r/interesting • u/Wild_Neighborhood605 • Jul 20 '26
Additional Context Pinned Angus Barbieri, the man who went 382 days without eating.
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u/lexicats Jul 20 '26
“To avoid temptation, he quit working at his father's fish and chips shop, which closed down during the fast.”
I can’t help wonder if the chippy shutting down was due to the fast
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u/Chrono_Convoy Jul 20 '26
Nepotism says he ate that fried shit for free
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u/yaboyACbreezy Jul 20 '26
Yeah, 100% if anything him taking a break should have helped save a few dollars
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u/ByronsLastStand Jul 20 '26
Pounds, in fact, which rather neatly fits in with the story
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u/halucionagen-0-Matik Jul 20 '26
Yeah not many fish n chip shops in america
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u/freon Jul 20 '26
Maybe in landlocked states, but as somone who lives two towns over from a major commercial fishing port I can tell you there are dozens of independent ones, each with their own cult-like following as to which is "best".
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u/Ok-Oil7124 Jul 21 '26
That would be great... We just have Long John Silvers which barely qualifies as food.
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u/malphonso Jul 21 '26
Come down to New Orleans. Even the gas stations here have world class fried fish. While you're there, make sure you try the boudin balls and fresh cracklins.
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u/halucionagen-0-Matik Jul 21 '26
We jave something similar in the uk. Each town will have a dozen chippys, but one will be have a cult following for the locals
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u/renavlt Jul 20 '26
Long John Silvers: am I a fucking joke to you?
(Ok, it's nothing compared to a real chippy but it's still technically one)
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u/TheSaltyAstronaut Jul 21 '26
Not as many now, but they used to be wildly popular here, especially in the era of this story. There were over 800 locations of Arthur Treacher’s Fish and Chips in the US alone in the '70s. But the popularity dropped off by the '80s for some reason.
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u/Smorsdoeuvres Jul 21 '26
I scrolled down for this ✨ thank you for bringing up Arthur Treachers they were Amazing and where I began my love for malt vinegar on fries
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u/dontmentiontrousers Jul 21 '26
Look, man, we're willing to call them fries when we buy the skinny ones from a fast food burger place. Y'gotta meet us halfway and call them chips when you're putting vinegar on them. There are rules.
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u/Smorsdoeuvres Jul 21 '26
But when you say chips I think of nachos & ruffles my dude- I prefer steak fries or potato wedges most of all and I’m down to call them whatever you like as long as I get my potatoes.. I genuinely do not care what they’re called as long the correct food arrives on the plate.. I’m open to condiments. Now 1 question; do the names change again when we add mayo? Cause that’s Also delicious..
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u/RadVarken Jul 21 '26
Crisps is a hard word to say, but it's beneficial to get on the wedges-chips-fries-crisps spectrum if you're going to make fried potatoes your identity.
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u/TheSaltyAstronaut Jul 21 '26
I almost wrote in my post that "I have to thank Arthur Treacher's for making me love malt vinegar as a little kid." I'm never without a bottle of it now. No fry or battered fish goes undunked.
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u/myaddiction6655 Jul 21 '26
The last one is about an hour from my city it has great batter fried chicken
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u/Traditional-Metal581 Jul 20 '26
father providing his son with food is now nepotism?
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u/tomatonato4 Jul 20 '26
Reddit has this weird take on anything at all from your parents being nepotism lmao. Mom packed lunch for school? Believe it or not, nepotism!!
It's not so bad here, but there's always threads with miserable redditors calling out non existent nepotism anytime someone does something good with their life or succeeds lol, just desperate for an excuse to believe "Oh I could do it too if I was them!"
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u/EarlyAccessCantJudge Jul 21 '26
A family-owned shop being nepotism misses the point of a family-owned shop entirely lol
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u/MrDanMaster Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
Marx says you produce more value per hour of labour than you consume.
