40 day fast questions

[d0c markus]

After the completion of a 40 day fast, can you eat normal food right away? If not, how come? And how would you reccomend transitioning back to normal eating?

[Jason of Iolkos]

After the completion of a 40 day fast, can you eat normal food right away? If not, how come? And how would you reccomend transitioning back to normal eating?After completing a 40 fast you cannot eat normal food right away. The reason being your stomach has "shrunk" over those 40 days and eating normal foods could cause digestive problems or worse. The best advice is to gradually incorporate solid foods. For the first few days you should eat something like soup...nothing with lots of solid foods or nothing too greasy either. Then gradually include soft foods such as vegetables...after about a week or so you can begin eating normally again.

Here is a link that provides some good basic information about fasting:
http://www.billbright.com/7steps/

At the bottom of the page are links to topics like "Beginning Your Fast", etc.

Hope this helps!

[d0c markus]

Oh Joy... Lol.... Thanks for the info!