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No, absolutely not. I have suffered because of this. Once during a fast of 10 days i drank a lot and after that my condition was very bad. It took me many days to come out of it. Please do not go for fasting without any fasting coach and first try 3 day fast.
40 days marked by fasting, from food and festivities, and other acts of penance
Fasting cleanses your body. My pastor told me that fasting for a week will cleanse your body of the preservatives you've put in it over the past year. Your body eats up the fat you've been storing. You have to fast for at least three days to see any changes. One or two days isn't enough. You can physically go 40 days without eating. I once heard of a man who fasted 70 straight days and lived. My pastor met a woman who fasted 40 days three times in one year. That said, fasting is about devoting more time to prayer, not dieting. If you skip a meal, you should go pray. Fasting without prayer is called anorexia. Fasting is simply not eating. Most people can go several days without food and suffer no serious or long lasting effects. However it is not healthy to do it for prolonged periods of time, with or without prayer. Praying may sustain the soul, if such a thing exists, but adds nothing to the requirements of a healthy body.
There are only two days now when fasting is required - Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
If you are fasting, you do not eat.
so we know what does are fasting
If you're lucky you can survive up to 3-4 days without water.But usually it's 2-3 days. With water intake and doing no heavy physical a man can survive 30 to 80 days ,People of the Jain religion undergo fasting and fasting for a period of 8 days is very common in them.
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It depends on you. Most people can survive for 14 days or more without food if they have access to water. If you are fasting by choice, the time you can go without food depends on your resistance, strength of will, how fat you were to begin with, and whether you have medical support.
Eid al-Fitr, often abbreviated to Eid, is a Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. Eid is an Arabic word meaning "festivity", while Fiṭr means "to break fast"; and so the holiday symbolizes the breaking of the fasting period.
It's the beginning of a 40 day fasting for the cathlics. It's to symbolize the forty days Christ spent in the wilderness without food.
From Sunday to Saturday which of these days are specified by Catholic practices for fasting and abstinence