How long can I survive without eating?

Question

I'm going on a hunger strike. Actually, I'm just too depressed to eat. How long can I last on water and coffee and what will be some warning signs that I should reallllly eat something?

Answer 1

3 minutes without air.
3 days without water.
3 weeks without food.

But losing weight, you can't starve yourself. Your body will go into shock and save energy, hence you won't lose weight if you don't eat.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

Technically you could survive for 40 days but........I don't recomend it.

As a Life Coach, your feelings about being depressed are what I am more interested in you trying to remove. You probably know why you're depressed, so I am not going to harp on that. But I do suggest you get your mind around those feelings.

Somethings that I noticed from your question are:

Firstly.....you are not actually trying to kill yourself, because you want to know what signs to look for, for when you should eat again.

This then leads me to thinking that you are really asking for help about why you are depressed.

Secondly....I highly recommend that you deal with your food issues. Food is not your enemy, it is your weapon of choice. For some reason you have chosen to not eat, so that you can jurt yourself in some way.

If you are going to try the 'not eating', just remember that if any part of this is connected to weightloss, then you are more likely to be putting on more weight when you do start eating again, because you have told your body it is a famine, so hold onto everything. You are first putting your body into survival mode, then flooding it with food later on.

Why is food your weapon, when you could choose anything else?

Food is your medicine, you can't go without, and too much is harmful.

Please get some help with this.......go and get help now.

Joanna Goldman
ChateCoach
www.getemotionallyfit.net
Destroy the Diet Devil

Answer 5

I think it's supposed to be a week, but that probably depends on how much fat you have stored on your body. I would eat at least something every night so that your metabolism doesn't raise in the morning and so that your body doesn't start metabolising/eating the muscles, bones, proteins, etc. in your body. It'll make your hair and skin look really shity, even mayb loose your hair, and you'll get a huge pot belly. I REALL suggest you dont do this though. I suggest you go see your doctor or get out of whatever situation that's causing you to feel this way. You don't have to feel this way. Also, you wont want to take even a single bite of anything after a few days, andyou may get really sick from digestion or gas problems too, if there's nothng in your stomach to absorb the acid. I've had that happen to me before. Please, not eating will just make it worse, believe it or not, you'll just become more lethargic and apathetic.

Answer 6

I've gone about 5 days without eating much and except for a very little weight loss, I didn't have any physical symptoms.

You HAVE to have liquid. Without it, your organ will start to shutdown in matter of few days.

Instead of trying to find out how long you can go in the condition you are in now, and look for the worse possible condition you can't go beyond, how about trying to solve the problem that made you depressed in the first place?

I have to warn you, if you go too far, you start to lose an ability to clearly think - which is a danger on its own because then you lost an ability to know you need to do something.

If you are by yourself, the danger is even higher.

Please get out of the house, talk to your freinds or family. One or two days of no food won't harm you, but beyond that, you really should get SOMETHING to eat. Crackers or fruit maybe.

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Answer 8

Coffee may have bad effects during a fast. Also coffee addicts can't be happy. So give it up during fast. Don't believe all those who have never done it. At the top of this webpage you see a medical doctor saying you can go about a month before it becomes starving which can kill you.

But wait! That is not the end of it. The next MD says you should fast when you are depressed!!! 4 more MDs talk about it. Bible has 74 references to fasting. In it aposle Luke says " I fast twice a week."

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http://phifoundation.org/fast.html

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Why would you be that depressed? That worries me a lot. You need to eat something. I have found in a situation like that some dark (not burnt)toast and a little orange juice worked for me. The orange juice for some reason makes you want to eat. The dark toast (unbuttered) seems to ease stomach tension and spasms that are often associated with depression. The trick is not to eat or drink either fast. Take your time.

Years ago I suffered severely from depression and had it hard wanting to eat. Often we don't eat because we are too caught up in our feelings and just don't find time to be hungry. We have to learn to eat even if we aren't hungry

Answer 11

Well, depends on what activities you partake in, and what you weigh now, if you are extremely sedintary, you can go for about 4 to 6 weeks, if you are active, you might make 10 to 12 days, but by 4 or 5 you will be so weak you will go into shock, drinking fluids will only worsen the effects, because you will end up with diarrea, or more to the point, you will pi$$ out your a$$, this will cause dehydration, which will only worsen the effects or starvation. also your stomach will produce more acid, which will cause ulcers, and your body will begin to eat its self, if you want to see extreme effects of starvation, look up pictures from Auchwich, the German death camp from WWII, there you will see where starvation will lead you.