Fasting

[tonydavies]

I’ve decided to begin fasting every day for the remainder of my life.
My rules are no eating until after 3.30 PM in remembrance of Our Lords death. No eating after 6 PM.
Water allowed any time. I’ve also given up coffee and tea, alcohol and fizzy drinks.
I used to like eating food, I wasn’t quite a glutton but I definitely enjoyed eating for pleasure.
I’m fit and active, weight normal, don’t smoke so there won’t be any health reasons why I shouldn’t do this. I have already started anyway and am enjoying it. I pray more, my spiritual awareness and sensitivity to God has increased. I think its a good thing for me to do.
And I think our Father in Heaven approves.
Has anyone thought about doing something like this?

 

[Blessed1934]

What a wonderful thing to do for our Lord. As long as you are getting the
nutrition that you need I would guess it is ok. I would just suggest asking
a nutritionist or doctor if eating this way is ok, just to be sure.
I have fasted myself many times eating my three meals but cutting out all the
“Junk” in between. I know that eating breakfast is important so that is why I
say check this all out first. I am glad your spiritual life is great and I am also
looking towards enhancing my spiritual life as well.

I will say a prayer for you,

God Bless you,

Linda

 

[EmeraldWings]

I’ve decided to begin fasting every day for the remainder of my life.
My rules are no eating until after 3.30 PM in remembrance of Our Lords death. No eating after 6 PM.
Water allowed any time. I’ve also given up coffee and tea, alcohol and fizzy drinks.
I used to like eating food, I wasn’t quite a glutton but I definitely enjoyed eating for pleasure.
I’m fit and active, weight normal, don’t smoke so there won’t be any health reasons why I shouldn’t do this. I have already started anyway and am enjoying it. I pray more, my spiritual awareness and sensitivity to God has increased. I think its a good thing for me to do.
And I think our Father in Heaven approves.
Has anyone thought about doing something like this?

while this would be a wonderful sacrifice and offering to Our Lord, i would recommend first talking it over with your priest, because even though God would be pleased with your offering, He would be more pleased with your obedience to your priest, so keep that in mind,
and also, if you haven’t already, you need to do alot of meditating and discerning on whether or not God really wants this from you, because to make a vow or promise to God on something for the rest of your life is not a small matter, it is very serious and should be handled with caution and alot of prayer,
you should also never make a vow without consulting with your priest and getting permission from Him.

so although this would be a good sacrifice, you must be careful of overwhelming yourself, and also you need to be sure your intention and motive is in the right place, for example, you don’t want to be over confidant in yourself, but place all of your confidence in God and rely entirely on Him for your strength, because even if you can do it by the strength of your body, you need Gods grace to do it within your heart and soul.
and a good test to see if your intention is in the right place, is if your priest does tell you not to do this, or if something else gets in the way of it somehow, and you are not disquieted by it…but if you do get upset and lose your peace over it, then that way you will know your intention is not in the right place.

anyways, my best advice is to talk this over with your priest, and pray on it for awhile,
and also listen to this sermon - svdpmedia.org/audio/archive/20020630__Gluttony__Father_Kenneth_Dean__16.mp3

alright, hope this helps, take care.

 

[tonydavies]

Thank you for your replies. I haven’t mentioned this to my priest but Our dearest Father in Heaven is happy with my fasting. I offer up my life to him along with my small sacrifice, it is no big burden really, I have quite a physical job lifting 20 kg boxes up and down in a warehouse and I have plenty of energy to accomplish this. One can eat sufficient food within 2 and a half hours per day.

I am also trying to complete the 4 mysterys of the rosary daily but have only got upto the first three so far in one day. I need to be more disciplined. I pray at least 1 usually two of the mysteries and sometimes three.

 

[josephdaniel29]

I’ve decided to begin fasting every day for the remainder of my life.
My rules are no eating until after 3.30 PM in remembrance of Our Lords death. No eating after 6 PM.
Water allowed any time. I’ve also given up coffee and tea, alcohol and fizzy drinks.
I used to like eating food, I wasn’t quite a glutton but I definitely enjoyed eating for pleasure.
I’m fit and active, weight normal, don’t smoke so there won’t be any health reasons why I shouldn’t do this. I have already started anyway and am enjoying it. I pray more, my spiritual awareness and sensitivity to God has increased. I think its a good thing for me to do.
And I think our Father in Heaven approves.
Has anyone thought about doing something like this?

That is a really bad idea for a number of reasons. Undertaking any fasting regimen without the guidance of a spiritual father is folly, especially one of the severity you are proposing. It if fraught with physical and spiritual dangers that you have no conception of.

Take a step back and consult your priest. Hopefully he has experience in such things and can provide you guidance.

 

[thistle]

I’ve decided to begin fasting every day for the remainder of my life.
My rules are no eating until after 3.30 PM in remembrance of Our Lords death. No eating after 6 PM.
Water allowed any time. I’ve also given up coffee and tea, alcohol and fizzy drinks.
I used to like eating food, I wasn’t quite a glutton but I definitely enjoyed eating for pleasure.
I’m fit and active, weight normal, don’t smoke so there won’t be any health reasons why I shouldn’t do this. I have already started anyway and am enjoying it. I pray more, my spiritual awareness and sensitivity to God has increased. I think its a good thing for me to do.
And I think our Father in Heaven approves.
Has anyone thought about doing something like this?

Frankly I do not believe restricting eating to a two and a half hour window every day is healthy. Talk to your doctor first. You are not medically qualified to say its okay.