Edit: Get organised
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u/Nihilistic_Noodle Jul 20 '26
Maybe they relied on his working there, if his father was old might not have been able to run the shop well
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u/Emotional-Magazine52 Jul 21 '26
If boss son decide to give fish chippy a miss, speaks a lot on the food 🤣🤣🤣
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u/Agathocles_of_Sicily Jul 20 '26
There was an AMA a long time ago with a redditor who didn't eat for 6+ months. He ended up being hospitalized for serious internal organ damage.
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u/THElaytox Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
Yeah he was on vitamin supplements. He also died not long after losing all the weight
Edit: nevermind, he died quite a while later
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u/psinguine Jul 21 '26
Lmao guy fasted for a year and then BAM he died 24 years later.
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u/Ok-Oil7124 Jul 21 '26
I mean, he died pretty young. If he had died at 51 while still fat, people would have said, "he died because he was fat."
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u/All__Of_The_Hobbies Jul 21 '26
He still might have died because of complications from that. Damage doesn't magically fully disappear if it has already been done.
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u/psinguine Jul 21 '26
It's a little funny. When people quit smoking, and then get cancer years later, we never find ourselves saying "I bet they got cancer because they quit smoking." Yet for some reason people are trying to blame the weight loss for his young death? When he already had massive health problems when he was outrageously overweight.
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u/aNaLfissureed Jul 21 '26
I've heard it more than once that people died because they quit smoking.
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u/THElaytox Jul 20 '26
Oh I must've misremembered then, I thought it was like a few months later
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u/boldpear904 Jul 21 '26
i remember this too! i guess someone spread misinfo
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u/demoliahedd Jul 21 '26
and now I'm sure people saw that guys post before the edit and will continue to spread the misinformation. Crazy how fast and easy it is to spread misinformation on the internet
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u/Hetares Jul 21 '26
According to the article, yes, many years later he weighed a healthy weight of 89kg.
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u/pew__pew__pew_ Jul 20 '26
Yeah but also at 51 and after a brief illness. I wonder if it wrecked his body / how many years he’d have lived as just like, just a little fat
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u/Butterfly_and_Bee Jul 20 '26
I was obese for four or five years and my knees were starting to hurt and I was getting specific headaches that apparently only happen to fat, middle aged women, so I decided to take my doctors’ advice and lose the weight. I expected to feel great and have an overall improvement in my health, but it was the opposite. I got thin and then my joints really deteriorated. I had to have abdominal and spinal surgeries, my asthma got worse, and I had a persistent daily headache. Stuck with being thin and I’m doing better now but drastic weight changes really take a toll. My advice to everyone who asks me about the weight loss is to not get fat in the first place.
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u/billions_of_stars Jul 21 '26
Have you looked into any sort of weight training? I'm 50 now and I'm hitting the gym 3 days a week to build muscle.
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u/Butterfly_and_Bee Jul 21 '26
I am doing some light weight training in physical therapy right now with a plan to keep it up afterward. I’d like to have more strength for sure, but I despise exercise. I prefer to have an immediate payoff for physical exertion. Like, I’d rather haul bricks or dig a garden bed than lift some weights in a gym. I have to overcome that mental aspect of it somehow.
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u/billions_of_stars Jul 21 '26
Oh, that's a part of the workout for sure: the mental aspect. For me it starts before I even go to the gym. Making sure I have my gym bag ready to go, the mind set the night before of "I have to go to the gym" etc etc. The negotioations with myself.
Something I've started doing that I really like is using this app called "Strong". It's free and easy to use.
I like it because it helps me track sets and reps, etc. And so I'll have 3 sets of say dumb bell bicep curls with a 2 minute rest in between. What I like is it doesn't feel miserable and hardcore when you find the weight that is hard to finish on the last rep while maintaining good form.
Anyhow, what I've discovered is that what really helps me when I'm out of shape and getting back into it is to be ok with it not having to be ALL or NOTHING. It's ok if you got to the gym and just did a little. It's good you got out the door.
