242 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 28 Sep \ on: What's the longest you have gone without food, and why? alter_native
I don't think I ever went longer than three days with no foods. In high school and college, I enjoyed doing fasts for two or three days with friends, or maybe a week of only eating some particular thing (Total cereal comes to mind as a particularly unpleasant one).
Intermittent daily fasting has been a normal part of my life for a few years now. I don't even think about it anymore. I stop eating by 7:00pm most days (often much earlier) and I don't eat anything until at least 9:00am (often much later). It's a great health choice for a bunch of reasons and it just about abolished food cravings for me.
I agree about the intermittent fasting. I think everyone can benefit from shortening their intake window. When you were in college, what was the intentions for the fasting?
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I'm sure it was partly motivated by reading something about health benefits, but it was mostly just a challenge.
The Total cereal one was sort of a test of whether Total really had all the nutrients a person needed, as they advertised.
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What was your finding with total cereal?
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That eating nothing but Total is not an existence fit for human beings.
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That's what I would have guessed. They lied!! No way.
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I'm curious. Diarrhea?
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Not that I recall. I don’t think much was coming out after a couple days in any form.
It’s been a while and I mostly just remember feeling pretty bad the last couple of days.
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