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How long can you go without food?
I seem to be able to go without food for quite long periods of time. I mean days sometimes. I don't understand it. I hear people moaning about being hungry. I can have a cup of tea and it goes away. Do we all really have such different body metabolisms?
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I'd be worried about bad breath, lol.
I think once you use up your emergency stores of glycogen, you go in to ketosis. I went on the Atkins many years ago and my breath smelt like the hind end of a donkey. Never again.. |
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I think the longest I could manage would be from waking up until tea time.
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I'd be worried about bad breath, lol.
I think once you use up your emergency stores of glycogen, you go in to ketosis. I went on the Atkins many years ago and my breath smelt like the hind end of a donkey. Never again.. |
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I'd be worried about bad breath, lol.
I think once you use up your emergency stores of glycogen, you go in to ketosis. I went on the Atkins many years ago and my breath smelt like the hind end of a donkey. Never again.. I am not anorexic btw. It has nothing to do with how I want to look or any problem with weight. I'm slim but not skinny. I don't look like Christian Bale in The Machinist, how did he manage to get that skinny to make that film? |
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is that what happens when you don't eat? I've never been told I've got bad breath. Though I use listerine quite a lot. The ironic thing is I do so because I hate tea breath.
I am not anorexic btw. It has nothing to do with how I want to look or any problem with weight. I'm slim but not skinny. I don't look like Christian Bale in The Machinist, how did he manage to get that skinny to make that film? Re Christian Bale - a quick Google says he had a can of tuna, an apple and a few coffees a day!
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Do we all really have such different body metabolisms?
I do a restricted calorie diet, which in my case means skipping breakfast and lunch and having 600 kcal in the evening, one (or two non-consecutive) days a week. I get hungry. After a couple of months it got easier, but never easy. I keep it up because it's hard in a way that I can handle. |
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I could go days I'm sure, but I'd have rank breath as my body would be metabolizing stored fat for its energy.
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When I get upset, I dont eat, 4 days was most for me, didnt realise my breath stunk soo much!
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I remember once being really ill and not managing to keep anything down for about 3 days. I was eating little bits but throwing it straight back up...does that count?
I have sometimes done 24 hours if hungover |
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I suppose I'm forunate that I have very rarely felt hungry, maybe a bit peckish sometimes but that soon passes. As much as I love food and cooking I always fit my eating around my OH. I've never deliberately gone without food but when he went away recently I suddenly realised that, at 7pm, I hadn't eaten a thing all day. I still wasn't hungry though but had something to eat because it was the sensible thing to do.
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I suppose I'm forunate that I have very rarely felt hungry, maybe a bit peckish sometimes but that soon passes. As much as I love food and cooking I always fit my eating around my OH. I've never deliberately gone without food but when he went away recently I suddenly realised that, at 7pm, I hadn't eaten a thing all day. I still wasn't hungry though but had something to eat because it was the sensible thing to do.
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About 4 hours before I start to get grumpy.
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Having an eating disorder, restrict most days, longest I went without food was a few years ago was for 4 days? As much as I dislike eating, I always try to eat something as I'm paranoid about slowing my metabolism down and gaining weight, paradox of an illness.
I think a person can survive for 2 weeks without food completely if they have water, is that true? |
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I eat between 6 and 8 pm. I probably don't eat most days then until about 3 or 4 pm. I'm sure this is no good at all but breakfast isn't for me really except at the weekend when I'll have a brunch type thing.
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not verry long, i get angry and bad tempered without food..im like the hulk
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I always have breakfast every morning without fail, how long I then go before I eat again depends how busy I am but it's not unusual to go all day with nothing until my evening meal.
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I've just recovered from gastric flu and didn't eat any solids for 3 days - not through choice! - by the 3rd day I could barely function, I was dizzy, faint, lethargic and had no concentration whatsoever.
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I've just recovered from gastric flu and didn't eat any solids for 3 days - not through choice! - by the 3rd day I could barely function, I was dizzy, faint, lethargic and had no concentration whatsoever.
I int eaten since day before yestreday. Dont fell too good to be fair. My breath must smell like poo particles. |
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About 20 hours before i turn into a right moody mare. Quite often in my last job that i left a month ago, from dinner the night before (7/8pm) i wouldn't eat again until about 4pm when i got in from work.
I used to be in bed by 10pm, up at 5am and in work for 6,30, quite often it was too busy to eat, so i'd wait until i got in. |
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Ages. Bit of a problem really. I love food and cooking but I'm a little too adept at just doing without at times.
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I once went without food food for five days because I had ran out of money before payday. I drank plenty of water and didn't feel too bad. The first thing I did when I got paid was get a chinese takeaway. My tastebuds really perked up and the taste of the was heightened quite a bit.
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I went a week once when I had a bad case of Gastro Intritus. Also went about 5 days after a car crash where my face/teeth were injured (amongst other things).
Otherwise I can miss a day here or there without worrying. |
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I went a week once when I had a bad case of Gastro Intritus. Also went about 5 days after a car crash where my face/teeth were injured (amongst other things).
Otherwise I can miss a day here or there without worrying. |
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A couple of weeks ago I couldn't eat for a whole day after a fine needle aspiration on my submandibular gland and I reckon that's the longest I've ever gone without food. Usually I like to have something to eat every couple of hours at least.
To answer your question, yes, we all have different metabolic rates. |
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