if a morbidly obese person suddenly stopped eating anything, and only drank water, would all the fat get burnt before this person eventually dies from starvation ? How much longer could that person theoretically survive as compared to an average one ?

Question

Currently on a diet. I have no idea how this weird question even got into my mind, but here we go.

In: Biology

Answer 1

My very fat friend did this (enormous dude, like 6’5″ 500 pounds). He went to a doctor who had him do this, he lost an insane amount of weight (I want to say 200+ lbs).

He gained a lot of it back when starting to eat again because of his bad diet.