Is it possible to become malnourished and have severe symptoms after only a week of not eating enoug...

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Is it possible to become malnourished and have severe symptoms after only a week of not eating enough?

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Some people spend that long feasting and are perfectly fine. I myself have gone a few weeks with not eating much more than snacks in the past and never experienced negative symptoms.

But now I spend one week without an appetite, having about one meal per day, and I start having these episodes of feeling weak and just plain horrible? I'm not even underweight.

I'm taking my meals a lot more seriously now, but I can't understand how it would make me sick so quickly. Is it possible that this is happening only because I haven't been eating much for one week?

Detailed info: 23F, 173 cm, 68.4 kg, white, no medication, UK.

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