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I can't even begin to imagine what that must be like. How do you resist such temptation is beyond me.

ellyagg 8y ago
At least for some people, urgent hunger passes after a few days. My brother has done a few full fasts and after a week he didn't feel hungry anymore. YMMV. There was another incident, a case study in the early 70s, where a very obese man went on a full fast under researcher supervision and lost all his excess weight in a year or so. https://pmj.bmj.com/content/postgradmedj/49/569/203.full.pdf https://pmj.bmj.com/content/postgradmedj/49/569/203.full.pdf
- spaceflunky 8y ago
  That paper is fascinating. But I wonder how his mental and cognitive states were during the fast? Also 37-48 days between bowel movements O_O
  - code_duck 8y ago
    If you don’t eat any fiber, there’s really nothing happening in your bowels. I’ve been on a mainly liquid diet at times this year with tiny bowel movements about once a week, just because there is nothing being put in there. I haven’t experienced any apparent problems related to that. Mental and cognitive states while slowly starving: not that good
- was_boring 8y ago
  Yep. I've done a few of these and it takes me about 3 days before I no longer feel the need to eat. I'm also the type of person who frequently forgets to eat lunch and breakfast.
- koube 8y ago
  Obligatory: The guy who did it did an AMA and says you should absolutely not do it ever and it was a bad idea. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1o5ndh/iama_guy_who_went_from_430_pounds_to_170_pounds/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1o5ndh/iama_guy_who_w... He does agree with you though, says he stopped feeling hungry after a few weeks.
  - PhasmaFelis 8y ago
    I think that's a different case than the one Ellyagg was talking about. I can't find a link, but that fellow spent most of a year living in a hospital, under daily medical supervision, with a careful ration of vitamin and protein supplements and maybe small portions of gruel or other minimal food, I forget. It sounds like the guy in your link was just straight-up starving himself at home, which seems like a much worse idea. It's an interesting story, though, so thanks for sharing it!
- gambiting 8y ago
  There's plenty of writen testimonies from former gulag prisoners and plenty of them say that hunger subsides after few days of not eating. You just become incredibly lethargic, but as long as you are given water, you won't actually die for weeks - people were thrown in isolation cells for weeks without food and have survived.
  - code_duck 8y ago
    Hunger is definitely worst when you are in the habit of of eating frequently. I’ve been having serious problems with eating for years and especially this year, and I’m amazed at how I can still function while eating so little. Eventually you run out of certain critical nutrients, though. I almost died from lack of potassium last month, a possibility that had never occurred to me.
code_duck 8y ago
I’ve been starving for most of the year, unable to eat much due to severe discomfort when I do. I’m about 10% below a healthy weight. At this point the idea of hunger doesn’t faze me at all - I barely feel it anymore. Malnutrition is a slow process. It doesn’t feel very intense. I’m basically starving while surrounded by food, like these people. What keeps me from eating it is that it causes greater pain to eat than not to.
- DoofusOfDeath 8y ago
  I'm sorry.
  - deleted 8y ago
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- solarengineer 8y ago
  Without knowing the details of what ails you, may I suggest that you try Indian Ayurveda medicine or Traditional Chinese Medicine?
  - nunodonato 8y ago
    Don't mind the downvotes. People here are not able to think outside their "its not western-science" box. good suggestion though, I'd definitely recommend the same
    - ddnb 8y ago
      He gets downvoted because it mainly falls in the same category as homeopathy, so if it has reproducible effects it no longer falls under homeopathy or 'traditional medicine' but just as regular medicine. People have to stop putting faith in this quackery and look at stuff that is tested and proven.
      - nunodonato 8y ago
        nevermind the fact that there are ayurvedic hospitals and clinics in India nation-wide, as it as accepted as an alternative way of practicing medicine since thousands of years. I always find these statements ridiculous to say the least, I know personally so many people that got healed by your so called "quackery" that I just feel like laughing at this arrogant ignorance
int_19h 8y ago
Think about the people who were making bread for the rest of the city. Their quota was still the same starvation diet, with bread made out of grain husks and such. The same facilities were also baking proper bread - but all of that went to the soldiers as the highest priority. “Over the course of the blockade 18 employees of the bread factory died at work” https://russkiymir.ru/en/magazines/article/144332/ https://russkiymir.ru/en/magazines/article/144332/

