What It’s Like to Fast For 36-Hours Once Every Week

Surprisingly, I don’t feel hungry.

Photo by Raj Rana on Unsplash

My mom has been doing 36-hour fasts for as long as I can remember. She does it for religious purposes. (She’s extremely religious.)

As I’ve been watching her do this for years, these fasts seemed pretty normal to me. So I did them too. I started as a teenager and have continued the practice in…