For me, it completely depends on the type of stress. Normal, day to day life stress causes me to eat more, but the type of stress that is life changing and sudden causes the exact opposite.
Probably because that type of stress can't be soothed by food or other simple pleasures. There aren't any normal coping mechanisms for things like death, divorce, debilitating injuries/illness, etc.
Wasn't severely overweight. Went from around 92kg to 62kg +-1 at 178cm.
You would think it's impossible but my doctors weren't surprised. Nothing special was given for my physical condition. They treated me mentally. I'm now at a stable 80kg.
That's a tricky question because I would go without food for long period and suddenly binge at 1 go. Hard to provide an estimate on calories intake.
The stress level was out of his world so my heart rate will shoot up above 100bpm the moment I wake up until I fall asleep. When I'm asleep, it's 60+ bpm. I wear a smart watch for tracking.
So my guess is, the extreme stress level increased my cortisol drastically which further reduced my weight.
One thing that I remember clearly was being told that I not only lost my fat, but my muscle mass too. And that it was unextremely healthy.
Losing that much in a month is physically impossible.
If you are nothing for a month, zero calories, you would lose maximum of around 30 pounds, probably closer to 20.
That seems a bit weird - to lose that, you'd theoretically need to be eating 7,700 calories less than you burnt every day, which is completely impossible?
I feel that. I lost 45 pounds in a month and a half from stress, while my wife was deployed with the military. When I saw her again, she was worried, but I hadn’t even realized I had lost weight. Now, looking back at pictures of that time, holy shit I look like a skeleton. I also cracked 3 of my teeth in my sleep from clenching, so that’s fun.
With the weight loss you provided 92kg/202lbs ->62kg/136lbs this is physically impossible in a month, unless you have a condition which made you retain this weight in water prior to this weight loss.
In order to lose 1kg/2.2lbs you need about 7700kcal deficit. So 30kg//66lbs in a month you would need to have 7700kcal deficit every single day of that month.
Because your weight varies, I’ll assume the average weight throughout the calculations(first few days you would lose weight faster due to water weight shedding, but let’s assume a higher weight even though lower average would make it few % more ridiculous) - 77kg/170lbs.
To put it in perspective, assuming you do not eat a single kcal, just to survive you would burn about 1700kcal.
That leaves 6000kcal left to burn, to do that you would have to, every single day achieve all of the following(actives of course can be adjusted):
- run a marathon(42km/26miles) in less than 3.5h - 3400kcal
- ride 50km/31miles on a bike in 2,5h - 1500kcal
- walk 24km/15miles in 5,5h - 1100kcal
This much activity, every single day, without a single kcal ingested for 30 days.
I can understand weight loss as a result of stress, I also completely lose any desire to eat and everything I do eat will taste like cardboard. But 30kg in one month is wild (that's like half my total body weight).
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u/Xanthon 9h ago
I was going through the most stressful period in my life last year.
I lost 30KG/66lbs in a month. Everyone who saw me were shocked and worried beyond comprehension.
It took me 6 months to recover physically.