The longest you've gone without eating?

TeddyTedson

I haven't eaten now in around 26 hours. Nothing what so ever. I've only been drinking water. The longest I've gone before was 18hrs I'd say and that was only for fasting for blood tests. I don't even feel like eating now either and I'm not going to until I'm hungry. I'll probably only last to lunch time I imagine but let's see.

What are boardsies personal bests?

Maximus Alexander

"Personal bests"? I though it was best to eat fairly regularly.

golden lane

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I haven't eaten now in around 26 hours. Nothing what so ever. I've only been drinking water. The longest I've gone before was 18hrs I'd say and that was only for fasting for blood tests. I don't even feel like eating now either and I'm not going to until I'm hungry. I'll probably only last to lunch time I imagine but let's see.

What are boardsies personal bests?

four and a half days.......

py2006

About the same. I used to go one day a week without eating. It helped clear my system out.

TeddyTedson

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

"Personal bests"? I though it was best to eat fairly regularly.

Depends on what you're eating thought I guess.
little joke in there for you

Maximus Alexander

I'd say I've gone 24 hours without eating quite a few times. As in, have dinner, then nothing until dinner time the next day. Usually I'll have a bloody massive dinner then though.

Jax Teller

About 3 or 4 days could only have liquids . Lost loads of weight

Manny Pacquiao

43 days when I was lost in Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert. How I survived defied medical science. All I had was dirty water and my will to survive.

Wibbs

I'd go a weekend without eating regularly enough. Once a month anyway. I'd have feck all of an appetite anyway so easy enough. Studies show it increases longevity, just as well as the older style calorie restriction(WITH high nutrients, NOT starvation diets). I'd note very little weight loss either. It would be my humble that people eat quite a bit more than they actually need, especially if sedentary. The human body requires remarkably few calories SO LONG as nutrient levels are high.

Gone Drinking

I've eaten two sandwiches and a mouthful of stew since Sunday. When you're stressed out and have no appetite, it's quite easy.

9959

py2006 wrote: »

About the same. I used to go one day a week without eating. It helped clear my system out.

Your third sentence was unnecessary.

Ghandee

I've partook in a few hunger strikes in the past.

positron

Manny Pacquiao wrote: »

43 days when I was lost in Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert. How I survived defied medical science. All I had was dirty water and my will to survive.

Go on, more details please

EoghanIRL

Id say about 24 hours when travelling , ****îng airplane food no way

Teyla Emmagan

About ten hours (over night in other words). If I'm awake I'm generally thinking about where my next meal is coming from.

previous user

three days, I was fasting,
by the end I was nearly hullucinating

9959

Ghandee wrote: »

I've partook in a few hunger strikes in the past.

Mahatma me old mucker. Have you posted in the thread 'Sexy clothes for Men' yet?

Gran Hermano

From 1845 until 1852.

Rantandrave

7 weeks, on a TFR diet, no actual food is consumed just liquids

Richard Hillman

About 2 days from ecstasy usage back in my younger wilder days. You genuinely have zero appetite when you take them an the day after, no matter how long you have been without food.

They should start dishing them out in Africa, it might bring some happiness to the place :pac:

9959

Gran Hermano wrote: »

From 1845 until 1852.

That's only seven minutes on a digital clock, hardly worth boasting about, anyway, by that time you would have just finished your 'tea'.

Remmy

24 hours at the most I'd day. I don't know how people are able to fast for a few days at a time.

wolfeye

positron wrote: »

Go on, more details please

Alaskan fireman Robert Bogucki (Don Hany) went missing in Western Australia’s Great Sandy Desert in July, 1999. Bogucki survived 43 days and was eventually found some 400km from his departure point by an Australian television news helicopter. He’d lost 30 kilograms, endured six weeks without food and 12 days without water but miraculously survived one of the world’s most inhospitable wildernesses.http://www.throng.com.au/2010/07/miracles-miracle-in-the-desert/

Princess Peach

Maybe a couple of months eating nothing but apples and diet drinks or red bull Bad times

I often lose my appetite for extended periods now, just have to force yourself to eat. Stupid not to. It's a mental thing, your body still needs food to function.

Eve_Dublin

Besides from when I've been asleep, a couple of hours. I don't do the whole starvation thing. Love my food. Love eating.

Wibbs

Wibbs wrote: »

I'd go a weekend without eating regularly enough. Once a month anyway. I'd have feck all of an appetite anyway so easy enough. Studies show it increases longevity, just as well as the older style calorie restriction(WITH high nutrients, NOT starvation diets). I'd note very little weight loss either. It would be my humble that people eat quite a bit more than they actually need, especially if sedentary. The human body requires remarkably few calories SO LONG as nutrient levels are high.

I've been following these studies as I was doing IF for a while. I think it's actually not so clear cut after all that restriction increases longevity.

