Daily Partial Fasting

[Melodeonist]

I’ve been doing this lately. I eat small meals, maybe 4 tortilla chips and vitamins for breakfast (sometimes no breakfast), a full lunch (sometimes a small lunch or no lunch), and either no dinner, a small dinner, or a full dinner. While it’s not a total fast, I find that the less good I eat, the less food I want to eat. Before I was eating quite a lot. I also offer the feeling of hunger up as a prayer a lot too. It helps me save money, loose weight and attachment to food, and grow in faith.

What do you guys think?

 

[DarkLight]

I think I’d have a chat with your doctor about what’s a healthy way to reach and obtain a healthy weight. I don’t see anything morally wrong though, just would make sure you’re getting everything you need.

 

[Casilda]

I also offer the feeling of hunger up as a prayer a lot too. It helps me save money, loose weight and attachment to food, and grow in faith.

What do you guys think?

I would also ask a doctor before such strict intake restrictions. When I was in college, and broke, I skipped breakfast or had toast and coffee. Lunch was an Apple or orange and dinner, really a complete afterthought, was a small burger and a shake. If I was lucky my roommate would have left me something. I did this into my 30’s when I developed a pre-diabetic condition. Not good.

Think small, nutrient dense balanced meals, like cheese and crackers and a small apple. Ask your doctor.

 

[Crusaderbear]

Your body can handle that sort of thing when you are young…
BUT
You should talk to a doctor/nutritionist to establish healthy eating habits while you are young, they will last a lifetime!

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I think any type of prolonged fast can have health implications, from causing possibly fatal conditions like fainting, anorexia, malnutrition or potassium deficiency, to just messing up your metabolism over the long term. We understand this better today than people did in previous eras when huge percentages of the overall population struggled with food insufficiency due to poverty, war, weather events etc.

Extreme fasting beyond like one day a week, to me, is like other forms of physical self-mortification and should only be done under the care of a doctor and a spiritual director. I’ve done a bread and water day one day a week but I wouldn’t do more than that.

 

[pianistclare]

Get. a. spiritual. director.