Lucien Deiss, C.S.P. tells of riding in a cab driven by a Moroccan during Ramadan. Deiss commented to the cabbie that the fast must be difficult, "Yes, last Ramadan I lost twenty pounds". Then the cabbie asked him: "You Christians have something like that called Lent...how much weight did you loose last Lent?"
Touché!
LOL!
Even though Muslims outnumber us, I still think more of us cut chocolate from our diet than they cut off our heads because we worship Jesus
I used to do a strict fast every year for Lent.
I would eat only on Sundays and the rest was filled with Protein Drinks and V-8 with Hot Sauce (yum)
I never lost tons of weight on a fast. The first two weeks you drop about 8 pounds. After that your body goes into starvation mode and it's about two pounds a week. Understanding that for Ramadan, they can eat before the sun rises and after the sun goes down, twenty pounds seems a little much. Nothing to drink all day would kill me though.