Is Daniel Fast a Diet?

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Listen, the Daniel fast is not a diet. No fast is a diet. Careful... Joy

Thank you Joy, you raise an important question.

We use the term "diet" in the general sense meaning "the food you decide to eat." We never promote it as a weight loss diet, like the cabbage diet. In Daniel 1:15, Daniel and his friends were "fatter in flesh" after only ten days! :-)

Many more people write us to say it is not a fast, because you are allowed to eat food. They don't understand that there are partial fasts and total fasts. So we say Daniel Diet Fast to help these people understand that this is a partial fast.

However, most people do lose weight on the Daniel Fast Diet, because they are avoiding the junk foods that made them fat. If you remove only white sugar and high fructose corn syrup from your diet, you will consume hundreds fewer calories per day.

Every 100 calories you eat require one mile to walk off. An average soda is 180 calories. That means after a 12 oz. soda you need to walk an extra 1.8 miles. Very few people do, so they store the fat on their bodies.

We promote the Daniel Fast Diet as a partial fast for spiritual breakthrough. One blessing or spiritual breakthrough for many is self control. It results in weight loss, because of their rejection of junk foods on a permanent basis.

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I chose a 40 day Daniel Fast to begin 2008. Hadn't really heard much about it. Just chose it from the book of Daniel.  A few days after starting the fast, I began studying the book of Daniel with Beth Moore in Women's Bible study and she challenged us to do a "Daniel Fast". I felt like that was a confirmation. I kind of just made up my rules as I went. I said it was whatever grows naturally.

I decided to do it again for 2010 and was being asked questions by all of my friends. Amazingly, when I googled Daniel Fast - Your website answers and agrees with all I had planned. I believe it is revelatory from the Lord. I also believe it is powerful to break the strongholds in our flesh.  Bless you for your hard work on this great website!
In Christ,
Kim

Thank you Kim, for your encouraging words. Hope you have a great Daniel Fast this year too.

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