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8 day fast. Water only. I was living and eating horribly at the time. I needed a drastic reset and it worked very well.
About 30 days.
Just diggin’ that air, amirite?
Air and water, what more could I ask for?
Something like 36 hours without food, and around 12 hours without water in prep for surgery. I was delirious the last several hours.
Something like 65 hours. I used to routinely do 3 day fasts when I was working out a lot. But routinely like every 3 to 6 months. They are very hard to sleep and be functioning on.
Fasts like that can feel so good, though - though my longer fasts were usually 36 - 48 hours.
Covid had be bedridden for about 3 days and feeling too sick to eat, and living on my own I had nobody to help me.
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A few 24 hour periods for surgery. I’ve gone at least 48 hours without eating, it made me feel pretty rotten
Did a 3 day fast once.
It was actually amazing. The last 8 hours were where it got rough, but from hours 12 to 66, I basically wasn’t even hungry because my body entered ketosis. Did full keto for a month afterwards because I was already there. Dropped 15lbs and felt like a golden god for months afterwards. I’ve done some 36-48 hour fasts since then, but even 48 hours isn’t the same thing.
Probably around 72 hours. I had a severe bout of depression a decade ago. I’m not certain how long I went without food because my memory of that period is hazy, but I barely ate or left my bed for a week. A few years before that I had salmonella poisoning (do NOT recommend) and didn’t eat or really even sleep for something like 10 days. I drank sugar water and electrolytes to stay alive but I still lost about 10 kilos.
Around 30 hour when my great grand mother died.
When I was in high school I went 48 hours just as an experiment when my mom went out of town. Now that I have GERD I don’t think I could make it that long again though
Yeah the acid from not eating sucks pretty hard. Thank goodness for pepcid complete.
Edit: Yep, GERD is right.
10 hours, but I’m also a fatty.
Back in college, my buds & I did a road trip across America, so of course we stopped at the Grand Canyon. Breakfast was just a peanut butter & bread “sandwich”, at which point we started hiking down the canyon. If you’ve ever been, they have numerous signs saying “Do not go past this point unless you are packing food”. But hey, we’re college kids, and we’re not going to go THAT much farther… Long story short, that night the rangers had to chaperone us as we fucking crawled back out. One of us ‘got’ to ride in a helicopter to the medical building. For the other 3 of us who could still move, they manged to find a dusty MRE at the last way station. That was the absolute best chicken & pea soup in a tin foil bag I have ever eaten in my life.
Woof, those choper rides aint cheap. That is exactly why all the signs/books/guides say “dont go past this point, unless you know what your doing” and “only stupid people do the rim to river and back in a day”. My folks and I did that last one back in the day, it was fun, but dont try it (seriously dont). It took us 20 hours and almost didnt make it back before sunset.
The best part of that hike is thanks to my mother, who froze an extra water bottle and hid it in each of our bags before we set out at sunrise. We are hiking back on the bright angel trail and get to the waysation half way up and find it. Its 3PM, at the height of summer in the grand canyon, and my father and I are sitting around drinking ice water, I have never see more envious hikers in my life.
When I was around 16 or so I decided not to sleep or eat for a week, which I did - so it would be that.
I was fine, overall, but did get some leg cramps when I cycled 12 miles on the last day. I had no great desire to eat at the end - that had faded over the week, really, but it came back pretty soon once I did actually get something down.
Of course, it is a very different thing if you decide not to eat, and have no particular stresses or anything going on to being deprived of food.
Was this part of an eating disorder? A week of not eating for a person who can already cycle 12 miles seems unusual.
(Hope that’s not too sensitive to ask, feel free not to respond)
No. I had nothing much going on for a while and just randomly decided to see what it would be like. Yes, it was ‘unusual’, but ‘unusual’ has been quite common for me over the years one way or another.
It was some time after this that I discovered what the record for not sleeping was at the time (around 10 days as I recall). It is probably just as well that I did not know that at the time, or I would have tried to beat it - not that I was being supervised or anything, so it wouldn’t have counted, but…
I dig this — sometimes you just want to do a little “adventure”. I’ve never not ate for a week, but have done similar things.
Just wanted to ask about eating disorder because I’ve had friends who’ve done similar things and it always makes me sad.
Not sleeping is even crazier! You’re getting into psychosis territory.
Were you not hallucinating like a madman?! I’ve gone into total fantasy land after 3 days. Talking to people that weren’t there, my desktop wallpaper was trying to speak, all that. Nothing like LSD or shrooms.
No, nothing like that really. Sure, my body was running on serotonin after a while so I was probably unduly relaxed and positive, but nothing like hallucinations or anything. When I found that that the no-sleep record was only 3 days longer than I had gone, I was a bit surprised, since it hadn’t really seemed that hard so far, but I am sure that I would have experienced something more serious before long.
About 3 days. I do it every now and then since it does help relief a medical issue.
Interestingly, I don’t get hungry and don’t feel much difference overall. I could go much longer, but I don’t want to worry about refeeding syndrome.
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.
Keto diet may be for you then.
19-ish hours. I practice intermittent fasting and sometimes I unintentionally go over my standard 16 hours because I’m busy doing something and I forget.
