When was the last time you ate food?
To which the patient might reply: I have not eaten anything since yesterday. That’s to say that the last time the patient took food was prior to midnight. It could have been at any point up until midnight, and might have referred to several meals during the course of the previous day.
What does it mean if you haven’t eaten anything since yesterday?
I didn’t eat anything yesterday and I haven’t eaten anything ever since), or I haven’t eaten in the period of time after yesterday (i.e. I ate something yesterday but haven’t eaten anything ever since)? If you say “I haven’t eaten since yesterday”, it will almost always be interpreted as meaning that you ate yesterday.
Is the word’have not eaten’in the present tense?
‘have not eaten’ would be present perfect tense. That is, you are making a statement about an event/non-event in the past, you’re also indicating that nothing happened to change that situation up to the present, and you’re holding open the possibility of an event now or hereafter.
Is it correct to say I didn’t eat anything for breakfast?
If you’d said “I didn’t eat anything for breakfast” you wouldn’t follow it with a related event in the same expression. For instance, it would not be appropriate to say “I didn’t eat anything for breakfast so I think I’ll eat a few cookies”. It would be appropriate to say “I haven’t eaten anything for breakfast, so I think I’ll eat a few cookies”.
When was the last time I ate or drank anything?
It’s Sunday and the last food I ate was lunch Thursday. I’ve ingested only water for 72 hours and the experience is life-changing. I love food, but I have eaten nothing and drank only water for the past 72 hours.
Why did I eat nothing for 72 hours?
I love food, but I have eaten nothing and drank only water for the past 72 hours. Why? Partly because I kept hearing from friends and the media that they enjoyed fasting. Since swimming across the Hudson River, I’ve shifted my life from analyzing and planning –what decades of school taught me to do–to experimenting.
How long can you not eat for 3 days?
Many drank only water for a week or more. How hard could 3 days be? One man didn’t eat for over a year, though under medical supervision and he took supplements, just not macronutrients.
When did my dad stop eating and drinking?
Most folks I’ve spoken to say maybe 3-4 days after eating and drinking has stopped, some say several weeks. I hope he doesn’t linger for weeks… It seems Dad just decided he didn’t want to eat anymore — he was having terrible trouble swallowing and I think most of what he was eating was being aspirated toward the end.
