5 days, Sunday-Thursday. Fridays and Saturdays I would eat a TON, then be sick. I was trying to lose weight; it worked. It was mucho unhealthy though, especially since I was playing soccer and basketball at the time. I finally saw what I was doing to myself and quit.
I once lived for 10 days lying in the garbage eating my own feces.
10th grade, depression, two weeks without eating.
–Tim
Whenever I get sick enough to be put on antibiotics like Zpack, I just don’t eat. The pills make me lose my apetite and I can’t stand the smell of food. Usually this will last about a week. I think the longest I’ve gone would be about 9 days tops.
My first semester at college (the worst depression of my life) I lost 60 lb. In that time, I fasted for periods of 10-14 days several times.
Now I fast 24 hours several times a year, unrelated to depression or weight-loss goals. It’s not hard.
For me it would be the week in Africa when it was thought I had Malaria and I ate nothing of substance for 8 days -yucky times all around.
I wish that when I was depressed, I didn’t eat! I’d be skinny.
I go the other way and am at the breaking point. I won’t do a NY resolution but after tonite (DopeFest) I will stop drinking completely and severely cut back on bad food. I want to lose about 40-50 pounds that have been sitting here since my back injury and divorce and it is time to say goodbye to all of that.
I weighed myself and found that I gained a pound, so I can’t eat more than a piece of bread tommorrow. Have to start a new fast…grr…
I eat less when I’m depressed too. But I eat more when I’m mad or angry
::arrogant grin:: Sixteen- no, wait…seventeen, maybe hours. Beat that, fellas!
Oh. No. Wait. You already have. Moo. :o
Over Christmas break, I would eat my little snack at around eleven or eleven thirty. PM. Then I’d hang out and fall asleep around 3:30. Then I’d wake up late. Sometimes around 3 pm. Then it would take me awhile to actually eat something. So that’s how it got to be seventeen hours. Some people were impressed.