Today is day 4 of no sugar / carb diet, am so glad, once I go over 5 days I know I will be OK and I can stick with it for a while. If I attempt to do this half heartedly it wont work. Encouraged this morning because I lost 3lbs so far.
Yesterday I had decaf&cream for breakfast, three quarter of a chicken for lunch and steak for dinner. I think the ¾ of the chicken for lunch was too much, I was so full for a while after, so I guess half a chicken from the rotisserie should be enough.
OK, from the body to the mind, and spirituality, I remember after my husband passed away, it was tough emotionally, what helped me then is lots of prayer and fasting… yes it helped me to get through it and have patience and sabr.
I was looking on the net somewhere and found many atheists practice meditation, and fasting, there are lots of fancy fasting retreats, where people pay loads of money to go to, spend the day meditating, have a lot of massages, listen to calm music and do some relaxing yoga, its not exactly like Muslim fasting, so many people who did this fasting in a retreat or outside rave about the benefits. So yeh, seems I wasn’t imagining that my fasting and prayer helped me.
As for fasting, I decided I will not fast the typical muslim fast this Ramadan as its going to be murder with me working. So instead I will fast a reversed fast (will try anyway, no strict rules) so eat during the day and fast at night lol … stop eating about 2pm or something and fast until the next morning
but I wont put myself into any hardship, if I am really hungry I will eat, I think starving myself always backfired in the past, it messed my metabolism.
As for meditating (AKA prayers in Islam) the question is when and how…. We have a mulit-faith room here at work, its mostly used by Muslims to pray, I suppose I can just go there and try to meditate!!