Alternate title: Gotta Go Fast! Fasting is the practice in which humans will for a variety of reasons (medical, spiritual, psychological, etc) not eat for one full day or longer to gain some kind of benefit. Maybe it's to be sure that an upcoming surgery will be safe, or maybe it's to clear your mind of worldly desires, or to force your body to consume and expel parts of itself for fuel, or perhaps you just forgot to go grocery shopping. Have you fasted before? Was it easy to do, or does it defeat you as a person? Do you have any tips for how to make it through fasting better, or how to recover from it better? As for me, I've had to fast a few times in the past for medical procedures, and I've never enjoyed it. It makes me feel physically weak and mentally distracted, and it disrupts my exercise routine. By the time I'm done with everything this time, it will have been 40 hours between meals, and I can barely go 4 hours on a regular day, so I will not be at the top of my game. And when I'm done, I'm going to try something new with eating. Normally I go right into a big feast as soon as I'm done, but this time I'm going to just have juice and white rice enough to fill my internal plumbing again, and then have real proper food to get my energy back up a few hours later. I'm going to see if that helps with the belly aches of filling myself up again.
Are you saying that eating once everyone 24+ hours isn't easy??? All jokes aside, outside of marching band stuff, it's always been easy for me to do. I literally only eat because I have to, not because I'm hungry. There have been times that I haven't eaten for over 24 hours and I go "oh...I haven't eaten since supper last night...I might want to go to eat something right quick." I've heard that it's healthy to do it every once in a while, but the rate that I often do it, especially during summer vacation, probably isn't.
Ok, so I'm Muslim, which means every year, every day for a month, I fast, usually from 5 in the morning to 5 in the evening. Like right now I'm fasting. I've become used to fasting, so it doesn't really bother me. On tips of fasting, I usually like to stay away from people eating foods, cause even seeing them makes me hungry. Also, try to keep your mind off of it. Try distracting yourself by doing something that absorbs you in, because it usually eliminates all outside stimuli. Good luck!
I fast about once a month for religious purposes and have been doing so since I was 8. Admittedly, I don't fast the entire day, just from when I wake up in the morning until I have dinner in the evening, but still. Going without food that long gets easy when you do it enough, though sometimes you still just end up really hungry. Personally I have more of an issue with not drinking that long, as it can be fairly easy to just forget just long enough to accidentally take a small drink of water.
Fasting? Nah, not my thing. It makes me feel weak, unmotivated and angry a lot. Now granted, I'm not going to try and find food as soon as I start feeling hunger pangs. It does little for me if I start feeling hungry at 4 in the afternoon and I'll be eating dinner two or three hours later. Even though it rarely happens for me, I don't want to risk spoiling my appetite and eating even less when it comes to mealtime because I snacked on a candy bar. If I have to starve for a little bit and wait for the next appropriate time for a meal, so be it. If I have to wait a while and the hunger can't be ignored, I'll fill myself up with water. Now I have a lot of respect for Muslims who are going through their final week of Ramadan (no food, drink or sexual relations from sunup to sundown) and I work with a handful at my job. They always bring in extremely delicious food since they'll make it fresh when they end their fast that evening. At the same time, I'll try to eat and drink out of their sight while we work since I think it's a little disrespectful and openly mocking.
I've never intentionally done it, but there have been times that I've been sick and wasn't able to eat for a couple of days. That's the closest I've ever come to fasting and it wasn't entirely voluntary. I don't think it would be too difficult just for a day or so though.
The closest I’ve gotten to fasting is skipping meals. This usually leads me to feeling groggy and eating an unbalanced meal hours later. I didn’t used to skip meals often, but these last few months have given me a nasty habit. I’d get consumed in all of the changes in my life (moving, switching to online school, and changes with my mental health) and only eat the bare minimum in my downtime. I’ve lost a good amount of weight in these months, but it’s also made me lightheaded and emotionally inconsistent. Goes to show how important a balanced diet really is.
