How to Fast

I've been fasting from Sunrise until sunset for 30 days a year for 3 years for my religion. I decided to teach people how to fast like me!

Step 1: Eat plenty

Whether a 12-hour fast, a 24-hour fast, or a week-long fast, you need to fill yourself up to get ready. In my 12-hour fast experience, I eat a light breakfast and a few glasses of water. For a 24-hour fast, you may want to eat some more. For a weeklong fast, you may want to eat a horse and suck the Nile dry.

Comments

[austinburke.]

You could have put in more detail to make this a great Instructable! Good concept though!

[trispark]

So in short eat and then don't eat??? Sorry but this is a lousy instructable. Fasting is a psycholigical thing. You need to convince yourself you won't die if you don't eat for a couple of hours. Don't eat too much. Better to eat a little of everything. Be consistent. If you plan on fasting for a month, continue fasting every day. Every time you break up and start again, it makes it a lot harder. It usually takes about 3 days to get used to it.

[Kuhan]

Dude, I've been fasting for twelve hours a day (sunrise to sunset) for the past month. my mother is a dietitian and nutritionist.

[Big Bwana]

For a 12 hour fast or 24 hour fast your instructable is good, however fasting any longer then that, it could use some work, and having a mother who is a dietitian and nutritionist, she would tell you that after not eating anything for a week or even longer, your body won't enjoy a big greasy cheese burger (( No matter how much some one might want to eat it, most peoples bodies will let them know this was a bad idea )) and to resume eating complex carbs like grains, breads, vegetables, and then introduce meats and fats and lipids after a day or two....... And It's good you stated fasting to lose weight is unhealthy.... (( Because it really is ))

[andrea0701]

I wouldn't recommend eating as much as you want to at the end of your fast. If you eat too much (and/or too quickly) after fasting it will make you sick.

[Big Bwana]

especially if it's foods with a high fat content, or high sugar, processed foods you'll end up sick or feeling sorry for yourself... And Coffee is fun after not having caffeine for a while....

[thematthatter]

Can you include why you fast for Ramadan?

[555mst555]

it's to make us feel how poor ppl in other countries .....and our prophet, Muhammad s.a.w. also fast last time when he was stranded in the middle of a desert.....only with 'korma' (dates) and milk........they had limited supply of food so they decided to only eat at sunrise and sunset.....:D

[Sivić]

I`m a Muslim too and I also fast during the Ramadan.I`m 13 and It`s the first time I fasted the whole Ramadan(this year it`s at the same time as September).By the way:nice instructable,It`s good to have some cultural info on instructables. :) Oh,and It`s dawn to sunrise.

[Sivić]

It`s almost sunset in Bosnia and Herzegovina now so I gotta go.Bye :)

[LinuxH4x0r]

Great job! I was fasting today. It gets really easy after you do it for a week.

[bigwhitebear18]

Step 1: Don't eat. The End. :) I'm actually glad you posted this b/c I never quite understood how these fasts worked. It's always great to be culturally educated. Thanks.

[shooby]

Haa the video games photo has food in it.