• Arete@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Is it medically possible to lose 25kg in 45 days? That’s like 1.2 lbs per day. You’d have to eat literally nothing and also run a marathon every single day. This part seems wildly implausible.

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      5 months ago

      Yes it is. He will e starved and dehydrated, on top of extremely busy. In my training years, we lost weight working in UK hospitalson on what we thought were long difficult shifts.

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        5 months ago

        The article doesn’t allege starving, dehydration, or forced labor. Even assuming appalling conditions, with ~500 kcal per day, and accounting for 5-10 lbs of water weight loss due to dehydration, we’d still be talking about a daily calorie deficit of around -3000 kcal. That’s “run a marathon every day” territory. I don’t see how that is physically possible.

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      5 months ago

      I lost 22kg in 7 days, but I was in a hospital undergoing treatment for fluid retention.

      I lost about 4L of water every day for 7 days.

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        5 months ago

        So what’s it like to actually piss like a racehorse? I bet it gets old around day 4

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          5 months ago

          OMG, you have no idea. Plus it’s a losing battle. You can’t get dehydrated, so you’re onboarding fluids too.