Thread: 17 days lost, no food, what do you think

She looked pretty healthy

Actually very possible and plausable. Your body can survive for quite a period (up to several weeks) without food or low food intake. It will only survive around 2 days without water. This is documented medical fact.
If she has genuinely lost 17kgs then seems very likely. Really all you would be suffering is maybe sunburn and mild dehydration and malnutrition due to lack of food. It seems like she had plenty of water and some food.
If she did do what has been reported then she is actually a very sensible girl.
This may or may not be a true case.
Either way lots of dollars for the story to come.
Now maybe I should try this diet.

If the rain forest is that thick that she couldn't find her way out, how did she get so sunburnt?

If she was sitting in a creek for how ever long, why didn't she follow the creek down stream?

But until I am in that situation, I don't know.

She was there, she made the choices and decisions that she did.

It'll make a good Paid story in Womans Day no doubt

Originally Posted by Hay Ewe

If the rain forest is that thick that she couldn't find her way out, how did she get so sunburnt?

If she was sitting in a creek for how ever long, why didn't she follow the creek down stream?

But until I am in that situation, I don't know.

She was there, she made the choices and decisions that she did.

It is actually called exposure. You dont actually have to be directly sitting in the sun to get sun burnt or sun burn like. Reflection from many things can do it including water and spending a fair amount of time in the creek is way more than capable of doing this. You can still also become severely dehydrated actually sitting in water. Disorientation is something not easy to explain to those that have never suffered it and dose not have to be in a remote area. Has been known to happen to people in new towns and even shopping centres.

When I used to work on power sub station sites I used get dehydrated , dry reaching even when I was drinking water all day, my doctor told me to add some cordial to the water to give me sugar & salt . After doing this never had a problem again.

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

It'll make a good Paid story in Womans Day no doubt

Have you pre ordered a copy yet mate

Police said she was eventually found just 30m from where she disappeared