Okay, many of you are students, so fasting is not always an issue. You might have like one or two classes tomorrow, so you sleep in, blah blah blah, stay awake for long hours and eat and drink all night, yaada yaada.
But I have a question for those who are on more regimented schedules. Like you need to be at class/work really early in the morning, so you can’t stay up that late. And if you’re to wake up for sehri, you probably need to be in bed maybe 1-2 hours before normal.
So breakdown:
You need the 8 hours of sleep.
You need to wake up for sehri, because there is no bloody way you’re getting thru your day with no food in your stomach.
You need to drink water (I do especially, I’ve had kidney problems before).
You break fast at 7-ish, and you need to be in bed by like 10 for you to actually get up at sehri.
You need to get work done, but you find yourself totally lethargic in the few hours before iftari, and so your work is going slower.
I’m in massive stress. Like by 10 or 11 oclock, I found I basically had some food for iftari (basically my dinner - I don’t do the samosas and then the full fledged meal). And I barely have time to drink water. And if I do chug down a whole bunch of water before getting into bed, I’m up in the middle of the night to pee.
And then I spend the rest of the day with lower back pain, because I dont have that water.
I think my biggest obstacle is how to incorporate enough water in my system in the few hours I CAN eat, and yet still get enough sleep. Which minimizes the time that I’m awake and can eat, which minimizes the amount of water I can drink.
Sorry for the long post. I just need help from those who might have some experience in managing a strict schedule with a particular physical condition.
I end up starting work at 06:30am after sehri. I make sure i drink about 6 glasses of water in the morning and a couple of glasses of orange juice.
for iftari i make sure i have about 4 glasses of water with my food and have regular water till i go to sleep. YOu HAVE to take in water because it effects your concentration at work. I find water goes a long way in helping you maintain concentration and performance at work or studies depending on what your doing...
*all the work i try to complete before iftari .. as i feel so sleepy after iftari .. and usually go off to sleep then i wake up and do other stuff.... again sleep and wake only half-an hour before sehri ends .. then it's again a long day :) *
*and water .. i take alot of it only after iftari *
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Okay, many of you are students, so fasting is not always an issue. You might have like one or two classes tomorrow, so you sleep in, blah blah blah, stay awake for long hours and eat and drink all night, yaada yaada.
But I have a question for those who are on more regimented schedules. Like you need to be at class/work really early in the morning, so you can't stay up that late. And if you're to wake up for sehri, you probably need to be in bed maybe 1-2 hours before normal.
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Yup same problem... I try to drink as much as i can after aftari... which just ends up swelling the stomach for the evening... and then in sehri i drink 2 glasses before my sehri and about 2 after i am done eating.... and still I fell thirsty during the day sometimes becasue i am so used to drinking around 12 glasses fo water a say.......
welll...
its nice to see most of us have the same issue...
I find it extremely hard to concentrate at work....I am yawing away like crazy...
I feel low and dumpy near the halfway mark of my day and then after iftari when the blood rushes to the tummy I am like fainting....
but not recently..and the thing that I feel changed was
1. less food at iftari
2. more sleep at night (so yeah into bed by 10:30 p.m.)
3. IAM TAKING VITAMINS AT SEHRI ... ITAKE VITALERT - multivitamins (vege base)
:::ONE IMPORTANT THING:::::
its only one month...InshAllah as long as we can worship taraweeh and quran InshAllah we can make up the work after wards.
I tell my bosses before Ramadhan that things are going to be slower....
I leave earlier and sometimes come in later...
I mean we are focussing on Ramadhan ....
8 hours of sleep is for hibernating bears. Normal humans can easily do good with 6.
During months other than ramadan, any 5 time praying muslim already wakes up before fajr and has breakfast then. From then on goes on with his / her daily business. Has lunch around duhr. Continues with business. Dinner at maghrib. And goes to bed right after isha.
During ramadan all you do is skip lunch. Breakfast, dinner and all other duties are still at the same time. There shouldnt really be any major struggle to find time.
Ofcourse if you’re not the kind whos accustomed to waking up at fajr everyday then theres no point complaining about ramadan. We fix ourselves first and ramadan will be a breeze.
