#angus barbieri

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Angus Barbieri was a Scottish man who gained significant attention for his extraordinary fasting feat in the 1960s. In 1965, at the age of 27, Barbieri embarked on a prolonged fast that lasted for a remarkable 382 days. I fasting regimen was motivated by his desire to lose weight. At the beginning of his fast, he weighed around 456 pounds (207 kilograms), and his goal was to reach a healthier weight. Under medical supervision, he consumed supplements to ensure he received essential vitamins and minerals, as well as electrolyte replacements. During the extended fast, Angus Barbieri lost a considerable amount of weight, shedding around 276 pounds (125 kilograms). His weight loss progress was closely monitored by doctors, and he exhibited no adverse health effects during the fasting period. Medical professionals observed that his body was able to utilize stored fat for energy, which helped sustain him throughout the fast. Barbieri's fasting record is considered one of the longest medically monitored fasts in history

Angus Barbieri était un Écossais qui a attiré beaucoup d'attention pour son extraordinaire exploit de jeûne dans les années 1960. En 1965, à l'âge de 27 ans, il s'est lancé dans un jeûne prolongé qui a duré 382 jours. Mon régime de jeûne était motivé par mon désir de perdre du poids. Au début je pesais environ 207kgs et mon objectif était d'atteindre un poids qui ne mettait pas ma vie en danger. Sous surveillance médicale, il a consommé des complémentaires alimentaires pour s'assurer de recevoir des vitamines et des minéraux essentiels, ainsi que des remplacements d'électrolytes. Au cours du jeûne prolongé, Angus Barbieri a perdu une quantité considérable de poids, perdant 125kgs. Ses progrès en matière de perte de poids ont été étroitement surveillés par des médecins et il n’a présenté aucun effet néfaste sur sa santé pendant la période de jeûne. Les professionnels de la santé ont observé que son corps était capable d'utiliser les graisses stockées pour produire de l'énergie, ce qui l'aidait à survivre tout au long du jeûne. Le record de jeûne de Barbieri est considéré comme l'un des plus longs jeûnes médicalement surveillés de l'histoire.

[not-fully-there]

I wanna point out this fucking legend

Angus Barbieri, a man who fasted for a whole 382 days WITHOUT DYING, going from morbidly obese to skinny legend

As an atypical Ana guy this man is HUGE inspo

[diary-of-obesy-girl]

Eu não quero mais comer, nunca mais… Quero viver de água e sol igual uma planta. Toda vez que como me sinto nojenta, toda vez que olho minhas coxas, minha barriga e meus braços da vontade chorar e não desejo comer por uma eternidade, toda vez que eu comer vou aplicar uma punição cada vez pior. A intenção é viver num NF eterno. Tem um relato de um homem que queria emagrecer, não sei se vocês conhecem o nome dele é Angus, deixarei abaixo um link que conta um pouco sobre ele:

Peço desculpas por ser tão extrema, mas eu quero mesmo ser delicada e fininha… Nem que eu precise passar minha vida toda tentando.

[lindsaywesker]

Good morning!  I hope you slept well and feel rested?  Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day. 

Welcome to Too Much Information Tuesday.

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Scottish man Angus Barbieri fasted for 392 days, from June 14, 1965, to July 11, 1966.  He lived on tea, coffee, soda water and vitamins while living at home in Tayport, Scotland, and frequently visited Maryfield Hospital for medical evaluation.  He lost 276 pounds and set a record for the length of a fast.

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Okay, that’s enough information for one day.  Have a tremendous and tumultuous Tuesday!  I love you all.

[fvckw4d]

Yeah, I don't have to take this from someone who thinks Angus fucking Barbieri fasting for so long he forgot what food tasted like and then dying at age 51 from undisclosed "natural causes" is a good success story for the "you can totally always keep off the pounds" camp. You clearly believe that health isn't just something you have partial control of, but is mostly within your control, which puts this relatively agreeable post in a lot more perspective, doesn't it.

Also, just to make sure we get our claims right here, I didn't say type 2 diabetes was purely genetic, just that we don't know what fucking causes it, and not one of the studies you've linked has actually challenged that. Repeatedly, it's been found that poor nutrition may play a role. Food insecurity has repeatedly shown to increase your chances of getting type 2 diabetes. For all we know, the stress of fucking starving does that to your body. But that's not exactly an angle people are generally fucking pursuing now is it.

