Nearly every damn day. I get up and don't eat until maybe 5PM. And, worse yet I try to stop eating before 9PM. But I don't call it a fast, I call it a diet. Goal was to get below 180#, I made it Thursday. Its been a couple of months.

I've never voluntarily fasted, except what was required for a medical procedure. I've probably gone 24 hours without food a few times, possibly because I was deeply involved in something and eating did not come to mind.

When going days without ingesting fiber, doesn't that make BMs difficult?

flashguy

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When going days without ingesting fiber, doesn't that make BMs difficult?

If there's nothing loaded, there's nothing to shoot.

I think I’ve done about 3 days max. I felt really good afterwards.

I rarely eat breakfast. Im just not hungry when I wake up. So I’ll eat around noon , and I’m usually done around 6PM.
If I’m busy, I just don’t get hungry.

My dad, however, had to eat as soon as he got up. He was also a compulsive eater.
He was 68 years old, 6’ 1”, and weighed 347 (after two rounds of chemo for bladder cancer) when he passed.

I don’t necessarily fast because I’m dieting, I just don’t get super hungry.
I’m 50, 6’ 1”, and usually weigh in about 190. I’ve always had a thin frame. I weighed 135 when I graduated HS.

about the fiber; I eat little to no fiber. Mostly meat, and mostly beef. I’ve never had any issues along those lines.

26 days. I don’t think it was that bad an experience, but what do I know, I was in a coma.

Starving my body was part of the treatment I underwent.

The two days prior to my colonoscopy.

I have fasted over the years for a day or two every now an then. Last year I did a 3 day and 7 day fast(covid boredom). My parents would fast for a day or two every now and then while I was growing up, for biblical/health reasons. In the not so distant past humans regularly found themselves without food for a span of time, our bodies know how to deal with it.

Next week I start my third monthly 5 day "fast". I'm fasting for the health benefits using the ProLon Fasting Mimicking Diet . The fasting mimicking protocol is very easy for the same benefits, it is pricey vs just not eating.

Valter Longo, Ph.D. on Fasting-Mimicking Diet & Fasting for Longevity, Cancer & Multiple Sclerosis

71st Evac Hospital, Pleiku, RVN, late July, 1969, medevaced for Falciparum Malaria: involuntary fast, 24 days of vomiting anything and everything taken by mouth, including water and barium for GI x-rays. Doctor did not administer IV's because he was convinced that there was no reason for my vomiting.

Lost 45 lbs. and was lucky I did not die. Discharged after 28 days and returned to field three weeks later.

A month later, I swore that if I ever meet that doctor again, I would shake his hand and thank him, then kick his balls so hard they would land in his throat.
Hand shake: Normal protocol for malaria was to be sent to 6th Convalescent Center at Cam Ranh Bay after five days for two weeks. Sappers hit the malaria ward with 100% causalities.
Ball kick: for almost killing me because he could not figure out why I was vomiting everything and not using IV.

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I think 72 hours. Maybe 96.

For the last couple of years I’ve been doing one meal a day most of the time, then extended once a month or so, in combination with low carb.

Went from 234.6lbs (2017) down to 165 or so (2019), but creeping back up.

I’ve been off the wagon for a bit. Eating really is my drug. Back on as of tonight.

Probably 24 hours. I mostly do a 6-8 hr feeding window. I've thought of going 36 hours but I prefer fastest bike rides more. No coffee before blood work is bad enough.