Fasting Takeaways: Do's and Don'ts

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These days are days of fasting. Be it Length or Ramadan, there is always a special feeling about fasting. These are periods when one experiences a sense of spiritual uplifting. For some, it's a period of getting their bodies in shape - being healthy again.These days are days of fasting.

Today, I want to share with you some of the few benefits and best practices one could do to remain healthy after your fasting period.

According to the Cambridge Oxford Dictionary, Fasting is described as not eating food for a period of time. So during this period, your body utilizes the glucose stored to keep you going. Most fastings last for at most 12 hours. Yeah, there are other forms of "Intermittent fasting" which many people do to lose weight and be healthy. These include 16/8, 18/6 etc.

So having fasted for these long hours, your glucose stores must have depleted. You develop that sense of hunger and in worst case scenarios, you might experience somewhat dizziness. The latter is because glucose is running low in the brain.

Here are things to not do when you break your fast.

  1. Do not Over Eat 🚫
    With that hunger you felt, you don't want to consume a lot of food at one go. It's not good food you. Your body won't be able to digest all of that at one go. When you eat food, your parasympathetic nervous system activates the "Rest and Digest" mode. You would become overloaded and relatively lazy to move about. It's not a good idea.

  1. Avoid fats and Oils 🚫
    We are all tempted to eat fried fish or chicken with sauce rich in oil. This accumulates in your gut. And knowing that the body utilizes glucose for it's cells, it would have to break these fats down, convert them to glucose before the cells could use it. It's a hefty process for a relaxed gut. So, there is tendency for the fat to accumulate in the gut, and transferred to other tissues such as those under the skin - to form subcutaneous fat - which my friend you would not like.

  2. Reduce Sugar 🚫
    A common practice in our setting is that people's taste buds for sugar are active when they have not eaten for a while. We add so much sugar to our tea and other beverages all in the name of replenishing the body's stores. My friend, you can't replenish all that's been lost in one go. You do not want to come out of your fasting period with Diabetes. Utilize as minimal sugar as possible.

Best Practices.

  1. Eat healthy
    Although this is a broad term, I will try and simplify. What is meant by eating healthy is eating more of leafy vegetables, some protein, and some sugar containing foods like bread, cereal, or rice. It has to be good. If you feel the need to use oil, use healthy oils like olive oil, sunflower oil, avocado oil. I see a lot of people trying to be fancy with butter as a form of oil. Butter contains saturated fats. Those are the bad fats. It's worth noting that it's quite important to eat before beginning your fasts. You are preparing your body for a journey of hours. Be fair to your body. If you can't eat in the early hours of the morning, take a cereal and drink water at least 2 hours before going to bed.

Bread contains sugar - it's a carbohydrate.

  1. Drink Enough water
    Water is a key ingredient in cellular metabolism. Your cells need water to function. It's been hot these days. So one is expected to be dehydrated. You need to drink adequately before and after breaking your fast.

  1. Exercise
    I cannot stress this enough. My friend, you have to try and engage in one form of exercise or the other. Fasting is a form of training the body. But it could be supplemented with brisk walks, running or going to the gym. You just have to choose the best type and time for yourself to do those things, and in the right proportion.

So what happens post fasting?
Well, your body had already gotten used to long periods without food and/or water. So it will take time before it adjusts. The body is a perfect machine. You can still continue on the healthy eating habits and exercises you had started during your fasting period.

I hope this was helpful.

Let's have a chat in the comment section.

Cheers 🥂

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Someone who would want to even be carried whiles fasting

Let me be going before he catches me😂

😂😂 see where your stubborn eyes have landed you now. 😂 if I get kraa, you’ll carry me everywhere and be massaging me cos this year’s fast is no joke.😅

You should be motivating and pampering me so I pray for you to get more money😂

You will be fine.

We never get used to fasting 😂😂😂 It takes different forms every year 😔.

Just follow the best practices and you will be pampered

😂😂 we can never get used to it

Hunger is no one's friend

He is guilty 😂

We will pamper him

No pampering for him

This fasting is not easy... People come from the rural areas to the city to fast here... It's hot in the rural areas.

We need to pamper somebody

These are really good takes you have here that will help with the fasting. The one I find difficult is the exercising. At 3 pm I have no energy to even walk 😂.

May Allah make it easy for us all 🙏

😂😂😂 It's all in the mind bro.

The time you think you can't do anything, that's the time to burn a few calories. I have been since the beginning of this month from 5:30 to 6:30... It's a bit less sunny at that time. You've got to train despite your size

May Allah make it easy for us all Ameeeen 🤲🏾

😂😂 naa your case is special. For me I can’t do anything when all the energy is gone

Abenad and I believe in you 💪🏾

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