack of sufficient amount of glucose in the brain, there will also be some manifestations of dysfunction when the brain lacks sufficient supply of glucose. The initial manifestations are mental symptoms such as mental inattention, slow thinking and speech, dizziness, drowsiness, restlessness, irritability, strange behavior, and in severe cases, convulsions, coma and even death.
What is the experience of not eating or drinking for a day
A day without food to do nothing in the afternoon, the brain is filled with a variety of hunger signals, see others eat will unconsciously swallow. Can't sleep at night, always thinking about not eating, thinking about what I want to eat tomorrow, and then feel the long night so difficult. The next day you will get up earlier than usual, and there will be a sense of happiness to get up early. If you don't even drink water, you will have the illusion of a dry mouth with a smoky throat.
