Hello everyone and welcome to the Girls Camp podcast Patreon, Girls Camp After Dark. It's your host,

Haley Rawl. About a week ago, I considered doing something that I have not done for many,

many years. I have not done this since I was a very active Mormon. It was one of the first

things to go as I was slowly leaving Mormonism because of how

much I hated it. Fasting. I almost did a fast last week, not the Mormon way, obviously, but I almost

participated in a group fast. And it got me thinking about fasting. Fast fasting generally, the Mormon version of fasting,

and then I decided to do an episode on it.

So I did a ton of research and I learned so many fascinating things about the practice of fasting.

I did not realize how ancient of a ritual and a practice it is, not only for religious reasons, but also for

health reasons. It really kind of spans time and culture in a way that I just didn't know about.

And so learning about fasting caused me to reflect a lot on why I hate it so much, if that is my bias

toward Mormonism. If there's any way I could maybe potentially come back to this practice

in a way that would feel good for me, whether for health or for religious reasons,

I can't wait to get into it all with you. Before we do, I have two things I need

to talk about with you. The first one, I cannot believe we haven't talked about already because

this happened a few weeks ago. Quick recap for those of you who don't know this background,

but there is a female Mormon podcaster, and she started like stitching me and

putting my photo in her videos. Well, I ran into her in person the other day.