How long have you gone without eating?

[Celista]

If I bend my knees and straighten them real fast while standing, I can levitate for about 3 seconds.

Impressive

Saw an interesting levitation video the other day. I'm sure there's a less-than-mystical explanation for it, but it's a fun watch anyway.

[Deleted]

I like eating big meals so I usually eat every 14 hours or so.

[Aeula]

Once went 5 hours without eating, it was horrible.

[Bapestar]

A day, back when wow was crack.

[The Casualty]

Like 10 days of no food or fluids. The only way I was getting hydrated was through my IV. I was in the hospital septic with a post-op infection after surgery on my throat and you couldn't have paid me to eat or drink anything.

[GarlicGuy]

47 hours....

[Witchblade77]

on purpose? like 12 hours before blood test (though I tried to time as much of it as possible to be during sleep time). because I was sick and couldn't keep anything down? a few days.

when I'm feeling well, while awake if I don't eat every 6 hours at most, I start feeling awful, so I tend to snack during the day a lot. little things, a piece of fruit here, handful of nuts there, in between meals. otherwise - results are not pretty.

[HumbleDuck]

4 days. Funny thing was that after the first day I didn't feel hungry at all, but many many other issues started showing up.

[Cerus]

Three day water fast, because my yoga instructor at the gym said it was good for overall health (I was 19 and stupid at the time). Felt like crap during and a good week or two afterwards. Never again (intentionally, at least).

How did you not know that dehydrating yourself was a bad thing? There is zero benefit to not drinking water.

[Robozerim]

I can't be sure exactly how long because I was a young child at the time around 6-8 years old, but it's somewhere around a week. I'm guessing between 5 and 8 days. I had severe tonsillitis, I literally couldn't swallow without hurting my throat. Even drinking water was painful, and I'd vomit if I so much as tried to eat anything or take any medicine (which had to be liquid, because my throat was too swollen to swallow pills).

[chazus]

Depends on what you define as 'eating'. A liquid diet might, or might not. I spent probably a good two weeks without eating, and food largely came in the form of protein drinks and vitamins while unable to move about during a back injury.

Straight up nothing but water? Probably a few days a few times, when I was sick.

[Puupi]

7 days........

[Celista]

How did you not know that dehydrating yourself was a bad thing? There is zero benefit to not drinking water.

Water-only fast. I probably felt like crap due to electrolyte loss. *Technically* people can live for a long time without food, as long as they have sufficient fat storage (also possible electrolyte supplementation). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2495396/

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The same explanation for when a cheesy magician levitates an assistant on a table.

I don't know what that explanation is, but probably.

[Jester Joe]

I don't know what that explanation is, but probably.

Pretty sure the gist of it is that it's a nearly impossible to see table that has a bar raising it from behind the curtain. Its why the magician won't walk around the back, only the front.

Either way, I think a day. I had a really, really bad stomach bug on Christmas once that resulted in me throwing up like 13-14 times without even eating anything.

On the plus side, I haven't thrown up since? And that was like, 4-5 years ago now.

[Tulune]

Two days, after an emergency appendectomy. I was in too much pain to think about food.

[GodlyBob]

6 days I think is the longest I've gone. Used to regularly go 2-3 days before I got onto my meds. Things are better now, but sometimes I still just don't feel like eating and have to force myself to down something before I get to that point where you stop feeling hunger.

[CptEgo]

40 minutes is my record.

[Shakadam]

2 days or so when I was sick. I've quite often gone 20-30 hours without eating though, marathon gaming sessions makes me forget to eat =/

[Vargulf the Happy Husky]

A day before I had surgery

I've done that. It sucks.

I've gone maybe a day and a half when i had a stomach flu, and even then when i ate it didn't stay down. So maybe 2 days there.

On a normal day, fuck if i go more than 6 hours without food you better watch out. Might eat your leg.

[Lotus Victoria]

10-14 hours. Not longer than this.