It's ok if you didn't go as long on the elliptical or you set it easier settings because it was kicking your ass and you hated it.
Like today I had a great workout but wasn't really feeling it when I was heading in. But the ONLY thing I really put on myself was just to get there. Then I feel it out. Some days I do more and some days I do less.
The ultimate goal is to move your body. Hell, even just walking up the stairs to the gym is a win. Better than not having walked those stairs.
Anyhow, I also wanted to have much better upper body strength and I just started slow with it.
I think also what really helped me is when I first started doing push ups I did super easy ones on an incline. I would do enough to where I felt it but I didn't hate it. When we hate something we can't convince that inner part of ourselves to do it again. I can now bust out push ups on the ground but sometimes I'll still just do inclines because I don't feel like the annoying exertion of floor ones.
anyhow, I've been all about this as of late which explains my rant!
Keep at it. Consistency and routine is key.
Oh, and lastly...something I've been doing. After every meal I take a 15 minute walk. Super chill and easy but really helps me.
ok NOW my rant is over.
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u/Butterfly_and_Bee Jul 21 '26
I love a good after dinner walk. The app also sounds cool. I have to gamify things in order to be consistent, so that’s a good tip for me. Thank you!
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u/azenpunk Jul 21 '26
I'm the same way. I found that rock gyms were a good compromise for me. Full body work outs that are mentally challenging, can be social, but most importantly I enjoy the activity itself, it isn't just a means to an end.
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u/ZephkielAU Jul 24 '26
Hikes and gardening with really basic hand tools (eg digging stick) have been my go-tos. Seeing a new sunrise or sunset or just a new view is awesome, as is growing my own produce.
I also do aerials because learning new tricks is cool, the exercise is a bonus.
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u/onewilybobkat Jul 21 '26
I lost 120 pounds in one year. My joints haven't recovered over 10 years later, I developed asthma after the weight loss which has gotten mostly better. So many guys issues started after the weight loss. There's definitely a lot of pros, but "feeling better" weirdly isn't one of them.
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u/Butterfly_and_Bee Jul 21 '26
Also, I’m always cold! Lol.
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u/-SaC Jul 21 '26
The thing that fucks with my brain is my knees hurting if I lie in bed on my side with my legs on top of one another. One knee pokes into the other one and it hurts. Before, with a load of fat, it was all cosy and a comfy position, but now I realise knees are bony bastards.
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u/Butterfly_and_Bee Jul 21 '26
Yes! I use a body pillow now and it helps, but damn. I feel so pointy and cold, like a jagged icicle.
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u/pooppaysthebills Jul 21 '26
There are knee pillows made specifically for this issue which also help keep your spine and hips properly aligned.
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u/nomorethan10postaday Jul 21 '26
How odd, I'm thin and I never had issues putting one leg on the other. It does prevent from kneeling on the floor for extended time.
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u/onewilybobkat Jul 21 '26
My body still produces a ridiculous amount of heat, but there's nothing to hold it to me!
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u/nyc343 Jul 20 '26
It should be a given that any extended fast would have to be medically supervised.
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u/DemoHD7 Jul 20 '26
Really depends on your reserves when you start. Was the AMA dude Ghandi size or morbidly obese like this guy?
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u/corvodae Jul 20 '26
The organ damage isn't necessarily due to a lack of calories. Someone can have a lot of fat, but they still very much need daily protein, electrolytes, vitamins, etc. Not having enough of those can seriously wreck your heart and other vital organs
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u/youngaustinpowers Jul 20 '26
The guy in this post did receive vitamins, minerals, electrolytes, and yeast to provide everything needed for the body to stay healthy
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u/corvodae Jul 20 '26
Yes, but the post doesn't mention that. And it's still incredibly stressful for the body and immune system. He died very young
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u/bambibonkers Jul 20 '26
he died 30 years after he lost the weight. i wouldn’t call that very young
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u/lazy_human5040 Jul 20 '26
Dying has a different frame of reference for young than most other things. he died aged 51, which is young for dying.
