Do you fast/starve? Not necessarily to CTB

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Hi all. I know a lot of you fast/starve for various reasons. What's your reason? How much do you usually eat in a day? How long have you gone without eating? Do you have to force yourself to starve or is it easy for you? Basically fasting discussion thread ig.

I haven't been fasting much since last summer/fall but recently started again. Back in July I think I went like 3 days without eating, and for almost a month I ate only something really small once a day, like a pack of goldfish or one of those little yogurt cups. Kinda fell apart once I went home for the holidays and was obligated to eat a ton of food. Then I got friends and kinda got less depressed and when I'm feeling better I have more desire to eat, I had to really force myself to starve. Lately I've been feeling like shit though so it's getting easier lol, just had a black coffee today and hoping i won't be tempted to eat til I get home.

 

[pyroxenic]

I starve myself as punishment and generally being depressed makes me have an low appetite so i can go without a big meal often. Sadly it led to disordered eating of some sorts and food now scares me/doesnt appeal to me anymore.

 

[Yuki K]

I don't have any eating disorders but sometimes I just forget to eat. It mainly happens during the afternoon which is the lunch time.
Like yesterday I had my breakfast and got to work (recently I've been working from home itself) and when I was done with my work it was around 3pm and I was exhausted and just went back to sleep, then woke up again in the evening around 5pm and then I had to go out. When I went out I felt hungry and remembered that I hadn't had lunch but by then it was too late for lunch so I just skipped the meal. And returned home to have supper.
this is has been happening for a month now i think, and as a result the duration between my meals has increased significantly, I finish breakfast at 9am then I have dinner at 9pm, it's almost like a 12 hour gap which is not healthy at all

 

[𖣴 nadia 𖣴]

I don't think this counts as fasting but I'm less active than I used to be so I don't feel like eating more than one big meal a day. I'm also taking CBD oil for ptsd and anxiety when I can't smoke and that kills my appetite.

 

[sick.faery]

i try to mainly to lose weight but also cause it feels so good. how much i eat in a day and stuff really depends, can be nothing to 3000 calories. and the longest i've ever gone without any food at all would be about 5 days. if you count like gum and like 100 cal snacks every other day, a couple weeks. also wether it's easy or not totally depends if i'm more in my bingy phases or my restriction phases. depending on that can be really hard to super easy

 

[unnormal9]

I do starve, mostly because I'm either too exhausted to even think about eating, but also because I generally find a distaste for food; meat in particular.

 

[meowtistic]

I have disordered eating habits and have for a while now and Ive lost 55 lbs in a less than 6 month span, longest fast was about 13 days, when I do eat I tend to try to stay under 800 calories, it's sort of easy? but family makes it hard sometimes but I can do it just fine, other than the fact I have low blood pressure, so I tend to pass out a lot and have trouble doing tasks 48 hrs in because my blood pressure will run around 80/40. i am fasting currently, I have binged this past couple days and probably ruined my progress of this whole month which was doing really good, I had lost 17 lbs in 6 days but I'm too scared to check the scale, if I do I might Havta ctb lol, so I'm gonna fast until my new scale I ordered comes in and then weigh myself, it's expected April 16-20 so If I just stick to fasting I'm confident I can be back down to the weight I was quick.

 

[Heavenbound]

I wish we didn't have to eat.
I used to eat the standard 3 meals a day, but have since fallen into the habit of only eating once a day, in the evening. Just the thought of preparing a meal makes me sick. I'm still overweight, and I don't care. Family members have told me that I'm just lazy, but it's the bloody depression that makes you just not want to do anything.