REPOST:fasting and prayer???

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~this is yesterday's post~~~~~~~~~~~ ___________________ **************************************************************** Hello everyone, I am so bummed out with reading some bad news here on the board. Has anyone ever decided to fast and pray along with other Christian board members?? Can somoene help me lead this?? I feel in my heart we need to do this for everyone of us. Will you join me? Will you pray with me? I know that with my surgery I'm only able to go without food until 12 noon but I can try to go longer if my pouch allows it. Please, if you can join me, I would really appreciate it. I will start tomorrow morning. Anyone with me? Letty ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hello everyone!! Here's how i'm doing. I took the morning off and didn't come to wor****il 12:30pm. I turned in my fast at 1:00pm and boy does my tummy hurt. I threw up a few minutes ago and feel YUCKY. I went to Taco Bell and bought me a taco salad and like always I asked for everything on the side. I ate a little bit of lettuce with beef, cheese, sour cream and hot sauce. Not sure if the hot sauce is what has me feeling like this. I wasn't HUNGRY, HUNGRY, but I did feel a little woozy without eating. I'm conscious now that I eat to live and NOT live to eat. Does that make sense? The only reason I eat is because my body starts acting funny when I don't. If it didn't, I would probably forget to eat. God bless you, Letty

Hi Letty, I fasted and prayed this morning and I am feeling fine. Came off the fast with a handful of nuts and doing fine. I usually just drink water during a fast. I am sorry you had a rough time with the taco salad! I hate to throw up but I have had my bouts! I was bad the other night and decided to try one little cookie because a friend here who had surgery a week before I did called and informed me that she was one of the 12% that can eat sugar and not dump. My curiousity got the best of me and I was sick and in the bathroom until 3:30 in the morning! Dumb! You are so right about eating to live and not living to eat! You described me perfectly before my surgery! I now sometimes forget to eat too now- and actually have to force myself to eat! Cool! Thank you for having such a sensitive heart to the problems that others are having on the board - you are a dear sister and a great friend! Love ya lots! God Bless, Lynda Phil. 4:8

Hey Letty, Don't let all the bad news get you down. God is working in the lives of the people on this site. We are all being forged in the fire. As crazy as this sounds, I am now grateful for everyday that I was sick and in the hospital. It was hard at the time for me and my family but God used it in many wonderful ways. As far as the fasting goes, I cannot do it. My doctor told me not to go more than 3 hours without eating. But I am there with you on the prayer team. I also know what you mean about eating to live. I also lived to eat pre-WLS. Isn't it a miracle how God can use this surgery to turn our lives in a completely different direction overnight? Now at times, it is truely a struggle to eat. But, I love my new life. I get comments everyday about how much weight I've lost and how much better I look. Today, a co-worker that I have known for many years told me that I was starting to look like my old self again. Let me assure you that he is going back in his memory quite a few years! I didn't know people even remembered me that way. Take heart. God is in control. When we are weak because of hard time, it brings us closer to Him and forces us to rely on Him completely. That's what He wants. His will is being done here. I hope you feel better. Love, Jacinda

I am doing fine here, I had to stop the fast at about 3:30 pm this afternoon. My kids and I not even thinking, sat down and had dinner with them. But I had been fasting since I got up this morning at 7:30 so I think I did ok. I know exactly what you mean about eating to live, right now I am trying to retrain myself to eat to live, it has been a power struggle in my own mind so I fight it all the time. Thanks for caring so much Letty you are great!! I know that our fasting and prayers were felt and heard!!! In His Love, Steph

Hello Jacinda! I am better thank you Jacinda. For some strange reason it depressed me Tuesday evening. Nothing made me smile and that's not like me. PTL I'm doing much better!! The fasting has really helped! God bless you, Letty