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.

8 day fast. Water only. I was living and eating horribly at the time. I needed a drastic reset and it worked very well.

32 seconds and you’re my next meal

40 days

Take potassium and calcium supplements or your bones are gonna hurt

About three days. I get headaches, and shakey, and at some point in the first twenty four hours the hunger pangs vanish. So if I focused through something without eatung I might only realize due to headache and the empty vibrating feel.

It happens less as I get older as I understand body signals better and eat before the point when the hunger pangs fade.

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.

Like… less than 24 hours

I ain’t trying to be the next Gandhi

A week for medical reasons, but I was being given intravenous water and nutrients the whole time. Those don’t stop you from feeling like your stomach is empty, unfortunately. The first slice of toast afterwards was possibly the best thing I have ever eaten

Out of choice, maybe 32-ish hours? A full day plus sleep the night beforehand

Roughly 3 days as well. The shakes were crazy since I was drinking coffee and abusing amphetamine like mad as well.

A couple of days, I was doing Atkins diet at the time and completely lost my hunger, so I just forgot to eat for two days until someone asked me what I had had for lunch and I realized I hadn’t eaten lunch, or dinner, or lunch the day before, or dinner the day before that. It was a weird feeling realizing I had gone almost 48 hours without food without even noticing.

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.

40ish hours without eating or sleeping, I was just busy and didn’t get to it.

Probably a few days, like 3 maybe. I forget sometimes.

“Why hands shaky?”
Oh…

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.