What's the longest period of time you've gone without food and what was the reason?
What's the longest period of time you've gone without food and what was the reason?
9 months. Gestation.
Did a 10 day water fast 3 years ago.
I once went about 36 hours without eating because I had food poisoning and just couldn't bear the thought of eating. Ironically it was on thanksgiving, which is by far my favorite holiday. I lost 15 pounds in 3 days from that bout of food poisoning, obviously most of it was water weight though, I had the weight back on within about a week.
Probably the next most I've gone without eating was about 20 hours. This was because I went for a morning run without eating first (I hate eating before a morning run) but this run wasn't until 10am, but then I got lost on the run and didn't get back to the car until about 2pm, drove straight to a restaurant to get some food. Started eating about 230pm, previous night had eaten dinner about 630. That felt horrible and the next few days my running felt like crap as I recovered.
It was likely the four hour run more than the lack of food that made your runs crappy for the next few days.
20 minutes
Four weeks. After about three days you are no longer hungry.
24 hours every year on Yom Kippur
3 weeks when dealing with a c-diff infection, lost 18 lbs and thought I would die.
I often go days without eating. My wife gets supper pissed at me. The longest I've gone is a 7 day stint back during my first divorce. Depression led to that long stint. Now days when I go a few days without eating it's because I just don't think about it and according to my children and wife it happens regularly.
I only eat one meal a day and even then am not hungry and have to force it down. So left to my own devises I simply don't think about eating.
Yes I have been through counseling on this and yes I have an eating disorder 20 years later.
P.S. I'm a guy and all this started while running in college. Before that I ate three meals a day and probably 20 snacks. I was always hungry and literally couldn't go 4 waking hours without eating a meal.
I pray my children don't follow my path.
Can you just get a feeding tube? Won't solve your mental issues, but at least you can get nutrition without forcing yourself to eat
Maybe about the 13 hours dinner @ 5 pm one night to at least a piece of fruit the next morning.
around 5 days
It you go more than two hours without food your muscles will atrophy and you'll never be able to break 20 minutes for 5K again.
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