How long?

[guitrguy]

How long can abstain from food without incurring brain damage?

[DBoons Ghost]

Why are you fasting?

[guitrguy]

I want anorexia like whoa!

[Against Miik!]

You get brain damage, usually, when your brain stops getting oxygen for a long period of time. So if you can imagine your anorexia resulting in this at anytime, then thats probably when you will get brain damage.

good luck!

[DBoons Ghost]

Cool! Record yourself regurgitating!

[guitrguy]

K thanks.

So I should sleep with a plastic bag on my head and not eat?

[Special Brew]

If I don't eat for more than five hours, while awake, I get cracky and sluggish. I don't think that's brain damage but it's certainly no fun!

[Pariah]

Rule of three:

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

[Shell]

damn, that's what I was gonna say

but it also kinda depends on what your body is like - if you have a lot of fat and muscle, your body can feed off itself for a certain amount of time - but it will start by using up the muscle cells, leaving the fat until last.

[guitrguy]

I thought fat was stored for possible starvation. :confused:

[BillyBonebrake]

ask africa

[guitrguy]

lemme dial the Ethiopia Answers It All Hotline.

[Special Brew]

I was in Washington DC this one time, and I saw a high class, suit-and-dress restaurant called 'Ethiopian Cuisine'. I stood laughing in the streets for a good ten minutes.

[Reaganista]

dood i can totally hold my breath for more than 3 minutes

[Reaganista]

I was in Washington DC this one time, and I saw a high class, suit-and-dress restaurant called 'Ethiopian Cuisine'. I stood laughing in the streets for a good ten minutes.

lol wat

[Shell]

I thought fat was stored for possible starvation. :confused:

it is, but the muscle cells provide more sustained energy, so they're used first

[guitrguy]

I suppose I can rebuild the muscle later.

[ringworm]

yeah, there was a guy on TV last night who went 35 days in a cave with nothing but a little water


when they found him, he had lost like 50+ lbs and was almost comatose, but by using his muscle and fat, his major functions were still surviving, he just had a lot of rehab to rebuild all that he lost

[guitrguy]

You watched that Human Body show on the discovery channel too!

[ringworm]

lol, yup, i am a sucker for the Discovery Channel, National Geographic & History Channel, especially when its dark at 5:30 every day


WOOT for the recent time change, now its back to how it should be

[oogaboogabooga]

David Blaine sat in a box for ages without food (supposedly) he didn't get brain damage... although there may well be other more sarcastic amusing reasons we could all come up with for his brain not being damaged...

please sit in a glass box over London whilst attempting this!

[big80smullet]

I was in Washington DC this one time, and I saw a high class, suit-and-dress restaurant called 'Ethiopian Cuisine'. I stood laughing in the streets for a good ten minutes.

They serve seven different kinds of dirt

[Reaganista]

They serve seven different kinds of dirt

lol wat

[Milestogo05]

is this a personaal question or factual?

[Hababi]

If you drink some liquid loaded with nutrients and stuff then you can cheat the system :cool:

It also depends on how much muscle and fat you have to start with. I weigh 138 lbs, so I'd be suffering a great deal after only 3 or 4 days. But if you're like jaylink then you can go much longer.

[Special Brew]

I weigh 138 lbs
:amaze:

Are you only like four feet tall or something?

[Hababi]

:amaze:

Are you only like four feet tall or something?

I'm somewhere between 5'10 and 6'

[Special Brew]

Jeez, you must be thin as a rail. I'm roughly 170 and I'm always considered skinny.

[guitrguy]

If you drink some liquid loaded with nutrients and stuff then you can cheat the system :cool:

It also depends on how much muscle and fat you have to start with. I weigh 138 lbs, so I'd be suffering a great deal after only 3 or 4 days. But if you're like jaylink then you can go much longer.

fortunately, I'm not like jaylink.

[Hababi]

Jeez, you must be thin as a rail. I'm roughly 170 and I'm always considered skinny.

I wear 30x34 pants :cool:

Yeah, I'm fairly thin now though I actually would like to lose 8 or more lbs.

fortunately, I'm not like jaylink.

That is relieving. I don't think there are room for two people who are.

[Special Brew]

I wear 31x32, so you're not much smaller than me. Hmm.

[guitrguy]

I wear 30x34 pants :cool:

Yeah, I'm fairly thin now though I actually would like to lose 8 or more lbs.



That is relieving. I don't think there are room for two people who are.

lol that is true. I got a bit of a beer belly I could lose though.

[Hababi]

I wear 31x32, so you're not much smaller than me. Hmm.

I can fit into small sweaters but for the arm length (I'd need small-tall).

[spitfirejunky]

:amaze:

Are you only like four feet tall or something?

I'm 5'7", same weight.

[guitrguy]

David Blaine sat in a box for ages without food (supposedly) he didn't get brain damage... although there may well be other more sarcastic amusing reasons we could all come up with for his brain not being damaged...

please sit in a glass box over London whilst attempting this!

hmmm, you wanna fly me over?

[McP3000]

i definitely thought this would be a penis thread

[Pete]

I wear 30x34 pants :cool:

lul i wear like the opposite, 34-30

[Pluperfect_Arson]

:amaze:

Are you only like four feet tall or something?

I am 5'8" and 125lbs. D:

[Pariah]

I wear 30x34 pants :cool:


I'm a few inches taller than you, and I wear 33x30. So your pants must be baggy as hell or you pull the waist up to your nipples.

[Pete]

lol me and john could wear each others pants

[Shell]

I could picture steve with his pants pulled up that high

what John you only wear 30 length??

[Special Brew]

I am 5'8" and 125lbs. D:
wtf

u ppl need to eat

[Pariah]

what John you only wear 30 length??

Wait... Maybe 32.

[Hababi]

I'm a few inches taller than you, and I wear 33x30. So your pants must be baggy as hell or you pull the waist up to your nipples.

They're baggy on the bottom. I absolutely hate pants that end up halfway up your ankles when you sit down. So all my jeans basically drag beneath the heel of my shoes, which wears them out, but that's the way I wear them.

[Pariah]

Mine come up just above the top of the ankle part of my shoe when I sit down.

[Shell]

my pants are worn off along the bottom because they drag on the floor :(

[Pariah]

Because you need to shop in the children's section to get the right inseam.