Fasting Help Follow-up Question

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I have a follow-up question to a fasting question I asked yesterday. The original question can be seen here: forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=832790.

I decided to skip dinner this evening as my sacrifice. I feel especially good because my Mother made one of my favorite dinners that she very seldom makes. On a normal day, I eat breakfast, lunch, have a snack, dinner, and then from 9-10 I eat another snack. The snacks fill in because I don’t tend to eat very large meals. My question is, I skipped dinner to sacrifice my hunger to God, does this mean I should just not eat for the rest of the evening? Or would it be fine to have a snack in half an hour or so? Whenever I fasted in the past, I skipped the snack, but I am not sure what to do on this particular occasion. To be honest, I’m hungry and I feel if I eat, it will diminish the purpose of fasting. Thank you for you continual help!
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I cannot tell you what to do because I do not want to cause any harm to your health. However, I can tell you what I sometimes do when I fast and I am so hungry: I drink a glass of room temperature water (cold water can give me a headache).

I’ll be praying for you.
 
When I am fasting, I usually allow myself a cup of hot tea (usually herbal) with sugar, since I have hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), so it fills (and comforts) my stomach and the sugar (or honey) prevents me from getting so low on blood sugar I become depressed or pass out! It also makes your stomach feel fuller!🙂
 
The simplist thing to do is to follow the Church’s fasting guidelines from when Catholics were required to fast every day in Lent except Sundays. One main meal, and if necessary as a “little refreshment”, two smaller meals, that when combined, don’t add up to a full meal.
 
It would be more tempting to eat and therefore more of a sacrifice to God if you rubbed your snack all over your face and didn’t even try to lick it off.

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