Water Fast for Lent

Hey,
I have finally cleaned up my diet as I have been trying to do for a long time. I've reached a place of commitment to my new, clean diet. (!!!!!!!!!!) This is a major step for me toward achieving fasting and health.

I am thinking of doing a Water Fast for Lent, as many days of the 40-day period as I can do. I would like to take a 40-day fast.

I am thinking that can maybe treat these 40 days as follows: if during these 40 days I end up falling off and emotionally eating, as I tend to do when I try to fast (without a lot of preparation), I won't repeatedly eat but after the one session of eating will go right back on the fast. I will not have this in my "back pocket" as a life strategy -- cheating on my fast -- but will rather enter into the fast in good faith, hoping to fast 40 days. Or whatever period seems healthy, of course. Anyway, I will prepare myself mentally and spiritually and go into it with solid intentions.

It might not end up being the perfect 40-day fast, but it will still be better than not fasting at all, eating as i normally would. I need to fast, my body really cannot handle eating food, I am so toxic and sick; and anything approaching fasting, including an "imperfect" fast, is good for me. I have done research on "starvation mode" that supposedly results from interrupting a fast and have concluded it is a myth. i sometimes see ppl on this forum being discouraging about interrupted fasting... encouraging only perfect, super-long fasts... but I think this is just a kind of perfectionism that has no real basis and certainly has gotten in the way of my making progress in my fasting. It is totally counterproductive to say, "oh, do not fast unless you can do a super-long fast, instantly, perfectly." How am I supposed ever to learn? Come on. Anyway, interrupted fasting seems to be the idea that Intermittent Fasting, which is acknowledged to be very healthy, is based on.

Maybe I will actually fast the whole 40 days.

It has resonance for me because I was brought up in a Protestant Xian tradition. health goals and spiritual goals are more or less the same to me, too, because it takes so much spirituality for me to go without my drug, food.

Whatever I do, I am getting really psyched up to do something definite for the 40 days of Lent, the traditional fasting season.

Can't do juice fasts. Can't handle the Sugar and Master Cleanse makes me sick. And I am on a track of doing whole foods, not juices or extracts or prepared or refined stuff. I like to follow Nature and have always felt that if my body can't handle the fiber in food, it clearly means I should not be eating. A lot of research, thought, and reading has told me this, too.


Lent begins February 22nd, which is one week from today (the 15th).

Anyone with me? On doing a 40-day fast for Lent...
Message me if you like, and we could prepare together, or whatever.

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