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Just out of curiosity, what is the longest period of time you have gone without eating absoultely no food? Also, during that duration without food, what did you feel like? What were you thinking? What kind of foods were you craving?
| Less than 1 day | 36 | |
| 1-2 days | 56 | |
| 3-4 days | 20 | |
| 5-6 days | 0 | |
| 7+ days | 9 |
I went bulimic for nearly two months straight. i got some calories but i threw up nearly everything..... i lost 75 lbs.
I was in a financial situation where I was eating at the cost of 5 bucks a week. It got to the point where eating made me nauseous. I documented it because it worried me
In order(in summary): Painful hunger cramping, agitation, weakness, light-headedness, lower energy, constant hunger, less regard for hunger, headaches, sleeping in and difficulty waking up, confusion and slower thought process, weight loss, nausea, noticing anything in my stomach felt like a brick sitting inside myself, couldn't eat more than a few bites without hitting a strange mental block, never feeling satisfied I felt feral around food. I started attacking food as fast as I could to try to beat the brick feeling or mental wall. My ribs became more defined. Very brittle nails.
The last thing I wrote was, "I want a huge cheese burger. Huge. I want cheese in general. Melty cheese." I remember thinking that even if someone just gave me a burger, it would take me hours to eat it all.
I took a multivitamin everyday, so I think that helped. I felt like a scavenger. I would go to my moms house and eat bread that was due to expire(so that I didn't feel bad). I took my brothers meal replacement shakes when he didn't like the flavor. I ate food if I dropped it(not dry food, either).
Eventually I confided in my Brother's fiancee that I was running an aggressively tight budget(I was saving to get out of my shared place with my EX). She gave me food from her pantry and brought food to me at work. Two weeks after my lowest point, I got my new place. I have SO much food in my apartment.
I'm healthy again, everything has returned to normal. I have SO MUCH ENERGY it's crazy. I'm thankful I don't have to live that lifestyle everyday like some people do. For me it was only a couple months.
If you were working how the hell did you not make enough to eat?
Sometimes I wish the person we are now could go to the past and talk ourselves out of making stupid decisions that lead to us starving or suffering in other ways.
I've made some dumb mistakes in the past that I now realize just weren't worth what I was fighting for.
I made a REALLY long post answering your question and detailing the reasons and events that lead me to it all... But then I felt like I was shoving my whole life(technically, just of this past year)story down your throat.
So a simple quote from my post will have to do: "I was running an aggressively tight budget"
It doesn't tell me much-perhaps if you said you were paying for your car and mortgage it might make sense. Or if you were earning min. wage and helping with family.
In my case I was living at home, didn't have a job but I was working on a very lucrative deal (I've had some success with business before). My rents didn't understand what I was doing and it caused a rift and living at home was like a war-zone.
Since I was trying to avoid them it made it difficult to get food regularly-so very often I wouldn't get food for 10-12 hours at a time, so I learned to just store some extra in my room.
Anyways my plan didn't work out-I gambled badly and all the time was wasted and I let my reputation as well as my credit get wrecked because of it-since I was hoping in the end I'd have a huge pay-off and be financially secure for life.
Eventually I got a regular job which ended the rift. But I intend to return to what I was working on once I can afford to (I live on my own now-been that way for years).
I wasn't wrong in what I was doing but I should've been doing it while I was working-that's where I blundered. Fortunately I have the brains and wherewithal to become a success at what I was doing-I plan to get back into it in due time.
I shared an apartment with my EX. I had renter's bills, utilities, gas, pet food to keep up on, credit card payments, car insurance. Among that, I was saving to move out. I didn't have enough to put aside much at all, so I put aside as much as I could, and I kept a small cushion of "unexpected expenditure". I was so afraid something would come up that I gave myself a small budget for food. I tried looking for a second job, but everyone was on the let go. Christmas just ended.
I'm also fiercely independent and have a hard time reaching out for help when I need it. But I had
to get away from my EX. The way he was to me after I broke up with him was mentally abusive. My hunger and health took back seat.
