Last week, on Thursday, I had been fasting for 8 days, and I started feeling sick. I did not feel that my feeling was fasting related, but I did decide to go ahead and break my fast, so I ate a small meal on Thursday evening. On Friday when I woke up, I was very […]
There is nothing wrong with feeling hungry
I have been fasting for about a week now. At the time of publication of this article, I will be more than halfway through day 7 of my current fast. Usually, when fasting, I rarely feel hunger after Day 2 or so. Yesterday, Day 6 was a bit tough for me, but I made it […]
Why I fast
The other day, I got an email from a close friend. He used to be against my fasting when I first started, but now he is more ambivalent about it, and personally supportive of me because it is working. He told me though, that he just could not understand why I had a “need” to […]
Difficult: The Plateau
This week I have been featuring a few articles about why fasting is difficult. So far, I have written the following: Fasting is difficult Difficult: Dealing with People Today will be the final installment in this series of articles. The Frustration In actual dietary terms, the most difficult thing I have experienced in fasting is hitting […]
Difficult: Dealing with People
As I said on Tuesday, fasting is very difficult. Most people think that fasting is difficult if not impossible, but they think it is the not eating of food that makes it hard. As I explained in my previous article, not eating food is actually easy. The hard part about fasting is dealing with other […]
Fasting is difficult
Yes, I have found fasting to be very difficult. Now, I know that many are finding it strange to read that because I have posted many times that fasting is actually very easy. Well, yes, the act of not eating has been very easy for me. However, there are things about fasting that I have […]