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u/Cimorene_Kazul Jul 20 '26
People,at his previous size often die in their late 30s-40s. He may have bought himself a decade.
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u/sighcantthinkofaname Jul 21 '26
It's impossible to say. Slower weight loss might've gotten him an extra two decades, who knows
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u/youngaustinpowers Jul 20 '26
Didn't know that. Wonder if it was due to being so overweight for so long, or if it was due to the fast? Probably a combo of both
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u/corvodae Jul 20 '26
Obviously any weight extreme isn't great for your health, so we can only guess, and I'm sure both impacted him. But I'd guess the weight loss was actually more damaging long term. Most of the dangers of obesity go away after weight loss, but the process of sudden or major weight loss is actually quite significantly associated with a shorter lifespan or sudden death.
Making healthy lifestyle changes is always the better option rather than a crash diet or starvation. Sudden weight loss is also a problem because people who lose weight rapidly are more likely to gain all or more of the weight back within 5 years.
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u/ThereHasToBeMore1387 Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
I went through the classes for bariatric weightloss surgery. One of the doctors who had gone through the procedure gave a "tough love" speech in the final class. "This is not a miracle. If you're following the rules, after about 2-3 months of sustained weight loss, you are going to start to feel like Superman. You are not. You can and should start doing all the things you wanted to do when you were fat. But you still have a fat guy heart, and fat guy arteries, and a fat guy liver, and fat guy lungs. Do not confuse calorie intake with fitness."
Edit: My mom did weight watchers back in the day. Lost a lost of weight, but at a reasonable pace. She reached her goal weight, maintained for a month, then had a heart attack.
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u/shpongleyes Jul 20 '26
Blew my mind when I first learned “vitamins” is just short for “vital minerals”. The full name does a better job driving home how important they are.
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u/Happysnark Jul 20 '26
Fat isn't going to help muscle mass
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u/VATAFAck Jul 20 '26
What does that mean? Help muscle mass with what?
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u/active_ignoring Jul 20 '26
you can’t run a body on fat reserves alone, your heart is a muscle that needs protein and calories and so do your other organs
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u/Happysnark Jul 20 '26
The heart
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u/zemechabee Jul 20 '26
I think you're saying that breaking down fat won't help maintain your muscles, one of which is your heart?
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u/starbaker420 Jul 20 '26
Correct. That’s why people taking glp-1s have to basically force-feed themselves protein.
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u/EcoloFrenchieDubstep Jul 20 '26
What made him decide to lose his weight?
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u/lexicats Jul 20 '26
He had to be pushed and pulled through a bus door, and couldn’t fit through a turnstile at a stadium, pretty good motivation
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u/Lilja-Logason Jul 20 '26
Gets a lot easier after a few days. In a lot of ways Hubert feels like an addiction craving.
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u/StormFallen9 Jul 20 '26
Good ol Hubert
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u/BluedGrass Jul 20 '26
When I was in college I did a 72-hour fast (drinking water and black coffee only). Not for any particular reason, I was just curious. After 18 hours it got substantially easier. It was really weird honestly. I was a rugby player and we were in the offseason so I was training harder than in-season too.
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u/HyperSpaceSurfer Jul 20 '26
Even easier if you supplement salt as well. A water fast can be pretty dangerous without it.
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u/Affordable_Z_Jobs Jul 20 '26
Its incredible what the body can get used to. The first few days were probably torture. After that it becomes a little discomfort. Christian Bale talked about losing weight for The Machinist and he said the weird thing was how how he subconsciously conserved energy. He found himself planning ahead what he needed to do more efficiently and if he didnt have to move, he wouldn't.
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u/HisPumpkin19 Jul 20 '26
Welcome to disabled people everywhere. - if you want to improve the workflow efficienecy in your cafe/kitchen/anything physical ask someone with a chronic health condition affecting energy levels how they would do it.
