Well, you should be on Day 2 if you are doing the 40 Day fasting challenge. I do want to remind you that if you have committed to this plan, this 40 Day fast is really a 46 day total fast. Since I am modeling the challenge after the 40 day season of Lent in the Christian church, technically Sundays do not count in this fast. I will leave that decision up to you, but if you do decide to call Sunday a cheat day, then let me encourage you to just get a small taste of what you are giving up and not go all out. However, I do encourage total fasting.
Holy Saturday will be the last day of the challenge and on Easter Sunday you break the fast. Now, by this time I hope and pray that this new habit will have taken hold and you will continue to live out the new life.
I have one piece of advice. If you are trying to lose weight, don't weigh yourself every day. This creates an almost obsession over ounces and is not healthy to do. Please, at most, weigh yourself no more than once a week and always do it at the same time of the day. In other words, if you normally weigh yourself on Saturday at 8 AM, then always weigh yourself on that day around that time. Your weight fluctuates throughout the day, so if you weigh yourself at different times it will be different and you will not have an accurate weight. But please, don't obsess about these numbers... it takes a long time to put on weight and it takes a long time to take the weight off.
Keep strong!
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