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I got in to fasting on Reddit about 5 years ago, which was stupid but I was super overweight at the time, and young enough to be resilient. It's not something I'd recommend to others but I was blown away by how much safer it is than it's often portrayed to be.
There was a whole tag on the subreddit for the "longer then jesus club". For the vast majority of people it's dangerous, but if you have the weight to lose, drink plenty of water and take salt, magnesium and potassium supplements, one month is fine. Humans, along with most animals, are surprisingly resilient to starvation, because of course we are.
Although of course, if you don't have the weight to lose, it gets potentially deadly very quickly. This is why I'd not recommend it to anybody.
Word of caution though: doing any sort of extreme fasting can cause your body to permanently reduce your metabolic rate, meaning it's harder to keep the weight off later on. You will also start to lose muscle mass after about 3 days.
Were you exhausted all the time during the fast? Or did it kind of level out after a few days?