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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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Something like 36 hours without food, and around 12 hours without water in prep for surgery. I was delirious the last several hours.
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.
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.
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.
When I was in high school I went 48 hours just as an experiment when my mom went out of town. Now that I have GERD I don’t think I could make it that long again though
Yeah the acid from not eating sucks pretty hard. Thank goodness for pepcid complete.
Edit: Yep, GERD is right.
I usually see it abbreviated as GERD when I’m dealing with doctors’ notes, medical forms, patient charts.
You’re right of course, I’ll edit. I thought gastrointestinal not gastroesophageal.
8 day fast. Water only. I was living and eating horribly at the time. I needed a drastic reset and it worked very well.
They do this in ayahuasca ceremonies also. Cleans the body from a lot of toxic shit.
Downvoters should research autophagy and fasting.
Downvoters are just still in the matrix. It’s OK.
A few 24 hour periods for surgery. I’ve gone at least 48 hours without eating, it made me feel pretty rotten
Roughly 3 days as well. The shakes were crazy since I was drinking coffee and abusing amphetamine like mad as well.
3 days here, and yes, it took meth. Glad those days didn’t last long and are decades past.
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.
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.
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
From a Sunday lunch through dinner Wednesday evening.
Not a purposeful fast, I just had a huge hours-long meal of endless samples of steak, lamb, and chicken at a Brazilian Steakhouse. Also several large salads, and a small dessert.
So anyway, I just wasn’t hungry for days after that. I didn’t have any constipation, no drop in energy, so I went about my business as usual, but without eating for a few days.
Keto diet may be for you then.
7 day water and electrolyte fast
I accidentally intermittent fast all the time, adhd brain along with weird lunch pattern at work. I think at this point, I should just say I do it to sound cool.