I've done the 24h a few times. It was no problem from a hunger point of view at all, but I got pretty grumpy in the mornings (worse than usual ). Didn't get any of this clear thinking business others say they get from doing it

smcelhinney

11 days when I had food poisoning in China. Lost about 2.5 stone.

Cue the size zero's PM'ing me wanting to get in on "that new fad diet"..

dollypet

2 days while traveling- painfull!

horsemaster

The longest is I have fasted with water is 7 days. I do this fast once every 3-4 months. I do 24 hour fasting every week if I can. 24 hours fasting is complete fasting without water. For the 7 day fasting, I drink water regularly.

builttospill

When I used to go on mad sessions I wouldn't eat for 5 days. I ain't lying. All the sugar and crap in the alcohol just about kept me going. I paid for it after though, naturally.

marknine

I had food poisoning twice and on each occasion I was not allowed any food at all for two weeks. The only thing I could take was 7up as the sugar would keep my strength up.

WindSock

3.5 day fast. And 3 days due to illness. Makes your breath reek though.

Ghost Buster

golden lane wrote: »

four and a half days.......

Same for me. In hospital with a ruptured appendix. The nicest meal i eve r had was the dry toast and black watery tea i was allowed when given the all clear:D

Toby Take a Bow

Does it count if you're hooked up to drips and feeds and things like that? If so, two weeks, nil by mouth type stuff. Never again (hopefully). I lost around two/three stone, and it's not weight I could afford to lose.

df1985

if you go to ibiza do what people in Ibiza do, you can easily go a few days. the weight falls off.

sunflower27

A few days after I had my wisdom teeth out and the gums sewn back up would probably be the longest without food.

Was in so much pain, the last thing I thought about was food. Lost a fair bit of weight for a short time as well come to think of it.

I'd regularly go a day with just a can of diet coke just because of awkward sleeping patterns or different hours in college. Longest I went was a full week with just water. It wasn't fun.

MagicSean

52 hours in hospital for tests.

WindSock

df1985 wrote: »

if you go to ibiza do what people in Ibiza do, you can easily go a few days. the weight falls off.

I did and put on weight. The food is delish.

FouxDaFaFa

horsemaster wrote: »

24 hours fasting is complete fasting without water.

Is that...wise? Surely you'd risk dehydration.

Longest for me was about 25/6 hours, charity fast.

Eve_Dublin

What's this fasting business? Is it to lose weight? Surely you'd just pile it on again after.

Gummy Panda

bluewolf wrote: »

I've been following these studies as I was doing IF for a while. I think it's actually not so clear cut after all that restriction increases longevity.

I've done the 24h a few times. It was no problem from a hunger point of view at all, but I got pretty grumpy in the mornings (worse than usual ). Didn't get any of this clear thinking business others say they get from doing it

Do you eat a low - moderate carb diet?

Reason i ask is that people who get the clear thinking might be due to usually eating a carb heavy diet and the massive reduction in glucose for them.

horsemaster

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

Is that...wise? Surely you'd risk dehydration.

Longest for me was about 25/6 hours, charity fast.

I am in my 40s and I have been doing this since childhood. Initially it was due to the fact that people around me did this but later I did it for personal reasons. It takes much more than 24 hours for dehydration to hit. Hindus fast for 3 days straight without drinking anything without any problem in the temple I volunteer. A 24 hour fast is not a problem. But as in everything, please consult your doctor before you fast. I am a Ayurvedic practitioner and I have clients/patients who fast as part of their treatment.

Gummy Panda

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Do you eat a low - moderate carb diet?

Reason i ask is that people who get the clear thinking might be due to usually eating a carb heavy diet and the massive reduction in glucose for them.

Not as much as I used to but I did go fairly low carb for ages

MaxSteele

I don't think I've ever went more than 12 hours without food. I'd probably have withdrawal symptoms If I tried.

I'll never understand people who "can't eat".

Grayson

I had to fast for a test (medical, not educational ) once. No eating from midnight and I had to fast 24 hours. So stopped midnight day one. It was 8pm two days later when the test was. It had originally been scheduled for the morning. So that's 44 hours without food.

I used to skip entire days without food but don't do it so often now. Not deliberately, I'd just forget. Now, if I go too long without some sort of food intake, I get a headache. But I do still go quite often with little intake. I sometime go days with just the odd sandwich or bowl of noodles here or there.

Sunnyisland

4/5 days on a few occasions, But i was nourishing myself with guinness.

Fixing Good

A mate of mine said he heard of a fella that went for 40 days and 40 nights but I think he was talking sh1t!!!

Emeraldy Pebbles

Around 5 days when I was ill in hospital. Lost 9lbs in that time, as my body was concurrently trying to heal a surgery wound. Not good. :-/

aaronjumper

Mine was three days. Boy did I enjoy the fish and chips on day four.

af_thefragile

I never eat.

I just absorb energy from the atmosphere!