Two Days Of Hunger and a Day of Thirst

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Disclaimer: Do not do this. I strongly urge you not to act on any of the
behaviors described in this post as they are fairly unhealthy for a person
in good health and could potentially be disastrous if you have some issue,
even one that has yet to be identified. DO NOT DO THIS!!!

What I did is a 2 day fast. So no food for 48 hours, actually slightly over
that. On the first day I drank all the water I wanted and since I wasn’t
unhappy enough I decided to cut out water for the second day just to see
what happened.

Day 1- No food and normal water consumption. All in all day 1 was not too
bad. Slight desire to eat but it was more of a mental thing than a physical
one. No notice in change of concentration or physical capability.

Day 2- No food and no water. This sucked. Woke up and was hungry. The only
positive thing about not drinking water is that it made me not even think
about food. Endurance was significantly down, I just didn’t have any energy.
Towards the end of the day my concentration and ability to think through all
but the most basic stuff was iffy. Became progressively more thirsty and my
mouth was quite dry. At the end of the day I could do real low energy stuff
like walking but if I had to lift heavy things or really run it would not
have gone so well. By the end of the day I was not making sound decisions and really just wanted to sit, while drinking water.

Day 3- Very glad the experiment was over. Drank 2 gatoraide’s first thing then ate some breakfast. Didn’t pee till about noon.

What does this tell me? For short term scenarios I can probably accept a bit
more risk by lightening some of my food loads. Should probably look at adding more water also. As a fun bonus it showed that I have the will power to do this sort of stupid thing. Occasionally I think there is value in making your body do something just to prove who is really in charge.