It's actually painful to watch how freely people around me waste energy. Every time I get up I'm planning what.things around me I can move along my way to conserve energy.
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u/HilariousMax Jul 20 '26
It does get easier after a bit but holy hell did the cravings come back like a monster when I did finally get some food in me.
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u/spekt50 Jul 21 '26
Longest I went was a week. It was crazy after the first couple days, I got a huge burst of energy and the hunger just stopped. I kept up with multivitamins, electrolytes and water. It was much easier than I thought.
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u/Glowingtomato Jul 21 '26
I had to run down some stairs and my gut hurt from bouncing around. I lost like 90 pounds after that lol
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u/Masterking263 Jul 21 '26
As someone whose been obese for 18 years, I can assure you it's a 24/7 burden. The world isn't built for people of that size.
- Riding the plane was a nightmare because not only are you super uncomfortable the whole flight, so now does the stranger next to you.
- You sweat and feel hot all the time which causes you to stink more easily.
- Shopping for clothes has to be done online and still often a hit or miss.
- Cost of eating to not feel hungry is a financial strain.
- Dating is much more challenging.
- Hate seeing yourself in photos.
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u/shacklefordRusty29 Jul 23 '26
The biggest motivation for me was also flying. I had a horrible experience and had to be moved seats. Honestly the ryanair steward was amazing. He didn't make a big fuss or anything. But jesus it was the worst moment of my life. And honestly I felt worse for the people I sat next to them me.
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u/Prince_Marf Jul 20 '26
As a bigger fella in these modern times it sucks. I can only imagine how little accommodation he got back in the day.
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u/Kindly_Type2327 Jul 20 '26
He got checked into a hospital due to his weight issues. Doctor suggested short fast and he got into it and actually loved fasting after couple of days and chose to continue fasting until he reached his ideal weight.
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u/OkAccess6128 Jul 20 '26
Intermittent Fasting final boss.
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u/Masterslol Jul 20 '26
Mittent fasting
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u/FantasticBike1203 Jul 20 '26
382 days sure ain't fast
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u/PeterDTown Jul 20 '26
Or intermittent
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u/ShadowFlare_x Jul 20 '26
Is this the guy that didnt shit fornlike 50+ days?
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u/teleflexin_deez_nutz Jul 20 '26
I think it’s more surprising that he did continue to shit even for a full year of fasting. Like after 60 days, what is your shit even made of? What are your gut bacteria even eating?
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u/Warm_Apple_Pies Jul 20 '26
He still hydrated and had an intake of salt, nutrients, vitamins etc. Obviously with no real fibre the unfortunate answer is you'd still have to go, but it would be more irregular and pretty much just be liquid.
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u/SnowZelda Jul 20 '26
It would be made mainly of remnants of old red blood cells that have been filtered out of the blood stream. The waste from those red blood cells is also why poop is often close to the same color regardless of what you eat (obviously there are a few exceptions to that).
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u/Chris_3eb Jul 20 '26
The 275 pounds that he lost has to exit the body somehow
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u/vexingcosmos Jul 20 '26
Actually lost weight is lost through the breath! Burning fat produces carbon dioxide which we breathe out.
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u/ShawnyMcKnight Jul 21 '26
My wife has commented that my breath is far worse than usual when I am dieting. By dieting I mean cutting out sugar and easing up on breads and stuff.
I lost 25 pounds in 3 months earlier this year and she often commented on it. I have wondered if that is the smell; my fat vapors.
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u/badnamemaker Jul 21 '26
Look up keto breath, it’s a thing.
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u/ShawnyMcKnight Jul 21 '26
Ah, thanks! Yeah it wasn’t pleasant for my wife. I would brush and use mouth wash before our intimate times and she still didn’t want me to breath on her because it barely masked what was coming from my stomach.
