• DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone
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    2 days ago

    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.

  • RedSnt@feddit.dk
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    4 days ago

    ~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.

  • 2d4_bears@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    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.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 days ago

    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.

  • ditty@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 days ago

    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

      • arality@programming.dev
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        5 days ago

        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.

  • GladiusB@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    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.

  • Strayonaise@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 days ago

    A few 24 hour periods for surgery. I’ve gone at least 48 hours without eating, it made me feel pretty rotten

  • hansolo@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 days ago

    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.

  • uhmbah@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

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