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You can drink 4000 calories of ethanol and not gain weight though! It's the only macronutrient with no storage form. From this was derived the infamous lean chicken breast and tequila diet. Biologically impossible to gain fat on that diet. Dietary protein is used as such, very little is converted into glucose and of that virtually none becomes lipids[1].

Never said it's healthy, but you will lose fat. If you're not keen on the ethanol poisoning aspect of the diet, you can substitute complex fibrous carbs like broccoli or some such and get similar results.

Of course if you really don't care about health you could poison yourself with Dinitrophenol. It's the fat burning drug. Literally. Users routinely die from their bodies cooking them to death.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3636601/




The people that die have an obsessive behavior (like anorexia or body image issues) that cause them to ignore the side effects.

If you were taking a drug and it made you feel horrible would you take more? Most likely you would stop or at least forego increasing the dosage.

These people didn't die because of dinitrophenol. They died because of an underlying condition. It's an accidental suicide.




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