Covid had be bedridden for about 3 days and feeling too sick to eat, and living on my own I had nobody to help me.
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About 4 days. multiple times. I was really poor once. I used to take Tylenol and Tums to keep away the hunger pains, and I am surprised I still have a liver and kidneys.
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About 6000 kilometres :p
19-ish hours. I practice intermittent fasting and sometimes I unintentionally go over my standard 16 hours because I’m busy doing something and I forget.
40 days
Take potassium and calcium supplements or your bones are gonna hurt
You must have one very restrictive definition of eating
More restrictive than the feeling I get by wearing briefs
Just get a size larger. Or a skirt, they're surprisingly comfy
Did a 3 day fast once.
It was actually amazing. The last 8 hours were where it got rough, but from hours 12 to 66, I basically wasn't even hungry because my body entered ketosis. Did full keto for a month afterwards because I was already there. Dropped 15lbs and felt like a golden god for months afterwards. I've done some 36-48 hour fasts since then, but even 48 hours isn't the same thing.
A couple of days, I was doing Atkins diet at the time and completely lost my hunger, so I just forgot to eat for two days until someone asked me what I had had for lunch and I realized I hadn't eaten lunch, or dinner, or lunch the day before, or dinner the day before that. It was a weird feeling realizing I had gone almost 48 hours without food without even noticing.
10 hours, but I'm also a fatty.
Back in college, my buds & I did a road trip across America, so of course we stopped at the Grand Canyon. Breakfast was just a peanut butter & bread "sandwich", at which point we started hiking down the canyon. If you've ever been, they have numerous signs saying "Do not go past this point unless you are packing food". But hey, we're college kids, and we're not going to go THAT much farther... Long story short, that night the rangers had to chaperone us as we fucking crawled back out. One of us 'got' to ride in a helicopter to the medical building. For the other 3 of us who could still move, they manged to find a dusty MRE at the last way station. That was the absolute best chicken & pea soup in a tin foil bag I have ever eaten in my life.
Woof, those choper rides aint cheap. That is exactly why all the signs/books/guides say "dont go past this point, unless you know what your doing" and "only stupid people do the rim to river and back in a day". My folks and I did that last one back in the day, it was fun, but dont try it (seriously dont). It took us 20 hours and almost didnt make it back before sunset.
The best part of that hike is thanks to my mother, who froze an extra water bottle and hid it in each of our bags before we set out at sunrise. We are hiking back on the bright angel trail and get to the waysation half way up and find it. Its 3PM, at the height of summer in the grand canyon, and my father and I are sitting around drinking ice water, I have never see more envious hikers in my life.
Two and a half day for a fast. I don't count being ill, like a flu
40ish hours without eating or sleeping, I was just busy and didn't get to it.
Roughly 3 days as well. The shakes were crazy since I was drinking coffee and abusing amphetamine like mad as well.
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About three days. I get headaches, and shakey, and at some point in the first twenty four hours the hunger pangs vanish. So if I focused through something without eatung I might only realize due to headache and the empty vibrating feel.
It happens less as I get older as I understand body signals better and eat before the point when the hunger pangs fade.
8 day fast. Water only. I was living and eating horribly at the time. I needed a drastic reset and it worked very well.
A week for medical reasons, but I was being given intravenous water and nutrients the whole time. Those don't stop you from feeling like your stomach is empty, unfortunately. The first slice of toast afterwards was possibly the best thing I have ever eaten
Out of choice, maybe 32-ish hours? A full day plus sleep the night beforehand
Maybe like 30 hours. I was feeling depressed and didn't want to eat at the time.
About 3 days. I do it every now and then since it does help relief a medical issue.
Interestingly, I don't get hungry and don't feel much difference overall. I could go much longer, but I don't want to worry about refeeding syndrome.
A couple of days, but I was really sick. When healthy*, I’ll sometimes do 24 hours, but that includes big meals bookending that time. I do also tend to have coffee with oat milk, protein drinks, and/or juice during that time, so it’s not without nourishment, just without solid foods.
*don't be like me, kids. It’s not good to eat too sporadically (I’d be much worse about it if my husband were not basically samwise gamgee). I’ve got adhd and forget to eat sometimes, and I’ve noticed it’s always more difficult to eat if I’ve eaten very little lately.
About 30 hours.
I had to go nil-by-mouth for 12 hours before an operation to repair a fairly serious injury and they kept pushing the surgery back and back and back. Higher priority cases were keeping the surgeon. It wasn't like I was low priority either, but my injury was stable and not immediately life threatening.
Did I mention I'd also lost blood? That made for a force multiplier.
In the end, they admitted defeat - the surgeon had worked too long anyway - let me eat something and rescheduled my surgery for the following day.
Let me tell you, that was the best chicken I ever ate.
When I was around 16 or so I decided not to sleep or eat for a week, which I did - so it would be that.
I was fine, overall, but did get some leg cramps when I cycled 12 miles on the last day. I had no great desire to eat at the end - that had faded over the week, really, but it came back pretty soon once I did actually get something down.
Of course, it is a very different thing if you decide not to eat, and have no particular stresses or anything going on to being deprived of food.
Not sleeping is even crazier! You're getting into psychosis territory.
Was this part of an eating disorder? A week of not eating for a person who can already cycle 12 miles seems unusual.
(Hope that’s not too sensitive to ask, feel free not to respond)
No. I had nothing much going on for a while and just randomly decided to see what it would be like. Yes, it was 'unusual', but 'unusual' has been quite common for me over the years one way or another.
It was some time after this that I discovered what the record for not sleeping was at the time (around 10 days as I recall). It is probably just as well that I did not know that at the time, or I would have tried to beat it - not that I was being supervised or anything, so it wouldn't have counted, but...
I dig this — sometimes you just want to do a little “adventure”. I’ve never not ate for a week, but have done similar things.
Just wanted to ask about eating disorder because I’ve had friends who’ve done similar things and it always makes me sad.
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Like... less than 24 hours
I ain't trying to be the next Gandhi
Probably a few days, like 3 maybe. I forget sometimes.
"Why hands shaky?"
Oh...
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7 day water and electrolyte fast
12 to 14 hours, or so. That's how I found out about hypoglycemia. Played paintball all day, started feeling sick and was throwing up and passing out walking home, someone called an ambulance and after they checked me out they said I just needed to eat. 🤣
When you're paintballing so hard you almost die. This is something I can appreciate.
Brings back good memories of playing woodsball. That shit is more taxing than people realize!
4 or 5 days, just forgot to eat tbh