Well, the first 2 days of the Fast have been a little bit more difficult than anticipated. I have Fasted and gone without food before, so the restricted diet didn’t seem like it would be too difficult. However, as was mentioned this past Sunday during the message at Buckhead Church, when you know you can’t do something, the desire to do it grows stronger. As previously mentioned in my earlier post, I have decided to give up a lot of different things – none of which are all that challenging – until you know you can’t have it.
Shopping for items without salt, sugar, chemicals or animal products in them was a lot more difficult than previously anticipated; however, I did find things I could eat and that should be healthy & tasty. Of course, not being able to salt my food or use other items as seasoning (i.e. butter, bacon, etc.) has made the food quite bland. I’m sure it will just take some getting used to, but I definitely miss the taste of the foods I have become so accustomed to.
Fortunately, I have not had any issues with the absence of caffeine in my diet, but I did have an interesting evening last night. I got home & fixed dinner (corn, green beans, rice & an apple), but shortly after finishing dinner, I got extremely dizzy – room spinning, etc. That followed quickly with cold sweats and nausea – to the point that everything I just ate came back up. This all lasted a little over an hour, but afterwards, I really didn’t feel like doing much of anything, so I laid on the sofa and finished reading Matthew and fell asleep somewhere around 8pm. I woke up this morning after 10 hours of sleep feeling fully refreshed and ready to start a new day, and I’m praying that the nausea & dizziness from yesterday will be gone and not bother me today.
Along with reading the Gospels during this time, I also decided to read Daniel (since this is the Daniel Fast), and with the time it appears that I will have without watching TV, I will probably continue reading the rest of the New Testament as well, though I have no set plan to finish it all before Easter, I do intend to read it all before we depart on our trip for Romania in June.
DJ
