About 4 days. multiple times. I was really poor once. I used to take Tylenol and Tums to keep away the hunger pains, and I am surprised I still have a liver and kidneys.
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12 to 14 hours, or so. That's how I found out about hypoglycemia. Played paintball all day, started feeling sick and was throwing up and passing out walking home, someone called an ambulance and after they checked me out they said I just needed to eat. π€£
When you're paintballing so hard you almost die. This is something I can appreciate.
Brings back good memories of playing woodsball. That shit is more taxing than people realize!
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.
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.
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.
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A bit over 24 hours probably. No eating or drinking, mostly because I forgot to eat supper the previous night then stayed in bed the next day
19-ish hours. I practice intermittent fasting and sometimes I unintentionally go over my standard 16 hours because Iβm busy doing something and I forget.
40 days
Take potassium and calcium supplements or your bones are gonna hurt
You must have one very restrictive definition of eating
More restrictive than the feeling I get by wearing briefs
Just get a size larger. Or a skirt, they're surprisingly comfy
War there a reason for such a long time without food?
Yeah, the Muslims were about to do a fast but when I heard they were wimping out of it after sundown, I knew right then and there I had to beat them at their own game. I've also Lented harder than Christ, so don't think I'm picking on just one religion.
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A couple of days, but I was really sick. When healthy*, Iβll 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 itβs not without nourishment, just without solid foods.
*don't be like me, kids. Itβs not good to eat too sporadically (Iβd be much worse about it if my husband were not basically samwise gamgee). Iβve got adhd and forget to eat sometimes, and Iβve noticed itβs always more difficult to eat if Iβve eaten very little lately.
4 or 5 days, just forgot to eat tbh
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.
32 hours after making a dumb bet. It messed up my appetite for months afterwards. I got $20 though. Not worth it.
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probably like 18 hours max
That's not too uncommon for me. Eat dinner at 7PM, don't eat again until noon or so the next day.
Maybe like 30 hours. I was feeling depressed and didn't want to eat at the time.
40ish hours without eating or sleeping, I was just busy and didn't get to it.
7 day water and electrolyte fast
A couple of days, I was doing Atkins diet at the time and completely lost my hunger, so I just forgot to eat for two days until someone asked me what I had had for lunch and I realized I hadn't eaten lunch, or dinner, or lunch the day before, or dinner the day before that. It was a weird feeling realizing I had gone almost 48 hours without food without even noticing.
Two and a half day for a fast. I don't count being ill, like a flu