How many days can you go without eating before getting sick?

Answer 1

What do you mean "to starve yourselft to get sick"???? do you mean how long does it take for it to be an eating disorder? How long it takes to be 'too skinny'? How long it takes to make you vomit? Despite my conufusion, all questions need answering, so I will do my best:

If you mean "for it to be an eating disorder", here is the answer:it becomees an eating disorder when you just keep on starving yourself exessively to loose weight because no matter what anyone says, you see yourself as a fat girl even thought you are pencil thin. that's when its an eating disorder.

If you mean "for you to be 'too skinny' ",it is relatively the same as before: as soon as you get into the mind-set that you are fat even though everyone says you're "loosing weight too fast" or "your getting too thin", and as soon as your weight is much more below a healthy weight, you are too skinny. you would be able to tell, trust me.

I you mean "to vomit", here is the answer: it is somewhat difficult to answer this one, but I'll try. First of all, not everyone vomits when they are starving themselves, only about 16% of all people do. If you try to make yourself vomit while starving yourself using gag reflex, ipecac, Mustard Seed oil with salt, or some other crazy mechonism , that is very dangerous. Inducing vomiting to loose weight is called bulimia, and is serious. Just so you know, starving yourself too loose weight is called anorexia. A combination of the two can end up deadly.

Even though your question confused me, I did my best on it. Hope it helps.

Answer 2

A person can actually go up to 3 months without food--obviously there would be severe consequences and tolls on their body and health. That being said, a person can only go 3 days without water before dying. (Although you can get water through foods, etc, so this doesn't mean just straight water.)

Answer 3

Define sick. It will not make you ill, but it might kill you.

Assume a total fast (nothing but water):

in about 10 days your metabolism will be changing and you'll become lethargic.

in about 30 days you'll have begun to convert proteins into food, and your brain will be using fat for metabolism. At this point in time you'll have hallucinations (it's the surest way to hear the voice of god)

in about 60 days you'll have consumed so much protein that you may not survive, even though you're still talking.

No one has survived 90 days.

Answer 4

you can live 1 month without food only and 1 week without water