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Three and a half weeks, 25 days.
More than forty years ago I was lost in the wilderness on a school camp. Broke both ankles and couldn’t walk. Drank water from a stream and waited.
I’d be surprised if you didn’t take legal action.
Was the water good?
Clean clear cold mountain water. Beginning of spring, snow was starting to melt. There was a settlement out of court. I’m almost 60 now and my ankles still click and hurt.
thank you. It was long ago and far away.
~72 hours. I think I went beyond that, but gave up because there’s diminishing returns for fasting that long, that is, your body starts shutting down in a way that eating again after that period can be dangerous if not done very slowly with like bone broth or whatever.
Mind you, it’s not easy fasting what with it being impossible not to flush out electrolytes, so making sure you get enough salt, magnesium and potassium supplements is a must. Obviously, other vitamin supplements doesn’t hurt. The only dangerous one is potassium, so make sure the dosage is right. Oh, and there ought to be enough calcium in the tablets alone if you take vitamins daily and depending on where you live, if the water is hard enough (like here in Denmark), that’s another source.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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At Ramadan
Wake up, eat breakfast at 4 am Go to work, come back home Fall asleep, don’t wake up at the correct time, Come home, fall asleep, wake up late once more, break my fast because I gave up
4:00 to 21:00, sleep from 16:00 to 5:00, forget to break the fast, 6:00 to 20:00, finally break the fast
17 hours + 12 hours = about 30 hours
Even more if you include sleep (45 hours)
About 30 days.
Story time!
It’s not a great story unfortunately. When I was younger, and still believed in an imaginary sky daddy. I was told all throughout childhood that if you believe in him, anything is possible. My mother is a quadriplegic from a car accident when I was 14. So, I REALLY believed that she would be healed and walk again. I fasted for 30 days, praying everyday. After the 30 days I gathered my friends and we all prayed for my mom. As you can imagine, not much has changed, aside from me being an atheist now.
Just diggin’ that air, amirite?
Air and water, what more could I ask for?
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.
A few 24 hour periods for surgery. I’ve gone at least 48 hours without eating, it made me feel pretty rotten
Something like 36 hours without food, and around 12 hours without water in prep for surgery. I was delirious the last several hours.
About 6000 kilometres :p
Less than 48 hours, I’m sure, and I’ve been homeless.
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.
I am surprised I still have a liver and kidneys.
You would be surprised how resilient the body is when it comes to hunger. My answer would be like yours, I would say I went a few days if not a week without food multiple times, though for me it’s less about resources than stress (I am what many would call a “stress-starver”) and everything in me related to eating is not only intact but in average condition.
Back when tribes were still a thing, it was written that it was normal for the local tribes where I live to deprive new children (because adoption from other peoples was common) of food on two day patterns, especially when a trek was going on, only to feast on the third day.
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.
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.
I usually see it abbreviated as GERD when I’m dealing with doctors’ notes, medical forms, patient charts.
You’re right of course, I’ll edit. I thought gastrointestinal not gastroesophageal.
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.
