Anyone not eaten for 24 hours?

hunger

I feel light headed by mid morning if I skip breakfast

yes, you say affects instead of effects

I've done it many a time, Rob. I think it does your body the world of good, to be honest.

Stan Mathews used to do it one day a week every week from the time he was a young footballer. He was still playing pro football at 50.

Food intolerances usually show up during a fast.
If you're subject to headaches or migraines you will probably get one on the first or second day of a fast.

Rob seems to be fine, so I expect he enjoys pretty good health overall.

Is that correct Rob?

Um, did 5 miles up and down the south downs last sunday in 42 mins.  Not super fit, but not unfit.  I probably should mention that i am not a little drunk.

If you're drinking, well that has calories, even if it's dry alcohol with no sugars left.

The tramps round here combine both the two are quite the athletes. Training for the paralyticympics.

Drolling

Nembutal numbs it all ... I prefer alcohol - Joe Strummer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woyq3JgYnxw

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Done it loads of times

First time i thought i'd be starving after 16 hrs or so but it was nothing

Typically eat something just before midnight Monday , then nothing till about 9 am Wednesday , so 33 hrs  .I think 48hrs is doable but probably hard

Ive just gone 44 hours without food, due mainly to toothache and a touch of man flu. Food it easy other than it gave me the two bob bits

wot U expect...........................if your still in old money

Alright I am really hungry and up for a fight.  Is this what people call easy?

I do it regurly and a lot longer, as a result of drinking, thats y im as thin as a pull through for a rifle tho

Chips in the oven.  Should be ready now but the fkin oven wasnt on after half an hour.  Imagine that when you are starving hungry.

yeah its good for you. makes you feel fitter. the first few meals are the worst, after that you forget about. the trouble is when you have something to eat you get more hungry than before you had nothing to eat, so its easy to go nuts and undo the good work.

twice a week past 18 months easy

I couldn't do it, nor do I need or want to. I have to have tea and toast or a bacon roll first thing to get my engine running for the day ahead. I can skip lunch no problem til dinner but I have to make breakfast.

Well that was very forthright.

rob I fast one day a month only drinking water. It's a good way to clear toxins from your body.
Don't do 48 hours tho as this could do more harm than good in the long term.

"the trouble is when you have something to eat you get more hungry than before you had nothing to eat,"

Why IS that I wonder? I'm the same. Sometimes I can go through a day barely touching food, then as soon as I eat anything substantial, I get ravenous.

Also, it's odd, talking of booze and appetite, but thinking about holidays.
I think I deserve a nobel for these equations but in my experience:
Alcohol + hot weather = no appetite.
Alcohol + cold dark wet winter = comfort food.

Yet Florida and Texas are hot as hell and have high obesity rates. This may undo my hypothesis.

I have just gone mental.  Realised i am in for a long night and tescos is closed, everything is closed in fact.  Last gasp was a curry plus two bottles of wine, cost 35 quid.

That's really made me laugh Rob!

I take it the chips weren't enough?

Just Checking. re your hypothesis - I don't think the Yanks drink as much as we do. They'd rather eat.

Yes probably. Or ... actually I just realised .. maybe its that it IS hot but they quench their thirst on full sugar "soda". They can even have free refills of the stuff in big cinema sized cups.

Scarey ... I've not looked at one for a while, pepsi is 430 kCal a litre. I could easily polish off a 2 litre bottle of that a day. Say you did that, that's like .. say 6000kcal a week, so around 1.75 pounds a fat PER WEEK.

Can't see how people can drink Pepsi or Coke.
It makes my top teeth feel like they're trying to stick to my bottom teeth.

I've never liked the taste of either pepsi or coke.

Old bird who was a cashier in the bookies used to drink a 2 litre bottle of diet coke every day.

I regularly drink 2 litres of diet coke of an evening when i am on the wagon.

loads of times, often with alcohol in between

Its called intermittant fasting I believe. 24 hrs is nothing tho, but I wouldn't want to do it too often (like twice per week I hear on some diets)

rob I fast one day a month only drinking water. It's a good way to clear toxins from your body.

What toxins?

Food intolerances usually show up during a fast.

and how about if you have an irritated stomach where the stomach acid with no food to churn iritates the stomach lining far more.

id say eat less rather than starve for a day

G1_Jockey_4,

If you are making acid on an empty stomach you are heading for an ulcer.

''Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) bacteria, which can irritate the stomach or upper intestine lining, causing an ulcer to form''

Go see your doctor about it.

What thoughts on the best 24 hour cycle for the least hunger pangs?

I'm thinking perhaps Midday to Midday with a decent filling lunch.

What would be the ideal thing to eat here? Perhaps a large baked potato with cheese topping,
or a rice dish maybe, or something more akin to breakfast such as a big bowl of cereal, muesli and fruit,
or maybe a good bowl of filling porridge.

Add a generous amount of "Chia Seeds" and you should be well sorted.

Best time to do it would be to start on the day that we put the clocks forward.....

When I was in Japan I occasionally went 5 days without food. (I don't really like Japanese food).

Contracted  Campylobacter in Spain. I didn't eat for 48 hours. Partly because evrything went straight through me and partly because I had to get on the plane without making a mess..

Just had fluids, water and diluted juice. It was easy because I felt so ill. I didn't have solid food for about 4 days after horrible thing to have.

ok doc

I have a personal theory which I never heard being spoken of, but it always works for me if I
have some kind of food poisoning.

Eat pickled beetroot, or pickled whatever you fancy, and enjoy a few glasses of your favourite spirit.

Bacteria are not happy living in pickle, or alcohol, and will soon get the message,

In the meantime you will have a warm fuzzy feeling I promise!

In the meantime you will have a warm fuzzy feeling I promise! ... and pleasantly purple poo from the pickled beetroot too

never eat monday & tuesday,just drink juice that i make sundays,orange, apple, cucumber,celery,ginger chilli.works for me,really enjoy food the rest of the week more than i used to too

I agree with AP's suggestion and often do similar. It's like in Braveheart when the king orders the archers to fire into the battle:

"But Sire, won't we hit our own troops?"

"Yes, but we'll hit theirs as well. We have reserves."