As I typed that title, I was reminded of a guy we played basketball with in Indiana. He was from Malaysia I believe. He would shout out “break fast” instead of “outlet” to start a fast break. I was always impressed how he made it sound distinctly like “break fast” instead of “breakfast”. He died in a fire somehow while visiting home. I don’t know much more about it.
Nor how to segue into the fact that my own fasting has begun. Supposed to start at sunset, but I started around 4:30. That’s about the time that I finished half of the bag of Mother’s Oatmeal Cookies. Wait – do those plastic containers have 4 or 3 regions? It might have been 2/3rds. Anyway, after that, I figure I can go a couple extra hours on my Jain fast.
I was trying to remind myself what the exact dates of the fast were but ended up finding out that I’m at around level 1.5 on the Jain fast scale of 1 to 4. 1 being nothing. Consuming nothing. That seems overboard for my Johnny come lately approach to religon. Instead, I’m doing the Jain fast as interpreted by Loius Prima: “Banana split for my baby, a glass of plain water for me.” And only for 36 or hours. Sunset till two sunrises later. But 4 times in a row.
Banana Split For My Baby – Louis Prima
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Should help out my weight bets.
And I learned somethings too. This is my favorite part of the explanation of the fast –
It is not sufficient simply to stop eating when fasting, s/he must also stop wanting to eat. Control over one’s mind is a major goal. If one continues to desire food, the fast is pointless.
POINTLESS! Heheh.
I might be taking a leap here, but I believe that in the spirit of things, it IS okay to satisfy some other desires while fasting. I mean, you show you can control a desire, a basic, desire associated with survival – and if you can control that, you can control any of them…so the others have no need to be quelled simultaneously.
It’s the “I can quit when I want to” approach. I just don’t want to, for a variety of things. But I’ll prove that I can…just in case…
I point this out because there is a poker tourney on Wednesday that I’m planning on taking part in – while on my Jain fast.
Oh – and that thing about all life being valued – right on. We bought 5 more fish tonight – to keep our one surivor company. These are gonna live a long time. Unless our snail population gets way too out of control (estimates are at around 200 snails in the tank) and they start dying and creating some toxic water…but that’s for a post while I’m not in my Jain holiday.
how’d the fast go yesterday?
The fast was okay. Wasn’t too hungry. Didn’t “desire food”.
Hard part was that I found out I’m a real casual eater. Food around, I’ll eat it.
Almost finished Sal’s waffle in the morning. (This morning, as Catherine was throwing his waffle away, I finished it!) Not out of hunger, just habit.
Feeding Sal is tough too. I’m used to him spitting food out and me eating it. Or him shoving food away and me eating it. But I didn’t eat any of it. Came close. But didn’t.
Woke up this morning, not even that hungry. Finished Sal’s waffle, a little of his leftover cheese and then since work didn’t have any pre-made breakfast sandwiches ready, didn’t eat until lunch.
At lunch though, I was carrying around two plates…
this is strictly against the “fat mexican” diet!