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.
I think 48 hours was the most. Did it as a Kickstart to a diet.
8 day water fast as a catalyst for change. Worked perfectly despite the risky lack of preparation.
Willingly: 2 weeks, fasting. I was really sick and desperately trying to find something, anything, to make me feel better.
Unwillingly: 4 days. No money for food.
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.
I once wanted to see how long I can go, at 32 hours I felt like I was about to die so I stopped. Literally one bite made all of the terrible feeling go away and to this day it both annoys me and freaks me out that it was all psychological.
Like seriously brain? Couldn’t handle not eating so badly that you decided to make me feel like shit? But also damn, if that’s how I felt about not eating, addictions sound much scarier now.
I’ve done 7 days on a fast, water only. My partner and I were testing if their seizures would stop without food and they did.
Well no shit. That’s fascinating. So now where are you at with the problem?
Yeah, it worked really well actually. It seems that their seizures are related to sugar metabolism in the brain and switching to a fasted state enabled the production and use of ketones instead of glucose. That leas to a reduction from seizures as much as twice an hour to one or less per day most of the time. Now we (solidarity and other benefits) eat a really simple diet of mostly simple cuts of meat cooked to medium-rare as well as chicken wings and butter. The butter maybe an issue though, so we are testing removing that too after the next long fast to see if we get better results.
So down from ~30 seizures per day to maybe 1 seems like a fairly good fix and we just treat it like an allergy. No carbs, no fibre, no sugar alcohols, no artificial sweeteners, and soon maybe no butter either. Better thab seizures, good for overall health so far, and fairly sustainable. I may miss cheesecake but not as much as I don’t miss my partner having seizures all day.
On a keto based diet, you’ll need those fats. Perhaps consider something like sunflower oil instead though? Nuts also come with plenty of fats and have a lot of fiber too. Some have carbs more than others, so you’d have to check which ones fit your specific diet, but these are a great source of healthy fats and help keeping the gut biomes working well.
Edit: just to add, you could experiment with the fiber more. Long carbs have a very different effect on the body vs. short ones, so those, in moderation to keep the keto state up, could be okay for the partner too, and perhaps give more robustness/variety to the diet?
Yeah, we need fats for sure. Our thinking at this point is to aim for saturated fats as much as possible, less than 5% polyunsaturated and less than 30% mono. That said, pork belly has a tonne of fat but a surprisingly large amount of mono. Also, it is delicious.
The nuts and seeds are just not something we are doing at the moment. We will experiment with introducing small amounts of interest foods but I think seeds are largely out because of the various chemicals in the casing. Some beans may be OK after sprouting them because that takes the acid from the skin and recycles it into energy for the growing plant, but there is no similar disarming strategy for most seeds.
As for fibre, adding fibre led to a fairly serious gut issue, think blood and pain. For now fibre is banned, not allowed in the food club. Given some time it may be tested again, but the last time showed me unspeakable horrors.
I think the diet is currently robust enough for the next year. After that other things may be viable, but most likely it will be very small amounts and infrequently. If we do try fibre again it will probably be home ferments like pickles because the bacteria which break down the fibre are there in the food, so even if there is a problem with my partner digesting the fibre the bacteria there can help.
I went roughly 2 weeks without food after I got out of the hospital from a severe head injury. I tried to eat, but I temporarily lost my sense of taste and my brain hallucinated this absolutely terrible taste in its place. Even my saliva and the inside of my mouth had this taste. In the hospital I mostly got my nutrients via IV.
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
100 hours, for a fast. I just wanted to see what it was like and how my body responded.
3 days. At the end of university I had no money because I stupidly spent it all on booze. I was too proud (and stupid) to ask my parents for anything so it wasn’t until I got on the plane to go to my girlfriend’s that I got food. An airplane meal never tasted so good!
I was too proud (and stupid) to ask my parents for anything
Lol, I would’ve just asked. Yes, I am that shameless, you gotta do whatever to survive
Yeah, as I said… Stupid. But there’s backstory with the folks I’m not getting into lol
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?
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.
Over 24hrs several times. It’s easy when you skip supper the previous day and stay in bed all day.
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.
