Have you ever gone a day without food?

ScumLord

Bar religious fasting or before surgery has there ever been a point in your life where you weren't able to get something to eat?

I've gone days when I've had very little to eat and scraped by until payday but I can't think of any time when I've had nothing to eat.

Seachmall

Ya. I did Intermittent Fasting for a few weeks.

I'd skip food every second day. I'd eat between 9am and 5pm on Monday, for example, and then wouldn't eat until 9am on Wednesday.

Was easy enough but affected my weight lifting so I had to stop it. It was also probably a little extreme.


Now I don't lift weights and eat like a pig .

Only when I was down with a 'flu and had zero appetite. I wouldn't have been able to eat even if I had.

Legs.Eleven

The auld broken heart of 2007. Lost about a stone in a few weeks. I never ever go off my food and get incredibly cranky if I don't eat but couldn't touch anything in those few weeks and I looked like crap by the end of it as I didn't have a stone to lose at that time.

Legs.Eleven

Candie wrote: »

Only when I was down with a 'flu and had zero appetite. I wouldn't have been able to eat even if I had.

Ah and also the flu in 2005. Again I lost a stone in a month.

loubeelou

I do it a lot. Whenever I'm stressed I just can't eat at all. Sometimes for days. I can have beer though. Beer has nutrients!

Legs.Eleven

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

The auld broken heart of 2007. Lost about a stone in a few weeks. I never ever go off my food and get incredibly cranky if I don't eat but couldn't touch anything in those few weeks and I looked like crap by the end of it as I didn't have a stone to lose at that time.

Yeah, I forgot I had one of those episodes too. Lost about 10 lbs in as many days, mostly in tears

meemeemee

Did a week as a test of willpower.

First 3 days are the hardest

After that it gets a lot easier. Your body adapts to it.

Legs.Eleven

Candie wrote: »

Yeah, I forgot I had one of those episodes too. Lost about 10 lbs in as many days, mostly in tears

Mad the kind of affect it has on you and that your body reacts that way when it's probably the one time you need to look after yourself because of the stress you feel.

Dr Turk Turkelton

Have had a kidney stone since Sunday and all I've ate was a slice of toast.

Zen65

I once did a sponsored 24 hour fast for charity, but in the last 30+ years I'd say I've never gone a day without food, unless I was ill, which is very rare.

Sadly, it's beginning to show.

MadsL

Had a summer in Prague where I pretty much worked hand to mouth doing hair-wraps on the street after my teaching job fell through.

Do a hairwrap and go eat. Do no hair-wraps, don't eat.

As family we used to 24 hour fast every Tuesday and donate the money saved on food.

Legs.Eleven

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Mad the kind of affect it has on you and that your body reacts that way when it's probably the one time you need to look after yourself because of the stress you feel.

Total emotional and physical shutdown, isn't it? Makes recovery that much harder emotionally, when physically you're weakened too.

Heartbreak. Not for sissies.

131spanner

I think 17 odd hours is my record. Had breakfast, started work and ate again when I got home. That'd be out of the ordinary for me so you can imagine the feast I had that evening

Temptamperu

Yeah yesterday. Thank fcuk for payday.

Itwasntme.

Candie wrote: »

Yeah, I forgot I had one of those episodes too. Lost about 10 lbs in as many days, mostly in tears

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

The auld broken heart of 2007. Lost about a stone in a few weeks. I never ever go off my food and get incredibly cranky if I don't eat but couldn't touch anything in those few weeks and I looked like crap by the end of it as I didn't have a stone to lose at that time.

Aww..*hugs* When I am broken hearted, I gain weight because I turn to sugar for comfort.

The longest I've gone without food because I didn't have the money to buy it was probably a couple of days during my undergrad. I had spent all my money (as was usually the case) on alcohol and forgot to save some for food.

The longest I've gone otherwise is 11 days. I water fasted during the Christmas break just past for 11 days as a test of will power. It was hard the first few days and then it got easier. I lost about a stone and a half in the eleven days most of which was water weight I gained back within the first couple of days of re-feeding.

Currently I fast one day a week to allow for a day of eating junk food so that it can all balance out without me having to worry about gaining weight.

johnny_adidas

Quite often, usually from 8 on a Saturday night until some time on Monday after work when the Fear has finally subsided. Does the alcohol count? if so the time starts from about 5am on the Sunday

podgemonster

When I had all of my wisdom teeth out, i was in bed for four days and only managed to swallow water, 7UP, Lucozade and my prescibed painkillers which literally knocked me out for 2-3 hours.

