Following the carnival, the great post came. He will last 7 weeks. This preparation for Easter is the Resurrection of Christ, the main holiday of the whole church year.
Ivanovsky News found out how competently, without prejudice to health, to fast, and to someone to keep herself in food - not necessarily. Experts helped us in this.
"Man is the unity of corporal and non-peasant nature, physical and spiritual. It is very dangerous to divide them, and sometimes just destructive. The vector of the post is self-limitation, control over the impulses of your body and soul together, "says the cleric of Ivanovo-Voznesenskaya diocese by Ieromona Makariya.
"The post vector is self-limiting, control over the impulses of your body and soul together," the hieromon emphasizes.
He notes that the post matters not by itself, but only as a means to acquire sincere health. We ourselves make themselves lighter, movable and capable of spiritual life.
"The post, of course, exists for everyone, but how to eat, depends on personal circumstances: age and health status.
There are no words "diet" in church source. But people perceive the post as a kind of prescription of the power mode. Meanwhile, the post requires no longer, but less attention to food, but with a significant reservation. Under the terms of our lives, the simplest food is meat and dairy. I went to the store, bought sausages, dumplings, cheese! Historically, when the customs were folded, it was completely wrong.
Porridge and bread are everyday food. Porridge with butter - no longer every day. And in the saying, "porridge oil will not spoil" it is precisely about vegetable oil, but not about the animal. That is, even his people did not eat every day every day.
In the parable of the prodigal son, when he returned to his father, his father immediately slaughtered the calf, because the meat treat was a huge holiday. Then the eldest son came, who all the time lived with his father. And he began to root it: they say, I'm faithful to you, and you even didn't give me a goat to me, to dangle with friends, and a calf was given to the prodigal son! Here we are talking about cattle.
Now there are often a voices: but you can use dietary meat in the post, you can have soy, lean mayonnaise ... and many misunderstand that it is not about what is, not about gastronomic issues, but about the principle of restrictions in food.
Pay less attention to the post on the food! ".
"The meaning of the post is not in a diet, but in limiting my whims"
There is such a picture of nutritionists - a healthy nutrition pyramid. Upstairs there is the most valuable food: meat, eggs, bird, dairy products. In the post, this top must be cut off - and in the rest of the rest, you want. But the ability is allowed for those who are unable to abandon rapid food by age or health.
I repeat once again: the meaning of the post is not in the diet, but in limiting his whim. In this sense, submission to the doctor is also a form of limiting their whims and is fully included in the lean regime. The meaning is here - in the acquisition of freedom from his whims and desires.
Many many recently say such a word - they say, I "broke down." I decided to observe the post - but "broke out." It turns out an analogy with some drunkard who shook, but then could not resist. It is not right!
"Post is a voluntary thing"
"And one of its main rules is not to endure hunger! It is also dangerous for the stomach, and for the intestines, and for the nervous system. Therefore, eat in the post no less often, but more often! I want a pate of meat - eat, but not with meat, but with cabbage! And the rules of the post complied, and do not have to starve. The post should serve as a health.
"Do not shift apart from each other, perhaps"
"On the marriage abstinence during the Great Post. If the nutrition is the personal matter of everyone, then the marriage abstinence during the post is a matter of strictly two! As John Zlatoust wrote: "Do not shift apart from each other, perhaps". How taught fathers church, spouses should be self-sufficient judges. With a flashlight in a married bedroom there is no entry to anyone - this is an important principle that is now trying to break someone.
There is a belief that the child, winning in the post, will be sick. I spent a lot of time on denial of such, I would not be afraid of this word, vile fabrication. This is not a Christian and man-made thought - that a person may be sick due to the fact that he was not conceived in the attitude time. The church for that exists to refute the traces of ignorance.
I conducted a study. In the database of new martyrs of the Russian Orthodox Church, their birth dates are given. The way is easy arithmetic, read 9 months and giving 2 weeks of stock, I found 19 people ranked in the face of saints, which were conceived with all certainty at the time of the Great Post. "
Irina Sirotkin, a clinic physician No. 7, Ivanovo believes that the post is unloading the body, diet.
It is especially good for people with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract just in the spring, when the most common exacerbations of chronic diseases occur.
"But it is very important that the transition to the Great post after the wide carnival was gradual. It is not necessary to sharply exclude prohibited products from the diet, "the expert believes.
First, navigate to a more sparing mode: remove roasted meat, fats, oils, milk. Cook porridge. And the output from the post should be smooth. Go to fractional meals: Eat 5 times a day in small portions. Otherwise, the aggravation of all chronic diseases will happen, and you can get to the hospital.
Children doctors do not recommend abide by the post.