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I attend a church twice a week (Wednesday noon and Sunday morning) which gives communion every service. We have a little round wafer and a sip of wine. Unfortunately both these times are outside my eating window. According to this page (http://blogs.ocweekly.com/stickaforkinit/2010/01/the_nutritional_content...), the wafer and a sip of wine of communion is 13 Calories. Is this enough to cancel the effects of the fast-5 diet? And is it enough to cause Limbic hunger?
Thanks for any and all help!
If your priest gives it to you, that's hard. If it's passed around the pews like at our church, we don't do it. We take it home, and wait for eating time. Then we pray and take the elements. Just an idea. By the way, I did take communion once, and I totally blew the day. It made me hungry, it might not be for you
I wouldn't think that 13'ish calories from the wafer and a sip of wine would really break your fast.
Most Fast-fivers drink coffe and tea throughout the fast, which contains about 2 calories each and easy would come up to 13 calories ...
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Would it be possible not to swallow / eat the wafer, and to just merely wet your tongue with the wine? I have friends who can't eat Communion wafers due to various allergies, and it's never been a problem for them to refuse.
If you do eat it, though, I doubt it'll hurt too much. I know some FFers chew unsweetened gum, and three sticks can easily reach 15 calories. If they can make the program work, I'm sure a twice-a-week wafer won't hurt. :)
That little amount of wine and wafer twice a week is of no significance. You're still in a fasting state.