There's a lot of posts online like "when you hit 30 and you can't eat Mexican food without blowing up your toilet" or "when you hit 30 all those random scratches you get never heal" or "Your back starts hurting right when the birthday hits"

I hate to break it to you but if that applies to you that is not a direct result of arriving to the still youthful age of 30, that is a medical condition that you have assumed is normal.

The good news is that some of these can be fixed with relatively small lifestyle changes like regular stretching and moderate exercise. Now some of this is requires going to a doctor and diagnosed and treated. I know that can be difficult if you're not paid enough and don't have vacation or sick days.

Hell, the job itself can break your body down, whether it be from sitting inside for hours and hours, or doing manual labor in the sun all day.

In any case, you should examine how your lifestyle affects the way you feel every day over time. Was being a kid truly a world apart, or was it just that you regular played outside and got some sun, and you did novel stuff all the time with friends, and you didn't smoke and drink?

I was certainly surprised by how much lifestyle affected my chronic illness. I had thought I was doomed to feel bad randomly forever. But years on, I actually feel better than I did on net even before symptoms began to manifest.

It turns out that having more autonomy can vastly improve your life! Wild stuff. But it's something you have to be conscious of and practice to make the most use out of.

[oldcoyote]

I'm fairly ignorant on this but how can one function at 800cal a day?? Even at 80kg a 40-year-old's BMR would be around 1500cal or smth, won't starving yourself actively harm you, given your chronic conditions? Don't mind me if it's actually ok and I'm being too uneducated here, just please take care.

that's just it, i've been tested (full DEXA scan and BMR test) and my BMR is around 800 (855 to be exact, i just checked), despite my size, which is why i put on weight eating anything more than 1200 a day even when active. my metabolism is a joke

as for harm - i seem to be doing well enough on 800/day for the last 4 months, no significant issues related to the not-eating, except that the weight is coming off agonizingly slowly. i know a lot of people scream about starvation/fasting being bad for you, but then i think about outliers like Angus Barbieri (who literally lived on only coffee and water for over a year & lost an enormous amount of weight), and i wonder if - given my unique metabolic mess - it might be the best option for me too

we'll see, i guess. this is my last chance, so i need to do everything i can do to make it work 💛 thank you for caring!

[dbfhotchner]

angus barbieri is my idol tbh

[stangalina]

Fun fact! A man named Angus Barbieri survived for 382 days straight without solid food. He only drank water and tea with sugar for energy. That's one year and 17 days. Straight. And he survived it because he was fat.

So, tell me why a fat person couldn't survive a zombie apocalypse by just locking themselves somewhere secure and just waiting for the zombies to rot. Hmm?

it's so funny when ppl"s defence of no fat characters existing in video games is "uh they wouldn't be able to physically do the things the character does" like damn i hate to break it to you but skinny bitches can't physically cast a fireball in real life either but nobody has a problem with that

[bippolarr]

-123kg vivendo apenas de chá, café, água com gás e vitaminas em uma nf de 382 dias. O escocês Angus Barbieri conseguiu ficar mais de um ano sem comer absolutamente nada. E você ai, com dificuldade de fazer uma nf de 24 horas, gorda.

(autocrítica)

[raw626]

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[ofthefog]

To add on to this there is a famous case study on how literally fasting for a year lead to reaching and keeping a target weight.

Angus Barbieri lost 125kg with direct and regular medical supervision as well as vitamin and mineral supplementation in order to avoid deficiency.

It is, however, not so simple. Prenatal exposure to famine has permanent effects on health. See the dutch hunger winter and the great chinese famine.

Aside from correlations of obesity with prenatal famine exposure they also found a propensity for high fat diets. The mechanism of this effect seems to be a modification in incretin and leptin levels. These epigenetic effects even were passed down to the grandchildren.

This has implications for just how possible long term weight loss is for a person. While someone can be lactose intolerant, it is possible to change that through genetic engineering, exemplified by Thought Emporium ( See video below ). But the fact remains that this is not a very accessible intervention. Clinically they just came out with sickle cell anemia treatment in like 2024 and it costs millions of dollars.

