how long can you go without eating?

[e mag]

i just realized that i haven't eaten anything all day, except two glasses of orange juice and i'm not even hungry, and i was thinking how in certain religions people fast for extended periods of time (30 days?, but in some of those religions you can eat small meals after the sun goes down). i know you need water to survive, but how long do you think you could go without food?

[Zumina]

Depends on your activity level. If I sit around all day I can get away with eating once. If I'm out playing paintball or working out, I usually eat 4-5 meals.

[nt2004]

umm about religious fasting. I've heard most religions that fast only fast in the daytime. Evidently they're allowed to eat after sundown or somehting like that

[Splat]

I'm fat so I usually eat a thanksgiving meal every 30-45 minutes...

[Star_Base_CGI]

I can go 24 hours and than I get really hungry and have to have a small meal..

[Smegma]

The Ring says seven days

[[TSS] Dake]

You can go for a lot longer than 7 days.

After 3 days, you're just not hungry anymore, then you just start to get weaker and weaker.

[f3rr3+]

screw religious fasting... look at freaking colledge students!

[rhetor22]

sometimes, when i'm sad, i eat cake.

[dansim]

Originally posted by rhetor22
sometimes, when i'm sad, i eat cake.

lol thats my new sig qoute

[FreakBaller12]

i herd in health class that you can go somethign liek 30 days without food depending on your age and how big you are

[DukeNukem1287]

Ya its around 30 days u can go without food, i think i remember reading it in this book a while aago. About when this kid gets lost in maine when they were hiking a mountain, they eventually find him. Its a true story.

[FreshmanBob]

You can actually live on juice (I think) for a really long time. My brother was a vegan and all into juice fasting. Basically it's juiced fruits and vegetables with lots of enzymes and what have you. There's a book on it I've been meaning to read. I'll start it and let you guys know.

Supposedly, if you juice fast properly you can remove toxins or something out of your body. I'll figure it out.

[Python14]

I dunno, I get cranky when I don't have my pre-breakfast snack.

But seriously, It's not the fat people that have problems with fasting, it's us skinny people. If I go like 8 hours without food, I'm nothing more than a skeleton, two shoes, a shirt, some pants, and some blond hair.

[Kai]

I haven't eaten in seven months.

Seriously.