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Do you fast? If so, why?

Is it spiritual?
Weight loss?
Detoxifying?

The Eastern Orthodox church has fasts before easter and other important celebrations.

Pull me away from my beloved food?! Never! :eek:

No, I have more sense than to fast.

I've never done it.

Occasionally I'll with no reason decide not to eat for a day or two, just to prove that I can, or if something upsets or stresses me so much that eating doesn't come to mind, which happens more than it should because I've got anxiety problems. Stupidity and irrationality are my fundamental reasons. But I find I can't think properly after a couple of days and I feel dizzy etc, so it reminds me to stop being an idiot.

Do you fast? If so, why?

Is it spiritual?
Weight loss?
Detoxifying?

Done it 3 times, to detoxify after terrible bouts of indigestion.

Do you fast? If so, why?

Is it spiritual?
Weight loss?
Detoxifying?

No.

Ive not eaten for a day a few times. But it wasnt intentional. I just was so busy that day I kind of forgot to eat.

Not as such, no. There were times where I didn't eat (or didn't eat more than some crackers or something) but it wasn't by choice.

No, the only times i avoid food are either when i've already eaten too much (as in gone to a buffet to stuff my face) or in process of hangover.
I've never met anyone who has fasted either.

Do you fast? If so, why?
Occasionally. Three reasons:

* Unintentional - It happens that I forget to eat for a day or up to two. Forget, or never have the time to. As I'm used to it from student days, I don't feel any hunger until the second day.

* Forced - Less often lately than it used to be, I sometimes actually don't have a chance to eat anything for a day, or anything to eat. The longest was about a week on a sailboat trip, when we overestimated our fishing abilities.

* Medical - 24...72 hour fasting once in a while is well proven to be good for your health, and it's easy to do. (Anything more requires special precautions)



Weight loss?
Actually, fasting is pretty useless for weight loss, unless you need to urgently temporarily lose a few pounds, say, to compete in Middleweight instead of Light Heavyweight. You need to do a dry fasting, too, since that weight loss comes from water; a pound of body fat can sustain you for 5 days.

Fasting can be a tool for a person to affirm his faith and commitment in his beliefs. As such, I understand and approve. Personally, I have no need to affirm my faith and commitment to my beliefs as I believe that a life well lived is affirmation enough.

On the other hand, I frown on some dude in freaky duds telling people to fast on certain days or times or that somehow their diet will be called into question in the afterlife. Who the fuck do they think they are? They're lucky it takes me 24 hours to thaw out frozen pies. :p

I fast by the budget allowance for the week...

Lg could you please toss some pies my way? I'm quite hungry and a pie would be most delicious.

It'd help me break my fast too.

Lg could you please toss some pies my way? I'm quite hungry and a pie would be most delicious.

It'd help me break my fast too.

*mails you a pie* The hard part is getting the postage stamps to stick.

If you replace all instances of the word "fasting" in this thread with "fisting" it gets a LOT more interesting.

If you replace all instances of the word "fasting" in this thread with "fisting" it gets a LOT more interesting.

Especially LG's first post in the thread. I reread it and did the (in)appropriate word replacements in my head. I giggled.

I think someone is very bored here, i wonder who it could be Neo Art? i wonder.

If you replace all instances of the word "fasting" in this thread with "fisting" it gets a LOT more interesting.

Indeed it does... 0.0


Once upon a time, I was being raised in a Jewish household, and fasted for 24 hours once a year. After that, though, I never really saw the point. I like food too much.
The only times when I don't eat these days are when I run out of money and Ramen noodles. I always run out of money, but I just can't seem to get rid of the Ramen. I think it's breeding in my pantry.

I don't fast. I slow.

If you replace all instances of the word "fasting" in this thread with "fisting" it gets a LOT more interesting.

That's why I worship the ground you fist upon.

Do you fast? If so, why?

Is it spiritual?
Weight loss?
Detoxifying?
No. Life's too short; eat dessert first.

All of the above?

Can't. Hypoglycemic. Not eating = bad. I've only fainted once, but I've come close a few times. redwulf has learned to ask me if I've eaten anything if I'm acting bitchier than normal. I have an entire squad of people at SCA events who harass me about eating. But I harass one of our other members, who's Type I diabetic, about eating, too. So it evens out.

If you replace all instances of the word "fasting" in this thread with "fisting" it gets a LOT more interesting.That's comedy gold.

And I get some mileage out of my "replace" quick-link again for once.

I had a week long fast once, just to see what it was like (what's the point in having a body if you don't learn everything you can about it?). Surprisingly, I quit being hungry after the the third day, but apparently that is supposed to happen.
Later, I went on a dry fast, but chickened out after about 64 hours when my lips started cracking.

