How much weight would you lose by not eating for a week and taking about 5 caffeine pills everyday?
What would be the side effects? And how much weight would be lost? Considering it speeds up the metabolism and with no calories to burn it will just be burning fat. And then maybe taking them after you start to eat again for a little bit to keep the metabolism going so you don’t gain too much weight and you start running and lifting weights and doing an exercises.
July 21st, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Caffeine has NEVER been shown to really help in weight loss.
That is just another fad diet. So it would be pointless.
The only thing it does is make you urinate more often. It is a diuretic. So you would lose water weight, but that doesn’t mean anything.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Wow, the things people come up with to lose weight. Rather be fat and alive, than skinny and dead.
July 21st, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Starvation would slow your body’s metabolism, and your body would probably start retaining water to deal with the caffeine.
Even if you lost a little in the short term, it wouldn’t be surprising if you ultimately gained weight as a consequence of screwing around with your body like that.
If you go out focused on how to improve health and fitness first and foremost, you’ll ultimately do the right things for the right reasons, and if you need weight loss, it will probably come along eventually as a symptom.
If you start prioritization around the weight loss and reason around it like here, you’ll end up screwing things up and stuff will probably just backfire. And whatever you do will most definitely not be sustainable.
Plan your life around what you’d like to gain and improve and why and how, not around how to “lose.” Worry about things like the exercise routine first and how to improve and sustain it, and as time goes on, figure out how to eat functionally to support it. When you stay focused on something like exercise, you most definitely will not be starving yourself, or popping caffeine constantly, etc.
July 21st, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Better answer is that you can lose more body fat eating protein and fat (don’t eat protein alone) than not eating AT ALL. To lose weight fast eat all you want but nothing but meat, eggs, healthy oils, mayo, butter and half an avocado a day (you’ll need added potassium). Keep your fat percentage high. Adding in green vegetables & some cheese will continue weight loss but at a slower pace.
If you starve yourself, your body will freak out and will want to store every ounce in case it doesn’t get nourished again. You need to give it adequate nourishment so it doesn’t slow your metabolism down to adjust for lower calories.
Simple carbohydrates (sugar, flour, bread, cereal, pasta, potatoes, rice) triggers insulin which can store the calories you eat into fat. The more protein you eat the more the fat burning hormone glucagon is released. The more carbohydrate you eat the more the fat storage hormone insulin is released.
Carbs are addictive and can be disastrous to our health. The best way to break the addiction is NO carbs for 3 days. Make a huge batch of deviled eggs and eat one every time you want “something” have huge omelets for breakfast, with bacon, a lil onion, peppers, mushrooms & cheese. Pork chops for lunch. Get pork rinds and eat them with tuna salad. Steak for dinner. Make a huge sugar free cheese cake for dessert. Eat so much you won’t feel deprived of anything. By the fourth day, your addiction will be gone and you can start making healthy choices.
High insulin levels unbalance other hormones. Controlling your insulin level will balance out other hormones & allow human growth hormone (HGH) to be produced naturally so you will gain lean muscle even without exercise. Any exercise will greatly increase your muscle mass with high HGH levels.
Reducing body fat and increasing muscle mass will have you in awesome shape in no time. Good luck!
July 21st, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Well eventually ull lose water weight then your body will decide to eat your muscle tissue then ill call you an idiot and spit on you
July 21st, 2010 at 3:33 pm
You’d initially lose a lot of water weight, maybe a fat pound or so but they’d quickly return when you began eating again. It’s simply not worth it. The caffiene would likely just make you feel light headed and sick…it would try to give you energy, but your body would have no food to burn for fuel.
You’re not going to feel much like running or lifting weights if you aren’t eating. That’s just how it is. You cannot expect some caffiene pills to give you energy when your body has nothing to work with. That’s like putting oil in your car, but no gas, and still expecting it to run.
July 21st, 2010 at 4:08 pm
You would most likely be very ill, so you will lose weight by decomposition when you are 6ft under.
July 21st, 2010 at 4:58 pm
That much caffeine isn’t particularly bad for your heart; but those pills run between 50-100 mg (usually) per pill, or a Red Bull per pill. Space each of them out two hours between each other.
I’d not recommend this – not eating for five days and running off of caffeine will disrupt your sleep pattern and give unneeded stress to your body. I’m assuming you’re from 18-35 or so, so it’s safe- mostly.
Take vitamins and drink water – I suggest you eat at least one high-protein meal once a day, or at least once every two days.
Suddenly not eating for a week is worse for your body than the caffeine.