Does Starving Help Reduce Fat?

Found the answer after paying a good price for it.

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Did starving myself help me lose fat?
No. It didn’t.

It may show some results in the short term, but in the long run, it does the opposite.

Here’s how I know that — not just theoretically, but from lived experience.

Backstory

This semester, I had classes from 9 to 11 AM and then again from 3 to 5 PM for almost three days a week.

So that gave me a four-hour break in between. I could have gone home and come back, but that involved a lot of walking, waiting for a bus, and praying the conductor wouldn’t reject me for no reason.

Sometimes they just wave you off like you asked for a free ride.

So I stayed at the university.

I passed the time reading, watching shows, hanging out with friends, and sometimes even dozing off (yes, on a classroom bench). But one thing I wasn’t doing…

Eating.

From 9 AM until I got back home around 5:30 PM, I wouldn’t eat anything. The only thing that entered my system was water.

This wasn’t really intentional at first — I used to bring home-cooked food, but this year, my mom’s…