Almost forgot: Iowa man completes no-food Lenten fast

I finally found his blog:

Time flies when you’re eating food!

Ten days have elapsed and I’ve found many wonderful culinary delights since that first bacon smoothie passed my lips shortly after midnight on Easter. And it hasn’t all gone according to my original plan.

All my research told me that I would need to ease back into my diet carefully, so, with the exception of that little bacon treat, that’s what I planned to do. Smoothies, orange juice, guacamole. I also planned to target some foods that are known to be beneficial to the old liver and kidneys–two organs that I’ve been beating up on as of late. Broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts were on my agenda.

So my first meal was a bacon smoothie, with two strips of bacon on the side–it just seemed like the right thing to do. I accompanied it with a little fresh broccoli. Later, I made myself a cocoa-peanut butter-banana smoothie with a side order of cabbage. Yum.

Continue at Diary of a Part-time Monk

Although he's something of a non-denominational Christian, it is a praiseworthy pursuit in today's day and age of self worship to actually live for something greater.   As he quotes:

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

-Socrates

You will find he has the Catholic talk here, and ensures us its wasn't a penitential practice, ect.  And basically his thesis is this:

My experience reinforced my beliefs that today’s culture of excess breeds waste and gluttony. I discovered that my body (and probably yours too) is capable of so much more than I could ever fully realize.

Not the reason the ancient monks took on the discipline, but maybe the monks beer will help him realize why they were monks in the first place.  Bravo to an accomplishment.  I'm sure no contemporary Catholic, whom even share the faith of the monks, would dare try.  But an honest pursuit of truth can only lead to one Place.