I remember trying jelly on the fourth day and only after the first bite did my stomach say "oh dear god I am starving, more more more!"

FloatingVoter

Yes. Marooned between Drogheda and Dublin hoping to get to Limerick with a Limerick-Dublin rail return.
Started off drunk, wound up hungover, hungry and too weak to shoplift.
It is a very long walk and nobody gave me a lift....

Cody Pomeray

I didn't eat anything from last Friday evening after work until Sunday morning.

I had gone out on a rare bender Friday night, without having had anything to eat earlier. So I woke up Saturday morning, stomach empty but vomiting badly, pretty much every half hour, very painful, mainly dry wretching with some stomach acid.

I got so sick I had mouth ulcers. Then I woke up Sunday morning, totally famished, to discover anything i ate made my mouth agony.

So up until yesterday, I'd been sipping on custard, ice cream, creamy mashed potato and ambrosia since the weekend, because anything with texture was pure hell. :mad:

Cody Pomeray

Cody Pomeray wrote: »

I didn't eat anything from last Friday evening after work until Sunday morning.

I had gone out on a rare bender Friday night, without having had anything to eat earlier. So I woke up Saturday morning, stomach empty but dry all day long, pretty much every half hour, very painful, mainly dry wretching with some stomach acid.

I got so sick I had mouth ulcers. Then I woke up Sunday morning, totally famished, to discover anything i ate made my mouth agony.

So up until yesterday, I'd been sipping on custard, ice cream, creamy mashed potato and ambrosia since the weekend, because anything with texture was pure hell. :mad:

Poor you. Make sure you drink as much as you can, at least.:(

Feel better.

BraziliaNZ

Unless I was really sick, only on drug benders. Mephedrone anyone? At least it kept me slim, lol.

podgemonster

podgemonster wrote: »

When I had all of my wisdom teeth out, i was in bed for four days and only managed to swallow water, 7UP, Lucozade and my prescibed painkillers which literally knocked me out for 2-3 hours.

I remember trying jelly on the fourth day and only after the first bite did my stomach say "oh dear god I am starving, more more more!"

That's an op I have pending. Dreading it worse now!

SV

Went 2 days before, for no particular reason I can think of. Just didn't have any appetite, ended up getting very very sick and had to try and eat something.

Sunny Dayz

Has happened a couple of times. A few times was after drinking rose wine, come to the conclusion there's something in it which doesn't agree with me. Stomach was so on edge couldn't face any food.

Last time was just before my wedding. Got food poisoning the weekend before, literally couldn't face food. By the Wednesday I had to start forcing myself to nibble bits. First meal I managed to eat was my wedding dinner. Unfortunately the weight fell off me that week, I hadn't it to lose back then either, and the morning of the wedding I had to get the dressmaker over to pin in my dress, it was too loose on me.

L1011

Swine flu, was probably closer to 2 days. Was living on tea.

When I worked in BT if my bus was late and I didn't get time for breakfast I did occasionally end up forgetting to eat until I got home again in the evening - after a 12 hour shift and a 2 hour commute. That being the main reason I left that job... Probably had a week solid where I'd eat one meal around 10pm every day and nothing at all again until 10pm the next day.

Jonny Blaze

More often than I would care to admit. Especially coming up to the end of the month when rent is due.

I went a week with nothing but water. It was fine to be honest.

andrew1977

Yeah often gone a day without grub, few days of being on the beer non stop, wake up and feel like a corpse for 24 hours or so, wouldnt touch a bit of grub, only a few more beers, fall asleep and then its normally junk food to bring me back to planet earth.

Saturday seems to be the best day of the week where i can go without eating for some reason.:D

gifted

I would cry...just pure tears...my foreman knows that if i don't eat then I get very cranky, production goes to zero, tears flow easily, have on occasion wished me mam was here with me dinner..:o

pragmatic1

A good few times when I used to take yokes. Very effective diet supplement.

Itwasntme.

Cuchulainn1. wrote: »

Have had a kidney stone since Sunday and all I've ate was a slice of toast.

Cody Pomeray wrote: »

I didn't eat anything from last Friday evening after work until Sunday morning.

I had gone out on a rare bender Friday night, without having had anything to eat earlier. So I woke up Saturday morning, stomach empty but vomiting badly, pretty much every half hour, very painful, mainly dry wretching with some stomach acid.

I got so sick I had mouth ulcers. Then I woke up Sunday morning, totally famished, to discover anything i ate made my mouth agony.

