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The longest you've gone without eating?

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  • #32
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


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


  • #33
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭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


  • #34
    Toby Take a Bow
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    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.


  • #35
    df1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


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


  • #36
    sunflower27
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    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.


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #38
    MagicSean
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    52 hours in hospital for tests.


  • #39
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #40
    FouxDaFaFa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,850 ✭✭✭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.


  • #41
    Eve_Dublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


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


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  • #42
    Gummy Panda
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    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.


  • #43
    horsemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 123 ✭✭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.


  • #44
    Elise Tiny Lineman
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Elise Tiny Lineman


    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


  • #45
    MaxSteele
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    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".


  • #46
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,780 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #47
    Sunnyisland
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    4/5 days on a few occasions, But i was nourishing myself with guinness.


  • #48
    Fixing Good
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23 ✭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!!!


  • #49
    Emeraldy Pebbles
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    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. :-/


  • #50
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


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


  • #51
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    I never eat.

    I just absorb energy from the atmosphere!


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  • #52
    mauzo
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    EoghanIRL wrote: »
    Id say about 24 hours when travelling , ****îng airplane food no way

    I love aeroplane food :o

    I've gone about 24 hours I'd say. Not a patch on some of you, you guys are bad ass


  • #53
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Two days when I was 9 and had food poisoning. Not eating for two days ended up in me having a seizure, passing out and nearly ended up in a coma :o So since then the longest I've gone without eating is about 8 hours...


  • #54
    Spread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭Spread


    9 months


  • #55
    Karona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭Karona


    I used to be able to go a good while without food but lately if I go without food for so long I get really bad shakes. I have been tested for diabetes and all that jazz but apparently I am as fit as a fiddle. :o


  • #56
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    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.

    And a great imagination. Don't forget that. :)


  • #57
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    I'm like the guy from the Skittles advert where everything he touched turned to Skittles.

    Unfortunately everything I touch turns to ****, which I'm allergic to.


  • #58
    ArtyC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭ArtyC


    About nine days. Had a heavy drug problem. Didn't sleep either. Glad I cut that habit :)


  • #59
    1ZRed
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    A bit over 24 hours but I get seriously aggressive when I'm that hungry so it's best to be nowhere near me if that happens.


  • #60
    Esoteric_
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    6 days. I was stressed and upset and had no appetite, so I lived off of sugar free red bull, water and black coffee. Ended up fainting in work, which was a little bit awkward. :pac:

    Nowadays, I'd easily go 24-48 hours without eating if I'm not hungry. And yet I'm still a fat cow :pac:


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  • #61
    1ZRed
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    Do you have to be very technical about it because I've gone through a few bouts where I was eating one "meal" a day of toast for a straight week from being stressed/sick but I've never not eaten anything at all for more than around 24 hours. That'd be cheating I suppose :p


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