At least for some people, urgent hunger passes after a few days. My brother has done a few full fasts and after a week he didn't feel hungry anymore. YMMV. There was another incident, a case study in the early 70s, where a very obese man went on a full fast under researcher supervision and lost all his excess weight in a year or so. https://pmj.bmj.com/content/postgradmedj/49/569/203.full.pdf https://pmj.bmj.com/content/postgradmedj/49/569/203.full.pdf

spaceflunky 8y ago
That paper is fascinating. But I wonder how his mental and cognitive states were during the fast? Also 37-48 days between bowel movements O_O
- code_duck 8y ago
  If you don’t eat any fiber, there’s really nothing happening in your bowels. I’ve been on a mainly liquid diet at times this year with tiny bowel movements about once a week, just because there is nothing being put in there. I haven’t experienced any apparent problems related to that. Mental and cognitive states while slowly starving: not that good
was_boring 8y ago
Yep. I've done a few of these and it takes me about 3 days before I no longer feel the need to eat. I'm also the type of person who frequently forgets to eat lunch and breakfast.
koube 8y ago
Obligatory: The guy who did it did an AMA and says you should absolutely not do it ever and it was a bad idea. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1o5ndh/iama_guy_who_went_from_430_pounds_to_170_pounds/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1o5ndh/iama_guy_who_w... He does agree with you though, says he stopped feeling hungry after a few weeks.
- PhasmaFelis 8y ago
  I think that's a different case than the one Ellyagg was talking about. I can't find a link, but that fellow spent most of a year living in a hospital, under daily medical supervision, with a careful ration of vitamin and protein supplements and maybe small portions of gruel or other minimal food, I forget. It sounds like the guy in your link was just straight-up starving himself at home, which seems like a much worse idea. It's an interesting story, though, so thanks for sharing it!
gambiting 8y ago
There's plenty of writen testimonies from former gulag prisoners and plenty of them say that hunger subsides after few days of not eating. You just become incredibly lethargic, but as long as you are given water, you won't actually die for weeks - people were thrown in isolation cells for weeks without food and have survived.
- code_duck 8y ago
  Hunger is definitely worst when you are in the habit of of eating frequently. I’ve been having serious problems with eating for years and especially this year, and I’m amazed at how I can still function while eating so little. Eventually you run out of certain critical nutrients, though. I almost died from lack of potassium last month, a possibility that had never occurred to me.

code_duck 8y ago

I’ve been starving for most of the year, unable to eat much due to severe discomfort when I do. I’m about 10% below a healthy weight. At this point the idea of hunger doesn’t faze me at all - I barely feel it anymore. Malnutrition is a slow process. It doesn’t feel very intense. I’m basically starving while surrounded by food, like these people. What keeps me from eating it is that it causes greater pain to eat than not to.

DoofusOfDeath 8y ago
I'm sorry.
- deleted 8y ago
  [deleted]
solarengineer 8y ago
Without knowing the details of what ails you, may I suggest that you try Indian Ayurveda medicine or Traditional Chinese Medicine?
- nunodonato 8y ago
  Don't mind the downvotes. People here are not able to think outside their "its not western-science" box. good suggestion though, I'd definitely recommend the same
  - ddnb 8y ago
    He gets downvoted because it mainly falls in the same category as homeopathy, so if it has reproducible effects it no longer falls under homeopathy or 'traditional medicine' but just as regular medicine. People have to stop putting faith in this quackery and look at stuff that is tested and proven.
    - nunodonato 8y ago
      nevermind the fact that there are ayurvedic hospitals and clinics in India nation-wide, as it as accepted as an alternative way of practicing medicine since thousands of years. I always find these statements ridiculous to say the least, I know personally so many people that got healed by your so called "quackery" that I just feel like laughing at this arrogant ignorance

int_19h 8y ago

Think about the people who were making bread for the rest of the city. Their quota was still the same starvation diet, with bread made out of grain husks and such. The same facilities were also baking proper bread - but all of that went to the soldiers as the highest priority. “Over the course of the blockade 18 employees of the bread factory died at work” https://russkiymir.ru/en/magazines/article/144332/ https://russkiymir.ru/en/magazines/article/144332/