Ive not eaten for a day a few times. But it wasnt intentional. I just was so busy that day I kind of forgot to eat.

That's happened to me, too. It's weird because I'll physically feel hunger, and for some reason I just don't think to eat.
I don't know if it's considered fasting, but for some religious holidays I'll only eat two small meals. It's not physically excruciating at all, but even feeling hungry around noon and knowing I can't eat helps me remember the importance of the day. Wearing an uncomfortable shirt would probably work just as well, but fasting seems classier.

If you replace all instances of the word "fasting" in this thread with "fisting" it gets a LOT more interesting.

Good luck with my post on that:p

If I haven't gone grocery shopping in a while, for a lack of time or money, I'll sometimes fast.

I'm generally not too happy about it and thus try to avoid the situation.

If I haven't gone grocery shopping in a while, for a lack of time or money, I'll sometimes fast.

I'm generally not too happy about it and thus try to avoid the situation.

Fasting is sometime conscious. So the next time you have no money or time, announce to all of your friends you plan on fasting for the next few days. There, you just lost six years in purgatory. Congratulations.

Yom Kippur, once a year. I do drink water, and if I need sugar, I will eat something small (these are orders from my mom). Fortunately, G-d takes medical excuses.

Yom Kippur, once a year. I do drink water, and if I need sugar, I will eat something small (these are orders from my mom). Fortunately, G-d takes medical excuses.

Tell that to the Catholics that won't let people with severe allergies to wheat gluten to take communion with rice wafers. God must bang his head against walls a lot.

Do you fast? If so, why?

Is it spiritual?
Weight loss?
Detoxifying?

Yes.
Umm, probably number 2.
But moreso just crazy.

Can't. Hypoglycemic. Not eating = bad. I've only fainted once, but I've come close a few times. redwulf has learned to ask me if I've eaten anything if I'm acting bitchier than normal. I have an entire squad of people at SCA events who harass me about eating. But I harass one of our other members, who's Type I diabetic, about eating, too. So it evens out.

I get hypoglycemic too. :/

Tell that to the Catholics that won't let people with severe allergies to wheat gluten to take communion with rice wafers. God must bang his head against walls a lot.

I'm gluten intolerant. If I were a gluten intolerant Catholic, I'd stop believing in God if they pulled that shit.

Tell that to the Catholics that won't let people with severe allergies to wheat gluten to take communion with rice wafers. God must bang his head against walls a lot.

Idiots.

Tell that to the Catholics that won't let people with severe allergies to wheat gluten to take communion with rice wafers. God must bang his head against walls a lot.

That is silly, as the chemical composition of the bread that's to be consecrated is immaterial. But where have you heard of this happening?

That is silly, as the chemical composition of the bread that's to be consecrated is immaterial. But where have you heard of this happening?

There was a thread here about it a while back. A local diocese had allowed a girl who was gluten intolerant to take her first communion with a rice cake. It was overturned by the Church hierarchy as invalid because they didn't use the official wafer.

I would agree that the composition is immaterial, though. How Almighty is a deity that can't transform any substance into the body and blood of Christ?

I went to a service not too terribly long ago where they were celebrating Eucharist around the world, so we had various things that different churches use. Some use the juice and meat of a pineapple or a coconut, for instance. It was interesting.

There was a thread here about it a while back. A local diocese had allowed a girl who was gluten intolerant to take her first communion with a rice cake. It was overturned by the Church hierarchy as invalid because they didn't use the official wafer.
That's weird; I've been to plenty of parishes that have different types of wafer for communion. If it were an unconsecrated wafer, I can understand why they would rule it invalid because...well, it is, it's not really Eucharist if the bread isn't blessed. But because it's not the "official wafer?"
I went to a service not too terribly long ago where they were celebrating Eucharist around the world, so we had various things that different churches use. Some use the juice and meat of a pineapple or a coconut, for instance. It was interesting.
There's a church near my extended family I visit every summer that makes their own wafers. I always feel a little guilty I find them so tasty.

I have on several Jewish holidays. Not for personal reasons, but because my grandparents requested it.

That's weird; I've been to plenty of parishes that have different types of wafer for communion. If it were an unconsecrated wafer, I can understand why they would rule it invalid because...well, it is, it's not really Eucharist if the bread isn't blessed. But because it's not the "official wafer?"

There's a church near my extended family I visit every summer that makes their own wafers. I always feel a little guilty I find them so tasty.

We have just bread and wine. Yes, they give a bit of wine, even if your under 18.

I've fasted a couple of times. I like the feeling. I go without sleep too occasionally. There's just something about denying urges

I fast often because I have digestive problems and rarely feel hunger. So I'm not reminded that it is eating time.

That is silly, as the chemical composition of the bread that's to be consecrated is immaterial. But where have you heard of this happening?

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