What happens to my body if I stop eating?

(I haven’t read any of the other answers, I just wanted to write mine real quick from experience)…

If you stop eating ofcorse you’ll lose weight. I was 120 and wanted to be just 115, so I stopped eating. Finally I got down to 115, but still wasn’t happy, so I said okay… 100 lbs and then I’m happy. Got down to 100 lbs and said okay, I’m happy so I’ll start eating. 4 months later from being 100 lbs, I shot up to a beautiful 170 lbs and had a hard time getting it back off. Your body will act like it’s starving and store everything as fat, your spit, whatever it can get its lil hands on. Anyways, what happens also when you stop eating is you get dark circles under your eyes, your cheek bones pop out of your face (look at meth pics, that’s what anorexic people look like to me), your organs start to die, and eventually when all of your ribs are showing, your practically dead. That’ll be around 30-40 lbs depending on how your body is. I would never do this again, I regret it. I know I wasn’t “anorexic” but my body looked horrible. I’m trying to get my body (after I have the baby) looking like Marilyn Monroe’s. She was 130-150 lbs and men thought she was the hottest woman in the world.

your metabolism will slow down a lot so it can store calories, since it won’t get any. then when you do eat again, it will store that food and it won’t burn off. if you want to lose weight just cut down on the amount you currently eat by a little bit. and exercise.. even just walking will make you thinner, aim for at least a mile a day.

why would you want to give up food its so yummy and no im not some skinny girl tellin you food is good im thick but food is amazing try healthy crap its good sometimes do some crunches run in circles =)

I liked the descriptive answers as well as the short and sweet answers b/c all are correct. Would you like to stop eating? Why?
Please continue to eat until I am able to respond to a few more of your responses. Thank You

you will die. you might be able to live for about 2 to 4 weeks on water, but then you will die. This is of course a long process, and everyone has different amounts of time before there body starts to shut down. But first your body will store fat cells, so you won’t lose weight at first. Then is will start to eat those fat cells, which you need for things like keeping you warm, and avoiding major organs being hit. And then your body with start to feed on the muscle tissues of your body to feed itself. And this process will continue until you skin and bones, to weak to do any thing but sleep, and then one day you won’t wake up.

So, you might want to keep eating, you need food and water to live.

Gain Wisdom One

why on earth would you even want to stop eating? that’s just silly. Eating is a gift from heaven let me tell you..mmm..I don’t know if the reason your even asking this question is just because your fat(if you are I’m sorry) but to stop eating…now seriously think about it. You stop eating, you lose a little, maybe go a little far or you decide to start eating again, well, once you start eating again, you ust gain the weight back twice as fast and twice as much.. it’s just stupid. if you want to quit eating..only quit one thing at a time and very slowly. one thing you really don’t want to do is quit both meat and candy at the same time, or with a short period of time of eachother. seriously..

if yuh were to astop eating it depends on your body yuh can become anerexic or however you spell it or your body can feed off of acid and you can get fat so I wouldnt recommed trying it.. yuh can also become ballimic or however yuh spell that because your body feed of nothing and then youu beome anorexic sorry I cant spell those two words but there my advice…

Thanks darlings! well I was just wondering what will happen to my body if I stop eating…I think im fat but not overweight and I cant stop eating!!I cant eat infront of people and whenever I eat something I feel depressed after that. I pop up to 5 Laxatives everyday after my meals to make sure I flush out everything I eat and then I would stop eating for 1 or 2 days. I feel so bad and cant help stop doing that!!

well if you dont eat it is a form of anorexia…which can be very severe…lack of nutrition can stimulate brain deficiancy and your matabolism will eventually fail and you will become very sick…severe cases is death you will also suffer from fatique (tiredness) and you will not be able to function properly…u will be dizzy and frankly eating and being kinda chubby is safer and you will be more healthy if you do eat than if you dont dieting is hard but safer and better and excersise is fun and enjoyable!

Well lets see you stop eating, you lose all your muscle. Feel like horrible, hunger pains, depression, and your irratible as hell. Yeah obviously you’ll lose weight but you will have so many side effects its not worth it.. Trust me. If you want to lose weight do it right, cut your calorie intake down -500 daily, and exercise. Thats the best way.. Count calories, watch what you eat and physical activity.

eventually you will die.

YOU DIE.

Your body feeds off of your stored fat. Aka…anorexia nervosa.