How long is the longest you've gone without food?

[Victor McDade]

Following on from the 'want to lose X lbs in 4 days' thread, just wondered how long PHers have been without food for in one go?

I think my longest was around 50ish hours: Was suffering from man flu/food poisoning and nothing I ate would stay in for long so just stuck with solpadeine and water and slept it off. Not a nice experience.

[mat13]

About three and a half days when I was Ill with a stomach bug that made it unbearable to eat.

[TotalControl]

A little over 4 days. But I looked like tweety bird afterwards.

[Mulder]

I've gone for 2 days with no particular reason, just didn't feel hungry.

[N88]

About 2 hours.

[Cas_P]

5 days when I had my tonsils out at 17 most painful thing I have ever been through, attempting to eat was like trying to swallow razorblades. Usually I forget pain but I'll never forget that, after 5 or so days I was made to eat some dry toast and it was so painful, lived on a bare minimum of food for about 3 weeks on a good note I lost about a stone, though I didn't need to back then!

[The Riddler]

Mulder said:

I've gone for 2 days with no particular reason, just didn't feel hungry.

This.

When I worked nights I would often go without food for long periods, then gorge myself. Think I ended up losing 1 and half stone. (I'm thin as fook as it is!!)

[becksW]

Almost 3 days after severe bout of colic, that was painful (after eating an unripe banana) good way to lose a stone quickly (put it all back on when I started eating again!

[Emsman]

I'm not sure why, but I quite often go without for a couple of days just because I'm not hungry. I often don't sleep for three or four nights either.
Having seen a documentary about some bloke who had given up food and lived off a diet of fruit juice for ages, I gave it a go- although I'm none too kern on fruit, so used Guinness instead- reckoning it's good for you.
5 days I lasted.

I lost a chunk of weight, felt rough for quite a while afterwards too. In fairness, I was young, but the only people to gain anything from my 'experiment' was Sketchleys.

They thought it was superb


Never got em really clean though

[Frederick]

about 48 hours, possibly more - after breaking up with the ex. I couldn't face eating anything... it was definitely no less than 48 hours though. Probably took nearly a fortnight before I could eat a proper meal without wanting to puke.

[mybrainhurts]

About 300 miles....

[davepoth]

A day probably, when I've had a really bad cold. Strangely when I had the flu I was really hungry.

[Major Fallout]

This is quite an eye opener!

I once went 24h for charity a long long long time ago at school. (everyone in my class did it)

Apart form that I bet its no longer than 10 hours.

No wonder I'm fat!

[anonymous-user]

About a week when I had pneumonia. I couldn't even look at food without feeling like I was about to throw up. When I went back to school (I was off sick for about two weeks) everyone thought I had turned bulimic or something.

When I had bird flu I went about 5 days.

[Gun]

About 3 day when I had a bad case of flu and for a few days after that only managed a bowl of soup a day.

[branflakes]

Six days, although I was on an IV drip for the last two.

[ShiggyBiggs]

4 days, cause id spent all my money on booze and smokes. Wasnt all that hungry either tbh.

[Famous Graham]

4 days after food poisoning.

Passed out in Mt St Helen's visitor centre car park whilst walking from my car. I cleverly used a waist-high wall to break my fall, not realising it was flint topped. I passed out, smashing my face on it, woke up, lifted my head, then passed out again. Rinse and repeat 3 or 4 times.

Not my finest moment

[PD9]

3 days whilst snowed in on a camping trip in the north of Scotland.

[[AJ]]

I did 5 days with only water and some diluted palm syrup stuff in replacement for each meal. Day 1 was fine, days 2 and 3 were pure hell. Days 4 and 5 were fine and I could have gone longer had it not been for the lack of energy and the fact I was only doing it for a bet/challenge!.