Four weeks. I have Crohn’s disease and had perforated my bowel roughly 15 years ago. I wasn’t allowed anything by mouth and was on a saline drip for 3 weeks. After my surgery I was on TPN for another week before I was allowed to eat anything. I went from 185lbs to 130lbs and it took about 6 months to get back up to 160lbs.
Five days. I had a bout of gastritis - damage to the stomach lining. I didn’t feel hungry at all during that time. My body knew time was what it needed in order to heal.
Not sure. Probably 36-hours prior to a colonoscopy and surgery. LOL, I was ready to eat ramen noodles sauced with Elmer’s Glue. On the way home from the hospital I hit the all-you-can-eat BBQ joint.
Most days I go 14-16 hours, but I’m unemployed ATM and not moving much. I have to get out and hike or work to get an appetite, often do that just so I can eat.
When I was working the spring/early-summer rush at Lowe’s outdoor center, what they call the “100 days of hell”, I was freaked out by my hunger. Wasn’t that hungry working labor in my 20s. I’d eat until I couldn’t fit anymore down the pipe, still felt hungry. Really woke me to how fat people must feel. Took over a month after I quit till my hunger dialed down.
Anyway, having said all that, I’m doing whatever it takes to get on medical weed, tomorrow. Never needed my head reset so badly. Anyone know how I can grow shrooms?
I think 48 hours was the most. Did it as a Kickstart to a diet.
2 days. I was involved in a stupid cult for a while and thought that starving myself would make god love me or some dumb shit like that
8 day water fast as a catalyst for change. Worked perfectly despite the risky lack of preparation.
100 hours, for a fast. I just wanted to see what it was like and how my body responded.
At least five days when I was in a feverish hell of mono, just drank a lot of water.
Other than that, I have gone without eating for like 24 hours or so a lot when I was younger either by just being distracted and not being hungry or when I was broke in my early 20s and had to couch surf for a couple of months. Got by eating once a day.
Now my meals are so structured that it would take effort to get back to eating only when hungry but I should start that so I can get back to a healthy weight.
A little over 24 hours. Nothing fancy, I had started a keto diet and at one point I realized that my previous meal had been lunch the day before, hadn’t had dinner nor breakfast since and it was lunch time again.
Willingly, around 20 hours. I’m practicing intermittent fasting but was too busy to eat one time. Unwillingly, I went around a week with just an IV drip and water, after an appendectomy.
A week, massively depressed, no food or water, by day 3 I decided to conciously continue the fast in hope of death. by day 6 I was feeling normal, by day 7 was completely ok, had energy, no headaches no hungry or thirsty.
got so upset that I’m apparently immortal I gave up on that scheme.
By choice? 36 hours weekly for a year. It did improve my health without dropping my weight but unfortunately was also a guaranteed migraine each time.
By need? Couple of days when we were poor. But way more usually there was at least something to eat each day.
36 hours every week for a year? That’s intense
Were you eating a normal omnivore carbohydrate-based diet at the time? Did salt or electrolytes help with the headache?
Yes normal omnivore diet, not much junk food but yes rice and sourdough bread as carbs, lots of beans, meat at least a couple times a week, vegetables and fruit. Coffee. Alcohol about once a week.
I tried caffeine, electrolytes, my body just wasn’t having it. Would wake up with a migraine if I skipped both lunch & supper. I can do 24 hours easier, very late lunch, skip supper, next day start with supper, but the 36 hours or more did something that shorter fasts don’t (besides the headaches) my LDL cholesterol dropped sharply.
This was an experiment for me because most of the reports I read on fasting benefits related to weight loss, there wasn’t a lot on normal weight people fasting and maintaining weight, so I did that to see if it really did anything, and it did.
I know this isn’t breaking any records, but on the weekends I go nearly the whole day before I really think about eating.
This is every day for me, sometimes I completely forget.
2 days. I had hemorrhoid surgery and pooping was so painful that I fasted for two days just so I could rest for 1 day.
24 hours regularly. I eat a huge buffet at the lunch place once every few weeks. I skip dinner and don’t even bother with breakfast on regular day.
Don’t think I’ve been much longer than that
I go 16 all the time, but 24 is just too much. Gotta get something in the tank even if it’s a single granola bar.
