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~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.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.
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.
Like… less than 24 hours
I ain’t trying to be the next Gandhi
Something like 36 hours without food, and around 12 hours without water in prep for surgery. I was delirious the last several hours.
8 day fast. Water only. I was living and eating horribly at the time. I needed a drastic reset and it worked very well.
They do this in ayahuasca ceremonies also. Cleans the body from a lot of toxic shit.
Downvoters should research autophagy and fasting.
Downvoters are just still in the matrix. It’s OK.
A few 24 hour periods for surgery. I’ve gone at least 48 hours without eating, it made me feel pretty rotten
Less than 48 hours, I’m sure, and I’ve been homeless.
Around 30 hour when my great grand mother died.
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)
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.
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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About 30 hours.
I had to go nil-by-mouth for 12 hours before an operation to repair a fairly serious injury and they kept pushing the surgery back and back and back. Higher priority cases were keeping the surgeon. It wasn’t like I was low priority either, but my injury was stable and not immediately life threatening.
Did I mention I’d also lost blood? That made for a force multiplier.
In the end, they admitted defeat - the surgeon had worked too long anyway - let me eat something and rescheduled my surgery for the following day.
Let me tell you, that was the best chicken I ever ate.
It depends on whether you’re working or just slacking off. I think i’ve gone for 60 hours without eating, but that was when i was a teenager and bed-rotting and just didn’t care about eating properly.
Now, i don’t do that anymore. While being active (going to school, working), i guess it’s less than 24 hours.
