I haven't eaten in over a day?

PengsPhils
Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:01:16 +0000

Not eating for 24 hours is not harming your body. Not anymore than less than eight hours of sleep or bruising your knee slightly. As with halcyonheather, I do this here and there without even thinking about it (don’t eat breakfast, may miss dinner if i’m working on something and thus go 24 hours from lunch to lunch). However, people DO tend to function better with more food though. So while you may not be hungry, the first thing you will probably notice (or others will notice) is that you will probably become more irritable, less patient, and/or have very little stamina.

Humans evolutionarily developed in a world where going 24 hours without food was probably pretty common. Then again we also ran our food down with long distance running. Lets just be glad we don’t have to do that anymore.