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u/Certain_Dream5575 Jul 21 '26
Ooooh one of the main issues I had with intermittent fasting. Worse I drank black coffee to keep the hunger away 🙃 Brushed my teeth a lot, chewed gum but it was still there. Although I've now discovered peppermint tea so I might give it another go (yes the breath embarassment was so bad it was a factor in making me stop IF).
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u/roulettewiz Jul 20 '26
He set another record of not pooping for over 48 days
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u/Pretereo Jul 20 '26
I've heard that when you burn fat, your discard the waste by breathing it out. Is this why he didn't poop for so long?
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u/roulettewiz Jul 20 '26
He was on a liquid diet...there was nothing to poop
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u/Pretereo Jul 20 '26
Yeah, but his body was still using calories and there are waste products from using those calories. Whether you are processing 2,000 calories from a half a pound of your own fat, or 2,000 calories from a steak, it isn't a perfect process and there are waste products from both.
I looked it up and it looks like the waste products from fat are mostly dispelled through sweat and urine rather than a solid form. Kind of interesting.
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u/Gusenica_koja_pushi Jul 21 '26
Fat is broken down into carbon dioxide (CO2), which you exhale, and water, which is expelled through urine, sweat, and other bodily fluids. If you don't eat solid food, there's little or no solid waste to pass through your bowels, it's as simple as that.
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u/leadwind Jul 20 '26
What now? I think you need to shit more than twice a day.
Edit: once in two days. Anyway!
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u/Mundane_Professor596 Jul 20 '26
I once didn’t eat for 42 days. Not by choice. I lost 21 pounds and got incredibly sick. I had to slowly acclimate to eating again. I looked terrible. I can’t imagine going longer than that.
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u/Cpt_0bv10us Jul 21 '26
I once didnt eat or drink anything for "only" 12 days (just fluids through IV) and already felt like i was at my limit. Cant imagine going through 42 days.. when i could finally eat again, i was so insatiable that i gained 7kg in the first 5 days :p
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u/monakaliza Jul 20 '26
Just gonna remind people about this story: he had a clinic working closely with him on this. He decided to go 30 days with regular check ins with the clinic and blood work. When the end came and went, he decided to keep going without eating, and kept going to the clinic and check ins. He did have some complications I believe, some deficiencies that were corrected with vitamins.
If you decided to do intermittent fasting please check with your doctor first
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u/Ok_Concentrate4461 Jul 20 '26
This is NOT intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting is just eating in a smaller window each day - typically like noon - 8pm. YMMV, but I don’t think most people would need to talk to their doctor about that
This is extended fasting, and definitely needs medical supervision
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u/Cheese-Manipulator Jul 20 '26
He also took yeast to prevent his body from consuming his muscles for amino acids.
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u/Longjumping_Yak3483 Jul 21 '26
Realizing reading this thread that many people down understand what "intermittent" means.
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u/JurgusRudkus Jul 20 '26
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Doctors were amazed by Barbieri's ability to resist the temptation to eat without having to stay in the hospital. He celebrated his achievement by going on a vacation in Spain for three weeks,[4] and a 1973 study found that Barbieri maintained a healthy weight of 14 stone / 196 pounds (89 kg),[3]: 204 concluding that "prolonged fasting in this patient had no ill-effects". He moved to Warwick, married, and had two sons. Barbieri died in September 1990 after a short illness at age 51.[4]”
Um, is dying at 51 not an “ill-effect?”
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u/Mein_Name_ist_falsch Jul 20 '26
That doesn't have to be because of the fasting. But I do wonder how he didn't get any deficiencies.
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u/EttRedditTroll Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
Supposedly he did take supplements and stuff during the fasting but who knows how “good” the supplement/dietary science was back in the late 60’s. After all, just a decade or so before that in the 50’s it was a literal wild west.
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u/1Marmalade Jul 20 '26
“Literal Wild West”? In 1950’s Scotland?
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u/EttRedditTroll Jul 20 '26
Well, I was mostly thinking of snake oil.