So up until yesterday, I'd been sipping on custard, ice cream, creamy mashed potato and ambrosia since the weekend, because anything with texture was pure hell. :mad:

Feel better both of you.

Jonny Blaze wrote: »

More often than I would care to admit. Especially coming up to the end of the month when rent is due.

pragmatic1

Jonny Blaze wrote: »

More often than I would care to admit. Especially coming up to the end of the month when rent is due.

That sucks dude. I'd go out grafting if it came to it.

gifted

gifted wrote: »

I would cry...just pure tears...my foreman knows that if i don't eat then I get very cranky, production goes to zero, tears flow easily, have on occasion wished me mam was here with me dinner..:o

This post is sweet, it's like a toddler reaction to discomfort!

When I was tiny I used to cry if I was hungry. Now I just sniffle :P

TheMilkyPirate

**** no I love food! 2hours and im falling apart

gifted

Candie wrote: »

This post is sweet, it's like a toddler reaction to discomfort!

When I was tiny I used to cry if I was hungry. Now I just sniffle :P

I love me food..:o

FloatingVoter

pragmatic1 wrote: »

A good few times when I used to take yokes. Very effective diet supplement.

Yokes are the great undiscovered food group of our time.

FameHungry

When I got mono last year, I completely lost my appetite for about a month. There were a few days where I ate nothing.
It was terrible because I lost about 2 stone and I felt like I was slowly dying

Spunge

Taking stimulants a few days in a row, no sleep or food.

cloud493

I'm on day 3 of no food right now

BraziliaNZ

cloud493 wrote: »

I'm on day 3 of no food right now

Pokemon consumes you that much?

Charity fasts when I was younger.

Heartbroken once and my immune system crashed under the stress, got a really bad mouth infection just from my regular mouth bacteria, whole mouth, lips, tongue covered in yellow sores, think I had one bowl of soup in 3 days.

When I was younger I hated eating and would often try to go days without eating, but often my parents would force me to at least have dinner.

canadianwoman

ScumLord wrote: »

Bar religious fasting or before surgery has there ever been a point in your life where you weren't able to get something to eat?

I've gone days when I've had very little to eat and scraped by until payday but I can't think of any time when I've had nothing to eat.

Sometimes, I have been down to only one meal a day but I have always had something to eat...even if it was not a particularly exciting meal.

The only time I have ever gone without eating was when I am sick. Last year during a bad illness, I went 10 days but I sure made up for it once I was feeling better.

cloud493

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Pokemon consumes you that much?

Its an obsession/

canadianwoman

MYOB wrote: »

When I worked in BT if my bus was late and I didn't get time for breakfast I did occasionally end up forgetting to eat until I got home again in the evening - after a 12 hour shift and a 2 hour commute. That being the main reason I left that job... Probably had a week solid where I'd eat one meal around 10pm every day and nothing at all again until 10pm the next day.

I had a night job in my early twenties and all I was living on was a sandwich at my lunchbreak and another one after work. I lost so much weight doing that job. Fond memories.

Chancer3001

I go 19 hours a day without eating most days. Today was a lazy day cos I went mountain climbing so only 17 hours without food.

I.F beeatch!!

Precious flower

I've done fasting for a charity when I was in secondary school a good few times. Other than that, for today for example had breakfast at 8 went to college and had dinner around six. You get hungry but if you ignore it, it eventually goes away. Not saying it's a good thing just that sometimes I'm too busy to eat. The only thing with me though is sometimes my blood sugar levels can drop quite suddenly (I'm not diabetic, happens to my mother and brother too) and it can feel like you haven't eaten in days, you can feel sick and faintly and your stomach hurts quite bad. Very intense and horrible feeling. Something quite high in sugar is the only thing for it then! My mother carries chocolate in her bag just in case.:pac:

ford2600

Eat a high fat very low sugar diet.

With endurance exercise have trained my body to burn fat.

At 3500calories a pound, it's quite easy to go a day without food. A lot of hunger is just carbohydrate/sugar craving

aaabbbb

I don't sleep too well so eventually I can get so exhausted that I forget to eat , using all the reserve energy I have to do what I have to get done for the day and then comatose into sleep.

I've also gone 2 weeks eating only special k 'cos I'd no money to eat anything else

Abigayle

Fasting for concern. Gastroenteritis (sp?) has a funny way of killing your appetite. Also often ran off to work without breakfast, too busy for lunch then just fell into bed when I got home the odd time.

token101

Can't remember ever deliberately skipping one meal let alone a day's worth of food