I couldn't live with my Mother, because she is an alcoholic and, as an added plus, had been going through a lot of bitterness from how her life was turning out.
Last time I broke up with my EX(this wasn't the first time) I moved in with my mother and found
being around her was so bad I moved back. Her habits (cigs and beer)dug into my pay. I was still
paying my half of the other apartment's rent, because I didn't want to leave EX in a bind until he could afford to move. My mother would ask for money, because she had only just started working again and had bills to catch up on. I thought she was using it for gas and food at work, but at the end of the night she came home with beer and cigarettes.
When I didn't know this, I sacrificed for my mother, eating sometimes nothing at all. I couldn't say no to my mother, I thought she needed it. She drove about an hour a day for work.
Then I realized what she was doing and I had to leave. I moved back with in to my old place. My hero, the person I thought my mother was, died. I felt alone. I didn't have a good relationship with my brother and his fiancee at this time(story for another day), so I couldn't go to them like I do now. My sister lives too far away and was too absorbed in her new boyfriend to make time for me. I respected that. My younger brother worked and went to school, so I never got a chance to talk to him. I have very few close friends, none of which I had been in contact with.
When I moved back my EX started being nice to me again, seeing me move back as a sign of hope for us yet. My mama drama, loneliness, and sudden thoughts of mortality(brother had a car accident) made me give him a second chance shortly after. He made so many promises and I wanted to believe them. So I did.
Of course, nothing was different and he seemed to regard me leaving him in the first place as sudden commitment issues. He didn't fulfill his promises and I saw the real him for the first time.
I broke it off and his bitterness and resentfulness towards me drove me to take drastic measures to get away from it all. Those measures gave me the freedom I have now. So I don't regret it. I believe you shouldn't regret anything in your life, just move forward with what you've learned.
If I could say anything to my past self, it would be to stop being so damn proud and ask for help when you need it.
About a week and I basically slept for one whole week. I sometimes got up to drink dr.pepper but, then went back to sleep. Even after that one week without eating, I had hardly ate still. And my tummy was a lot flatter. I think this lasted maybe 1 month. I could hardly breathe and I was depressed. This happened when I was maybe 16 and now am 19. It hasn't happened since then although, I am not a happy lady still.
3 days with no food. it's like my digestive system was operating at 1000%. anything i'd eat i'd shit out in liquid form 5 minutes later after having an excruciating stomach pain bombardment. i just didn't want to eat anymore..
I went without food and lived on water for about a week and a half. Didn't do me ANY GOOD WHATSOEVER I took a paracetamol on day 6 and threw up so badly you can't even imagine :( I think the paracetamol reacted badly coz there was no food for it to catalyze with or something... but afterwards I think I'm like twice the size I was, I totally binged on McDonalds after and had cravings for junk I'd never even wanted before!! Top tip - don't binge and purge!! It doesn't bloody work!!!
when i was younger i had pneumonia so i couldn't eat anything because i would throw it all up in a few hours. that lasted about 1 or 2 weeks, but i tried to eat and drank water.
4 months!!! (As a baby =P)
Seriously though, I think it was only a day, but it was when I was really sick and vomiting -.-
4 days...and then I almost passed out in the shower...I had to walk to my kitchen while crying naked and I managed to pour a bowl of cereal to eat...
It seems to be much easier not to eat when I wake up late.
When I wake up early my stumach starts moaning while brushing my teeth already.
3 and a half days because i was on a trip from florida to australia and it had 3 stops so i just didnt eat the first day cuz i was busy, then for the next couple days i felt really sick and i was busy so i didnt want to eat then the last day was the big flight and i didnt eat on the flight or when i went asleep. By then i just forced myself to get a water bottle and a bag of chips and slowly ate
2 weeks. lemon cleanse diet! After about 4 days I wasnt hungry anymore. Just drank lemon water.
Never again might I add!