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rapid weight loss please help ?

first of all, I am a fairly intelligent woman who knows a lot about nutrition and exercise and is familiar with all the dangers of starving yourself etc. etc. my question is ( and please, I really know about slowing down your metabolism, depriving your body and all that): is there any way to loose weight super fast, given that you keep a strict regime for a month and only a month, take vitamins, exercises as much as you can. how low can you actually go in your calories if you do it for a short period of time? some people fast, does this actually work? you read all he time that when you starve yourself, your metabolism slows down and you stop losing weight, but anorectics (not that I aspire to be one :((), they do lose weight, right? what I really would like to know, can I survive 2-4 weeks, eating only the minimum, drinking protein shakes, exercising and taking vitamins and lose an amount of weight that is worth doing this? Im talking about losing at least 10-15 pounds. has anybody tried to do it sensibly? has it worked? can this cause permanent damage to your bones or do other damage? thank you.