Can you live off your own fat? For how long?

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Let's say you weigh 425 lbs. and you get locked in a cell, but you're given an unlimited supply of fresh water and some salt and vitamin C for scurvy. Could you live off your own fat until you were 155 lbs?

Isn't that what bears do at winter?

― andy, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you going someplace andy?

― Vitamin Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

As long as you can still pack yourself into your micro-speedo, you needn't worry about it, at least not this vacation.

― Skottie, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

andy, how long do you spend thinking up your thread ideas?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

And are you posting from jail? You can tell me.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

do you mean like reach down and grab a bit of fat and roll it up and snacktime?

― kephm, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

not very long.

― kephm, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Kind of related?

Can a man live on bread alone?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

No, no... it's my hypothetical "friend" in Niagra Falls. I haven't weighed 425 in weeks, you know that. Not since Jenny Craig moved in.

― andy, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I've heard two days without water, two weeks without food. But it depends how hot it is and how healthy you are to start with.

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I probably couldn't live for more than a few hours

― stickboy (JasonD), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I could live much longer than I wanted to
ps do boobs count as fat in this case? Maybe I could live off fat outtakes

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, my friend went for months without eating. She just drank water. So you'll last a while. She wasn't like fat at all. She was already thin. I also knew a girl, she lasted 21 days, I think, might have been more but it was 20something. Maybe 27. She didn't die, she just got caught and sent to hospital. She was only about 11 though. But eventually your body starts to devour the muscle and other good stuff, which is very bad. If you just stop eating all together your body goes into "Starvation Mode" and eats all stored up things(not the fat). There you go HIPPY!!!

― zenome kistachion, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Why not try it and see? You know you've gone too far when you die! Win/win!

― Skottie, Wednesday, 31 March 2004 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel the ILX hunger strike coming on! (Let's list some demands first, though.)

― andy, Wednesday, 31 March 2004 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Can you live off of Valerie Bertinelli's fat?

― Skottie, Wednesday, 31 March 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The retinas are the first to go, I think. They're they most nutritious. Maybe you could live off Valerie Bertinelli's retinas?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

For weeks on end.

― Skottie, Wednesday, 31 March 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/twister/valerie_bertinelli/twisterpre.jpg
http://webvision.med.utah.edu/gifswv/huretina.gif

― Skottie, Wednesday, 31 March 2004 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a 280 pound guy who did actually get stuck on a desert island or somesuch for 12 weeks, I think it was. He lost over 100 pounds, but his body was in a foul state when he was rescued - digesting just fat does terrible things to almost every part of your body, it seems. And imagine the poop.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

No.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Aside from Vitamin Ceee, your body would still need a whole lot other essential vitamins and other sundry nutrients (e.g. omega fatty acids).

― Vitamin Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

My omega fatty acids bring the boys to the yard
And they're like, "It's better than yours."

― Kelis (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

bears' metabolism slows way down when they hibernate. saw a david attenborough film of bats hibernating. the film was in infrared to show how hot the bats were. ones that were in hibernation were almost at room temperature (ie, below freezing - the room was a bat cave).

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

loads of people wish i had died but i lasted something like 40 days or something (living on water laced with glucose)

― david blaine (ken c), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't you do a lot of fuc-eating, as well?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

My fat's on offer if anyone wants it. I don't think I want much of it anymore.

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

Hai there !

Please tell me how long a new-born baby would survive, if it was fed plain water alone and was not given even a drop of milk.

I hope you would answer this question

Thankx

― Jeyantha Shereen, Thursday, 15 April 2004 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

May I suggest welfare?

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 15 April 2004 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Thats the same weirdo who asked about lighting a match in a room full of gas and would it blow up the people in the room. Theyre from Indonesia. Hmm *gets weirded out*

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 15 April 2004 05:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Yikes!

― Skottie, Thursday, 15 April 2004 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

You can live off the fat of the land for extended periods.

― Skottie, Thursday, 15 April 2004 05:29 (twenty-two years ago)

but how long can you live off yr gf's fat?

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 15 April 2004 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

i will live off of other people's fat

― gershy, Saturday, 2 June 2007 04:47 (eighteen years ago)

there was an x-files episode about that

― latebloomer, Saturday, 2 June 2007 07:14 (eighteen years ago)

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