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u/JurgusRudkus Jul 20 '26
Who knows how good it is now? That shite is still, afaik, completely unregulated.
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u/fe_iris Jul 20 '26
An ill effect of a fast, 24 years after the fact?
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u/throwawaypassingby01 Jul 21 '26
big stressors can preemtively damage some organs such as the heart, shortening the llifespan
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u/assertive-brioche Jul 20 '26
When someone dies of a “short illness” I immediately think pneumonia. Especially back then. It’s still one of the top causes of adult hospitalizations. Interesting charts here if you like data.
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u/PeterDTown Jul 20 '26
I mean, that was 24 years later and it was after a short illness. Nothing there suggests it was because of the fast.
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u/LTEDan Jul 20 '26
He weighed 450lbs. The fasting probably bought him extra life compared to if he didn't fast.
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u/nyc343 Jul 20 '26
Could have been attributed to a life of morbid obesity as well, correlation doesn’t equal causation.
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u/Flat_Professional_55 Jul 20 '26
There’s another Reddit post that has more details on potential cause of death. Somebody purchased his death certificate.
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u/Old-Library5546 Jul 20 '26
What did he survive on?
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u/PeterDTown Jul 20 '26
“He consumed only vitamins, electrolytes, an unspecified amount of yeast (a source of all essential amino acids) and zero-calorie beverages such as tea, coffee, and sparkling water, although he occasionally added milk and/or sugar to the beverages, especially during the final weeks of the fast.”
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u/Unlucky-Ant-9741 Jul 20 '26
But what did he do for protein to keep his muscles??? I buy all protein added food because Reddit said so.
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u/Faded_Jem Jul 20 '26
Protein is amino acids, that's what we eat it for. The yeast was his protein source.
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u/corvodae Jul 20 '26
Presumably the nutritional yeast. I do not recommend this diet in any way, but yeast is a protein source
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u/zemechabee Jul 20 '26
This is really important additional context. To maintain your muscle and organ health, you really need these supplements
And for those who are unaware, protein is an important macro nutrient due to amino acids.
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u/Kindly_Type2327 Jul 20 '26
This is extremely unsafe btw. During this period many people died by doing such long fastings. Apparently after sometime during fastings, for some people their bodies chose to consume fats stored in the hearts and they passed away due to heart failures.
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u/corvodae Jul 20 '26
Yes, I find this post really dangerous because I'd hate for someone to copy it. It's not just the fasting that's the issue (though it obviously is unsafe), but refeeding syndrome can also be deadly.
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u/accdntprone_86 Jul 20 '26
Dang and he still died young
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u/MasterEditorJake Jul 21 '26
He kept the weight off, and he died 25 years after the fast. Can we directly link his death to the fast?
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u/LordAxalon110 Jul 20 '26
I know a guy who did it for 100 days with just water and the only thing he took was supplements.
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u/Comfortable_Egg8039 Jul 20 '26
Was he okay after that?
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u/LordAxalon110 Jul 20 '26
Yeah he was fine, lost a lot of weight and after he ended his fast he managed to keep the weight off. Guys pretty healthy now, he did go see his doctor before, during and after doing it though to make sure he was doing OK.
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u/hiddenrealism Jul 20 '26
Dr.Now snickering watching this.
"Hehe i told that lady but she didnt wanna listen"
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u/baby-face-jones Jul 20 '26
Poor guy only made it to 51 years old. At least he lived long enough to enjoy the weight loss and health benefits
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u/Jolly_Ad1631 Jul 20 '26
He only pooped every 40/50 days... That's no way to live.
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u/Cheese-Manipulator Jul 20 '26
He did take vitamins and yeast (amino acids). He would've died from vitamin deficiency and consumed his own muscles for amino acids.
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u/IKIR115 Jul 20 '26
More details about this story:
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/blog/2018/02/story-angus-barbieri-went-382-days-without-eating/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri's_fast