The FastDay Forum

When does everybody class their fast from starting? from the last time they ate or from a specific time, ie midnight lastnight or from when i last ate at 8pm?

from when you stopped eating .... why would you count otherwise ?

I class my fast as being from when I wake to when I go back to sleep. I don't eat after my evening meal anyway so prior to this WOE I would never have thought ' god I haven't eaten for 14 hours'. So why start now? I think some people get bogged down with the numer of hours involved. I think if you work shifts then it must be harder. But for me, it's only a day I don't 'count' the hours as I often don't eat until lunchtime following a fast and that would be ...... Lost count!

From when I last eat.....so tonight at 8, the fast began.....

Had breakfast at 8am then supper at 8 pm, will have tomorrow's breakfast at 8am so two lots of 12 hours.

6pm last night till 6pm tonight
500 calories of soup
now nothing till tomorrow lunch

other than tea of course

I stop eating solid food after dinner the night before a fast day, but I do still have juice, tea with milk etc that evening. I then have no more than 600 calories no matter what form they take until breakfast the day after the fast day. But a normal day breakfast for me is only about 200-250 cal and I am nearly always still hungry until lunch the day after the fast day.