No, I was living alone while going to school. I would starve myself so I could save more money. What is the difference between X day fasts and what I did?

I am not trying to claim that fasting doesn't work, just noting my personal experience. For me it certainly worked in the sense that I saw the fakeness of "if you don't eat for X days you get super hungry or weak/sick/you die", I was perfectly ok.. but not amazing.