Today we were supposed to fast from last night until dinner tonight. We had to skip breakfast, lunch, and any foods, drinking only water and taking vitamins.
It was hard! At noon I realized that I shouldn't probably be fasting since I am nursing my 10 month old exclusively. Then Justin decided he couldn't either.
BUT he promises to do better next Thursday.
So we are not going to beat ourselves up or give up but know that we got at least half way thru and can do more of it next time.
I do feel much better today. The bad part about fasting was that I wanted to eat lots of junk when I was thru...BUT I DIDN'T.
Fasting is supposed to be really good for your body, because your body heals itself when it's not trying to get nourishment. We are supposed to fast once a week thru the 40 days and any time there are problems or we want to get back on the right track in the future. It's also a biblically sound practice. Jesus fasted for 40 days without even water!!!!! There is lots of medical evidence to the benefits of fasting. We were to pray each time we felt hungry!
So anyway, at lunch we ate eggs and grapefruit, and supper we had grilled salmon, squash, and spinach salad with goat cheese and dressing. A few months ago we discovered that the boys LOVE salmon! So Funny. Tonight they eat had a HUGE piece and wanted more! They eat more of that than steak! Who knew?
I am definitely looking forward to next week when we should be feeling great with all this good food. I know it takes time and my biggest problem is not trying something long enough to see results. But for instance, even the other day when Levi caught a cold (I was hoping we would never get sick immediately after starting) turns out he fought it off right away and only was sick for maybe 2 days, and not even a runny nose! Even his cough only lasted 1 night. He usually gets it settle in his lungs for weeks. And so far no one else is sick either. Maybe his eating all those oranges does help!
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Hey Sarah- great blog. I'm on a 21 day fast, but not the Maker's- for me it's a partial fast cause I've only fasted once before. So since the 1st, I've skipped lunches, except for yesterday(Tayton came down with the flu and was home during lunch time with me) I guess i"m too weak to have to cook the food and not eat it:-) I wasn't sure if it was okay for the kids to go on any type of fast since they are growing, so they have just given things up like snacking between meals. My cousin used this Maker's diet also. Seems ideal when you have your own farm. I can relate so much to what you've written. When you don't live right in town and have errands, etc. in town- it's hard to not eat fast food. It's just not convenient to go all the way home to eat, but if you plan ahead(which hardly works for me)it could. I'll check back later- thanks for inviting me.
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