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I lost 100 pounds in a month and a half (cipro poisoning). I went from 240 to 142. I became skin and bones and I lost fat in those hard to lose places. I instantly felt different and people treated me differently.

What weight did you start/end at?

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That would be 350,000 calories, or about 7000 calories a day? Wow.

I guess your must have body must have dumped fat directly out through urine?

Literally burning it through muscles. The vibrations were extremely fast and constant. The fat was used as fuel.

Sorry to hear that. Sounds painful and scary.

310 then, 200ish now. I got down to 193 for my latest physical, but have been off my diet for the past couple weeks.

Not that I doubt you, but I'm surprised that you don't notice the changes. That's a range where there are huge differences in everyone I know who's managed to do it - particularly in the face, but in the body as a whole. I've only managed to drop 40 so far (260-220), but even then the difference in the gut is visible (even if many other areas aren't as much as I could dream, to be fair to your point).

Congrats on your weight loss, 40 lbs is nothing to write off in my book. I do have a picture of myself from about 300 lbs, and I did look much chubbier then. I guess I mean to say that my overall shape is still along the same pattern -- large gut, thighs, calves, arms, and face/head, etc. Maybe this is not a great analogy, but y=x^2 is a big difference from y=2x^2, and yet it's still a quadratic function -- they don't look too different on a graphing calculator.

There's no way. Even dropping from 270 to 245 was a couple belt sizes and one shirt size for me. Going from 310 to 200 is at least 3 shirt sizes and maybe 10 inches for pants. It's like 50 liters by volume. Think 25 big soda bottles or 13 milk jugs worth of fat.

It might be worth your while to talk to someone about body dismorphia.

Being "off diet" (at roughly maintenance) for a week or two every few weeks seems to make a diet easier to stick to and keep your target weight once yo reach it.

This goes into a bit more detail:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HVdLMnr40M

What kind of differences were you seeing in how you were treated?

Positive side: Girls were more attracted to the skinner body type.

Negative side: My parents/doctor thought I was on crack because bones were sticking out.

My back loves the lower weight. I miss the look of the extra weight.

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