I have class 8 in the moring 3 days a week.. which means i have to leave home at 6 and i always come back at 8:30pm..
the only issue with me is water.. I just have to drink water all the time.. and iam used to tea early in the morning (Tim Horton's in finch station) which i can't drink now a days because of ramadan...
Something unusual about me.. I never get up for sehri.. actually i get only 5 to 6 hours of sleep everynight and iam not used to sehri.. so it is a bit harder for me to survive without water all day.. ( food is not an issue i can live without food for about 3 days)...
Am i healthy?
Simple answer is not.. I have iron defficiency, need vitamins, calcuims all the time in order to work properly through out the day...
No, I’m not accustomed to waking up early regularly for fajr. But I try my best in Ramadan and try to continue it afterwards, and at some point, return to old habits again. shrugs That’s not the point of this thread, though.
I know you skip lunch, and its not the food I’m worried about. If you actually read what I write without trying to find something to attack, you’ll see I’m concerned about water for the most part. Normal humans try to consume water throughout the day. Add to that kidney problems, and a strict schedule. :k:
I usually get about 3 or 4 hours of sleep a day anyways, even when it's not Ramadan. I go to bed at around midnight or 1AM. My routine doesn't really change during Ramadan. I get to work at around 8AM, and get home at around 6 or 7, and eat dinner, and then go to the gym. During work, I don't really think of food. Yes, the first few days of Ramadan can be difficult, but after that I get used to it. The only thing that bothers me, is that I like to have my coffee in the morning.
If someone has a terminal illness, something that requires regular medicine and contstant nourishment, lets say for example a kidney problem, that someone is exempt from fasting.
We emphasise too much on the food part of fasting. Not eating food is only one part of the fast. There are many other components to a fast for example abstaining from lying backbiting fighting swearing having sex with your husband/wife and other jazzy stuff.
A sick peson need not fast. Just try not to eat as much during the day (apart from the medicine and water) and do concentrate on other aspects of the fast and inshallah he/she shall be rewarded.
Well heres a way to kick your caffeine dependancy! :p
You're right i miss my coffee too. The route i take to work every morning, theres this one subway station that has a coffee stand (Daily Perk at Victoria Park Station) that makes the most amazing coffee. Way better than Timmys. Now everyday i just walk by it :/
Interesting fact: Caffeine inhibits your bones' ability to absorb calcium to rebuild themselves. Therefore, regular consumption of caffein causes the microscopic spaces within our bones to increase hence ultimately losing their structural integrity in old age, a condition more popularly known as osteoporosis (hunchbacks).
It’s alot easier for me to fast if i have lots of sleep (right now that means 9-10 hours a night ). WheN I get little sleep, then I get cranky and fasting becomes ncredibly difficult..and since i get cranky, i get all sorts of bad thoughts
PCG, i just try to drink as much water as i can at sehri before eating anything. For me it is usually 2 glasses before the meal and 1 during. At iftar and after, i drink as much liquids as i can. Although that means your tummy swells up but taraweeh usually takes care of that.
Years ago in Delhi, my next door Muslim friend was fasting and I thought it would be fun joining him.
Man was it hard - the thirst and hunger was killing me and I did'nt feel like doing anything except lying down. To make it worst, it was hard getting up before dawn & stuffing myself. Never again for me. Thanks.
I have class from 8.30 till 12pm everyday and after that i drive to the other end of the city to work till 6pm and then get home by 6.20 make iftari and after eating iftari/dinner i go for isha from 8.30 - 10.30 .. come back home and work on my assignments and school and work related stuff till 2am and then sleep and wake up at 5am to eat sehri and then simply sleep for 1 hour (from 6.15am to 7.15am) .. i have a huge responsibility at work and i am studying full time in my final year and so far Allah ka shukar hai i am managing it somehow..
you just need to put that extra effort in it. No pain no gain! Loose that 8 hours of sleep to 6hours and see how Allah makes it easier for you to manage everything.
). WheN I get little sleep, then I get cranky and fasting becomes ncredibly difficult..and since i get cranky, i get all sorts of bad thoughts 
