My 40 Day Fast

Everyone knows that fasting can be challenging, but there are little perks that sure brighten my day. For example, my skin and hair is so much softer and I love the glow I have on my face. I feel so "clean" inside.

Yesterday, I wrote about the powerful anti-aging qualities of fasting, well, fasting is also an amazing beauty enhancer!

So it has been a little over a week I have been on the fast and I am prepared and focused for the weeks to come by always having water with me, keeping myself prayed up, learning more to depend more on God to guide me and less on myself, avoiding situations and possible pitfalls, spending time each day (even if only a little) doing something for myself (gardening, reading a good book, sitting in a sauna, etc.).

As much as I am actually, at some points, really enjoying this journey now, I do look forward to seeing it to its completion. I also have to plan ahead to how best to end it.

After you do a fast for an extended period of time you don't go and break the fast by eating a bacon cheeseburger. Your insides are now very clean (like a baby), you wouldn't feed a baby fried foods would ya? You slowly have to re-introduce foods.

You break the fast with raw foods, such as veggies and fruits. (plus, this way jump-starts your metabolism.)

I will be prepared by having a yummy variety of my favorite fruits and veggies stocked up in my kitchen!

Plus, fruits and veggies, have endless benefits, one of the most notable being they are very high in antioxidants!

So how about veggie salad with cherry tomatoes, spinach, mushrooms, green, red, and orange bell peppers, cucumbers and other veggies you like. Yummy!

A good rule of thumb is to eat nothing but raw food for half the number of days you fasted. For example, I am fasting for 40 days, so I will eat nothing but raw food for at least 20 days.

Now, many people assume that a raw food diet means chomping on carrot sticks all day. Thankfully, that is far from the truth.

As part of my planning ahead to break the fast properly in a way that will not sabotage all the good health benefits I gained, I am gathering some yummy raw food recipes:

Here is a great one I found on a Raw carrot cake. Mmm. I love carrot cake so I will enjoy learning to make this raw version of it!

A wonderful blog I will be looking to for guidance on my raw food diet is Natural Raw Living

Evelyn created the blog to document her raw food journey and to share what she learns along the way.

Many people cannot handle an absolute Fast of nothing but water, so a great place to start can be a juice fast, or a raw food diet fast.

Yesterday, Evelyn wrote about a few other great blogs that may interest you, including, yours truly!

You can read what she wrote about me and my blog here: Natural Raw Living: Thursday Link Love

I encourage you to stop by and check it out!

Posted by Mari at 8:13 AM