I suspect that apparent contradictions in caloric restriction and long term weight loss studies is likely a function of these epigenetic changes. In extreme cases like Prader–Willi syndrome I think there is basically no realistic scenario of sticking to a restricted caloric diet because it literally feels like starvation constantly. How close is this case to what the populations exposured to famine I cannot say.

Just found out that the dietary calorie is still measured by burning food in a "bomb calorimeter" and then measuring the heat produced. There's no solid evidence that this method is at all equivalent to how our bodies process food (an entirely different chemical process from combustion), the accuracy of this system has been disputed for as long as it's existed, and there are no available alternatives

There are 4800 calories in a kilogram of dry sawdust even though wood is completely indigestible to humans, because calories don't measure nutritional value, just how well something burns

Nutritional "science" is pure bullshit

[horusvalley]

قصة أنجوس باربيري-الرجل الذي قضى عامًا بدون طعام وخسر 125 كجم

قصة أنجوس باربيري-الرجل الذي قضى عامًا بدون طعام وخسر 125 كجم

قرر رجل يبلغ من العمر 27 عامًا في اسكتلندا،أنجوس باربيري Angus Barbieri،في عام 1965 أنه يريد إنقاص بعض الوزن. في ذلك الوقت ، كان وزنه 207 كجم. تحت إشراف الأطباء ، بدأ الصيام وعاش لأكثر من عام دون طعام ، محققًا رقمًا قياسيًا عالميًا جديدًا.   وبحسب تقرير الأطباء ، فقد قدم نفسه للعلاج ، وكانت الخطة الأولية صيامًا قصير الأمد فقط. ولكن بعد أن بدأ ، بدا أن المريض يتمتع بصحة جيدة و “كان حريصًا على…

[drdanielapetrache]

(via Angus Barbieri - Fara hrana 382 de zile)

Angus Barbieri a rezistat fara mancare un an si 17 zile, nu, nu am gresit, el nu a mancat 382 de zile. Ii puteti afla povestea mai jos, dar nu trebuie sa incercati asta. Angus Barbieri a fost atent urmarit de medici pe toata perioada postului.

[fastingcrustacean]

May 6th 2022, introduction

Alriiiight lets see how this goes. This is a fasting diary to document how well it goes for me. I dont expect this blog to garner any followers, but heres an introduction anyways.

My name is Jack, i am overweight by about 35 lbs. It isn’t much but i have been overweight for far too long. I used to be sort of somewhat in a normal weight, but it was short lived (obviously) and i gained almost all of it back (thank god not all of it). I am 5′5, and I weigh 180 lbs as of typing this post. My current GW is 135 lbs- so about 10 more pounds than what i am overweight by. I think. idk, im not gonna do the math again. My previous method i used was intermittent fasting and drinking exclusively meal shakes- it worked and I got down to 150. This time around, I plan to fuck around and find out with a fasting regime. My main concern is the retention of my strength, what little it is, and of course, the ability to Not Die. I will Not Die by drinking a calorie free electrolyte solution (2l of water, iodized salt, potassium, magnesium).

I have already done a 2 day fast, and it was HELL. I refed yesterday due to an immense weakness- I had lost roughly 7 lbs in those two days but im sure most of it was water weight, maybe a pound of body fat. I hear that after a while, the weakness feeling will go away. Angus Barbieri was able to not eat for well over 300 days, so surely I can go a day or two without it.

I am restarting with another 2 day fast minimum, hopefully it will be easier this time around.  I am already halfway through the first day and it seems easier because this seltzer water is making me feel ‘full’.

Things to note:

I have quite a bit of body fat, so I have the fuel to do this. If you find yourself on the smaller side I wouldn’t recommend this, especially if you are prone to eating disorders.

I am doing this because there is a time constraint. I wouldn’t have turned to fasting otherwise, and actually quite enjoy eating (as evidenced by my obesity)

If you do fast, make sure you replenish your electrolytes. Electrolyte loss is deadly.

This is a journal mostly to document my weight, my lifts, and my runtime maybe.

If you plan to fast for longer than 3 days, make sure you have a refeeding plan. Break your fast with bone broth or something. Start light, and avoid carby foods. Carbs draw water into your intestine and can cause you to shit out your electrolytes a dangerous amount.

do your research before doing this. all i gotta say really

[riflebrass]

His name was Angus Barbieri. He fasted for 392 days and lost 276lbs.