Lose weight during Ramadan

Reading the recent CNN article on fasting reminded me of an article I wrote a few years ago on losing weight in Ramadan.

Unfortunately, many Muslims end up gaining weight during Ramadan, as opposed to losing weight. Just the other day, myself anda few friends went to an ethnic Muslim restaurant to break our fast. They had a buffet, where at 7PM everyone could go up and fill their plates. As we were sitting around waiting for the line to die down, you saw people just loading up their plates. Old men, young women, teenagers, kids, elderly women.... all of them had over 5000 calories on each plate. I was shocked, but I should not have been. 

No human, especially not the elderly, needs more than 1600-2000 calories PER DAY! I told the guys that I was with that you are gonna see a lot of leftovers on plates. Sure enough, as we were leaving, we saw piles and piles of left over food. This is really sad. Wasted food is a shame, especially when the whole point of Ramadan is to be able to empathize with those who don't have food! The problem is that people have different expectations when they are fasting. They think they can eat a mountain of food, but they don't realize how much their stomachs shrink. It would have been easy to fill only half your plate, eat, then see if you are hungry again. What a shame.

There are ways to lose weight during Ramadan and it's not that hard. Take a look at the article I wrote:

http://toledomuslims.com/Criterion/Article.asp?ID=170