Creating An Easier Fast T'isha B'Av Version
Vicki Rothschild/Weight Management ~ “A Plan for LIFE ” Life Should Be Delicious!! 917-533-1794 www.facebook.com/vickiweightloss vickirothschild@gmail.com Creating an Easier Fast Before we talk about what’s best before & after a fast, I’d like to clarify something: Every food falls into only one of three categories and no, it’s not meat, dairy & pareve. It’s proteins, fats and carbohydrates. I’m going to focus now on carbohydrates as this is what comes up most often when discussing what should be eaten prior to fasting and is indeed the most crucial to having an easier one. Being that it’s recommended that 45-60% of our caloric intake come from carbs, it’s pretty crucial on a daily basis as well. Soda is a carbohydrate, as are jelly beans, M&M’s, breads, apples, peaches, string beans, broccoli, cauliflower, celery. Yes people, vegetables are carbs !! We need carbs. Carbohydrate is an organ...