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A few 24 hour periods for surgery. I’ve gone at least 48 hours without eating, it made me feel pretty rotten
Three and a half weeks, 25 days.
More than forty years ago I was lost in the wilderness on a school camp. Broke both ankles and couldn’t walk. Drank water from a stream and waited.
I’d be surprised if you didn’t take legal action.
Was the water good?
Clean clear cold mountain water. Beginning of spring, snow was starting to melt. There was a settlement out of court. I’m almost 60 now and my ankles still click and hurt.
thank you. It was long ago and far away.
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!
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.
Maybe like 30 hours. I was feeling depressed and didn’t want to eat at the time.
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.
Were you not hallucinating like a madman?! I’ve gone into total fantasy land after 3 days. Talking to people that weren’t there, my desktop wallpaper was trying to speak, all that. Nothing like LSD or shrooms.
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.
Like… less than 24 hours
I ain’t trying to be the next Gandhi
4 or 5 days, just forgot to eat tbh
7 day water and electrolyte fast
Probably a few days, like 3 maybe. I forget sometimes.
“Why hands shaky?”
Oh…No one “forgets” to eat for 3 days.
ill often forget to eat until 8pm, and my mental health isnt as bad as it could be. very feasible to forget to eat for days on end, i have friends that it happens to
You clearly don’t have low appetite
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 syndrom.
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.
I’ll do the occasional 72 hour fast. A 24 hour fast once a month. These days I change the 72 hour to a 48 hour then blood test every hour or two until I see a blood sugar rise. That’s when the body starts to cannibalize muscle tissue so I stop.
I used to fast 36 hours a week, but I am sure the 4 day migraines are the longest (can’t even drink water without puking). Unless it was that one time we all got the flu, 10 days, but we did drink stuff with calories to stay alive.
So:
From poverty or ED never more than a day. Plenty of skipped meals and undereating but no long stretches with nothing.
Voluntarily fasting, only a couple of days
From sickness 4 days or 10 days, depending on how you define not eating.
32 hours after making a dumb bet. It messed up my appetite for months afterwards. I got $20 though. Not worth it.
What effect did it have on your appetite?
