Have you ever gone a day without food?

SimonQuinlank · 25-09-2013 10:38PM

Yeah usually when I'm going through a bad bout of depression I just don't feel like or bother eating,last time during the summer I lost over a stone.

Jonny Blaze · 25-09-2013 10:39PM

ElizaT33 wrote: »

That's sad - why?

Ha ha! Thank you but it's not so bad. Have been on the dole since 2009 through college (graduated in June!) because of the recession, so after rent etc. you have very little left to run with. A large bill or new pair of runners can just totally wipe out the food budget for the week.

Can't complain though as I have received an education through the hardship. In other countries I would be out dying on the streets!

ordinary_girl · 26-09-2013 12:50AM

Yep, food poisoning will ruin your appetite for days. I remember at one point thinking "I never ever ever want to eat again if this is what food can cause", but obviously that view changed pretty quickly :rolleyes:

Other than that I can sometimes go several days without eating when I get really depressed, usually unwittingly. When that happens family will tend to notice that I haven't eaten for a while before I'll notice.

biko · 26-09-2013 01:49AM

I have actually on occasion. I'm one of those people that if I don't eat or think about food I don't really get hungry (doesn't work all the time) so if I'm stuck in working hard I can actually go a whole day without food.
I just substitute with fags and coffee/tea/water.

Sofiztikated · 26-09-2013 02:09AM

Let me see. The longest I've went without eating was ... I think probably about 18 days or so.

But regularly go a day or 2 without eating. Sometime I just don't feel the need to eat.

beks101 · 26-09-2013 03:02AM

Absolutely zero food, I'd say about 4 or 5 days, with every minute of it a struggle and hallucinogenic towards the end. Ah the good aul world of eating disorders, the craic I had...

These days I would be a bit Nazi-ish about getting regular meals because of my past, but the odd time I find I can go entire days just...not hungry. I'll go 12 - 15 hours and be like, 'oh hold on, food'...

Everyone's body is different really. The aul staple 3-square-meals or 6-mini-meals doesn't suit everyone all the time. 24 hours without food isn't all that long really and can be good to give your digestive system a bit of a rest.

peewee_44 · 26-09-2013 03:06AM

Apart from sickness no. I just can't I turn into an evil witch without food

[-0-] · 26-09-2013 05:34AM

I went 4 days on a pill binge.

26-09-2013 08:41AM

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

Yeah right.

Cool story bro.

anncoates · 26-09-2013 08:43AM

Candie wrote: »

Lost about 10 lbs in as many days, mostly in tears

Could you have at least cried into a kettle or into the bath or something?

Esoteric_ · 26-09-2013 08:44AM

Didn't eat for 5 days when I had double pneumonia, I was too sick to move, let alone eat!

Didn't eat for 4 days after a break up two years ago.

I'll not eat for a day here and there, if I'm not hungry.

petes · 26-09-2013 08:53AM

New diet fad, go out with someone, fall in love, break up. Lose weight instantly!!

Fcuk your weight watchers!!

keano_afc · 26-09-2013 09:43AM

Did Lipotrim a couple of years ago. Only shakes for 2 months. Lost nearly 4 stone but wold never do it again, screws with your metabolism.

BeerWolf · 26-09-2013 10:07AM

Yes, and that'd be dayS - from being an emotional wreck after someone close to me died a few years ago...

TheBellJar · 26-09-2013 10:24AM

Those 11cent packs of noodles they used to have in Tesco saved me during my college years.

(although I may have been better off starving!)

Moneymaker · 26-09-2013 10:51AM

36 hour fasts as part of a weight loss programme.

8pm Saturday til 8am Monday. Liquids still allowed.

Was hard first few goes but got the hang of it. Paid off very handsomely and helped a lot with my weight loss.

Lad Of Banter · 26-09-2013 10:52AM

fasted for 24 hours before a medical once and am fairly sure I have gone on the lash for a day with no food taken :pac:

folan · 26-09-2013 10:52AM

plenty, but most of them due to hangovers.

--Kaiser-- · 26-09-2013 11:44AM

I've done 3 - 5 day fasts before. Mind gets really clear, just don't look at, smell, or even think about food

Wibbs · 26-09-2013 12:46PM

Yep, regularly enough too. At least once a month, but usually more than once a month.

ScumLord · 26-09-2013 02:31PM

I'd forgotten about all the people that regularly fast. I've often forgotten to eat during the day because of work and end up having my dinner at 10 o'clock at night. My problem is I can be like that during the working week and then binge at the weekend.

I lost a power of weight on yolks too, when I started taking them at 20 I was 21 stone, a year or two later I was 13, I had wasted away though, I was still overweight. When I stopped taking them though my weight went back up to 16 stone. not in the least bit healthy.

Same happened when my father died, I don't remember it too well but I mustn't have been eating because I lost a load of weight again.

I've never been in the position where I can't get food if I needed it though.

Femme_Fatale · 26-09-2013 02:39PM

Candie wrote: »

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

It's a fecking great diet. Some people eat more when heartbroken. I used to get through days on just water.

Moneymaker · 26-09-2013 07:10PM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

It's a fecking great diet. Some people eat more when heartbroken. I used to get through days on just water.

No it's not and it's downright dangerous starving yourself to "lose" weight.

Femme_Fatale · 26-09-2013 07:58PM

Moneymaker wrote: »

No it's not and it's downright dangerous starving yourself to "lose" weight.

Oh it's not good for you obviously but if you physically can't eat it makes losing weight really easy, which is quite the confidence boost after a break-up. :pac:

26-09-2013 10:33PM

anncoates wrote: »

Could you have at least cried into a kettle or into the bath or something?

I cried into a pitcher, then sold my tears on Ebay by the champagne glass. They were snapped up by an dark genius who was hell-bent on taking over the world and who believed he was made stronger by the suffering of the heartbroken.

I believe his name was Dr. Evil.

He paid me one million dollars.

I'm an environmentalist, I waste nothing.

Vito Corleone · 26-09-2013 10:40PM

Yes, it's not uncommon for me to go a day or two without eating anything. I have stomach problems, nausea etc...

Depp · 26-09-2013 10:47PM

college haha...when fags and cans are prioritised

Sir_Badshot · 26-09-2013 11:48PM

Was flat broke and homeless in Aus years ago and starved for a week.

A horrible experience that everyone in the west should have to do once in their lives. Opened my eyes to the reality of hunger. It actually hurts like fuk.

Once I got food I could not eat as my stomach had shrunk.

princess-lala · 27-09-2013 12:41AM

I went two days last week with no food! Only coffee. It was only when my mother asked about food that I remembered I hadn't eaten in over two days

I could very easily forget to eat

Badly Drunk Boy · 27-09-2013 01:57AM

I often go 2 or 3 days without food, sometimes 4, due to lack of appetite. I'd only have liquids, usually water or milk. I eventually force myself to eat because I know it's not healthy, especially because I cycle to work. I've never noticed any weight loss but then again, I don't tend to weigh myself.

Have you ever gone a day without food?

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