Now if you have a serious stomach virus, I can guarantee that you are going to lose weight. In one case, and this was a really extreme case, over the course of a few hours, he actually lost about 35 pounds. He gained it all back within a couple weeks, because basically he was on the toilet and otherwise throwing up simultaneously for a few hours strait, which severely dehydrated him among other things, and it is not a healthy way to go or a substantial way to go in terms of actually keeping the weight off, not that it wasn’t scary to look at him. He didn’t need to lose weight and really couldn’t afford to lose weight in the first place. But it’s truly amazing how much he actually had stored up in his body to lose at that point as far as things that he could lose in that way rather than having to burn off fat or otherwise. The body is made up mostly of water and there’s stored options, so it really shouldn’t be that big of a surprise. But that is something that I thought about the other way, and I realized that there are actually people out there desperate enough to lose even temporary weight that they would actually consider putting themselves through something like that to get it.
