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re: What's the longest you've gone without eating?

Posted on 7/5/24 at 1:20 pm to
Posted by Mud_Bone
Member since Dec 2021
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Posted on 7/5/24 at 1:20 pm to


One time in 'Nam.........
Posted by billjamin
Houston
Member since Jun 2019
15012 posts
Posted on 7/5/24 at 1:49 pm to
72 hours no food or sleep once out in the field. It sucked.
Posted by Rex Feral
Member since Jan 2014
14663 posts
Posted on 7/5/24 at 1:49 pm to
30 hiurs
Posted by gpburdell
ATL
Member since Jun 2015
1551 posts
Posted on 7/5/24 at 1:53 pm to
I've done a 96 hr fast many times. I do 72 hours few times a month. For me, the first 24 hours are the hardest to resist the temptation to eat. After that, it's easy for me to ignore being hungry.

I've never gone past 96 hours as I don't want to deal with refeeding syndrome and have to be cautious about what I'm eating.
Posted by cypresstiger
The South
Member since Aug 2008
12409 posts
Posted on 7/5/24 at 1:53 pm to
3 days. After day 1, really not tough at all.
Posted by DJ3K
Member since Dec 2011
7040 posts
Posted on 7/5/24 at 3:27 pm to
I fast every sunday night to tuesday evening. Mainly water or the occiasional diet coke to settle the stomach.
Posted by Stealth Matrix
29°59'55.98"N 90°05'21.85"W
Member since Aug 2019
9834 posts
Posted on 7/5/24 at 3:32 pm to
quote:

What's the longest you've gone without eating?

3-5 days, whenever I become sick. I'll just go liquid-only fast until the sickness works its' way out my body.

Sans illness, I've never gone more than 36 hours or so.
This post was edited on 7/5/24 at 3:35 pm
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
68122 posts
Posted on 7/5/24 at 3:35 pm to
I’ve done several 4 and 5-day fasts.
Posted by HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Member since Jul 2011
31470 posts
Posted on 7/5/24 at 3:53 pm to
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36 hour fast once a week


What in the frick is wrong with you people, why would you starve yourself?

Posted by Hoodie
Donaldsonville, LA
Member since Dec 2019
3389 posts
Posted on 7/5/24 at 3:55 pm to
Roughly 36 hours. I got up in the middle of the night to adjust the thermostat and passed out, hitting my head on a wall, and then the floor. Thankfully, my wife was there to come to my aid.
Posted by Epic Cajun
Lafayette, LA
Member since Feb 2013
35210 posts
Posted on 7/5/24 at 3:58 pm to
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Not time between actual meals-- any food into your system non-liquid. I honestly don't think it's ever been more than 18 hours for me in my entire life. America really has it great.

For consistency, don't count sometime you had the flu or a stomach bug and just couldn't get anything down.

I often do 24 hour fasts.

Longest has probably been about 30 hours.
Posted by Tempratt
Member since Oct 2013
14521 posts
Posted on 7/5/24 at 4:00 pm to
Probably 16-17 hours.
Posted by GruntbyAssociation
Member since Jul 2013
6729 posts
Posted on 7/5/24 at 4:00 pm to
quote:

Did a 40-day clear-liquid-only fast once. Interesting experience.


How much weight did you lose?
Posted by Cornbeef
Ocean Springs
Member since Aug 2009
430 posts
Posted on 7/5/24 at 4:23 pm to
17 days as a kid with bad depression. I’d lost the will to eat but was hiding it by taking any food I got to my room and then throwing it away. 18th day my dad stops at a place after work to get us something to eat, hits a royal flush playing video poker while he waits, wins 500$ and upgrades us all to steaks. When he got home he was so fricking happy I severely wrestled with whether or not to eat it because while I didn’t want to eat, I didn’t have the heart to do anything that would spoil his joy that day, so I ate it. It was incredible

Tldr 17 days, In hindsight I believe it to be one of those mysterious ways.
Posted by BatonRougeBuckeye
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Aug 2013
1834 posts
Posted on 7/5/24 at 4:28 pm to
quote:

What's the longest you've gone without eating?


Ok I wanna hear more about that
Posted by JEC119
Member since Apr 2024
1230 posts
Posted on 7/5/24 at 4:29 pm to
Since 2004 I eat once every 20 hours… after I read the warrior diet by Ori Hofmekler.
Posted by White Bear
Yonnygo
Member since Jul 2014
16305 posts
Posted on 7/5/24 at 4:55 pm to
quote:

What's the longest you've gone without eating?
not very
Posted by FlagLake
"Da Ship"
Member since Feb 2006
2428 posts
Posted on 7/5/24 at 5:00 pm to
I didn’t eat anything the first nine months of my life.
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
70151 posts
Posted on 7/5/24 at 5:11 pm to
quote:

Roughly 36 hours. I got up in the middle of the night to adjust the thermostat and passed out, hitting my head on a wall, and then the floor. Thankfully, my wife was there to come to my aid.
quote:

Thankfully
Your word, not ours.

Pics of the wife in night wear so we can correctly “see” this rescue.
Posted by Chair45
Member since May 2024
387 posts
Posted on 7/5/24 at 5:17 pm to
i went 20 days without eating in 2018. water fasting FTW. the people who said you don't really feel hunger are correct. after 2-3 days, it gets REALLY easy. the key is to keep your mind busy, either with work, or activities/hobbies

i did it to lose some weight, and it just melted off like crazy in 20 days. lost about 40 pounds. best part about it was that it was super easy, pretty much free, and didn't require me to keep track of macros and other food groups

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Did a 40-day clear-liquid-only fast once. Interesting experience.


damn. kudos to you
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